WE ARE COMMITTED
AND PASSIONATE ABOUT PROVIDING HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS
By consistenly investing in technology, research, and development, we have become industry leaders in the extrusion of thermoforming sheets, flower packaging, concrete reinforcing fibers, egg packaging brush bristles, and broomsticks made from recovered and transformed post-consumer PET. We are dedicated to protecting the enviroment as well as our worker´s health and safety. In addition, we build one-of-a-kind projects in the construction industry.
Research and Development
Within our philosophy, we aim to be one of the most recognized plastic companies that invest constantly in innovation and technology, and, that offers great quality products to the plastic industry in Colombia.
Technology and Innovation
ACEBRI has brought to Colombia new technologies to produce a wide portfolio of products made of recycled PET and PP with the purpose of satisfying our clients and market needs.
Investment
During 2020, we invested more than 1.800.000.00 USD in new equipment of the latest technology, with the purpose of modernizing our production plant in Mosquera (Cundinamarca), and thus, offer better and a wider variety of products.
Our Values
Our values reflect things beyond our work, they demonstrate our dedication to developing and delivering high-quality products, as well as the treatment we want towards our customer, team, allies suppliers and the individuals that support us by recycling.
Responsibility
To be able to provide the best service, it is of the utmost importance that we fulfill our obligations as well as anticipate any situations that may arise, hence our constant communication and team work, making sure we support every area of the company thus making us stronger us a team.
Commitment
Due to our team´s demanding work ethic, they make every effort to complete tasks on or ahead of schedule, in doing so we preserve our stellar reputation with both internal and external clients.
Competitiveness
We are constantly trying to evolve and reach new market segments, which is why we invest in research, technology and new strategies that help us stand out and make a difference in the industry.
Discipline
In order to succeed in our company, in addition to talent, we focus on creating a solid foundation as a team. Each member of staff is known for being tenacious and consistently delivering their best.
Perseverance
We have had our ups and downs. Trying times have taught as to be resilient, and that never giving up and staying true to ourselves will always pay off. This allows us to truly show what we are made of.
Honesty
Our team is valued for its transparency, sincerity, and consistency between their thoughts and actions. We are convinced that talents may be developed over time, but honesty is at the heart of who we are; this will provide recognition and peace of mind to our customers, suppliers and others.
Mission
Today´s ACEBRI S.A.S is a plastic transformation company that creates items like thermoforming sheets, flower packaging, fibers for concrete reinforcement, thermoformed packages, brush bristles, broomsticks for the cleaning industry among others. With continuous product projection, as a result of ongoing product development plans, we continually invest in technology, research and, development, concentrating on recovered raw materials from various sources, with the aim of providing new knowledge. To the plastic transformation industry, generating a positive impact on the environment providing welfare to our employees, client satisfaction, and value to our partners and stakeholders. ACEBRI has access to the necessary infrastructure as well as competent and dedicated personnel, allowing us to also take part in the construction of civil works.
Comprehensive Policy
Dedicated to producing cutting-edge, high-quality products, ACEBRI S.A.S. continuously invests in new technology and knowledge to ensure the continual improvement of management development and organizational processes. Our company is focused on sustainability and environmental control, using natural resources responsibly by preventing pollution, ensuring proper waste disposal, controlling the environmental impact after their use, complying with current environmental public policies, and following the occupational health and safety system with our employees, decreasing the likelihood of work-related illnesses or industrial accidents occurring in any of the company sites. Regardless of the type of contract, we do this in order to achieve satisfaction and create an awareness of prevention amongst parties involved.
Vision
By 2024, ACEBRI S.A.S. will be the market leader in Colombia for the production of concrete reinforcing fibers, flower packaging sheets, egg packaging, brush bristles, and broomsticks, as well as the export of these goods. It will also have a large market share of the other products that the company manufactures or sells.
37 years of experience in innovation
By converting post-consumer PET bottles utilizing a variety of techniques, we are the leading creator of recovered plastic products in Colombia.
Polymer Extrusion
Sheets Thermoforming
Injection Molding
ACEBRI
a success history
1983
The beginning
It all begins with the buying of a factory, to produce brooms with natural fiber.
1985
Industrias Briceño
We change our name to “Industrias Briceño” looking for sense of belonging. We acquired manual injectors to make plastic bases instead of wooden ones, and manual inserters to stop crafting the brooms by hand.
1989
New equipment
We bought a plastic cam inserter for our brooms.
1990
Arcoaseo
We became Sociedad Arcoaseo S.A.S., Artículos Colombianos para el Aseo (Colombian Cleaning Articles), and short after it, we bought a 5,400 ft2 land plot to expand the company plant and a new manual plastic injector. We achieved a huge growth in technology and product development.
1991
Walter 160 Injector
We acquired a new injector to produce innovative products.
1992
Walter 250 Injector
We kept on investing in new equipment with higher technology to improve our products quality.
1993
Expanding the future
We bought a 3,800 ft2 and we began producing mops.
1994
New products
We acquired molds to produce dustpans, floor brushes and other articles.
1995
New floor building
Our plant expanded up to 17,200 ft2 with the building of a second floor.
1996
Breaking through frontiers
We started exports to Dominican Republic.
1997
Huge alliance
We started our partnership with Bon Brill (Atila brand).
1998
We keep growing
We bought a cornerback land plot that allow us to expand out more.
1999
New administrative steps
We acquired a new land plot improving our location, we demolished the old house and build a 4 floors head quarters with more than 37,500 ft2 of space for our staff.
2000
A prominsing millennium
We s tarted the new millennium buying a 56,000 ft2 land plot, we invested in new equipment (for instance the Zahoransk electronic inserter, Vertical Zahoransk, feathering machines including a 250T Walter injector).Thanks to thiswe introducedthe extrusion and feathering product lines, and we sold the manual inserters.
2001
New Injectors
To keep offering the best quality, we bought the Maytian 330 and the 380T Walter injectors.
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2002
The on-season equipment/ The on-trend equipment
In Germany, we bought an exposure of insertion machine, a carousel and feathering equipment. Those were the up-to-date machines in that moment.
2003
Keeping up with the investment
We bought a Borghi inserter and featherer.
2004
Reaching new markets
We were able to export to USA, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile. We bought also a round brushes inserter and cutter.
2005
A big family
We counted with a wide variety of extrusion models and we were able to form a 100 employees team.
2006
A new record
We achieved a record when producing 550,000 units of brooms and brushes plus 250,000 units of mops.
2007
ACEBRI was born
We began with the sale of the 60% of Arcoaseo, which achieved to be the main producer and exporter of brooms and mops in Colombia. It was sold to Virutex Chile, a multinational company, to look for new growth opportunities. From there, we created ACEBRI S.A.S. receiving from the negotiation the warehouses, the fiber production line and the balance to continue with our industrial activity.
2008
Parque industrial Tecplas
We ended selling the resting 40% of Arcoaseo with the vision and strategic approach to allow that Virutex and ACEBRI continue their business independently. Then, we started to build the Tecplas industrial park, today it is one of the most innovative and welcoming plants of the Savannah of Bogotá.
2009
Modernity and success
We acquired the world most modern extrusion machine to make fibers and be able to compete with international class technology.
2010
Plastic concrete reinfoircement fiber
We decided to buy the company Tecnirec, to obtain raw material in a more direct way and being more competitive. We developed also the Plastic Concrete Reinforcement Fiber and registered the patent. We gained recognition as leaders with this product.
2011
Flower packaging sheets
We bought extrusion machine, started developing our recycled PET sheet for flowers packaging. We got the ISO 9 001 vr 2008 certificate by SGS company, improving our processes.
2012
Our waste is our resource
We acquired injectors along with a pelletizer and injection molds for brooms bases, and we started to use post-production waste of the recovering process as raw material.
2013
Getting back to the roots: Toiletries
We bought a European brooms insertion and finishing machine, entering again in the cleaning articles industry.
2014
Mops production
We acquired equipment for the automatic production line of mops, with the purpose of complementing our cleaning product line.
2016
Recovering materials
We bought equipment from Lapetco company, with the purpose of having another way to recover materials.
2017
Growing with the market
We acquired new fiber and sheets extrusion equipment with the purpose of meeting the growing market demand.
2018
The new materials challenge
We bought automatic filters with Backflue system, to take advantage of the most contaminating materials. We sold all the cleaning product line to Eterna to specialize in extrusion and we automatized the cutting machines, this improved the quality and performance of the recycled PET flowers packages.
2020
Recovering the most polluting
We use the most polluted materials to develop thermoformed products in industrial level. We bought also a sheet extrusion machine that improves quality and increases the production capacity.
