SÜDPACK acquires LPF

LPF Flex­i­ble Pack­ag­ing B.V. (“LPF”) from the Clon­dalkin Group will be acquired by SÜDPACK on Feb­ru­ary 2021. The com­pa­ny, locat­ed in Groote­gast, the Nether­lands, is a lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of high bar­ri­er films for sen­si­tive prod­ucts. LPF was found­ed in 1907 and has long-stand­ing expe­ri­ence in the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of pack­ag­ing mate­ri­als. For SÜDPACK, the acqui­si­tion is a fur­ther key ele­ment in its long-term growth strategy.
Since 2005 LPF was part of the Clon­dalkin Group, which is owned by Dutch pri­vate equi­ty investor Ege­ria since 2016. LPF’s key com­pe­ten­cies include the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of print­ed and unprint­ed duplex and tri-plex pack­ag­ing lam­i­nates, which pro­vide high­est prod­uct pro­tec­tion and pro­longed shelf life for the most demand­ing appli­ca­tions. LPF main­ly serves the pack­ag­ing mar­kets for food, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and tech­ni­cal prod­ucts. Its cus­tomers include glob­al­ly lead­ing brands.
In addi­tion to exten­sive prod­uct and indus­try exper­tise, LPF has exten­sive R&D and busi­ness devel­op­ment resources to sup­port its strat­e­gy. More­over, the com­pa­ny has a qual­i­ty base of machin­ery and infra­struc­ture and is well-invest­ed and sup­port­ed by a high­ly skilled tech­ni­cal depart­ment. To ensure oper­a­tional effec­tive­ness, LPF’s process­es are opti­mized for the pro­duc­tion of high-qual­i­ty lam­i­nat­ed films.
Con­ti­nu­ity of LPF’s oper­a­tions post-trans­ac­tion is secured and its work­force will become part of SÜDPACK. Fur­ther­more, LPF’s cus­tomer care will be car­ried on by the exist­ing sales orga­ni­za­tion and grad­u­al­ly advance the cul­ti­va­tion of new mar­kets. Mean­while, SÜDPACK’s high-per­for­mance lam­i­nates pro­duc­tion con­tin­ues with­out alter­ations at its sites in Ochsen­hausen and Biog­gio in Switzerland.
The incor­po­ra­tion of LPF into the SÜDPACK Group is to begin imme­di­ate­ly. Erik Bouts, CEO of SÜDPACK, is convinced

“that we will make rapid progress in inte­grat­ing this high­ly-moti­vat­ed team since we share the same val­ues and visions. After all, what is of para­mount impor­tance to us all is to con­sis­tent­ly devel­op the best pos­si­ble solu­tion to meet all of our cus­tomers’ needs.”