Polyoak Packaging's Timeline
1976 to 1978
1976
- Polyoak founded
1978
- Mould Services created
1980 to 1985
1980
- Acquired JF Rota Plastics
1983
- Entered packaging market
1985
- Visconti founded
- Started supplying Woolworths
1986
1986
- Dairypack founded
- Launches SA's first 2L Dairycan
- Hangerman founded
1987 to 1989
1987
- Gauteng manufacturing plant opens
1988
- African Closures founded
- Worldwide patent on Visconti Brief Hanger
1989
- Dairypack Tubs founded
- Starts manufacturing ice-cream tubs
- KwaZulu-Natal opens as warehousing facility
1991 to 1993
1991
- Visconti exports to USA. Start of Jockey contract
1993
- KwaZulu-Natal manufacturing plant opens
1996 to 1999
1996
- ISO 9001 Accreditation
- Port Elizabeth manufacturing plant opens
1997
- Bloemfontein distribution centre opens
1998
- Mpumalanga distribution centre opens
1999
- Polypet founded
- Visconti USA founded
2000 to 2006
2000
- Visconti starts manufacturing VICS hangers for USA
- Design First created as separate division
2006
- HACCP Accreditation
- Namibia manufacturing plant opens
- First in-plant at Clover in Clayville
2008 to 2012
2008
- Polyoak Business School founded
2010
- Polyoak Family Educational Foundation founded
2011
- ISO 22000 upgrade
2012
- Contan established with acquisition of Rheem
2013 to 2016
2013
- Zimbabwe distribution centre opens
2014
- FSSC 22000 International upgrade
2015
- Technical training centre opens
2016
- East London manufacturing plant opens
- Zimbabwe manufacturing plant opens
2017 to 2022
2018
- Teachers Plus scholarship programme launches
2019
- Expansion of Mould Services facilities
- Microbiological Laboratory opens
2020
- Eswatini distribution centre opens
2021
- Stikland distribution centre opens
- Blowpack Drums starts manufacturing 210L tighthead drums
- Investment in green energy
2022
- Gqeberha manufacturing plant opens
- Polyoak produces SA's first accredited female Plastic Manufacturing Setter
2023 to 2024
2023
- Zambia distribution centre opens
- SA's first Plastic Setter Trade Test Centre opens at Polyoak Dieprivier
2024
- Empangeni and Louis Trichardt Sales Warehouse Outlets open
- Polyoak celebrates 10 years of Community Clean-ups