| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 1987; 38 years ago (1987) |
| Founder | Sir Brendan Lindsay[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Plastic food containers |
| Parent | Newell Brands |
| Website | sistemaplastics.com |
Sistema Plastics is aNew Zealand company which manufacturesfood storage containers. It is based inAuckland and owned byNewell Brands.[1][2][3]
Brendan Lindsay founded Sistema Plastics from his home inCambridge, New Zealand in 1987. The company name Sistema comes from the Italian word for systems.[4] The company is focused onBPA-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 November 2024, Sistema Plastics confirmed that it would lay off about 100 workers at itsAuckland factory by Christmas 2024.[6]
In 2018, Sistema was named Plastics Training Company of the Year by the New Zealand Plastics Industry.[7] In 2019, Sistema won the Technology Innovator award in theEpicor Customer Excellence Global Awards programme, for its use of automated processes.[8]