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Wipak Group (Wihuri Group)
Finnish flexible packaging company (Nastola, Finland; subsidiary of Wihuri Group — a Finnish private conglomerate); Wipak Medical division produces multilayer coextruded polyolefin films specifically for pharmaceutical applications including IV bags (freeflex-type), blood bags, and medical device packaging. Wipak is one of the primary European suppliers of pharmaceutical-grade multilayer PP/PE film meeting ISO 11607, USP <661>, and EP 3.1.5 (polyolefins) standards. Wihuri Group is a privately held Finnish conglomerate founded in 1901 that also owns Wihuri Candy (Fazer Group licensee, Finnish confectionery), a major airline catering business (AirFin), and wholesale/retail operations. The same Finnish family business group that makes candy wrappers also makes the multilayer pharmaceutical film in Fresenius Kabi IV bags.
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Pharmaceutical Films (Wipak Medical)
30%Food Packaging Films (Wipak Food)
35%Felix Abba & Wihuri Food (Parent Conglomerate)
20%Wihuri Wholesale & Other Operations
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Did you know2023
Wipak Group is a division of Wihuri Group — a Finnish private conglomerate founded in 1901 in Helsinki. Wihuri Group's businesses span: Wipak (flexible packaging films for pharmaceutical IV bags, food packaging, and industrial films), Wihuri Wholesale (Finnish wholesale/retail operations), and Felix Abba (Finnish food company — the brand that makes Finland's most-consumed ketchup, pickled herring, and sauerkraut). The same Finnish family business empire makes the multilayer pharmaceutical film in Fresenius Kabi IV bags used in European hospitals and the ketchup on Finnish hot dogs. Wihuri Group is one of Finland's largest private companies by revenue despite having almost no name recognition outside Finland — a classic quiet Nordic industrial conglomerate.
Wipak Group / Wihuri ↗Origin2023
Wihuri Group was founded in 1901 in Helsinki by Annikki Wihuri -- one of the few women industrial founders of that era in Finland, who built the company from a small trading business into one of Finland's major private conglomerates. The company has passed through multiple generations of the Wihuri family. Wihuri Group's unusual portfolio -- pharmaceutical film (Wipak Medical for IV bags), Finnish consumer food brands (Felix ketchup, Abba herring), air cargo ground handling (WFS -- Worldwide Flight Services, operating at 170+ airports globally), and Finnish retail distribution -- reflects the opportunistic diversification pattern of Finnish family industrial conglomerates that grew up serving a small domestic market and leveraged their capital to acquire internationally. Wipak Medical's pharmaceutical film for IV bags grew out of Wipak's existing coextrusion technology for food packaging; the pharmaceutical-grade qualification added GMP and pharmacopoeial compliance to packaging film manufacturing Wipak already knew how to do for food.
Wipak Group / Wihuri Group ↗