Safripol (PTY) Ltd

Safripol is a leading polymer producer and marketer, serving valued customers and markets in South Africa, Africa and beyond. Its commercial office is located in Bryanston, South Africa. The company have grown to become the second-largest polymer producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, with customers in every sector of industry and business.

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Safripol is a member of KAP, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company. Their business touches everything from medical equipment and food packaging to industrial piping and energy products to sports and recreational equipment to carpets, denim jeans and children’s toys.

Safripol (Pty) Ltd consists of a Commercial Head Office in Bryanston as well as key operations in Durban and Sasolburg. Safripol Sasolburg is home to High-Density Polyethylene and Polypropylene manufacturing plants. This facility produces circa 160kt of HDPE and 120kt of PP annually. Original operations were established in 1972 as a joint venture between Hoechst AG of Germany and Sentrachem Ltd. Thereafter, a division of Dow, and then under Private Equity until being incorporated into KAP at the beginning of January 2017.

Safripol Durban facility produces PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) resin and has a capacity of 240kt per annum. This capacity meets the domestic market’s demand for PET, which leaves the opportunity to actively export into Africa, Europe, Asia and the U.S.A. The company was originally started by Hoechst AG of Germany and Sentrachem Limited in 1972. Following this, the business was re-branded as Hosaf and was acquired by KAP in 2003.

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HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE)

POLYPROPYLENE (PP)

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PET)

Aspire® PET is a top-quality thermoplastic material used for injection and stretches blow-moulding of bottles used for mineral water; carbonated soft drinks; fruit juice; dairy products; edible oils; and cosmetic and pharmaceutical products. Other applications include sheet extrusion; thermoforming of extruded sheets for food packaging; and industrial strap extrusion.

HDPE is polymerized from ethylene to produce a plastic with excellent stiffness and environmental stress crack resistance. It has superb chemical resistance and low water absorption and is easily processed and machined. The main applications of HDPE include blow-moulded containers, crates, drums, blown film and pipe. It is ideally suited to food contact applications. Safripol also produces an HDPE containing carbon black for the pipe industry which is conforming to PE 100 pipe

PP is used in the manufacture of injection-moulded articles, blow-moulded containers, pipe, sheets and textile fibres. It is often used for outdoor applications but is UV resistant only if appropriately stabilized. PP has good resistance to fatigue and can, therefore, be used as a living hinge such as those found on flip-top bottles. Safripol produces a variety of PP grades as impact copolymers, random copolymers and homopolymers for injection moulding, extrusion, blow moulding, thermoforming and fibres.

Aspire™ fast reheat resin offers excellent performance and is primarily suitable for carbonated soft drink bottles and other injection/stretch blow-moulded applications. This product is cobalt free and in line with European standards. It allows for maximum blowing throughputs by quickly heating the preforms in the infrared ovens. Products made from this material are low-stick, easy to handle and are also 100% recyclable.