Major Milestones
1973 Kafrit Industries is established, and starts producing PVC Cable compounds with know-how from F&G Germany.
1976 Production of rigid PVC.
1977 Production of Masterbatches under Ampacet licensing
1979 Concentrates for polyolefins
1984 Concentrates for engineering plastics, Agrofilm Masterbatches.
1988 Masterbatches & Compounds for polycarbonate.
1993 ISO 9002 certified. Kafrit industries (1993) LTD becomes a public company traded in the Tel Aviv stock exchange.
1998 Joint-Venture marketing in Europe.
2003 Q1/03:
Kafrit purchases from CONSTAB ADDITIVE POLYMERS
1. Facilities both in RĂ¼then, Germany and Portsmouth, UK.
2. The BOPP/PP activity (outsourced in another facility).Companies name are changed to:
Constab Polyolefin Additives GmbH, Germany Constab Additive Polymers, UK (Known as CAPUK)
Q2/03:
A holding group is established under the name Plasteam.
Q4/03:
KAFRIT purchases Areton, Wrexham, UK in a deal involving internal ownership transactions of CAPUK.
2004 Q1/04:
CAPUK & Areton production sites in the UK merge into a single site.
Q2/04:
SI-OHASAS 18001 Certificated
2006 Kafrit implements Oracle ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system