How Plastil started in the UK
Father of the current CEO, Joseph Legeais founded a French extrusion branch under the name of Plastil in 1972. With the success of Plastil profiles in France, Joseph decided to extend the extrusion activity in the UK. His son Christophe at his side, he found a location in the heart of England, at Telford, where a factory was built from scratch in 1990. Extrusion operations started there in 1992 as Plastil UK. Christophe soon took charge of it. Showing as a leading supplier in the office furniture sector, the premises was extended in 2006.
Family continuity as a guarantee of stability
Christophe, current CEO of Plastil, is the 4th generation in the industrial adventure of the group. He is proud to see this family continuity as a guarantee of stability for the company. A whole industrial culture has been passed down from generation to generation, including its assets but also the memory of the events that built the company as it is today.
Being an adventurer since his teenage years, Christophe had first worked in Germany for a French company where he prospected for new customers with the only help of samples and a car. When time had come to join his father in Plastil, he embraced the creation of Plastil UK as a new path of adventure, even moving to the UK for a few years.
History of the group Plastil Solutions Plastiques
- 1937: Louis, grand father of the current CEO, founded an activity of rubber & fiber gasket cutting under the company Le Joint Barthélémy.
- 1972: his General Director and son-in-law Joseph, founded a new plastic extrusion activity under the company Plastil, which, over the years, strongly developped in PVC extrusion.
- 1982: development in plastic injection, under the name of Newplast.
- 1990s: at the time when the current CEO, Christophe Legeais, joined the group, it established in the UK, with Plastil UK specialising in PVC extrusion.
Strong progress then marked the following years with the acquisition of small and medium-sized family-owned companies, gradually integrated to Plastil group.
The last being in 2018 with an activity of CNC machining, under Plastil Usinage.
Since 2016 our know-how has been presented under the single brand of Plastil Solutions Plastiques.
Its facilities are located at 5 production sites in France and 1 in the UK.