Tupack Group

What Tupack Group does

Tupack Group (TUPACK GROUPE) is a privately held French industrial manufacturer of cylindrical cardboard packaging, founded in 1953 and headquartered in Boissy-le-Cutté, Essonne. The group operates through four wholly-owned subsidiaries — ALLPACK (Essonne), EM2 (Ancenis, Pays de la Loire), NEUVISTAC (Dagneux, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), and GO EMBAL (Île-de-France) — collectively producing more than 10,000 km of tubes per month. Its product portfolio spans mandrels/cores, rings, canisters, straight and spiral tubes, bicolour tubes, threaded tubes, flared tubes, cardboard caps, polyethylene foam inserts, EN 12390-1 compliant concrete specimen molds, and POS display masts, all made from recycled and recyclable cardboard.

The company serves five primary verticals: industrial manufacturing (winding supports for textiles, films, and papers), premium spirits and alcohol (canisters for Hennessy, Larsen, Jaillance, Canard-Duchêne, Clément, Damoiseau, Zubrowka, and Gérard Bertrand), defense and pyrotechnics, retail/POS marketing, and construction quality control. Notable specialty capabilities include spiral-wound and parallel-wound tube construction, threaded cardboard tubes with matching caps, custom canisters sized to premium bottle formats, and disposable concrete testing molds meeting European standards.

Tupack runs a sales-led, B2B go-to-market with dedicated subsidiary-level sales contacts and direct field engagement for custom-engineered orders. Pricing is quote-based per unit/hundred/thousand, with a €500 minimum order, 1/3 deposit at order placement, and 30-day net payment terms. Reported revenue is €60M for FY2024. The company is led by Managing Director Alain Kerbrat, with no disclosed external shareholders, private equity ownership, or parent company. The data set contains no AI, software, or digital product lines; the business is fundamentally a traditional industrial converter with sustainability-led brand positioning.

Name

Tupack Group

Legal name

TUPACK GROUPE

Website

https://tupack-groupe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1953

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Tupack Group is a privately held French industrial manufacturer, founded in 1953, that designs and produces custom cylindrical cardboard packaging (tubes, mandrels, canisters, rings) for industrial, premium spirits, defense, retail, and construction clients across four wholly-owned French production subsidiaries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Cardboard Packaging

akta.pro primary industry

Secondary & Multipack Packaging (IMALAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hazardous Materials & UN-Certified Transport Packaging (Dangerous Goods Packaging) (IMALAFAK), Hazardous Materials & UN-Certified Bulk Packaging (IMALAGAH)

Keywords

• Industrial cardboard packaging
• Cardboard tubes
• Cardboard mandrels cores
• Cylindrical packaging
• Custom packaging solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Boissy-le-cutté

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Cardboard Packaging Products: Sale of custom-manufactured cylindrical cardboard packaging including tubes, mandrels, canisters, rings, and specialized products. Orders are custom-tailored to client specifications with pricing based on quantity, specifications, and complexity. Standard payment terms include 1/3 deposit at order and balance at 30 days net.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Tupack Group is a French industrial manufacturer specializing in cylindrical and tubular cardboard packaging. It produces mandrels (cardboard cores), rings (bagues), canisters, shipping tubes, POS display masts, and specialized concrete specimen moulds for industrial clients in defense, spirits, textiles, films/paper, and construction/laboratories.

Product overview

Tupack Group is a French manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of cylindrical cardboard packaging solutions, primarily organized around tube-based products. The core product line includes mandrels/cores for winding (textile, film, paper), cardboard rings/bagues for reinforcement, canisters for spirits and alcohol packaging, and various tube formats (straight, spiral, bicolour, flared, threaded). The product ecosystem includes protective foam inserts (polyethylene) and cardboard accessories (caps, closures). Supporting products include concrete specimen molds (EN 12390-1 compliant) and POS display masts. The company operates through four subsidiaries (ALLPACK, EM2, NEUVISTAC, GO EMBAL) and emphasizes sustainable, recycled and recyclable materials. Products serve defense, spirits/alcohol, textile, industry, and storage sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cardboard Mandrels (Mandrins)
• Cardboard Rings (Bagues)
• Canisters for Premium Spirits
• Shipping Tubes
• Industrial Cardboard Tubes
• POS Display Masts
• Cardboard Caps / Closures
• Polyethylene Foam Inserts
• Concrete Specimen Moulds

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Smurfit Kappa Group: Ireland-based global paper-based packaging leader with a Continental European mill network producing containerboard, corrugated boxes, and paper-based industrial packaging. Overlaps with Tupack in paperboard-based industrial packaging supply to FMCG and industrial customers across France and Europe.
• Cascades Inc. Canadian-headquartered manufacturer of recycled-based packaging products including containerboard, corrugated packaging, and specialty paper products. Comparable in its use of recycled fibre and paperboard substrate to produce converted industrial and consumer packaging.
• Heinzel Group: Austrian paper and packaging group operating recycled containerboard mills and packaging converting operations across Central Europe. Overlaps with Tupack in paper-based industrial packaging supply to European FMCG and industrial customers.
• VPK Packaging Group: Belgium-based family-owned paper and packaging group producing recycled containerboard, solid board, cores, and protective paper packaging. Closest large European peer to Tupack in scale, family ownership profile, and product mix, including cores and paper-based industrial packaging.
• Stora Enso: Finnish-Swedish forest products group with a major Packaging Materials division producing paperboard, containerboard, and packaging boards. Comparable to Tupack at the paperboard substrate level and as a potential upstream supplier or competitor in converted paperboard products.
• Sonoco Products Company: US-headquartered global packaging group with a dedicated Paperboard & Consumer Packaging segment that produces paper tubes, cores, and canisters for industrial winding, protective packaging, and consumer brand applications — directly overlapping with Tupack's product portfolio.
• Reno de Medici: Italian paper group producing recycled cartonboard and converted paperboard packaging for FMCG and industrial end markets. Comparable to Tupack at the recycled paperboard and converted-paper packaging level, with a broader European customer footprint.
• Mondi Group: UK/Austria-headquartered paper and packaging group with significant corrugated, containerboard, and paper-based industrial packaging operations. Comparable to Tupack in serving FMCG, industrial, and consumer-goods customers with paper-based protective and presentation packaging across Europe.

Direct peers

• Paul & Co. (Papier- und Wellpappenwerk): German family-owned manufacturer of paper cores, tubes, and edge protectors serving textile, film, packaging, and industrial customers. A direct European peer to Tupack in spiral-wound paper tubes and cores, particularly in the textile-winding segment.
• Dejond Group: Belgian manufacturer of paper and plastic tubes, cores, edge protectors, and custom cylindrical packaging for industrial applications. The closest direct competitor to Tupack in Europe on core product (paper tubes/cores) and customer base (industrial winding and shipping). Limited to their web presence.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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