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“Proudly walking away with 4 GOLD awards and the IPSA Gold Pack trophy for 2021 is an honour to which we owe thanks to our entire team!”, states Neelin Naidoo, MD of Mpact Plastics. We are extremely proud to have featured strongly…

The industry, under the guidance of The Polystyrene Association (which is now part of Polyco) has recently rolled out the red carpet for Khaya Khanya, a brand-new factory producing lightweight polystyrene-concrete bricks.  Mpact Versapak is proud to be a part of this…

We are proud to have been presented with gold and silver awards at the SAPRO awards ceremony held online, on 14 October 2021.

Section 18 of the new Waste Management Act came into effect on 5 May 2021. These regulations relate to extended producer responsibility (EPR) in terms of a number of industries and products, including the paper and plastics packaging industries.

We want you to think positively about polystyrene; understand its strengths, benefits, facts, truths, alternatives and the wonderful opportunities that exist.

By raising awareness, we can hold each other accountable to make truly beneficial decisions around packaging and environmental matters.

Let us unpack the industry terms for good With the recent implementation of the amended Regulations pertaining to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), under the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008, industry jargon is splashed all over the media. Terms such…

The Southern African Vinyls Association’s (SAVA) newly launched Vinyl-dot (vinyl.) offers consumers and end-users the assurance that PVC products carrying this quality mark, adhere to SAVA’s Product Stewardship Commitment (PSC).

Our face shield, produced from PET and PP, both 100% recyclable materials, can be used in many industries where full facial coverage is required.

Bear with us as we take the opportunity to say it as it is:  You should be part of the plastic packaging solution.  The ‘how’ may be a bit more complex and depends on who you are and where you fit into the…

You may think our answer is obvious and potentially in contrast to those who believe that plastics is nothing but a pollutant.  If most of our answer lies within the question, should the question not rather be ‘why plastics cannot…

We’ve bid farewell to the bloody soaker pad through the development of our outrageously successful polystyrene Ultrazorb® range, but our innovation continues in the interest of recyclability and consumer convenience.

Mpact Versapak receives the prestigious PETCO award for launching a 100% post-consumer recycled PET food punnet that extends the rPET focus to thermoformed products! Traditionally rPET material focused on applications such as beverage bottles, but by expanding the focus to thermoformed products, such…