Milestones

silver plastic bottles
Biggest acquisition in the history of the company

1995

Ireland´s Boxmore Plastics launches South African operation in Harrismith (Free State)

2001

Boxmore Plactics Cape Town established in Bellville

2002

Boxmore Plastics Mauritius established in Port Louis

US-based Chesapeake buys Boxmore Plastics International and SA subsidiaries

2009

Boxmore Plastics SA sold to Pamodzi Group. Investec Bank and Management Trust in leveraged buy-out

2010

Investec Principled Investments (IPI) buys out Pamodzi, brings Boxmore into private equity business

2012

MGG´s plastic closures division bought by Boxmore to form Boxmore Packaging Group

2013

IPI enters into JV to aquire Lapack to form Boxmore Speciality Plastics.

Boxmore Packaging Zambia established in Lusaka

2014

ALPLA opens a plant in Kempton Park 

Boxmore aquires Hilfort Plastics Cape Town, Upington and Bloemfontein operations

Boxmore rescues Concorde Plastics (in liquidation)

2015

Boxmore aquires CinqPET

Boxmore Packaging acquires Boxmore Speciality Plastics

2017

2018

Opening of the first plant in Viana, Angola

2022

Opening of the second plant in Viana, Angola

2022

Opening of a state-of-the-art production site in Lanseria, South Africa