PackSolve is one of the largest, black-owned, diversified industrial packaging groups in the Southern African region. We offer clients full turn-key industrial packaging solutions in three clearly defined markets. We specialise in wooden packaging (crating for heavy industry and mining), steel drum manufacturing (juice concentrate) and packing solutions for the steel industry, which are all involved in the South African export market.
Established in 2014 through the merger of three of South Africa’s leading industrial packaging entities, the company offers solutions using a variety of materials and substrates, including timber, plastics, steel, paper and strapping.
We are fully accredited for ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 ensuring that we reduce your companies risks and promote occupational health and safety forming a fundamental part of our company’s risk management strategy. This protects our workforce and others under our control, ensures we comply with legal requirements and facilitates continual improvement giving our clients the peace of mind that the services and/or products that we provide meet certain international standards and requirements.
With management experience of over 65 years in the industrial packaging arena, PackSolve’s competitive advantages are economies of scale, purchasing power, regional operations and fully outsourced solutions.
Flexibility in solution design and innovation, as well as technology, allow PackSolve to be at the forefront of industry trends.
Industrial packaging is 100% our focus, it is our business to minimise clients’ packaging spend and deliver tailored solutions and experience. In addition, clients benefit from PackSolve’s ability to minimise risk factors, such as industrial relations and insurance risks.
PackSolve’s full-service, end-to-end solutions allow companies to focus on their core activities, while we focus on our core abilities, reducing packaging spend and improving efficiencies.
Sustainability is a primary focus area for the PackSolve Group and the company acknowledges its impacts on the environment and therefore provides processes to minimize these impacts. Our management systems guide our waste programs for paper, steel, timber and plastic. Our timber purchases are from sustainable resources, and our plastics and steel are fully recyclable.
Our drum division take sustainability to new heights, we have designed and developed technology and a drum product that is reusable. A comprehensive LCA was completed by EY – Rotterdam with SGS, providing a third-party audit of our LCA. The drums we sell are 24% less impactful on the environment in comparison to a standard drum.
