Packaging
MAILWAY GOES ON GROWING
Thursday 27. August 2009 - The UKs leading contract packer, Mailway Packaging Solutions has completed the acquisition of Perpack Limited - a Wakefield company that boasts market leading flow-wrapping services.
The deal follows hot on the heels of the Bradford companys expansion into Scotland and the South of England, and sees Mailway add the UKs best flowwrapping business to its burgeoning spectrum of contract packing services.
Mailways chief executive officer, Richard Bramma said: “Our strategy is to develop into a truly national packaging solutions business and become the first choice for all major brand owners. To do this we need to offer the broadest possible range of packaging capabilities and Perpacks areas of expertise are ideal additions to our current offering.”
Perpack is the UK leader in supplying flow-wraps in perforated bandoliers for dispensing into bagging and cartonning lines at high speeds. Working primarily in the print and 3-D premium markets, the company has a capacity in excess of 300,000,000 units per annum and its flow-wrapping service incorporates autofeeding, batch counting and collating in-line.
The company also offers vertical form, fill and seal standard and quad bagging with multi-head weighing. This allows for accurate filling from 10g to 2.5kg of loose, solid products such as confectionary, dried fruit, biscuits and pet food. Deal done – Mailways commercial director, Steve Whitehouse and CEO, Richard Bramma
Mailway will also utilise Perpacks expertise to enable it to bring its three existing sites up to BRC Food Grade A standard – an industry requirement for food filling operations.
Mailways commercial director, Steve Whitehouse added: “As well as expanding the scope of our service, this acquisition provides us with the opportunity to sellin our current services to Perpacks impressive customer base of major UK and European blue chip companies. This is of great importance as many of them are in the food market, which we see as a major growth area with massive opportunities to expand our business”