Sistema Plastics

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]

Sistema Plastics

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Food
Founded	1987; 38 years ago (1987)
Founder	Sir Brendan Lindsay
Headquarters	Auckland , New Zealand
Products	Plastic food containers
Parent	Newell Brands
Website	sistemaplastics.com

History

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 November 2024, Sistema Plastics confirmed that it would lay off about 100 workers at its Auckland factory by Christmas 2024.^[6]

Awards

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 the Epicor Customer Excellence Global Awards programme, for its use of automated processes.^[8]