Sustainable Packaging

Holfeld Plastics is a family run business, operating from the glorious Vale of Avoca in Ireland’s “Garden County”. The company was established in 1978, initially supplying foam packaging to the cosmetics industry. During the intervening years, we have grown to become one of the leading Rigid Plastics Packaging Manufacturers in the European market, and operate from a new custom-built manufacturing plant on a 250 acre campus, approximately one hour south of Dublin, Ireland.

Sustainable Packaging That Won’t Cost The Earth

Our business model is based around delivery of innovative products and solutions for our customers, who are drawn from some of the most respected household names within the U.K., Ireland and Europe primarily in the food and electronics sectors. The key to our success has been an agile and flexible manufacturing operation, supported by a front-line service team which puts the needs of our customers first – every time. This, allied to the additional attention to detail and friendly, attentive service that you’d expect from a family business, makes us one of the most respected names in our industry.

Edmund Holfeld Managing Director

Holfeld Plastics Est. 1978

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From concept to product

Designing the packaging solution for your needs

Holfeld Plastics offer a complete turnkey service, which includes Concept & Design, 3D Imaging, Extrusion, Thermoforming, Warehousing and Distribution. We also have full tool-building capability in-house for all our machinery – one of very few thermoforming companies with this facility. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities are capable of offering competitively priced products, from small to medium requirements right up to highvolume commodity production. Mindful of the importance of new product innovation on the part of our customers, we provide a total solution for all their packaging requirements, fulfilling their specialised technical requirements and helping them to achieve differentiation at the point of sale.

In house tool design and building

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We’re currently in the process of adding a further 10,000 tons of rPET sheet manufacturing capacity, which will allow us deliver an even better service to our customers.

Leading the way in Sustainable Packaging

We’re currently in the process of launching a revolutionary new low carbon rPET material (rPET-ECO), with a specific gravity of just 1g/cm3. This will be launched shortly into the fresh food market, rPET-ECO offers easy cut, low temperature forming while also providing a very attractive looking product.

Holfeld Plastics are leaders in Sustainable Packaging in Ireland, England and Northern Europe. One of the key benefits of our recycled PET raw material is that it’s approximately 80% lower in terms of its carbon footprint than virgin PET or Polypropylene.

Holfeld recently launched a new mono rPET material called ‘Holseal’ to eliminate the requirement for an additional PE layer to achieve a ‘lock seal’ in primary poultry applications. This is a mono material that is fully recyclable. We are also working on a range of active packaging technologies, which use a natural anti-microbial product, reducing oxidisation for additional food safety and longer shelf life. We expect these to be launched in 2011.

1. PET bottles are collected and sorted as part of normal recycling.

Closed Loop Recycling

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2. The bottles are washed, sorted and ground into flakes.

3. Holfeld purchase the washed flake & produce high quality rPET Superclean sheet.

4. We produce 8000 tonnes of rPET sheet. The sheet is either thermoformed internally or sold to food packers who convert it themselves.

5. These steps allow us to produce one of the most environmentally friendly trays in the market.

We use VacuRema Superclean technology for all post consumer recyclate destined for direct food contact, and have already submitted a dossier to the European Food Safety Authority for approval of our Superclean processes.

Our success over the past three decades has been built on a platform of unstinting quality in all aspects of our operations. Our new production facility contains state-of-theart machinery which guarantees optimum results every time. We conform to the relevant British Retail Consortium (BRC) global standard for packaging and packaging materials, which provides a powerful, third party guarantee of the quality processes and procedures in place at Holfeld Plastics. And because we don’t operate fixed production lines, we can provide an exceptional level of flexibility when it comes to size of run, product dimensions and colour of run. However, the equipment is of a scale to offer competitive prices on large volume projects also.

State-of-the-art facilities - Agile Manufacturing

1. Tool design and build in house

BRC Certified

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2. Extrusion

3. Work in progress

4. State of the art thermoforming

5. Narrow Aisle Racking

7. Loading bay

Our comprehensive range:

Mushrooms

Red Meat

Fish & Poultry

Fresh Produce

Prepared Food

Roll Stock

We provide a full range of UK standard sizes which are available in rPET.

In house production of rPET/Pe, full range of meat pod standard sizes available.

Holfeld introduced rPET into this industry some years ago. We have a large range of products off the shelf.

Holfeld offer an extensive range of punnets to the market.

Holfeld have developed a number of product ranges in this area.

Since August 2009, Holfeld have offered rPET sheet to the market. We also supply ‘Holseal’ to the market in sheet form.

Our colour range

Dark Green HP26

Green HP25

Tesco Green HP24

Apple Green HP23

Apple Green Tint HP22

Baby Blue HP21

Mushroom Blue HP19

Dark Blue Tint HP18

Black HP16

Dark Aubergine HP15

Aubergine HP14

Wine HP13

Brown HP12

Caramel HP11

Brass HP10

Light Brass HP09

Gold HP08

Light Silver HP07

Silver Dark HP06

White Tint HP04

White HP03

Milky White HP02

Clear HP01

EC Regulation 282/2008

White Tint (Natural PP) HP05

We offer up to 42 stock colours, but if required, can colour match to the clients requirement’s, offering an unlimited choice of colours.

Our Commitment to Research & Development Holfeld’s Open Innovation Model

Holfeld’s R&D mission is to use the most appropriate and best value technology available to deliver innovative, environmentally friendly packaging solutions – on time and within budget – to our customers. Our aim is to be recognised as the most responsive and innovative supplier of recycled PET packaging in Europe.

At Holfeld Plastics, we adopt an open innovation model, calling on expertise from a range of leading colleges, along with a dedicated Innovation Team which we access as part of a European consortium. Patrick Ward (BSc, PhD), Research & Development Manager

Thermoformed rPET-ECO food tray

We have worked through the European Framework Programme 7, and have also enjoyed the support of the Irish government in the form of Enterprise Ireland.

Surface topography image of rPET sheet

We commit over 5% of annual turnover to Research & Development, successfully harnessing emerging technologies into our core business activities, helping to deliver competitive advantage and sustainable growth in market share to our broad range of customers. We specialise in delivering products that are designed to perform successfully in a wide range of automated processing environments. All of our material complies with EC Regulation 282/2008 and is fully approved for direct food contact by EFSA (European Food Safety Authority). Europe’s most innovative rPet Supplier

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The benefits to our customers are numerous and include lighter weight and cheaper packaging, better sealing, reduced failure rates, longer shelf life, availability of microwaveable options, and a lower carbon footprint.

This model gives us maximum flexibility, allowing us draw on particular expertise for specialised functions as and when required. We have the capacity to tackle packaging problems with or on behalf of our customers to enhance the performance of the products in the market.

Atmospheric plasma processing for improved adhesion and active packaging coatings.

Testing of the heat seal performance of Holfeld plastics materials. Holfeld have developed Holseal material with improved heat seal characteristics.

This allows us to build genuinely long-term relationships with our customers, and to work collaboratively to bring the very best products to market. We have a number of innovative projects running ‘live’ at present and our aim is to continuously supply a stream of new products and materials aimed specifically at food packaging applications that are both innovative and sustainable.

Servicing Our Customers

Speedy Production Delivery Worldwide

Holfeld Plastics services the entire developed world and has major international customers worldwide. Through a combination of speedy production and superb logistical planning, we can deliver the goods no matter where in the world your operation is located. In the last 12 months, we have shipped to clients located in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Holland, Spain, Greece, Israel, Russia, Scandinavia, USA, Australia, Chile, South Africa and the Far East.

If you need more information on our product range, please get in touch: UK:

Gary Bage Sales Manager, UK Mobile: +44 (0) 7774 686563 Email: [email protected]

IRL:

Caoimhe Holfeld Sales Manager, Ireland Tel:

+353 (0) 402 41234

Email: [email protected]

EUR:

Willy De Raeve European Sales Manager Mobile: +32 (0) 474 06 12 68 Tel:

+32 (0) 11 21 21 16

Email: [email protected] HolfeldPlastics.com

Mushrooms

Fresh Produce

Prepared Food

Red Meat

Fish/Poultry

Roll Stock

We have enclosed only a small selection of our range of products. For a full listing or further details, please contact: [email protected]

Head Office, Avoca River Park,  Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland Tel: +353 (0) 402 41234 Fax: +353 (0) 402 32553 HolfeldPlastics.com