What are the plastic experience?
Emmanuel Maudu: The Plastitek group is an industrial SME, whose main business is plastic injection, but we also develop in assembly and product packaging. We have three factories in France, Romania and Türkiye. We send several markets: automotive, construction and electricity, pharmacists, but also several industries, equipment around electronics and leisure.
Maxime d’Hatsy: PLASTITEK offers a capacity for development and innovation to its clients, in particular our starting partners, who use our knowledge to optimize their pieces, but also the upstream and downstream processes of the room.
What perspectives do you see for your growth in your different locations?
EM: We had to restructure the group a year ago, because after the COVID, the automotive activity, which previously represented most of our activity, fell sharply. Today, France is the most diverse country in the group, and these new markets have brought us some interesting stability and perspectives.
At the same time, Romania and Türkiye are in a development logic, especially Romania, which is very dynamic in the automotive market.
What are the key elements in your development strategy?
MARYLAND: The relocation has allowed us to gain market share, with customers whose ambition was to produce again in France, after the consequences of the Covvid crisis in terms of international transport costs and deadlines. There is also a greater expectation of consumers to make in France. Automation is a growth factor inherent in the PLASTITEK DNA, which allows us to be competitive, which is necessary to relocate. Regionalization is also an important factor in the conquest of new markets and new cases.
Innovation is in the heart of its activity, especially to satisfy ecological problems?
EM: We join more and more recycled materials: this year, we will reach a 30% rate in our French productions.
MARYLAND: We design the lighter pieces possible and use mussels that avoid the remains of material. When there is a scrap, we have the ability to grind and reuse it. Our machine fleet is mainly composed of weakly energy power presses. Customers also ask us more and more to recover and recycle their used pieces, which have collected.
The proximity offered is a strong differentiating element?
EM: An example: we have been working for 6 years with a subsidiary of the Legrand Group, which previously imported its pieces from China. We are close to its logistics site, which is more virtuous in terms of CO2 emissions linked to transport, but also from an economic point of view. In terms of flexibility in a market that fluctuates a lot, it can also have a much faster action.
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Source: BFM TV
