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PROFILE OF A LEADING SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Supreme Mouldings
From humble beginnings to industry leader
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nder the visionary leadership of
CEO and founder Mick Formato,
Supreme Mouldings has grown
from humble beginnings 35 years ago, to
a company that today provides permanent
employment to over 300 people. With the
company’s origins deeply rooted in the
wooden picture frame industry, Supreme
Mouldings has developed and evolved into
to what is a now a world class manufacturer
and distributor of recycled polystyrene
skirtings, trims, flooring profiles, interior
decor products and mouldings for the picture
framing industry.
“The following core values:
• Respect for the individual and environment.
THE FACTORY PRODUCES AROUND 700,000 LINEAR METRES OF PRODUCT PER MONTH
• Excellence in product and service.
• Business with integrity,
are what guided Supreme Mouldings at its
inception and still do so today,” explained
group MD Neil Edmunds. Neil went on
further to say, “We are particularly proud of
our recycling programme, which has allowed
us to remain competitive in the global market
and at the same time preventing enormous
amounts of Styrofoam going into landfill. We
currently process about 10,000m3 a month
of post industrial waste Styrofoam. History
will also reflect that we were the pioneers
in recycling of waste Styrofoam in South
Africa. We have invested over R10 million
into the programme,” he said.
Manufacturing
The Supreme Mouldings factory is based
in East London, with more than 10,000m2
of factory floor area, producing roughly
700,000 linear metres of product a month.
All skirtings, trims, pelmets, curtain rods
and picture frame mouldings are produced
using up to 100% recycled polystyrene. The
end product is also 100% recyclable. We
encourage our customers to submit any
waste moulding for recycling. The factory
has a stringent in-house quality programme
that is supported by one of South Africa’s
leading analytical laboratories, based in
Stellenbosch. This serves to ensure that
consistent and sustainable quality is achieved
throughout the production process.
The recycling programme has further
developed into the ‘Supreme Mouldings
Green Initiative’. The Green Initiative is an
ideology based on a simple principal, with
the company recognising that the worlds’
natural resources are fast being depleted and
what we as a company can do to assist in
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