The Flexible Packaging Business Unit, over four decades long, has positioned itself among the five largest manufacturers of flexible packaging in Latin America, becoming a leading producer of products of a high technical complexity. At present, this unit has plants in Chile, Argentina and Peru, through which it not only supplies the respective internal markets, but also a large part of South, Central and South America.
The origins of this unit date back to 1961, when Madeco, together with the Zecchetto and Arduini families founded Alusa with the purpose of creating flexible packaging for mass consumption products. After 30 years of being one of the leaders of the national market and having exported its products from Chile, the company began its international expansion by founding a production plant in Argentina in 1993 and with the acquisition of 25% of the Peruvian companies Tech Pak and Peruplast in 1996, a participation that reached 50% at the beginning of 2007. In latter 2007, both Peruvian subsidiaries were merged as Peruplast.
The manufacture of flexible packaging involves the application of rotogravure and flexography printing technologies as well as extrusion and lamination processes, which are responsible for giving the packages the characteristics, required by national and multinational clients in the food, snack, home products and personal hygiene product industries.
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