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About Nampak
Nampak is Africa’s leading packaging company. With manufacturing facilities in four countries, we supply trusted products and excellent service to a broad range of customers. We are a publicly owned entity whose shares have been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for 55 years.
We leverage the skills of our 2 567 people and capitalise on our substantial investment in state-of-the-art production facilities. Our world-class research and development facility based in Cape Town, South Africa, provides technical and innovative product development support to our businesses, as well as to our customers — many of which are among the world's largest fast-moving consumer goods companies.
The group participates in extensive collection and recycling initiatives and continues to invest significant time and resources into the development of sustainable products. Our work to minimise our environmental impact includes supporting and facilitating the recycling, re-use and recovery of packaging.
We continue to invest and improve the performance of our base business in South Africa and are accelerating our investment in the rest of Africa, where some of our factories have operated since the 1940s.
Where we operate – continuing operations
Nampak products and services
Metals
Our beverages range produces aluminium beverage cans and ends for the alcoholic, carbonated soft drink, fruit juice, energy drink, vegetable juice and ice tea markets. Nampak beverage can facilities are based in South Africa and Angola.
Our diversified and food range produces tinplate food cans for the canned food market, as well as a large range of diversified aluminium and tinplate cans including aerosols, monoblocs, paint and shoe polish cans to the personal care, household goods, and industrial markets. These facilities are based in three regions within South Africa.
Inspection and Coding Solutions
Nampak I&CS is a division that supplies Videojet, Altec, Marsh, TapTone, Sesotec, Purex brands and offers the latest in date coding technology, with a range of ink jet, thermal transfer, laser data/batch coders, package integrity inspection/pressure/ vacuum loss detection and foreign partial Metal or X-Ray detectors. The division is a leading supplier of data/batch coding and package inspection equipment with offices in the Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.
Research and Development
Nampak R&D is based in Cape Town, South Africa — employing scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians. The facility’s state-of-the-art analytical equipment, together with the personnel’s knowledge and experience in different fields such as material science, chemical analysis, microbiology, food and beverage science and coatings technology is key to the provision of innovative solutions and services to our operations and customers.
