Pakaflex Pty Ltd
43-45 Progress Street (off Nathan Road)
Dandenong South VIC 3175
Australia
Phone: (03) 9703 7800
sales@pakaflex.com.au
Our normal trading hours are 8:30 to 5 Monday to Thursday, and 8:30 to 3 on Friday. We are closed Saturday and Sunday.
Pakaflex is HACCP Verified
Pakaflex is pleased to advise that all our manufacturing sites have been verified as having a Management System meeting the requirements of the CODEX HACCP. This is a commitment to our growing customer base in food packaging and to continuous improvement in everything we do.
100% Water based inks
Pakaflex announced today that it has completed its move to more environmentally friendly water-based inks. This change removes volatile organic carbon (VOC) emissions completely, and unlike the old solvent-based inks, the new inks are totally non-flammable. This means there are huge reductions in the risk of fire. Pakaflex is believed to be the first plastic film printing business in Asia & Pacific to make the switch across the board.
Advances in Acrylic technology not only made this change possible, but also made it the right thing to do.
Changing the ink systems was a huge task, taking nearly a year of testing, trials and we are appreciative of our ink partners by getting the latest technology, and in specially formulating their inks for us. Key in making the change was the ink mixing system and laser anilox cleaning systems we have installed. We especially thank some of our key customers for evaluating the print in real life packing and WorkSafe Victoria who worked with us to facilitate the change.
For our customers, the new inks are brighter, more scratch resistant, UV fade resistant, non-slippery and of course printed with no VOC emissions at all!
water based inks
Conflict in the Middle East
The recent events in the Middle East have thrown raw material costs into confusion. There are talks of significant increases to freight (war surcharges, increases in fuel surcharges) and – like anything else linked to oil – polymer prices which are all increasing sharply. We are taking a wait-and-see approach but if current indications on new material supply costs continue into April, we will need to make corresponding increases to cover these. These polymer increases (some current indications exceed 30%) easily trigger the polymer movement clauses in our normal conditions of sale. We will endeavour to keep you advised of what your pricing will be on an order-by-order basis with long term (> 3 months) pricing not able to be offered.
In summary, we are waiting to see what happens, but early indications are there will be major cost increases across the board starting April which we will work to minimise. We have now moved to an order-by-order pricing model with the aim of continuing to provide our customers with best possible value for money in the turbulent environment.
New logo for 2026
New Investment on line
Pakaflex Printer wins graduate of the year!
For more information go to : www.print21.com.au/commercial/pakaflex-printer-lia-vic-graduate-of-year
Ausdeck goes for photographic wrap
Additional manufacturing site opened
Major supply problems in the USA
Following the events in Texas several major polymer suppliers have now called force majeure. Exxon Mobil has declared they are unable to take new orders for at least two months as they struggle to meet demand. At this stage Pakaflex has sufficient stock – hence we are not anticipating significant issues – but it certainly continues the relentless increase in global polymer prices seen over the last two weeks.
Plastics prices surge
The recent cold-snap in Texas has caused havoc in the petrochemical and plastics industry with almost the entire region closed down. It will be a few weeks before we understand exactly what the fall-out of this will be, but it seems to have become a trigger for major price hikes. The shut-downs in the USA come on top of 4 other major issues that have been impacting prices. These are:
We will be working with all our customers to minimise the impact of what we hope are very short term issues. Please contact us for the latest information.
AKD in the pink again
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.
Silos improve materials handling
Our largest coextruder yet
Pakaflex is recertified to ISO9001:2015
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Other useful links:
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The Packaging Council of Australia is a national Association of raw material suppliers, packaging manufacturers, packaging users, retailers and packaging designers/consultants.
The Australian Institute of Packaging.