Pak Space Ltd (PSL) was established in 2004.  The factory is located on Serem Road off Lunga Lunga road Industrial Area Nairobi. This company was established primarily to produce Corrugated Cardboard boxes. Pak Space Ltd is one of the fastest growing manufactures of corrugated board and carton boxes in Kenya.  From design, through to product development to volume production, PSL provides a comprehensive array of products and services.  Backed by an experienced team of packaging professionals and state of art manufacturing facility, PSL has an enviable reputation for excellent services, superbquality products and extremely competitive pricing of its products.

Over the years the company has steadily improved its value, capability, quality and range of products, from a paltry production of 200 Metric tons per month, the company can now produce up to 800 Metric tons per month.  This has been made possible by PSL strategy of investing in latest packaging technologies.

A major step forward in technology was achieved in investing in Die cutting technology to cater for the growing need of horticulture, floriculture, fishing industries and trays.  The other investment during the years is the installation of a four colour Digital Printer Slotter Die cutter machine and a fully automatic lamination machine.

Pakspace Limited is ISO 9001:2015 Certified

We are located on Serem Rd. Off Lunga Lunga Road, Industrial Area – Nairobi
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INTRODUTION
Pak Space Ltd (PSL) was established in 2004. The factory is located on Serem Road off Lunga Lunga road- Nairobi.
This company was established primarily to produce Corrugated Cardboard boxes.
Pak Space Ltd is one of the fastest growing manufactures of corrugated board and carton boxes in Kenya. From assisting in design, through to product development to volume production, PSL provides a comprehensive array of products and services. Backed by an experienced team of packaging professionals and state of art manufacturing facility, PSL has an enviable reputation for excellent services, superb quality products and extremely competitive pricing of its products.

Over the years the company has steadily improved its value, capability, quality and range of products, from a paltry production of 200 Metric tons per month, the company can now produce up to 800 Metric tons per month. This has been made possible by PSL strategy of investing in latest packaging technologies.

A major step forward in technology was achieved in investing in Die cutting technology to cater for the growing need of horticulture, floriculture, fishing industries and trays. The other investment during the years is the installation of three colour flexo printing machines.

Purpose
To serve packaging needs of our customers through eco-friendly & aesthetically appealing products.

Our Mission
• To excel in manufacturing as well as in all spheres of activities in the business we do
• To maintain market leadership by ensuring continuous innovation at all times to better our products and services.
• To continuously motivate & develop the skills of our employees
• To commit ourselves to social responsibility by uplifting the lives of the unfortunate members of society
• To provide a fair and attractive economic return to our shareholders, employees and other stakeholders.

Our Vision
To be the leading manufacturers & Suppliers of high quality corrugated boxes and other packaging material in East and Central Africa.

Our Core Values
• Integrity
• Excellence
• Discipline
• Commitment

Production Process and Machines Available
The main production processes of the company are:-

a. Board Making and Single Faced Kraft (SFK):
The Company is in possession of three corrugating machines capable of producing B, C and E flutes of various dimensions and sizes of which one machine capable of producing both B and E flutes.

b. Sheet cutter machine:
This machine cuts paper into required sheet sizes.

c. Pasting machine
In this machine the boards are joined together by use of glue to make 3ply and 5ply

d. Pressing machine
This stage is to press boards so as the glue sticks

e. Creasing machine
This is where the boards are designed into boxes according to customer’s sizes.

f. Die Cutting machine
Cartons that require ventilation such as chick boxes are die cut to create ventilators

g. Printing:
The department is equipped with a colour printing machine capable of producing excellent four colour jobs

h. Slotting machine
This is where the printed and plain cartons are slotted ready to be stitched or glued.

i. Stitching machine
This machine is used to stitch the cartons so as to have the final shape

j. Finishing:
The finishing section comprises of various sections such as gluing, stitching and strapping where cartons are strapped ready for delivery.

Laboratory
The company is planning to set up a fully-fledged laboratory with the latest equipment, which will include a Box Compression Testing Machine. The lab will also be equipped with the paper properties testing machines. This will help Pak Space determine the characteristics and quality of the outgoing boxes.

Quality Policy
Pak Space Limited Processes Corrugated Cartons, Single Face Kraft paper (SFKs) and Layers. As a responsible business, we are committed to continually enhance the reputation of our closures through the development and implementation of a quality management system (ISO 9001:2015).

The following principles are the foundation of Pak Space Ltd’s commitment to quality:

• Commitment to comply with applicable quality requirements including statutory and regulatory requirements, contractual or mutually agreed customer requirements that are applicable to our products.
• Commitment to setting quality objectives to support our strategic direction.
• Commitment to ensure continual improvement in our processes and our relationships with customers, suppliers and the general environment.
• Commitment to promote an understanding and dissemination of our policy of quality at all levels within our organization and to relevant interested parties, as appropriate.

Leadership shall ensure that this quality policy is established, implemented and maintained within the context of the organization.

Pak Space Ltd’s employees are responsible for achieving Quality objectives and continuously improving Quality performance. The Quality Function acts as the guardian and the challenger of the Pak Space Standards.

Pak Space Ltd is committed to ensuring that this quality policy is reviewed regularly, at least annually and on need basis.

We are committed to:
• Excellence in manufacturing as well as in all spheres of activities in the business we do
• Produce quality right the first time
• Continuously innovate and improve at all times to better our products and services
• Provide a fair and attractive economic return to our shareholders.

To do so, we will:-
• Continuously improve our processes
• Continuously monitor customer satisfaction
• Select suppliers who meet our requirements consistently
• Develop the skills of all employees
• Ensure that environment of fairness and trust exist among all employees
• Communicate the importance of meeting customers as well as statutory and regulatory requirement
• Provide and maintain the infrastructure needed to achieve conformity of products requirements.
Manpower
The company employs a total of 26 permanent employees which includes 5 both supervisory & management level and 21 general employees. Building a strong workforce and retaining it has a challenging task, but the experience has been rewarding.
The company has developed the strength of our technical staff through continuous improvement programs blended by recruitment of professionals.
Training
Developing the skills of employees is the basis of the company’s quality policy statement. To embrace this, the company embarks on various on-the job training programs and workshop training. The company has all the resources for all forms of training many of which are conducted in house
Marketing Strategy
It is the policy of this company to market and sell packaging material that meets the specified or implied needs of the targeted markets.
The company shall ensure that customer requirements are determined and are diligently met with the aim of the enhancing customer satisfaction.
To achieve this, the company shall undertake the following:
• Make full use of all the available resources at its disposal in marketing its products through exhibitions, visits, and any communication media.
• Review and understand all enquiries/orders to ensure that the requirements are fully defined, complete information is available and that supply to enquiries/orders is within the capabilities of the company.
• Keep customers in touch with changing packaging trends by periodically carrying out performance reviews on their products through audits
• Ensure client confidentiality is kept through training of all employees

Human Resource
One of the key to an organization’s strength and growth is having the right people at the right place at all the time. Any organization therefore must plan and utilize its Human resource capital effectively and efficiently in order to achieve its corporate goals and strategies.

Human Resource Policy
It is the policy of the Company to hire and recruit competent people to provide efficient service to customers and establish working relationship with government, other authorities and suppliers. To achieve this goal the company shall undertake the following:-
• Design, formulate and implement a system of recruitment and selection of staff that will attract and retain the right caliber of qualified personnel
• Establish and cautiously review systems to determine the optimal staff required to man all levels of the business so as to avoid under-employment or over- employment
• Ensure that new employees are inducted fully as a way of integrating them with existing staff, and thereby developing the foundation of team work
• Promote good and sound staff recruitment and selection practices, procedures and structures devoid of any discriminatory practices such as race, creed, religion, HIV/AIDS status and any other practices against the ILO charter.
• Employ qualified employees without any form of discrimination provided that employee has merited.

Information Technology
Pak Space will always endeavour to invest in appropriate information technology to ensure a seamless flow of information to support the decision making processes. To ensure that the company optimizes in the IT infrastructure, the company will continue to provide regular training to its employees.

Environmental Policy
The company together with its employees shall make sure that actions taking place in the factory will not cause environmental effect or harm its neighbors or factory environs by adhering to the following:
• Treating affluent waste before disposing to the sewer
• Gathering its waste paper for recycling
• By posting warning signs where there are hazardous chemicals
• Conforming to all statutes regulating conduct of the factors activities and the environment.

OUR PRODUCTS

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