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Top 25 Containerboard producers based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 91 containerboard producers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 8,954 professional contacts across them, including 3,398 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers containerboard producers 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 19, 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 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
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The 25 largest containerboard producers based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 91 containerboard producers based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to containerboard producers: 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
1Indirect evidenceRosebank, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+6,223 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We strive to use every part of the tree to make world-class products for customers in over 150 countries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceSabie, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000402 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“York Timbers is a leading integrated forestry company, operating both plantations and processing plants.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Partial evidenceGauteng, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000294 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The paper division manufactures recycled-based packaging and industrial paper grades such as containerboard and cartonboard.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000258 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Zibo Containers is a manufacturer of rigid plastic containers, in a range of colours, for a wide variety of requirements predominantly in the food packaging industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceRustenburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a177 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500172 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Neopak is a world-class South African business with the core competence and exclusive focus on the manufacturing of high quality recycled containerboard and related paper products.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000131 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The packaging leaders in the corrugate industry for over 60 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceWorcester, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000131 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“APL Cartons (Pty) Ltd is a successful, profitable, privately owned company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50079 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PRIDE-PAK PACKAGING is a company based out of 7 Schonland Theta Ext 7, JHB South, Gauteng, South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50046 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Transpaco and future packaging and machinery is an industrial packaging manufacturer and distributor, renowned for our expansive and diverse product portfolio.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20045 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Xanita's proprietary manufacturing process converts recycled kraft paper fibre waste into high-strength, lightweight, non-toxic, low density fibreboard.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50041 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Everest Packaging Group is a dynamic collaboration between long-established packaging plants, Pride Pak and Boxlee.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceBoksburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Sunny Packs Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd, is one of South Africa's leading corrugated board and carton manufacturers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceGermiston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,00030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Lothlorien started in 1972 Lothlorien Waste was added in 2015 Lothlorien Recycling and Lothlorien Waste offer bespoke waste management and recycling solutions taylor made to suite…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“As the paper merchant with a 360° approach to everything paper and the printing of paper we offer an extensive range of sustainably sourced paper and board for printing, writing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Manufacturers of Corrugated Packaging”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50021 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Gerber Paper was founded in 1975 and today is a leading supplier of paper to the South African market.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceHeriotdale, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Rand Plastics was founded in 1980 providing innovative and quality plastic furniture and homeware products to the South African consumer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Seyfert is one of the leading premium packaging suppliers in South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in Cape Town, Boxes for Africa, a division of CTP Limited, specialises in the production of a wide range of corrugated packaging solutions and services multiple…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceGardens, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in 1996, West Coast Paper Traders is a privately owned South African company supplying kraft paper and packaging products to the industrial and FMCG packaging supplier…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Partial evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5015 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Fibre Circle is a government-recognised producer responsibility organisation for the paper and paper packaging sector.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Wave Paper is an Industrial Packaging company based in New Germany, KwaZulu-Natal.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Containerboard producers based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
37.9%Verified-email coverage
98.4Average contacts per company
51-200Median size (employees)
23.1%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
18
11-50
26
51-200
20
201-500
18
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
4
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 91 companies.

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 containerboard producers, 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 “containerboard producers”. 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 containerboard producers), 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 containerboard producers, 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, 3,398 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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 containerboard producers, 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 containerboard producers are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 91 containerboard producers 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?

SAPPI, headquartered in Rosebank, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most containerboard producers?

Johannesburg leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (13) and Durban (12).

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 3,398 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 91 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 19, 2026.

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About this data

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.