M&H Plastics

What M&H Plastics does

M&H Plastics is a privately-held rigid plastic packaging manufacturer headquartered in Beccles, United Kingdom. Founded in 1972 and operating with a workforce of 501–1,000 employees, the company produces plastic bottles, caps, flexible tubes, jars, and containers serving personal care and healthcare brand customers across European markets. Within European rigid plastics conversion — a fragmented but consolidating category — M&H occupies a mid-tier supplier position focused on regulated and brand-sensitive end-use applications rather than industrial or commodity segments.

The company's product portfolio spans primary rigid plastic packaging formats used by consumer packaged goods and pharmaceutical customers, including cosmetics, toiletries, and healthcare applications where qualification cycles, regulatory familiarity, and tooling stability are commercially important. Its 53-year operating history within the UK industrial base implies accumulated mold tooling libraries, embedded customer relationships, and audit-ready compliance posture relevant to pharmaceutical-adjacent and personal-care brand qualification. The European geographic focus and absence of disclosed international expansion indicate a regional rather than global operating footprint, sized below category leaders such as Berry Global, Alpla, and Aptar's rigid divisions.

The input data does not include company-direct financials, ownership structure, leadership profiles, production capacity, manufacturing technology stack, or recent strategic actions specific to M&H Plastics. The bulk of the structured source material is from Amcor plc (NYSE: AMCR) and concerns Amcor's AmLightning speed-to-market flexible packaging service — a separate product line unrelated to M&H Plastics' rigid containers business. This materially constrains first-party visibility into the subject company and frames the analysis below the level of detail that would normally be achievable with company-direct sources.

Name

M&H Plastics

Legal name

Amcor plc

Website

https://mhplastics.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

M&H Plastics is a privately-held UK manufacturer, founded in 1972, producing plastic bottles, caps, flexible tubes, jars, and containers for personal care and healthcare brand customers across European markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plastic Packaging Manufacturing

NAICS

Plastics Bottle Manufacturing (326160), Plastics Product Manufacturing (3261)

SIC

Plastics Products, Nec (3089)

akta.pro primary industry

Rigid Cosmetic & Personal Care Plastic Packaging (Jars, Bottles, Compacts) (IMALAAAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Flexible Plastic Packaging (Bags, Pouches, Sachets) Manufacturing (IMANAEAC)

Keywords

• Plastic packaging manufacturing
• Personal care packaging
• Healthcare packaging
• Flexible plastic tubes
• Plastic bottles containers

Headquarters

HQ city

Beccles

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Packaging Materials Sales: Sale of flexible packaging rollstock materials. Orders can be placed for small or large quantities to meet varying customer needs. The model emphasizes quick turnaround and flexible order volumes without requiring large upfront inventory commitments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

M&H Plastics manufactures plastic bottles, plastic caps, flexible tubes, plastic jars, and plastic containers for the personal care and healthcare markets in Europe. The company operates as a specialized UK-based plastic packaging producer with 501-1000 employees, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Beccles, United Kingdom.

Product overview

The source data contains information about Amcor's AmLightning™ packaging solution. However, this appears to be sourced from Amcor's website (www.amcor.com), not from M&H Plastics' official materials. The AmLightning™ product is described as a packaging agility program designed to help businesses get products to shelf faster than competitors, offering rollstock orders shipped in 10-15 business days, flexible ordering quantities, and dedicated technical support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AmLightning™: Packaging agility program that helps businesses get products from concept to shelf faster, with rollstock orders shipped in 10-15 business days after graphics approval, designed to provide flexibility in inventory management and lower costs.

Products and services

• Plastic Bottles
• Plastic Caps
• Flexible Tubes
• Plastic Jars
• Plastic Containers

Quantifiable outcome

• 10-15 business days order turnaround after graphics approval
• +1 more outcomes

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Amcor plc: Amcor is a global packaging giant (NYSE: AMCR) producing rigid plastic containers, bottles, and flexible packaging across personal care, healthcare, food, and beverage. Highly comparable to M&H given overlapping product formats and the same primary end-markets of personal and healthcare, with materially greater scale and geographic reach.
• Berry Global (now part of Amcor): Berry Global was a leading producer of rigid plastic containers, bottles, and personal care packaging prior to its 2025 merger with Amcor. Its portfolio overlaps directly with M&H's bottles, jars, and containers for personal and healthcare markets, making it a primary direct competitor in the same specialty segments.
• ALPLA Group: ALPLA is a privately held Austrian global plastic packaging specialist offering bottles, caps, jars, and containers for personal care, food, and household products. Directly comparable to M&H in product format and specialty focus on European personal care customers, with a similar mid-size, privately-held competitor profile.
• AptarGroup, Inc. AptarGroup (NYSE: ATR) supplies dispensing closures, pumps, and specialty packaging components primarily to personal care, beauty, and healthcare brands. Highly comparable to M&H's cap and personal care container business, serving overlapping global personal care and pharmaceutical customers with adjacent specialty packaging solutions.
• Gerresheimer AG: Gerresheimer (Frankfurt: GXI) is a European-headquartered manufacturer of primary packaging for pharma and personal care, including plastic bottles, jars, and containers. Directly overlaps with M&H's healthcare and personal care rigid plastic packaging business and shares the European manufacturing footprint characteristic.
• Bormioli Pharma: Bormioli Pharma produces plastic and glass containers, closures, and dispensing systems for pharmaceutical and personal care applications in Europe. Closely comparable to M&H in terms of healthcare / personal care customer focus, European manufacturing base, and primary container product range.
• CCL Industries Inc. CCL Industries (TSX: CCL) is a specialty labels and packaging provider serving personal care, healthcare, and consumer brands with labels, tubes, and flexible packaging. Comparable to M&H via healthcare and personal care end-market exposure and its tube/flexible product offering.

Broad incumbents

• Silgan Holdings Inc. Silgan (NYSE: SLGN) is a diversified rigid packaging producer including plastic containers and closures for personal care, food, and household products. Overlaps with M&H's personal care rigid plastic packaging but operates at far greater scale and across broader end-markets, placing it in the broad-incumbent role.
• Sonoco Products Company: Sonoco (NYSE: SON) is a diversified global packaging producer offering rigid plastic containers and personal care packaging alongside broader consumer and industrial products. Overlaps with M&H in rigid plastic for personal care but covers far more end-markets and product categories.

Regional players

• RPC Group (now part of Berry Global): RPC Group was a UK-headquartered rigid plastic packaging manufacturer focused on personal care, food, and consumer markets in Europe before its 2019 acquisition by Berry Global. Its historical profile (UK base, personal care and healthcare packaging focus) closely mirrors M&H and makes it the most regionally similar historical comparator.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mhplastics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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