Macfarlane Disposes of Irish Plastics Operations

The Macfarlane Group is to sell its Macfarlane Plastics business in Ireland to Procap Holdings for £1.7 mn. Macfarlane Plastics made an operating loss of £0.1 mn on turnover of £6 mn in the 12 months to December 31, 2007.

Archie Hunter, chairman of Macfarlane Group, says: “The disposal of the plastics business is another key step which enables us to focus on our operations in packaging distribution and the specialist manufacturing of labels and transit packaging.”

About MacFarlane Plastics

Macfarlane Plastics, part of the Macfarlane Group, is Europe’s leading provider of packaging solutions for premium branded consumer goods.

Macfarlane Plastics employs 70 employees, at its manufacturing facility, supplying product worldwide.

Located in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, on the East Coast of Ireland, Macfarlane Plastics design and manufacture plastic injected moulded packaging solutions.
Investment in people and state-of-the-art technology underpins a strong market position as well as a worldwide customer base.



Macfarlane Plasitcs provids its customers with a complete design capability from concept to market, complimented by a research and development department providing product prototypes, pre-production mould tools to produce product for market trials and full production mould tools of multi cavity including stack mould tools.

The Macfarlane Group
The Macfarlane Group is a Scottish based PLC formed in 1949. We specialise in providing total packaging solutions to its customers from its centres of excellence throughout the UK, Europe and North America.

The Macfarlane Groups core manufacturing strengths is Labels, Packaging and Injection Moulding coupled with our leadership position in Distribution, enables us to deliver fully integrated innovative packaging solutions to our customers in every market sector.

They are at the forefront of the UK labels market and are specialists in reclosable packaging systems including the newly patented Reseal-it system.

They are also the UK’s leading distributor of packaging materials. Through strategically placed locations, our team can provide our customers with tailored, service-based packaging solutions and we undertake full logistics management for our multi-location customers.

Click here to visit the Macfarlane Group for more information on packaging and labels.

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