Detmold Packaging was established in 1948 by Mr. Colin Detmold trading as C. P. Detmold Pty. Ltd., with paper agency lines from premises in King William Street, Adelaide.

In 1951 the company moved to Flinders Street, Adelaide, where the first paper converting factory began operations; the product range including wrapping papers and toilet rolls.

By 1956 the size of the operation had outgrown the Flinders Street premises and a new factory was built in Sixth Street, Brompton; employment by that time having grown to sixteen.

In 1965 the company broadened its sales from being purely South Australian to opening a representative office in Melbourne, with the other states to follow at timely intervals.

Growth continued in this location until 1970 when operations were transferred, with a staff of 50, to the new factory in Chief Street, Brompton, South Australia, which, with major expansion and renovation, remains as the head office of the Detmold Packaging Group.

In 1985 the group expanded into South East Asia with the first sales office and manufacturing plant in Singapore, servicing the fast food industry in the region, in particular the supply to McDonald's Asia of bags and burger wraps.

In 1994 the rigid plastic business, which had grown to be a market leader in its 15 years of operation, was sold, leaving the group to focus on its paper and board businesses.

Since 2000 the Detmold Packaging Group has experienced rapid growth and has acquired a multiwall sack business and a sizeable flexible packaging company. The geographic expansion has continued, most recently into Europe and North America.

GROUP SALES

Detmold's Group sales is broken into three separate divisions:
Detmold Industrial
Detpak
Paper-Pak

Detmold Group manufacturing is divided between Detmold Packaging for paper and flexible based manufacture, and D&D Packaging for carton and paper cup manufacture.
D & D Packaging

QUALITY - SERVICE - EFFICIENCY

The group places high emphasis on a philosophy of QUALITY - SERVICE - EFFICIENCY.

We are committed to Quality in every aspect of our operations. This commitment extends not only to what happens in our organisation but also to the many partner companies that supply goods and services to us throughout the world.

Service to our Customers is equally critical. We are committed to ensuring that we meet and if possible, exceed the expectations and needs of our Customers. Our Customers are the reason why we exist.

Efficiency is the final critical element. An efficient operation provides goods and services to Customers at an effective cost within the required timeframe. Our commitment to efficiency allows us to provide economical products to our Customers when and where they are required. The evidence for this is situated within the large group of international Customers that choose to work with the Detmold Packaging Group.

In summary, the Detmold Credo of Quality, Service, Efficiency is a unifying statement that guides the actions and decisions we make. It assists us to remain focused upon our Customers, the way that we deal with them and ensures that we obtain the desired results.

50 years of experience has enabled Detmold Packaging to build a reputation as providers of quality solutions for packaging problems, encompassing a QSE approach.

Detmold Packaging is the leading paper packaging specialist in Australia and Asia, a title we are not prepared to lose.

HACCP & ISO 9000 CERTIFICATION

HACCP - AN OVERVIEW

HACCP is a management tool that provides a more structured approach to the control of identified hazards than that achievable by traditional inspection and quality control procedures and is a logical, simple, effective, but highly structured system of food safety control. It is a system designed to identify "hazards and/or critical situations" and produce a plan to control these situations.

One of the key advantages of our HACCP plan is that it enables our Company to move away from a philosophy of control, based on testing and inspection (i.e., testing for failure), to a preventive approach whereby potential hazards are identified and controlled in the manufacturing environment. Quality and Safety cannot be tested or inspected into a product.

Our food safety program includes Employee Training, Sanitation Practices, Pest Control, Audits, Supplier Compliance, Product Traceability and Product Recall Contingencies

Food Safety is of critical importance to our Customers and the Community at large.

To consistently produce packaging that is safe for food, it is vital to have GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) and a Food Safety Plan (HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) in place.

Our South Australian manufacturing plant is currently compliant with the requirements of HACCP, with appropriate GMPs in place covering identified control points as explained above.

ISO 9000 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CERTIFICATION

In addition to HACCP, ISO 9000 series Quality Management System certification is an important aspect of the operations of the Detmold Group.

The ISO 9000 series focuses on the quality management system's effectiveness in meeting customer requirements, and is used to demonstrate the ability to meet customer requirements, prevent nonconformity and address customer satisfaction and quality improvement.

The ISO 9000 series is an international system used to measure the capability of an organisation to control their processes and ultimately, meet the needs of their Customers.

Detmold Group operations in Australia and New Zealand are compliant with the requirements of ISO 9000 series. It is our aim to ensure that all of our companies are compliant throughout the world in the future.

THE NATIONAL PACKAGING COVENANT

The Detmold Packaging Group is a signatory to the National Packaging Covenant in Australia. Shown below is an overview of the aims of The National Packaging Covenant, as taken from The Packaging Council of Australia website, situated at www.packagingcovenant.org.au

Signatories to the Covenant are Commonwealth and State governments (ANZECC), local government and packaging supply chain companies (and relevant industry associations).

The Covenant leaves it to individual companies to detail the measures they have taken. In this way the Covenant gives companies maximum flexibility.

The Covenant itself does not specify which actions individual companies should take but, rather, provides for a "menu" of options. A company might, for example, decide to:
		Design packaging so that the use of material is minimised.
		Undertake and promote research.
		Reduce production, printing, transport and waste disposal.
		Support kerbside/recovery programs.
		Support market development for secondary packaging materials.
		Promote education and community awareness.
		Support litter reduction.

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