Black Own Industrial Packaging Manufacturer

Rheem SA (Pty) Ltd (“Rheem”) is South Africa’s largest 100% black owned industrial packaging manufacturer and marketer with operations in Durban, Alrode, Vanderbijlpark, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. The company currently does not have physical presence outside the South African borders. However, some of our customers are based in areas like Zimbabwe, Namibia and Democratic Republic of Congo. The Corporate Head Office is based in Durban, South Africa. Since 2001 when our BEE shareholder, OD Investments (Pty) Ltd, acquired a stake in Rheem, the support received from our customers and employees in making Rheem a South African BEE success story has been overwhelming. We accordingly would like to thank all our customers and employees for their support not only over the past 13 (thirteen) years of Rheem being a BEE company, but over the more than 47 (forty-seven) years of Rheem’s existence as an industrial packaging manufacturer and marketer in the South African Packaging Industry. image003 We undertake to continue playing our strategic role in the industry by meeting our customers’ industrial packaging needs, and generally being a reliable and responsive partner in their supply chain. In line with this undertaking, a capital expenditure budget of over R40million which includes manufacturing equipment and buildings has been approved for 2013. We similarly commit to continue providing our more than 400 employees with a safe, happy, and sustainable working environment in which they can earn a living to support themselves and their respective families. Rheem is a responsible corporate citizen and we truly believe that each and every citizen needs to play an effective role in the continued growth and development of our beautiful country. In addition to creating the appropriate work environment for our employees to support themselves and their families, Rheem is also a member of the Packaging Council of South Africa (“PACSA”). PACSA aims mainly to ensure that the operations of the packaging industry players are environmentally friendly, and generally promote responsible behaviour by all players in the packaging industry right from the raw material manufacturers to the end-user of packaging. This prompted Rheem SA to be a founder member of SAICRA (South African Industrial Container Reconditioners Association) in 2012 to further pursue this course.