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Filmatic Group | International quality compliance
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Filmatic?
The business was started by Johan Beyers (the current CEO) in 1979, operating
out of his garage in Paarl. Initially Beyers did all the work on his own,
from conceptualizing and designing to the building and commissioning of
the equipment, mainly for the dairy industry. The popularity of the model
3000 machine, specifically with dairy farmers, necessitated the appointment
of the first two employees during 1980 to assist with manufacturing.
Filmatic entered the export market in 1985. This necessitated the appointment of skilled personnel and restructuring the company, seeing an engineering office, a marketing office and an administration office being established and by December 1990 the personnel contingent numbered 12 people.
Between 1991 to 1998 Filmatic not only improved our existing products, but also diversified the product range by adding pick and place cappers, inline pump fillers and unscramblers. This enabled the company to serve the needs of the customer far more efficiently and turnover increased to R26 million and the workforce to 47 people.
Due to the move towards extended shelf life products, Filmatic made a
strategic decision in 1999 to leverage ourselves to the top-end of the
market by developing technologically advanced equipment to serve this particular
market segment.
This phase saw the development of the Rotary Flow meter Fillers, Rotary Net Weight Fillers, as well as rinsing equipment, which would ultimately serve the Ultra Clean market. During this period until 2002, the export marketing drive was intensified and new markets penetrated.
During the last 2 years Filmatic started reaping the benefits of its strategic decision to move into the top-end of the market and the accompanying huge investment in research and design as substantial export orders were procured.
We Shape the Future of Packaging
Total control is the key
FILMATIC PACKAGING SYSTEMS in Paarl, South Africa, offers professional
engineering services with regard to specialised liquid packaging systems,
as well as complete turnkey projects. Filmatic's total dedication to excellent
service and specialist packaging design, from single fillers to turnkey
packaging lines, has, during the past 25 years put them on the international
forefront of liquid and food packaging equipment suppliers.
Although Filmatic is renowned worldwide for specialising in supreme liquid
filling and packaging technology, the company offer a range of complementary
highly reputable agency equipment. This enables Filmatic to supply upstream
and downstream equipment, in other words from empty container handling
to rinsing, filling, capping, labelling, conveying and packaging.
" We pride ourselves in the fact that we have a solution for every packaging
need. Our success is evident in our clientele. Our current market consists
of rinser-filler-cappers for the dairy industry, food and beverage markets.
In this segment we now cover 90% of the South African market.
We also provide our engineering services to the international market
and have an international distribution network for our equipment operating
in 21 countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Russia, France, Benelux,
Mauritius, Australia, Taiwan, South East Asia, Mexico, the United Kingdom,
USA and Sub-Sahara Africa. Our clients include the Unilever Group,
Reckitt & Benckiser,
Nestlé, Cadbury Schweppes, Bromor Foods, Colgate,Palmolive, Chibuku Breweries,
Parmalat, Danone Clover, Coca Cola, Dannon USA, Cambell’s Soup,
Total Oil, Johnson Wax, Andechser Molkerei, Kenia Breweries, Arla Foods, Freshways Dairy and many more."
Filmatic offers complete turnkey projects as well as:
• Semi automatic rotary indexing fillers
• In line manual fillers
• Piston (volumetric) fillers
• Electronic pump fillers
• Rotary flow meter and net weigh fillers
• Ultra Clean “extended shelf life” systems
• Rotary fillers with foil cappers, screw cappers, snap cappers, pick & place capping, glass / foil capping, combination capping (foil and screw on) and ROPP cappers.
• Rotary cappers
• Bottle conveyors and elevators
• Unscramblers for plastic bottles and caps
• Labellers – self adhesive type
• Bottle and cap rinsers
" We handle all types of glass and plastic bottles, different types of caps and provide our services to producers of milk, drinking yoghurt, flavoured milk, mineral water, cream, beer, fruit juice, jam, honey, shampoo, dish washing liquid, ink, ketchup, vinegar, motor oil, edible oil, wine, cider, water, paint, etc."
" Combining our own engineering designs and the equipment sourced from agencies,
we are able to provide the complete solution in packaging needs, including
conveyers, accumulation and line control. The filler is the heart of
the production line and must always produce at optimum. To achieve this, all
the equipment, upstream and downstream, must be selected and engineered
to keep the heart beating. A highly professional team of engineers and
top agency equipment ensure our success."
Company Structure
Filmatic has two supporting companies, namely Filmatic Machining and Fabrinox. Filmatic machining operates 24 hours a day and its main task is to supply machined components with state of the art CNC machines.
Fabrinox is a sheet metal fabrication company with lazer cutting capabilities. All parts are therefore available in-house, which is conducive to efficiency, service, quality and productivity.
Extract of Client Portfolio (South Africa)
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Export (International)
- Dannon Waters (USA)
- Princes Foods (UK)
- Cadbury Scweppes (Zimbabwe)
- Malabon Oil (Manila)
- Lever Ponds (Zimbabwe)
- Jomex (Mexico)
- Angoinform (Angola)
- Betta Milk (Tasmania)
- Bevpak (Australia)
- Campbell's Soup (Australia)
- Dunfords Dairy (UK)
- Arla Foods (UK)
- Freshways Dairy (UK)
- AZM Dairy (Switzerland)
- Andechser Molkerei (Germany)
- East African Breweries
- Premier Foods
- Coca Cola (Mexico)
Machine Placements
> 2650 machines installed worldwide
> 1018 fillers in dairy applications
- North America 114
- England 44
- Asia 54
- Australia 30
- Western Europe 21
- Eastern Europe 4
- Africa 57
- South Africa 2031
International quality compliance
Our machine designs comply with the American 3A standard and the European EHEDG manufacturing standard. Equipment exported to the European union also complies with the European Safety Standards (CE).
Distributor network
To further extend our worldwide marketing network we offer agencies in key regional areas. Contact us to find an agent near you.
Why Filmatic?
Traditionally our products have a cost advantage over European imports
due to being manufactured in South Africa where the labour rates are
significantly lower than in export markets.
The quality of our equipment can compete with the best on the first world market and equipment quality is benchmarked on European manufacturing standards. Technologically we can provide a whole range of products to suit most requirements.
Understanding the different cultures in local and foreign markets is important
to ensure the supply of total filling solutions. Fulfilling our quality
policy to ensure that product quality and service levels will exceed customer
expectations puts us a step above that of the competition.
The quality of service and maintenance levels is of high standard. Cost
will be competitive and response times quick as transport from SA will
not be necessary. (Regional support is driven through agents)
• Benchmark quality
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Excellent service
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Robust design
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Continuous innovative design improvements
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Competitive prices
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Favourable lead times
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Commercial items available off-the-shelf
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Expert technicians
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Training courses and service programs
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World class machine manuals