Company type | Public |
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Industry | Plastic products |
Founded | 1940s |
Headquarters | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK |
Key people | Paul Lester, Chairman Paul Forman, CEO |
Revenue | £316.3 million (2023) [1] |
£10.9 million (2023) [1] | |
£5.4 million (2023) [1] | |
Website | www.essentra.com |
Essentra PLC is a supplier of plastic and fibre products. The company operates internationally from headquarters in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The company was established in Jarrow in the 1940s as the Fibres division of Bunzl. [2] In 1955 it acquired Moss Plastics, a plastic products manufacturer, [3] in 1994 MSI Oilfield Products, a pipe protection business, [2] and in 1996 it bought Payne, a manufacturer of tear tapes. [2]
In 1997 the Bunzl Fibres division bought Filtrona Corporation, a US filter technology specialist which it had demerged in 1984. [4] At this time the Filtrona name was adopted for the enlarged Bunzl Fibres business. The company bought Enitor, a Dutch extruder business, in 1998 [2] and Skiffy Group, a Dutch nylon parts business in 2004. [2]
The company was demerged from Bunzl in 2005. [5] It went on to buy Duraco, a US adhesive coated products business in 2007. In 2008, the company purchased Lendell Manufacturing, a foam manufacturer. The foam and fiber businesses were combined into a new division and named Filtrona Porous Technologies. [2]
On 26 June 2013, the company formally rebranded to Essentra plc. [6] [7] Then-Chief Executive, Colin Day said that the company chose the name Essentra “to capture what each of Filtrona’s businesses manufacture and supply: small but essential key components that play critical roles for our customers”. [8] On 31 October 2016, Essentra announced that Paul Forman would succeed Day as Chief executive, effective 1 January 2017. [9]
The company is organised as follows: [10]
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