Lund and Halmstad 2010-09-06 Flextrus merges with Flexopac and grows in the Nordic market
Flextrus has acquired the Swedish packaging company Flexopac. Together the companies will strengthen their offering as a complete supplier with local service to primarily the Nordic food and healthcare sectors. After the acquisition Flextrus has sales of 95 million euro and 315 employees.
Flexopac supplies flexible packaging materials primarily to the Nordic food industry. The company has grown strongly thanks to its focus on service in terms of short lead times and high quality flexo print on both film and paper materials. Flexopac has a turnover of 10 million euro and 35 employees.
Flextrus is one of the leaders in environmentally responsible flexible packaging in Northern Europe. Its customers are in the food and healthcare sectors.
In July 2010 the Swedish-based packaging company Flexmed, focused on the healthcare sector, joined Flextrus. The mergers with Flexmed, and now Flexopac, make Flextrus a more complete and stronger partner to demanding customers within the food and healthcare industries.
- We are looking forward to developing Flextrus together with Flexopac and Flexmed, says Per Nyström, CEO of Flextrus. Flexopac is an ideal partner with whom to jointly strengthen our position in the Nordic region and we can now offer our food customers an even broader product range. The merger between Flextrus, Flexopac and Flexmed is an important step towards our vision of a modern packaging supplier with production and development in Northern Europe, offering our customers the highest service level, local presence and unique packaging expertise.
- Flexopac is a highly regarded partner by its customers for their service support and high quality. Together with Flextrus it will have the resources and strength to continue to develop. We are very happy that both Flexopac and Flexmed will play an important role in further developing Flextrus as a complete and well-reputed company with its base in Scandinavia, says Lennart Söderberg, Chairman of the Flexopac board, who will now join the Flextrus board.
More information about the company and its products can be found on www.flextrus.com.
For further information please contact:
Per Nyström, CEO, Tel +46 (0) 730 88 31 45, per.nystrom@flextrus.com
FLEXTRUS GROUP AB
Lund Business Park
Maskinvägen 1
P.O. Box 22, SE-221 00 Lund
Phone: +46 (0)46 18 30 00
Fax: +46 (0)46 211 36 00
www.flextrus.com
FLEXTRUS – THE NATURAL CHOICE FOR DEMANDING PACKAGING CUSTOMERS
Our customers market, protect and preserve their products in the best possible way using flexible packaging with advanced barrier properties. They have high requirements associated with their products and brands, and need packaging materials with the desired feel, appearance and functional properties
As one of the leaders in flexible packaging in Northern Europe, we supply environmentally responsible materials for food and healthcare packaging. We take a step closer to our customers through our concept TCP, Total Customer Performance, where we participate in their development in a structured manner. Flextrus has a turnover of 95 million EUR after the merger with Flexopac and Flexmed, with 315 employees. We have local sales representation close to our customers and operate three factories in Lund, Halmstad and Landskrona in Sweden and one in Somerset, UK.