Promens

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Promens hf
legal form Private company
founding 1984
Seat Kópavogur , Iceland
management Ragnhildur Geirsdóttir
Number of employees 5800
sales $ 910 million
Branch Plastics technology
Website promens.com

Promens hf is an Icelandic plastics holding company. The main owners are the investment company Atorka Group and Landsbanki . The headquarters are in Kópavogur . With around 5800 employees at 60 production sites, sales of around 910 million US dollars (2006) are achieved.

Promens is the world's largest rotational molding company . 1,600 people are employed in this business segment at twenty locations in ten countries. In 2006, more than 34 million kg of plastic worth $ 220 million were processed.

history

The company was founded in 1984 as Sæplast in Dalvík in northern Iceland. The first products were double-walled plastic containers for the storage of freshly caught fish, later buoys for fishing nets were added. The company gained its first experience with rotational molding .

First produced for the Icelandic fishing fleet, it soon became a success in export. In 1993 Sæplast received an export award given by the President. In the same year the company was listed on the Icelandic exchange ICEX .

In 1999–2003, several foreign competitors were taken over and production facilities were set up, for example in Canada, Hong Kong, Spain, Norway and the Netherlands.

The Atorka Group took over Sæplast in 2004 and took the company off the stock exchange. Promens was founded as a holding company in May 2005. While some business areas were directly subordinated to Promens, others remained with Sæplast. In 2005, Bonar Plastics was taken over by Low and Bonar Plc , which incorporated twelve additional plants in Europe and North America into Promens.

Locations

Promens operates production sites and branches worldwide.

Europe : Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, UK

North America : Canada

Africa : Tunisia

Asia : China, Hong Kong, India, Philippines

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.promens.com/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-47//90_read-73/
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.saeplastcanada.com/en/forsida/news_more.jsp?news_article=122454698

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