Respected wide format industry veteran Alex McClelland has joined Orafol Australia as Managing Director, from this week. He was formerly General Manager at Mulford Plastics and prior to that, spent fifteen years in charge of Spandex Asia-Pacific.
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| Alex McClelland, new Managing Director for Orafol Australia |
“It’s a great privilege and opportunity,” he says. “Orafol is one of the world’s leading self-adhesive and wrapping film, reflective traffic and safety materials and tape manufacturers, with origins that go back over 200 years, as an ink manufacturer. The manufacturing plant north of Berlin employs over 1,000 personnel with a typical German passion for finest quality and technical excellence.”
Orafol Australia was established in 1994 and underwent expansion in 2017 when the company bought its Australian distributors including Australian Graphic Supplies. Headquarters, converting and warehousing was established near Brisbane, but McClelland will continue to be based in Sydney with frequent visits to the Queensland operation and other states. Emerging from GDR state-ownership during the partition of Germany, the company has grown, modernised and expanded globally to become a leading sign industry supplier in Europe and the USA.
“We have distribution centres in Sydney, Queensland, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, staffed by very experienced sign industry people,” notes McClelland. “I am looking forward to the task and meeting all of the team, many of who I know already.
