South Africa ’s leading manufacturer and distributor of packaging and fastening products to Commerce and Industry, Mining and Agriculture. Branded products are manufactured and distributed under license to leading world known companies. Branded products include strapping and strapping systems, collated nails, staples and other fasteners, self adhesive tape and taping machines, ink jet marking and coding systems, self adhesive labels, stretch film and machines, shrink film, pallet netting, hot melt equipment, twine, bubblewrap, as well as powder actuated tools and consumables for the construction industry. Brand names include Signode, Strapex, Itipack, Paslode, Senco, Holzher, Rapid, Ramset, Dynatec, Marsh, Siat, Sellotape, Tesa and Vertex.

Afcom is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bidvest Group Limited, which is one of the large st companies quoted on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Afcom’s well trained team focuses on providing customers with solutions, supported by quality product and service excellence. Providing customers with up-to-date, state of the art technology has always been a key feature in Afcom's philosophy.

Service excellence, coupled with product leadership, has been the cornerstone to our sustained growth. Our service levels, benchmarked by international standards, are driven by a commitment to meet or exceed customers' needs and expectations.