Tubex

What Tubex does

Tubex (legal name: Tubex Group) is a private manufacturer specializing in aluminum tubes with integrated applicators for the cosmetics packaging market. Its core product is an aluminum tube format engineered for cosmetics brands, combining lightweight, corrosion-resistant, and recyclable packaging properties with applicator functionality to serve premium and sustainability-oriented beauty product requirements. The company operates within the broader aluminum packaging value chain and has positioned its offering around sustainability innovation and premium packaging solutions for cosmetics end-users.

Tubex pursues a vertical go-to-market focused exclusively on the cosmetics and beauty brands segment, with no disclosed pricing, channel, or volume data publicly available. The company has built capability partly through a Core-tier strategic co-development partnership with PackSys, combining manufacturing expertise to deliver the aluminum tubes with applicators product line. It has also demonstrated vertical integration intent via the 2011 acquisition of Terressentials, a natural personal care brand, indicating willingness to move downstream from packaging supply into owned product brands.

Note on data integrity: the firmographics header in the input describes Tubex as a UK-based tree shelter producer in Aberdare (51–100 employees), which is inconsistent with the substantive product, customer, and partnership data describing cosmetics aluminum packaging. The analysis above is grounded in the more detailed and internally consistent cosmetics packaging evidence; the firmographics should be re-verified before any investment decision. Revenue, ownership, founding date, and geographic footprint are not disclosed in available sources, and the company website (tubex.com) returned only a verification loading page at time of capture.

Name

Tubex

Legal name

Tubex Group

Website

https://tubex.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Tubex Group manufactures aluminum tubes with applicators for cosmetics and beauty brands, developed in co-development with PackSys and positioned around sustainable, premium packaging.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Forestry Protection Products

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (1153), Forestry and Logging (113)

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFAMACAH

Tree Protection & Browsing Control (Guards, Fencing, Repellents)

Agriculture & Food Production/Forestry & Logging/Reforestation, Afforestation & Tree Planting Services

Keywords

• Tree shelters
• Forestry protection
• Plant protection tubes
• Woodland establishment
• Tree planting products

Headquarters

HQ city

Aberdare

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, Infrastructure

Core offering

Tubex designs and produces tree shelters used to protect and enhance the growth of young plants. The company manufactures physical protection products that shield newly planted trees and saplings from browsing animals, mechanical damage, and competing vegetation during establishment in forestry, woodland, and landscape planting projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tree Shelters

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PackSyscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTubex Group and PackSys are collaborating on developing aluminum tubes with applicators for the cosmetics packaging market. This partnership focuses on combining manufacturing expertise to deliver innovative aluminum tube solutions that meet sustainability demands in the cosmetics industry.

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Akros Limited: UK-based manufacturer of tree shelters, tree tubes and spiral guards with overlapping product range and overlapping customer base among forestry contractors, utilities, and conservation buyers — directly comparable to Tubex's tree-shelter portfolio.

Emerging players

• Melcourt Industries: UK manufacturer of bark mulch, wood-based growing media and landscaping products used in tree establishment and forestry planting schemes; serves the same reforestation and landscape contracting channels as Tubex.
• Crowshall Services: UK forestry establishment contractor that buys and installs tree shelters and ancillary protection products, making it both an adjacent provider and an obvious buyer-channel peer for Tubex.
• RootBarrier: Manufacturer of root protection and underground tree-establishment products serving urban planting and forestry; adjacent to Tubex with partial product overlap in the tree establishment cycle.
• Barcham Trees: UK container-grown tree nursery supplying amenity, forestry and screening stock and a downstream buyer of tree protection products including shelters used at the establishment stage served by Tubex.

Regional players

• Hyacinth Plant Protection: Supplies tree guards, plant protection tubes and forestry establishment products primarily across European markets, offering direct product overlap with Tubex for reforestation and afforestation customers.
• Derwent Forestry: UK forestry services and supply business operating in planting, maintenance and silviculture, serving overlapping customers with related tree-establishment product demand as Tubex.

Broad incumbents

• Forestry Commission (Great Britain): UK government forestry agency that buys tree protection products at scale for national planting programmes and is a category-defining customer/standard-setter for suppliers like Tubex.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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