Amcor
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| Amcor | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1860 |
| Founder | Samuel Ramsden |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
Number of employees | 29,000 |
| Website | www.amcor.com |
The company Amcor is one of the world‘s leading packaging manufacturers with headquarters located in Melbourne, Australia. Amcor is known for high quality innovative and sustainable packaging solutions and partnerships built on service and reliability. The australian enterprise offers a broad range of packaging related products and services, including packaging for beverages, food, healthcare, personal and homecare, tobacco, and industrial applications with manufacturing sites around the world.
The company operates as two independent business units across two regions: Europe, Middle East, Africa, Americas and the region Asia Pacific.
With their plants across the Americas, Amcors Rigid Plastic business is the world‘s largest manufacturer of PET containers.
The range of containers and capabilities includes packaging for hot and cold, and alcoholic beverages, blow moulded and extrusion moulded plastic containers for food, and an array of PET, HDPE and PP containers for pharmaceutical, personal and home care products.
Additionally Amcor holds 47.939% of AMVIG Holdings Limited, a company principally involved in the manufacture of tobacco packaging. With plants across Asia, including the People’s Republic of China, AMVIG is a leading supplier of packaging and printing for packaging in the region. Although AMVIG is not a wholly owned company of Amcor, there exists significant opportunities for Amcor and AMVIG to mutually benefit from the experience and participation in the specialty packaging for tobacco markets.
Products / Technology
Packaging for:
- Beverages
- Food
- Household
- Hospital Packaging
- Medical Devices
- Personal & Homecare
- Pharmaceutical
- Tobacco
- Other Products
History
- 1860 – founded by Samuel Ramsden in Melbourne, Australia
- 1970s and 80s - Amcor added a range of diverse packaging interests to its traditional papermaking activities
- 1986 – the company became Amcor Limited
References
PETplanet Insider Articles
Issue 1 / 2016: Amcor Rigid Plastics wins WorldStar 2016 Packaging Award for Hot-Fill PET bottle
Issue 12 / 2015: Think Tank
Issue 11 / 2015: Talks at Pack Expo 2015
Issue 10 / 2015: Silver A' Design Award for 500ml bottles goes to Amcor
Issue 6 / 2015: Amcor Rigid Plastics wins Brazilian packaging design award for innovative PET containers
Issue 5 / 2015: Amcor announces acquisition of Nampak Flexibles
Issue 1 / 2015: Amcor acquires Chinese flexible packaging company
Issue 1 / 2014: Barrier yogurt container
Issue 10 / 2013: Amcor Packaging splits
Issue 9 / 2013: PET goes Origami
Issue 9 / 2013: Pillars of power
Issue 4 / 2013: Amcor flourishes in Florida
Issue 7 / 2012: Amcor opens 650 million bpa production facility
Issue 11 / 2011: Amcor aquires Ball Plastics Packaging (Americas)
Issue 9 / 2011: Amcor Rigid Plastics president retires
Issue 9 / 2010: Amcor buys Ball Plastics Packaging Americas for US$280 million
Issue 5 / 2010: Renaming of Amcor business
Issue 10 / 2008: Amcor Results
