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Top 25 Biodegradable packaging companies based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 69 biodegradable packaging companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 1,850 professional contacts across them, including 472 with verified work emails and 33 with mobile numbers. Cape Town is the largest hub.

This list covers biodegradable packaging companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 6, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 6, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
69Companies
1,850Contacts tracked
472Verified emails
33Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest biodegradable packaging companies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 69 biodegradable packaging companies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to biodegradable packaging companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,000528 contacts →

“Mpact is the largest paper and plastics packaging and recycling business in southern Africa, employing 5,095 people and generated revenue of R12.8bn in the 2023 financial year.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200411 contacts →

“Mpact Plastic Containers offer unique solutions to specific customer requirements, and this is why we are the market leaders in the plastic manufacturing industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Partial evidenceEthekwini, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000155 contacts →

“Shave & Gibson’s story began in 1981 when brothers-in-law, Alan Gibson and Neville Shave, purchased a small company called Group Print & Packaging which laid the company’s…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50073 contacts →

“Founded in 1963 in Durban, Tropic Plastic & Packaging Industry (Pty) Ltd has grown into one of South Africa’s leading manufacturers of flexible packaging.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,00061 contacts →

“For over twenty years we have been proudly servicing the retail, hospitality and FMCG markets throughout South Africa with a complete range of both disposable and reusable…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Indirect evidencePinetown, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50058 contacts →

“Verigreen supplies high quality branded and private label products for the household and food service sectors.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Indirect evidenceSprings, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026n/a45 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50041 contacts →

“Lufil Packaging is South Africa's leading supplier of paper bags, offering a comprehensive range of environmentally-friendly solutions.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20030 contacts →

“Proficient Packaging is situated in Cape Town, Western Cape.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20027 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50024 contacts →

“Peninsula Packaging, located in Cape Town, is one of 3 group companies in the Master Plastics Group.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20016 contacts →

“CapeCup is a leading South African supplier of packaging and disposable products for hospitality, retail and food service businesses.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Strong evidenceDiep River, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1015 contacts →

“EcoPack supplies biodegradable and compostable packaging to the southern African market.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5013 contacts →

“Kimmo was originally founded in 2006 by Jan Vreken and has since grown to become a leading industrial packaging provider.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5011 contacts →

“At GREEN HOME, sustainability is our passion, our vision and our daily work.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Partial evidencePaarl, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20011 contacts →

“Azapak, based in Paarl Western Cape, is a Paper Packaging Solutions driven Manufacturing company providing paper packaging solutions at a high quality and exceptional service…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Partial evidenceHoneydew, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-508 contacts →

“GoGreenWithEnviromall: Affordable Eco Packaging in South Africa EnviroMall believes in a future where convenience doesn't come at our planet’s cost.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLadysmith, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-107 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-506 contacts →

“Crafting Biodegradable & Compostable Food Packaging Solutions | Embrace Sustainability With Us #BioPak #EndPlasticWaste #biodegradablepackaging

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-105 contacts →

“South African plastics manufacturers, challenging the way people think about plastic by focusing on biodegradable and compostable materials.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-505 contacts →

“Sealglobal.Co® is about business for good.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-504 contacts →

“embracing change in packaging

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →

“Our dedicated team has years of experience in food and retail packaging and we go the extra mile to ensure your product stands out on the shelf.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Partial evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-103 contacts →

“The company was found in 2019 and registered in 2020 Iron Forest Packaging started supplying corrugated boxes to manufacturing companies producing essential items during Covid 19…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Indirect evidenceVereeniging, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-101 contacts →

“We have manufacturing capacity of more than 1 million bags per day and we have storage facilities in Gauteng – Johannesburg, Kwazulu Natal -Durban and in the Free State -Vrede to…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Biodegradable packaging companies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
25.5%Verified-email coverage
1.8%Mobile-number coverage
26.8Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
30.4%Largest-city concentration · Cape Town
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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201-500
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Freshness & accuracy

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How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biodegradable packaging companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “biodegradable packaging companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biodegradable packaging companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biodegradable packaging companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 472 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names biodegradable packaging companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many biodegradable packaging companies are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 69 biodegradable packaging companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Mpact Limited, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most biodegradable packaging companies?

Cape Town leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (15) and Durban (4).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 472 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 69 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 6, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.