TAPA Tábor – flexible packaging manufacturer with a hundred-year tradition

from MTX GROUP MAGAZINE 2021 ENG

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Our company TAPA Tábor is located in the picturesque town of Tábor, where we manufacture flexible packaging for food, non-food products, animal feed, industry, and households.

Tábor – an old town on the Lužnice River. Its history reflects the fate of our entire nation, a fate that has significance beyond our region. Tábor and its surroundings, with its battles, victories, and losses, is a living chronicle of Czech and European history. Important historical figures from Tábor speak to you at every corner. The city has aroused the interest of historians, writers, musicians, painters, and sculptors – mainly during the Hussite period, which is an important milestone in Czech history, although often decorated with legends and somewhat distorted textbook interpretations. When we hear Smetana‘s symphonic poem Tábor from the Má vlast cycle or when you read the quote from T. G. Masaryk “Tábor is our program“, we feel our Czech roots even in today’s globalized Europe. Decades before the First World War, Tábor was economically important because many industrial plants were founded there, most of which would employ 50 to 80 but sometimes even over 100 workers. These plants include a brickworks, a steam sawmill (from 1907), a stone processing factory, a mechanical knitting factory, and a canning and foodstuff factory. Most importantly, the Jihočeská lučební továrna for animal and industrial waste processing was established here. Also known as Klihárna, it eventually became TAPA as we know it today. After complicated beginnings and a complicated subsequent journey, it is currently known as AL INVEST Břidličná, a.s., TAPA Tábor. It should be noted that its cutting-edge machinery, market dominance and excellent financial results are the result of the professional approach of the management and employees of the firm. Despite its age, TAPA is a very young and modern manufacturing and trading company in spirit, thinking and behavior. Today, the plant employs 210 staff. The last investment in the new segment of production of ready-made bags and sacks took place in 2019. The machine is 74 meters long and is very difficult to prepare and operate.