packwise-africa pty ltd

What packwise-africa pty ltd does

Packwise-Africa Pty Ltd is a privately held packaging printing and converting agency incorporated in 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. Founded by engineer Uwe Bögl, who brings over 30 years of experience in the packaging printing and converting industry across Europe, the USA, and South Africa, the company acts as a sales, consulting, and technical service intermediary between 25 European and Asian equipment manufacturers and converters in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The agency's portfolio spans five solution categories: printing presses (flexo, gravure, digital, offset), converting equipment (laminators, slitter rewinders, bag and pouch making machines), extrusion lines (blown film), retrofit solutions (web inspection, corona treatment, UV curing), and tooling and consumables (anilox rollers, printing sleeves, cylinders, inks, barcode verifiers).

The company earns revenue through three streams: equipment sales and distribution on a quote-based B2B model, professional consulting services covering efficiency, quality, and colour management projects, and technical services including installation, commissioning, operator training, and equipment repair. Packwise-Africa employs a sales-led go-to-market with direct sales from its Cape Town headquarters, conducting on-site assessments, feasibility studies, equipment research, and turnkey concept delivery with import handling. It serves two primary verticals, labels and shrink sleeves, and flexible packaging, with a horizontal segmentation approach across converters of varying sizes in 14 African countries. The business does not develop proprietary technology; its value proposition rests on curating established international brands, providing local technical support, and tailoring European and Asian equipment to the competitive African market.

Name

packwise-africa pty ltd

Legal name

Packwise-Africa Pty Ltd

Website

https://packwise-africa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Packwise-Africa is a Cape Town-based B2B agency that sells, distributes, and services packaging printing and converting equipment from 25 European and Asian manufacturers for converters across 14 African countries, primarily in the labels and flexible packaging industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Cape Town

HQ country

South Africa

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Equipment Sales and Distribution: Packwise-Africa generates revenue through the sale and distribution of packaging printing and converting equipment from European and Asian technology partners. The company provides turnkey concepts, import handling, and equipment research to deliver complete solutions to customers.
2. Consulting Services: Professional consulting services including expert opinion, efficiency/productivity improvement projects, quality improvement projects, and colour management projects.
3. Technical Services: Technical services including equipment assessment, installation/commissioning, operator training, and equipment repair/maintenance.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Packwise-Africa is a packaging printing and converting agency that sells, distributes, and provides technical support for European and Asian packaging printing and converting equipment. The company delivers turnkey solutions including flexo presses, rotogravure presses, digital inkjet presses, laminators, slitter rewinders, bag/pouch making machines, blown film extruders, web inspection systems, and related tooling and consumables, primarily to converters in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa across 14 countries.

Product overview

Packwise-Africa is a packaging printing and converting agency offering a comprehensive portfolio of equipment solutions for labels & shrink sleeves and flexible packaging industries. The product portfolio spans five main solution categories: Printing Solutions (flexo, rotogravure, digital inkjet, and offset presses from manufacturers like Gallus, Miyakoshi, Royfen, DCM, Prakash, Kody, OSUNFLEXO, HanGlobal, and Jetsci), Converting Solutions (laminators, slitter rewinders, bag/pouch making machines, label converting equipment from DCM, SP Ultraflex, Star, Prakash, and Vision), Extrusion Solutions (Adroit blown film extruders), Retrofit Solutions (LUSTER QC web inspection systems, UV.one curing systems, Martignoni and HeFeng electrotechnical equipment), and Tooling & Consumables (PERET instruments, Axicon verifiers, Acme Rolltech anilox cylinders, Polywest sleeves, PGI cylinders, Ligum and SWG elastomer sleeves, NUtec inks). The company acts as a reseller and technical consultant representing European and Asian technology manufacturers to deliver tailored solutions for the African packaging market.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Printing Press Solutions Flexo, rotogravure, digital inkjet, semi-rotary offset, and stack label combination presses from leading European and Asian manufacturers including Gallus (Labelmaster 340/440/570, ECS 340, Gallus One digital), Miyakoshi (MLP and MEL offset label presses), OSUNFLEXO (PowerFlex and EcoFlex combination presses), Royfen (CI and stack flexo presses RF-GC8130, RF-CI8130, RF-S6130, and label tower T360/550L), Prakash (FLU inline and FLV stack flexo presses), Kody (Nuzen rotogravure presses), DCM (Biva 2 gravure press, IM 183 sheetfed flexo press), HanGlobal (LabStar 330S digital UV-inkjet label press), and Jetsci (colorAQUA, dSpark, YUV printbars). Designed for packaging converters producing labels and flexible packaging.
• Converting Equipment Solutions Laminators, slitter rewinders, bag/pouch making machines, paper bag making machines, and label converting equipment from DCM (Laminastar 4, Laminawax, Serval/Baghera/Panthere/Leopard/Tigre/Super Tigre slitter rewinders, Sleeve 3 EVO seamer, Babycat 4 inspection rewinder, Sleevecut 4 cutting machine), Kody (Nuzen SL-917 solvent free laminator), SP Ultraflex (Primaslit, Ultraslit, Roboslit slitter rewinders), Star (center seal, standup/zipper, side/bottom seal, and courier bag/pouch making machines), Prakash (PBM and SPBM paper bag making machines, inline flexo presses, handle making machines), and Vision (MDF, RDF, VS-R tabletop rewinder, RSV embellishing line, VS-B slitter with turret, RD-D digital die cutting plotter). For flexible packaging and label converters.
• Extrusion Solutions Adroit blown film extruders including mono and co-extruded blown film lines in monolayer, ABA, 2-layer, 3-layer, 5-layer, and 7-layer configurations for layflat widths from 500-3000mm and thickness 20-200µm, CE and ISO certified. For flexible packaging film producers in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Retrofit and Quality Inspection Solutions 100% QC web inspection systems from LUSTER (PackRoll for flexible packaging and Labelmaster for labels using Printing Plus 6.0 intelligence with defect detection from 0.04mm and optional CodeHERO, ColorHERO, ProofHERO, and GradingHERO software modules), UV-curing systems from UV.one (EVO UV and EVO LED systems with water and air cooled versions), Ultraflex Plate Mounting Machines and Observer web inspection system, plus electrotechnical auxiliary equipment from Martignoni (Turboclean web cleaners, Labelflex corona treaters, PP24V antistatic units) and HeFeng (FR-300 web cleaners, HeFast Corona treaters, CD107B antistatic units in partnership with German Ahlbrandt and Swiss Hildebrand). For retrofitting and upgrading existing packaging printing lines.
• Tooling and Consumables Printing tooling and consumables including PERET handheld process control instruments (PRESTO DX spectrodensitometer, CREASY crease measurement, EGUIDE embossing measurement, BREYE braille dot measurement, FLUO security varnish measurement), Axicon 6000 and 15000 series barcode/QR-code verifiers conforming to ISO/IEC standards, Acme Rolltech ceramic anilox rollers and sleeves with ALE precision fiberlaser engraving (AH60°, AH80°, AH45°, ACE Hex, ACE Ecell, ACE Xcell, ACE Xtreme), Polywest flexo printing sleeves and adapters (RUBIN, OBSIDIAN, SOFTCOAT, ONYX, POLYCARBON, POLYBRIDGE; ISO 9001 certified), PGI Technologies magnetic, print and hotfoil cylinders (CNC precision-ground), Ligum rubber and elastomer printing sleeves (40°-80° shore A, 100-9000mm lengths, 50-1000mm diameters), SWG laser engraved elastomer sleeves (up to 3800mm width, 70 L/cm screen counts), and NUtec Amethyst A20-LB premium UV ink for Kyocera KJ4A print heads (15 month shelf life). For day-to-day packaging printing and converting operations.
• Sales Services Sales-focused services delivered from the Cape Town headquarters covering onsite assessment, feasibility study, equipment research, turnkey concepts, and import handling for packaging printing and converting equipment. Targeted at packaging converters in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Consulting Services Professional consulting including expert opinion, efficiency/productivity improvement projects, quality improvement projects, and colour management projects. For packaging printers and converters seeking to boost production quality and efficiency.
• Technical Services Technical services including equipment assessment, installation/commissioning, operator training, and equipment repair/maintenance for European and Asian packaging printing and converting equipment. Provided to converters across 14 African countries.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

25 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• GalluscoreTechnology or IntegrationGallus is a leading narrow web press manufacturer. Packwise-Africa represents Gallus label combination presses including the Labelmaster 340/440/570, ECS 340, and Gallus One digital press.
• MiyakoshicoreTechnology or IntegrationMiyakoshi is a Japanese label press manufacturer. Packwise-Africa represents Miyakoshi semi-rotary offset label combination presses (MLP and MEL series).
• OsunflexocoreTechnology or IntegrationOsunflexo is a narrow web press manufacturer. Packwise-Africa represents the PowerFlex and EcoFlex combination presses.
• RoyfencoreTechnology or IntegrationRoyfen manufactures flexo presses. Packwise-Africa represents Royfen CI and stack flexo presses (RF-GC8130, RF-CI8130, RF-S6130) and label presses.
• HanGlobalcoreTechnology or IntegrationHanGlobal manufactures digital UV-inkjet label presses. Packwise-Africa represents the LabStar 330S digital UV-inkjet label press.
• DCM (ATN)coreTechnology or IntegrationDCM offers state of the art converting machines. Packwise-Africa represents DCM laminators, slitters, shrink sleeve machines, and gravure presses.
• LustercoreTechnology or IntegrationLuster provides 100% QC-webinspection systems. Packwise-Africa represents the PackRoll and Labelmaster inspection systems for quality control.
• PolywestcoreTechnology or IntegrationPolywest is a German manufacturer of flexo printing sleeves, adapters and bridge sleeves. Packwise-Africa represents their RUBIN, OBSIDIAN, SOFTCOAT, and ONYX sleeve products.
• Acme RolltechcoreTechnology or IntegrationAcme Rolltech manufactures ceramic anilox rollers and sleeves. Packwise-Africa represents their products featuring ALE precision fiberlaser engraving technology.
• PERETcoreTechnology or IntegrationPERET manufactures handheld process control instruments for prepress, print and packaging. Packwise-Africa represents their PRESTO DX spectrodensitometer and other instruments.
• PrakashcoreTechnology or IntegrationPrakash is India's leading flexo press and paper bag making machine manufacturer. Packwise-Africa represents their FLU and FLV flexo presses, and PBM/SPBM paper bag machines.
• Adroit ExtrusioncoreTechnology or IntegrationAdroit is India's leading blown film extruder manufacturer. Packwise-Africa represents their mono and co-extruded blown film lines (mono to seven-layer configurations).
• UV.onecoreTechnology or IntegrationUV.one manufactures UV-curing systems. Packwise-Africa represents their EVO UV and EVO LED curing systems for flexo presses.
• VisioncoreTechnology or IntegrationVision offers digital label finishing machines, label die cutters, and slitter rewinders. Packwise-Africa represents their modular MDF, RDF, and other converting equipment.
• SWGcoreTechnology or IntegrationSWG manufactures laser engraved elastomer sleeves for flexography. Packwise-Africa represents their products for labels, flexible packaging, and decorative applications.
• MartignonicoreTechnology or IntegrationMartignoni provides electrotechnical auxiliary equipment for narrow web presses. Packwise-Africa represents their Turboclean web cleaners, Labelflex corona treaters, and PP24V antistatic units.
• AxiconcoreTechnology or IntegrationAxicon manufactures handheld barcode/QR-code verifiers. Packwise-Africa represents their 6000 and 15000 series verifiers.
• SP UltraflexcoreTechnology or IntegrationSP Ultraflex manufactures slitter rewinders. Packwise-Africa represents their Primaslit, Ultraslit, and Roboslit equipment.
• Kody EquipmentcoreTechnology or IntegrationKody Equipment manufactures rotogravure presses and laminators. Packwise-Africa represents their Nuzen series presses and laminators.
• HeFengcoreTechnology or IntegrationHeFeng manufactures surface treatment equipment. Packwise-Africa represents their FR-300 web cleaners, HeFast corona treaters, and CD107B antistatic units.
• PGI TechnologiescoreTechnology or IntegrationPGI Technologies manufactures magnetic, print, and hotfoil cylinders. Packwise-Africa represents their products made from special industrial grade steels.
• LigumcoreTechnology or IntegrationLigum manufactures rubber and elastomer printing sleeves. Packwise-Africa represents their products for labels, flexible packaging, decorative printing, coating and lamination.
• NUtec DigitalcoreTechnology or IntegrationNUtec Digital manufactures UV inkjet inks. Packwise-Africa represents their Amethyst A20-LB premium UV ink for digital label presses.
• StarcoreTechnology or IntegrationStar is India's leading bag and pouch making machine manufacturer. Packwise-Africa represents their state center seal pouch and standup/zipper pouch making machines.
• PrintsystemscoreTechnology or IntegrationPrintsystems manufactures post print cleaning machines. Packwise-Africa represents their Quicker range of cleaning machines for flexo plates, anilox, and press parts.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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