What
We Do
Pakaflex is an Australian owned and operated manufacturing company specialising in a range of UV resistant and industrial packaging products. Our focus is on innovation and service to meet the ever increasing market demands
of our customers throughout Australia and New Zealand. Whatever your needs, you can be sure that Pakaflex will provide the service, innovation and savings to keep you coming back. Operating since 1989 were are committed to creating partnerships so that we can deliver the cost benefits of tailored solutions.
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Circular Economy
Pakaflex has just commissioned a
state of the art plastic film recycler. In partnership with Sustainability Victoria
this machine recovers
LDPE (recycle code 4, with very high print coverages) and is used to process both internal scrap and wrap returned to us from our
customers. Already, this process has been in place for more than a year
with one of our major partners - AKD Softwoods. They are returning all
their scrap wrap from their packing operations. The recovered material
is utilised back into the same Enduratuff™ long life timber
protection covers to provide a genuine closed loop or circular economy.
This investment also creates more than 2 totally new jobs at our
main manufacturing facility in Dandenong.
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Raw material costs spiral upwards
17th March 2022
Oil prices, freight and global turmoil have caused virtually all our
raw maeterials to spiral upwards. Polymer has spiked again and
is now double where it was a year ago - and some materials are
now not even available - or on allocation.
This means that we have no alternative other
than to re-cost every order for the foreseeable future; until the
situation stabilises.. Please contact our sales team for the latest
update on your specific products.
On a positive note, 2022 will see us installing automatic profile
control and our 5th high output coextruder. This will
bring our bubble units to seven and daily production capacity to 25
tonnes - approaching 5,000 tonnes a year allowing for our routine
weekend shutdowns.
Additional manufacturing site opened
1st April 2021
In preparation for our new recycler we have moved all our bag making
and slitting operations to 64-68 Leggo Court. This site is nearby in
Dandenong South just off Hallam Valley Road. Most stock items
such as underground warning and barrier tapes, strapping, stretch
wrap and asbestos removal bags will now need to be collected from
this site.
AKD in the pink again
07 October 2020 AKD is Pinking Up again in support of the McGrath
Foundation to help raise awareness and support to help fund McGrath
Breast Care Nurses who provide invaluable support and care for the
women and men who are experiencing breast cancer.
 AKD is again encouraging
all AKD team members and customers to wear their pink shirts and
shoelaces for the month of October, and this year they are also
supplying pink face masks free of charge to all employees and asking
them to also make a personal donation to the charity. “We have
set ourselves a target of $50,000 this year which is more than
double what we raised last year,” AKD CEO Shane Vicary said. “We
are pushing hard this year to reach this ambitious goal and we have
already raised almost $10,000, and it’s only the start of October.
“To make a difference to this worthy cause, we need to rev up our
generosity; everyone can make a positive difference and that’s got
to feel good after the year we’ve all had so far.” To promote the
cause even more publicly and to really make heads turn, the company
is even changing its product wrap for October to include the Pink
AKD logo, the McGrath Foundation logo and the donation link that
people can follow to donate. This change in wrap was suggested by
AKD’s product wrap supplier Pakaflex, which has agreed to do this
new wrap design at no extra cost and has also donated $1000 to the
McGrath Foundation. Many of AKD’s customers and suppliers are also
getting on board with the pink face masks in support of raising
donations and awareness. “This is a great opportunity to really
get the message out to everyone who interacts with our products –
freight companies, fabricators, merchants, packaging manufacturers,
builders – to create awareness for the cause and help us hit our
fundraising target of $50,000,” Mr Vicary said.
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