Fedrigoni Papers enters vehicle wrapping market with the acquisition of UNIFOL

The Fedrigoni Group, a global producer of specialty papers for luxury packaging and other creative applications, and a leader in the premium labels and self-adhesive materials markets, announced an agreement for the acquisition of UNIFOL, a PVC self-adhesives manufacturer in Turkey. The company has approximately eighty employees and specialises in PVC CAST technology for vehicle wrapping with its UNICAST brand. Its film materials are used to protect the body of a vehicle, change a vehicle’s colour or apply graphics.

The acquisition presents an excellent opportunity for Fedrigoni’s self-adhesives division – already present in the world of graphics and visual communication solutions – to enrich its already broad offering. Unifol is distributed in Australia by Pozitive, and Fedrigoni is distributed by Spicers.

“UNIFOL is an extremely interesting technological player for us," said Marco Nespolo, CEO of the Fedrigoni Group, “because it has developed innovative, resistant, long-lasting self-adhesives 
that can be used for 3D applications on large surfaces. This acquisition will allow us to make our offer more attractive and to continue our strategy to expand into a promising segment, adjacent to those we are already present in, as we have previously done with our entry in the smart labels 
sector with the acquisition of the French company Tageos”.

“We are greatly satisfied with this operation that allows us to expand our portfolio of solutions in the graphics and visual communication sector,” added Fulvio Capussotti, Executive Vice 
President of Fedrigoni’s Self-Adhesives division.  “The combination of the UNIFOL technology and the global geographic presence of Fedrigoni will allow us to be ever more competitive in a rapidly 
growing niche market in Europe and throughout the world,” concluded Capussotti.

Birol Çakır and Erkut Cilvez, the shareholders of UNIFOL added,  “We are delighted to reach an agreement with a solid and expanding international company such as the Fedrigoni 
Group. We believe that following the completion of the transaction, UNIFOL will accelerate its global growth path and ability to invest in research and development of increasingly high-performance and innovative solutions”.