Endless Innovation!

The most exciting thing about being in packaging for the past 51 years has been being part of a group of inventors who introduced many ground breaking new package innovations to the market place.

In the early days in South Africa we used to pack printed brown paper bags with for example dried yeast and then at the brewery we moved onto high speed filling of returnable light weight glass bottles for beer. This fascination with products and packages formed the basis of my career, which developed, into selling all types of packaging machines for the multitude of packages available today.

My enthusiasm for the packaging industry can be described as "being part of endless innovation".

We as a small company have 70 patents and about 50 more on the way all aimed at pouch packaging. Many of these are licensed and working today.

In 2014 we will launch three new pouch packs in the first quarter, ranging from the exciting elegant KoolPaQ™ beverage pouch to the functional SoaPaQ™ used for away-from-home hand washing and finally the new Dip-N-Rinz™ compartment pouch.

Our PGS machinery division supports each of these pouch innovations with newly developed machines from its global strategic partners.

Joint collaboration with our strategic partners allows us to develop on their strengths and is the way of the future. New ideas and working with others who have a passion for creating inventions is often the way to succeed.

So expect more from our Sarasota team in the coming year and not less, as we have a full nursery of ideas to develop.

In closing to quote our Technical Service Manager, "Pouchin' ain't easy, but good ideas help!"