Family business since 1966
KIVO Plastic Packaging is a family business from Volendam. Since 1966 we have been producing flexible polyethylene packaging for the food and non-food sector. From the Netherlands and Kosovo we supply more than 500 customers, a large share of them outside the Netherlands.
- 350
Employees
235 in the Netherlands and 115 in Kosovo
- 38,000 tonnes
Production capacity for packaging
Plus 20,000 tonnes of trading
- 500+
Customers in food and non-food
More than 50% exported outside the Netherlands
- € 120 m
Turnover
Our machinery
In Volendam and Kosovo we extrude, print and convert our films in-house. This keeps the quality, delivery time and sustainability of every package in our own hands.
In-house production:
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41 extruders
For mono and co-extrusion up to 5 layers
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4 flexographic printing presses
High-quality printing
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31 converting lines
For bags, sheets and covers
KIVO Volendam
At our head office in Volendam we extrude, print and convert film for customers throughout Europe.
- Extrusion: 33,000 tonnes per year
- Flexographic printing: 300 million metres per year
- Processes: extrusion, flexographic printing and converting
- 210 employees
- Certified: BRCGS Packaging Materials, ISO 9001:2015, QA-CER and ISCC PLUS
KIVO Recycling
In our own recycling plant we turn production waste into recycled plastic (PIR), which we use again in our own films.
- PIR production: 3,000 tonnes per year
- Hygiene management system
- 7 employees
KIVO Kosovo
In Kosovo we produce bread bags and waste bags, among other products.
- Site of 26,000 m², of which 6,000 m² is built on
- Extrusion: approx. 4,500 tonnes per year
- Approx. 200 million bread bags and 85 million metres of printing per year
- BRC and ISO certified
- 115 employees
Materials and innovation
We mainly process LDPE, LLDPE, MDPE, HDPE, PP/PE, EVA, EVOH and CaCO3, and recycled variants such as rLDPE, rLLDPE, rHDPE and rPP. We also work with bio-based and ISCC PLUS-certified raw materials.
Our research focuses on:
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Reduce
Thinner film with the same properties
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Recycle
More recycled material
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Redesign
Design for recycling
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Renew
Bio-based raw materials
From 1966 to today
In almost sixty years, KIVO has grown from a small factory on the Julianaweg in Volendam into an international producer of flexible packaging. These are the key milestones.
- 1966
Th.A. Kwakman founds KIVO Plastic Verpakkingen in Volendam
- 1984
Start of HDPE production
- 1998
Start of 3-layer co-extrusion
- 2008
Robert Kwakman becomes CEO
- 2011
Start of 5-layer co-extrusion (barrier film)
- 2012
Acquisition of Polaris Verpakkingen (KIVO Zwolle)
- 2014
Start of KIVO LLC in Kosovo
- 2018
Start of KIVO Recycling
- 2024
2,300 solar panels at KIVO Kosovo
Want to know more about KIVO?
Would you like to know what KIVO can do for your packaging? Contact us or view our certifications.
info@kivo.nl
+31 (0) 299 39 88 00