Leading Kenyan Plastic Packaging Manufacturer Silafrica Introduces Recyclable Stretch Wrap

Akshay Shah, Group Executive Director at Silafrica, the leading plastic packaging manufacturer in Kenya, talks about one of Silafrica’s latest achievements: the recyclable stretch wrap solution.

“One of the products that we have been manufacturing is a form of secondary packaging called stretch wrap. Stretch wrap helps to secure pallet loads. If you are moving boxes on a pallet which is moving across your supply chain, it is important to secure that pallet load so the boxes do not fall off or get dirty. And that is done through stretch wrap. It is a very thin material and yet it is very strong. So you are using very little material to keep this secondary packaging secure. But once that trip has been made, from our customer to their retail, then their stretch wrap is removed. The good part is that it does not end up in the environment because this is not a consumer packaging. It is a B2B journey. From the retail that stretch wrap can come back to the packaging user, and from the packaging user that can come back to Silafrica. And we would like to have more of that happening. Our challenge was to be able to recycle it and make a new stretch wrap out of it. Over the last one and a half years, we have been working on that and I am happy to say that we have managed to crack that. We can now make new stretch wrap from old stretch wrap. And that is something we are really proud of”, says Akshay Shah.

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