Company type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Food |
Founded | 1987 |
Founder | Brendan Lindsay |
Fate | Acquired by Newell Brands |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Plastic food containers |
Parent | Newell Brands |
Website | sistemaplastics.com |
Sistema Plastics is a New Zealand company which manufactures food storage containers. It is based in Auckland and owned by Newell Brands. [1] [2] [3]
Brendan Lindsay founded Sistema Plastics from his home in Cambridge, New Zealand in 1987. The company name Sistema comes from the Italian word for systems. [4] The company is focused on BPA-free plastic kitchen storage containers under the brand names KLIP IT and Klipo.
Newell Brands bought the company in 2017 for NZ$660 million (US$470 million). [5]
In 2018, Sistema was named Plastics Training Company of the Year by the New Zealand Plastics Industry. [6] In 2019, Sistema won the Technology Innovator award in the Epicor Customer Excellence Global Awards programme, for its use of automated processes. [7]