Site Visit Presentation – 7 October 2013

MPACT PLASTICS WADEVILLEPREFORMS AND CLOSURES

Durban

Harare

Brits

Johannesburg

Atlantis Paarl

Plastics

Staff numbersEmployees 155 (permanent)

Capacity

Wadeville 40 000 tons per annum

1.6 billion units per annum

Raw materialsWadeville PET

Certifications/Accreditations

Wadeville ISO 9001/2008

ISO 22000 / 2005

ProductsWadeville Carbonated soft drink bottle preforms

Wide Mouth food jars

Hot Fill bottles

Mpact Plastics Wadeville

Cape Town

Overview – Preforms, Bottles and Jars

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106 product lines:Injection moulding: carbonated soft drink bottle preforms ; edible oil bottle preforms; general bottle preforms

Stretch blow moulding: Hot Fill preservative free and carbonated soft drink bottles; edible oil bottles

Injection stretch blow moulding: Wide Mouth food jars; specialised bottles; household detergents

Manufacturing process and product overview

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First to SA market with Wide Mouth design

First to SA market with Hot Fill

First to SA market with 144 cavitation

First PET wine bottle in South Africa

First in light-weight neck design in South Africa for carbonated soft drinks

Design centre based in Cape Town

Product innovations

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Equipment (8 machines):

Husky Injection Moulding Systems

machines, Luxembourg

Description:

Range from a G line 48 cavity

machine to a 500 ton Hypet 144

cavity machine

Injection moulding equipment

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Dryer

Injection moulding machine Preform

Mould

Cooled core pin

Injection of polymer

Typical machine cycle = 900 000 preforms per machine per day

Resin drying = minimum 5 hr @ 180ºC

280ºC - 290ºC

Mould cooling@ 7ºC

Preform temperature

@ 45ºC

Source: SANS Fibres Polymer Technical

Injection moulding process

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Equipment (6 machines):

Sidel rotary machines and moulds, France

Sipa linear stretch blow moulding machine, Italy Hot Fill technology (PET 2 stage blow moulding) Enables preservative free product formulation

Description:

4 Rotary blow moulding machines

2 Linear stretch blow moulding machines

Stretch blow moulding equipment

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Preform is positioned in

mould

Exhaust after a thermal process

Deformation axial and radial at the same time by stretching and

preblowing around 7-10 bars

Blowing at 40 bars

Source: SANS Fibres Polymer Technical

Stretch blow moulding process

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Equipment (13 machines):

Nissei wide mouth bottle machines, ASB Japan

Aoki single stage machine, Japan

Description:

8 single stage wide mouth machines for jar manufacturing

5 single stage machines for bottle manufacturing

Combines the processes of injection moulding and stretch blow moulding in one machine

Single stage blow moulding equipment

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Major customers

86%

14%

Customer category

Preforms Bottles & jars

Overview - Closures

Staff numbersEmployees 60 (permanent)

Output

Wadeville 4,500 tons per annum

1.5 billion units per year

Raw materialsClosures PP

HDPE

Poly liners

Master batches

Various printing ink

Certifications/AccreditationsWadeville ISO 9001:2008

ISO 22 000 / 2005

State-of-the-art lab testing facility

ProductsClosures All types and colour caps

Plastic 2-piece closures most non-coke CSD products

as well as carbonated energy drinks 1-piece short neck closures for lightweight

products

Glass: 2-piece closures for returnable CSD market and medical applications

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Equipment (11 Machines):

Compression moulding machines and moulds manufactured by SACMI Italy

Injection machines from Milacron Ferromatic in China

Description:

Five continuous compression moulding machines (CCM) each with a folding and slitting station

Speed on single piece = 49 500 caps per hour

Speed on two-piece = 45 000 caps per hour

3 liner manufacturing and inserting machines (PMD)

3 injection moulding machines

Closure manufacturing equipment

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Basic compression moulding process

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Slitting and folding of the plastic closures

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Lining process of the plastic closures

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Equipment:

3 machines manufactured by

Tampo print in Germany

Dual row printing on each

machine enables a speed of

120 000 caps per hour

In-line vision systems allow

for 100% inspection of all

print

Printing process – Tampo print

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Major customers

99%

1%

Customer category

CSD Pharmaceutical