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Long established as the top name in South African metal

can production for the non-beverage market, Nampak

DivFood is facing emerging competition and export

challenges with confidence, says divisional managing director Ephraim Msane.

By Colin Chinery

E ach year Nampak DivFood, South Africa’s leading food and

diversifi ed can supplier and All in One solution provider to the industry sells an impressive total of almost one and a half billion food and diversifi ed cans into the domestic market. Worldwide it supplies into 35 countries.

This is the Nampak ‘Can Do’ spirit; signed, sealed and delivered.

“Over the years we have developed skills ranging from packaging design to production and customer support. And customers put great value on the depth of our experience. We have the largest packaging R&D facility in South Africa if not the southern hemisphere, and we keep a very close eye on what is happening in the global packaging sector,” says divisional managing director Ephraim Msane. “Put all this together and it clearly gives us the edge.”

Manufacturing and marketing a diverse range of high quality two-piece and three-piece cans, Nampak DivFood’s portfolio includes a comprehensive choice of plain and lacquered ends, full-aperture tinplate easy-opening ends, and peel-offs. All manufactured to exacting requirements from largely local tinplate.

And as one of the few metal can manufacturers

Nampak DivFood FEATURE

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DivFood is facing emerging competition and export

challenges with confidence, says divisional managing director Ephraim Msane.

By Colin Chinery

producing tinplate and aluminium aerosols worldwide, Nampak DivFood tailor-makes aerosols in varied sizes and shoulder profiles. With designs printed in high quality detail, brand image – a Silent Salesman – is enhanced, leaving an impression of product quality in the eyes and minds of consumers. Nampak DivFood also shapes its aluminium aerosol cans - an advantage in a market where packaging shape is perceived to be uniform across different brands.

In collaboration with Nampak Research & Development, Nampak DivFood cans are backed by cutting-edge materials, food technology and microbiology laboratories. These world-class facilities play an integral role in providing microbiology and spoilage investigation, thermal process validation, new materials and shelf life evaluation, container physical testing, hygiene audits and other canned food must-haves. A complete and

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Nampak DivFood FEATURE

We aim to provide our customers with

total packaging solutions that

strike the optimal balance between

high container performance,

safety, and low price

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Nampak DivFood has over 60 years experience in manufacturing plain and decorated metal containers, making it the acknowledged South African leader in aerosols, metal containers and decorative tinware.

Two modern design studios, equipped with state-of-the-art computerised design systems, complement DivFood’s design capability and provide customers with limitless decoration options for added shelf-shout.

Its promotional tinware includes beautifully finished tins celebrated for their designs and excellent print quality, offering a functional, visually appealing, durable and relatively inexpensive option for promotions and limited-edition product ranges.

As a creative and innovative manufacturer with access to the best international technology, Nampak DivFood is able to fulfil almost any customised requirement across wide market segments.

While competition in the past has been limited, new companies have recently entered the can-making sector and are attempting

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With more than 125 years of existence, PPG is today a global coatings and specialty products manufacturer with over two-thirds of our $13.4 billion sales in 2010 generated by our coatings activity. Strengthening the commitment to this sector, PPG went through multiple acquisitions in recent years, the most significant in EMEA being the Ameron acquisition in 2006, Sigma Kalon in 2008. They provided access to new market sectors in EMEA in Architectural, Marine and Protective coatings and increased our presence in Automotive, Refinish, Industrial, Aerospace and Packaging coatings businesses. It is our vision to continue being the world’s leading coatings and specialty products and services company, serving customers in construction, consumer products, industrial and transportation markets and aftermarkets. PPG has manufacturing facilities and equity affiliates in more than 60 countries around the globe.

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PPG Packaging Coatings operates in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and on the American continent. Our corporate R&D centre is located in Alison Park, Pennsylvania where chemists dedicated to the Packaging business focus on long-term projects. Our development laboratories are located around the world to respond to local market needs.

PPG Packaging Coatings’ products and services offer a complete range of solutions for the Beer & Beverage cans and easy-open-ends, food cans, aerosols cans, tubes, general line cans and drums, caps and closures and peel-ends markets. Our product portfolio comprises technologies for both aluminium and steel substrates, encompassing both internal & external coatings with products that combine superior performance at value-added costs. Also included are coatings designed for plastic tubes made for thermal and UV curing, combined with all the relevant application processes.

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PPG Coatings South Africa have successfully supported DivFood and Nampak R&D with the development and implementation of the interior universal lacquer coatings system of fish, fruit and general line cans currently in use. This is just one way in which PPG supports their customers with quality systems, inventory management and the overall integrity of their cans.

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to establish a presence. “This is probably the biggest challenge we have,” says Msane. ”Aside of course from the ongoing South African challenge of exchange rate fluctuations. Needless to say we continue to organise ourselves appropriately to meet this new competitive challenge and remain the leading supplier that we have been for years.”

Nampak DivFood is itself a direct exporter, selling can-making components and cans. “We have over 40 national markets throughout the world. South America and the Far East are major markets, and selling into Africa is a key strategic goal.

Welsh notes too the big push from client base to cut costs. “There are also environmental pressures. South Africa may be regarded in some places as Third World but in terms of the multinationals we deal with, South Africa is set the same standards as elsewhere in the world. So compliance with the same benchmarks on say re-cycle ability or carbon footprint are demanded and expected,

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Nampak DivFood FEATURE

We have over 40 national markets

throughout the world. South America and

the Far East are major markets, and selling into Africa is a key

strategic goal

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and we find all of these kinds of issues are coming to the fore in South Africa now. We have substantial investments in recycling initiatives, and because we intend to be in this business for a very long, long time we want to make sure that in the way we do business everything is as sustainable as possible.

“We want to provide the best quality and the best service for our customers, hence the investment in new equipment, new printing equipment for example that will give us faster turn-around time and better quality. We’ve also put in new end making machinery, again to give customers a better service and lower cost.” Over the years Nampak DivFood has shown that it will invest behind increased customer requirements. A good example of this is the addition of two lines to its aluminium aerosol can manufacturing capacity in the past three years.

“A main point is that we don’t just supply a can, which is what our competitors generally do,” adds Msane

”Basically they buy machines, make products and then sell them. They don’t, for example, spend much time with their customers to support their machines in terms of running their lines effectively. They don’t spend as much time explaining how their products behave in the can.

“Nampak DivFood on the other hand, gives full support in all these areas. So if a customer comes to us he receives not merely a view on which can to use or how it should be made, but advice all the way through to how his product is going to perform once inside the can.

“We aim to provide our customers with total packaging solutions that strike the optimal balance between high container performance, safety, and low price. And at Nampak DivFood we have the experience, expertise, innovative edge and strength of resource that no other local manufacturer can match.” END

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