| Sagex is South Africa’s
leading manufacturer of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), Phenolic and
Rigid Polyurethane foam products.
Founded in Cape Town in 1957, Sagex was the first company to introduce
EPS into South Africa - and in doing so revolutionised the local
insulation market. While it began manufacturing EPS in Bellville
in 1958, it was the destruction by fire, and subsequent reconstruction,
of the cold storage facility in Cape Town harbour in 1959 that provided
Sagex with its first significant opportunity to expand - which it
did, and has been involved in the refrigeration business ever since.
The late 1960’s
and early 1970’s
was a period of national expansion for Sagex and its increasing
range of world-class innovative insulation products. Factories were
opened in Transvaal (1967); Port Elizabeth (1971) and Durban (1972).
From 1981 to 1996 Sagex was part of the Sentrachem group, and it
was during this period that in 1989, Sagex took a leading position
in the phenolic foam market by establishing a Megaphen manufacturing
facility in Chamdor. It also acquired Malcon products SA and with
it a second plant in the Johannesburg area.
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This position was consolidated later that year with the establishment
of another factory in East London. In 1996 a consortium of private
investors acquired the Sagex group. A major capital expenditure programme
was started to upgrade the company’s
manufacturing technology and reaffirm its position as a producer of
world- class products. Owens Corning South Africa (OCSA) purchased
Sagex in 2002, and Sagex will continue to function as a wholly-owned
subsidiary of OCSA.
Technological excellence, coupled with innovative sales and marketing
systems, underlines the drive that is fundamental to the manufacture
of all Sagex products - to meet the specific requirements of each
of our customers. |
