Pakaflex UV resistant and Industrial Packaging

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.

Circular Economy

In 2021 Pakaflex 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 several years with several of our major partners, including 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.

Our Timeline

1 January 2019

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Timber & Forestry

Pakaflex has developed the market leading – long lasting – Enduratuff wrap for reducing sweat under timber, but we also have a range of other options and products for speciifc requirments. This includes strapping and tapes..

Garden & Nursery

With high resistance to expanding after packing, our compression and potting mix films are the best in the game. Combined with the capbility to print up to eight colours with hightly UV resistant inks – and able to to do this up to 1600mm wide with 1200mm repeats – we are one of the few large format printers in the Southern Hemisphere.

Safety

We make a huge range of tapes and bags for things like cleaning up asbestos, or putting down new wires or pipes. We are now the leading manufacturer in Australia of quality underground service warning tapes.

Industrial

Our range has been designed with the unique and varied requirements of the Australian and New Zealand industrial industries in mind. We have specialised in printed compression packaging and other bags for industrial use.

A commitment to sustainability

RecycleEverything Pakaflex makes is recyclable, and this includes our innovative Enduratuff timber wrap. We are already utilising material returned to us by our customers to make back into Enduratuff again. The recycled material is encapsulated in the special black layer where previous inks and colours can’t be seen – and because we know it’s history – we maintain product strength. This level of closed-loop recycling is at the heart of the objectives of the latest Packaging Coveneant and we are already doing it!

Most of the products we make are designed for the long-term and to resist high levels of UV exposure. As described above, these are perfect for recycling and we are actively working to assist our customers to do this. We are also collaborating with suppliers of compostible resins and special additives that promote degradation where this does not compromise the primary purpose of the product. This is a journey which has already been started and we will be at the forefront of these technologies when they become cost-effective and suitable for our markets.

Pakaflex Pty Ltd

43-45 Progress Street
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.