please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message promens type private limited company industry plastics manufacturing packaging founded 1984 headquarters k pavogur iceland key people jakob sigur sson president and ceo products personal and healthcare packaging food and beverage packaging chemical packaging components for automotive and electric industries insulated double walled s plast containers ibc s and more website www.promens.com promens hf is an icelandic holding company with primary interests in rigid plastics manufacturing . it is majority owned by icelandic investment companies horn invest and the enterprise investment fund . promens headquarters are in k pavogur iceland . promens operates 42 manufacturing in 19 countries with 3800 employees and total sales exceeding eur 611 million in 2011 . 1 promens traces its roots back to 1984 when a group of local investors in dalvik iceland established a company called s plast to manufacture insulated double walled containers for the fishing and fish processing industries . after extensive adoption by the icelandic fisheries industry the company began exporting its products worldwide . in 1993 s plast won the president of iceland s export award . the same year s plast was listed on the icelandic stock exchange . during 1999 2000 s plast acquired three companies abroad ; in 1999 the dyno as factories in lesund norway and st. john canada and in 2000 nordic supplies container as of norway . this expanded s plast s product range from rotationally molded tubs to include floats and safety equipment for the marine industries . as a result of these acquisitions s plast s turnover increased by 400 % with 40 % of the company s turnover now coming from the floats and safety equipment . during this time the number of overseas employees reached three times the personnel in iceland . 2 in 2001 s plast asia was established in hong kong . in 2002 icebox plastico spain was acquired by s plast and in 2003 plasti ned of the netherlands was also acquired by s plast . atorka group of iceland purchased a majority interest in s plast in 2004 and delisted the company from the icex . in 2004 the largest icelandic company in the field of expandable polystyrene production tempra hf was acquired by s plast . in may 2005 promens hf was formed to take over several of s plast s subsidiaries s plast dalv k ehf and tempra hf . in iceland plasti ned bv and s plast holland bv . in the netherlands s plast iberia s.a. in spain s plast asia ltd. in hong kong and s plast uk ltd. a 63 % share in s plast india ltd. s plast lesund as . s plast norge as . and s plast canada inc. remained under s plast hf . in july 2005 the company acquired the bonar plastics division from low and bonar plc adding eleven rotomolding plants in ten countries within europe and in north america . sixty five percent of the sales of bonar plastics is derived from custom moulded products manufactured for other producers of industrial products . at the time of the acquisition bonar plastics produced parts for at least 15 industries and blue chip customers include daimlerchrysler caterpillar john deere peugeot renault and volvo . at the time 35 % of its sales were its own products particularly tubs and tanks for storage and transportation of materials for the chemical pharmaceutical and food industries . divisions edit promens plastics division operates 11 rotomoulding factories in eight countries . the division s factories are located in dalvik in iceland hockenheim in germany deventer and rijen in the netherlands miedzyrzecz in poland annezin bellignat blye geovreisset l aigle la roche sur foron and montoir in france barcelona in spain saint john in new brunswick canada one plant in india and one plant in taicang china . references edit presentation company . ppt . atlantictrident . plastics promens . akureyri region business agency . afe.is . external links edit http www.promens.com 1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title promens & oldid 731539610 categories companies of icelandpackaging companiesplastics companieshidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2016all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 26 july 2016 at 00 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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