Posts by Mylene Paynter
Entering a new era

Mental, physical and emotional adjustment have become more of a necessity in our lives during 2020. This unpredictable time has built resilience and reminded us to be grateful for every day we have to be alive and productive.

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Mylene Paynter
Reaching out with our customer tentacles

Over the last years, Astrapak has adopted certain new business characteristics and one of these is our newly acquired agility – the ability to respond to customer needs, identify opportunities some customers didn’t even realise exist and embrace them to make for better end results.

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Mylene Paynter
We’ll emerge stronger together

Embarking on something new sounds exciting to most of us. A new job, a new position at work, purchasing a new investment like a house, getting married… It requires weeks, maybe months, of planning and decision-making.

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Mylene Paynter
Embracing the “new normal”

There is an expression that says we’re “so deep in the trenches and still shooting at the enemy that we don’t even realise that the war is over and in fact that enemy went home a few weeks back”. This refers to being so engrossed with what we are dealing with in the moment that we haven’t had a chance to look up and to see the bigger picture.

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Mylene Paynter
COVID-19 Update

As our country enters a period of 21 days of government-enforced lockdown, we can confirm that Berry Astrapak’s sites have all been accredited on the DTI website to continue operations during the lockdown period, and the relevant permits will be issued to the various sites during today and tomorrow.

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Mylene Paynter
Cleaning our beaches for a cleaner environment

The staff at Berry Astrapak are not afraid to get their hands dirty, inspiring the participation of South African communities to clean-up our coastlines. Leading around 270 volunteers in this year’s International Coastal Clean-up Day on Saturday 21 September, the local plastics packaging manufacturer continues to set the bar in removing plastic waste from local beaches.

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Mylene Paynter