Polifilm Acquires Saxa Packaging
February 17, 2021The aim of integrating the plant into the POLIFILM EXTRUSION production network is to strengthen the Packaging & Performance Films division. For POLIFILM EXTRUSION, SAXA Packaging offers not only additional capacity, but also increased competence in various product areas. With the addition of the BRC-compliant production facility and the associated modern machinery consisting of 3-, 5- and 7-layer lines, POLIFILM EXTRUSION is now able to supply its customers in the industrial and food packaging sectors with both barrier films and films with extra wide width.
“We can now offer our 5-layer
film solutions with a width of up to 3.3 metres,” says Jens Koelble,
highlighting the new possibilities. Koelble, Division Manager of Packaging
& Performance Films at POLIFILM EXTRUSION, will take over the management of
SAXA Packaging, which will be renamed POLIFILM Neukirchen in the future,
together with POLIFILM EXTRUSION CEO Eckehard Betz. “The site will be
fully integrated into POLIFILM EXTRUSION’s processes as soon as possible,”
explains Betz. In this way, POLIFILM EXTRUSION wants to strengthen the
identification of the staff from Neukirchen/Pleiße and show that the 37 jobs
will be retained, as well as maintaining high quality in terms of products and
service. “We have lots of plans. POLIFILM Neukirchen will fully concentrate
on films with high functionality,” Betz continues. The CEO is not only
referring to the expansion of the polyethylene and polypropylene film range
with barrier effect, which completes the solution competence in the business
unit’s product portfolio and also contributes to the sustainable mono-material
film portfolio. The plant in Saxony also offers POLIFILM EXTRUSION space for
further machinery growth and thus more capacity. In the medium term, the
current capacity in Neukirchen of 12,000 tonnes per year is planned to be at
least doubled. The quality films will then be supplied mainly to customers in
the German and European markets.