PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN
TBAC SA. is an amenities manufacturing company, based in South Africa. In a nutshell: we design, manufacture and deliver a great service.
Through our relentless focus on customer service and quality products, we have secured contracts with many of Africa’s largest hotel groups and amenity distributors. Our well-equipped manufacturing facility not only enables us to export with SADC certificates (which means duty savings in the SADC region), but also allows us to control the quality of our products down to the last detail.
We are passionate about keeping our supply chain within South Africa, empowering ourselves and our partners through every step of the process.
Our amenities are of the finest quality and will make your guests’ experience that much more memorable.
TBAC SA. Customer Experience
Our attention to the smallest details enables us to create an extraordinary experience for our customers, and by doing so, build trust and value.
TBAC SA. Mission
To be a value-adding, indispensable part of our customers’ supply chain by offering an exceptional product and extraordinary customer experience.
TBAC SA. Vision
To become a globally trusted, South African based manufacturer of the finest quality guest amenities and soap.
PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT
We are as passionate about the environment as we are about the hospitality industry.
We’re extremely focused on the impact that the hospitality industry has on the environment. As a result, we are constantly looking for sustainable guest amenity solutions.
Single use plastics, both those that are not recyclable and those that are not recycled, have devastated our oceans and rivers. While there is no silver bullet that provides an immediate fix to the problem, every one of us needs to start a journey made up of thousands of small changes that when put together make a significant impact on the waste we produce – our journey has started.
We have helped many of our customers move over to dispenser systems, large plastic bottles and glass bottles. At the same time, many of our customers are very concerned about the hygiene aspects of these systems, extra housekeeping time and the various other challenges that come with large sized bottles.
Our travel sized guest amenity bottles are made using a bland of of recycled PET (rPET) and virgin (PET). In order to ensure our plastic bottles are recyclable we have followed strict design guidelines – this includes not adding colour to the plastic and making use of labels as opposed to printing directing on to the bottles. Creating a circular economy where there is a demand rPET creates value in this recycled material which will ensure less of this valuable material is lost to landfill (or worse).
We work with many of with many of our customers to return bottles and other packaging to our factory for recycling, this program continues to grow.
In order to ensure our plastic bottles are recyclable we have followed strict design guidelines – this includes not adding colour to the plastic and making use of labels as opposed to printing directing on to the bottles.
We are most proud about our concentrated shampoo bars (hair & body wash bars) that have helped our clients to remove millions of pieces of plastic from their hotels, reduced the carbon footprint of their amenities and saves heaps of water in the manufacturing process. If you haven’t tried one, you need to contact us !
This is a journey and we are continually working on new projects to reduce the impact of our products, if you want to find out more please get in touch and we can share some of our new developments with you.
LOCAL MANUFACTURING
PASSIONATE ABOUT SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING
- We have an internal R&D department, our formulation chemist will be able to assist you in creating your perfect guest amenities
- We compound (manufacture) all of our liquid products from locally sourced raw materials, so we really manufacture your guest amenities from start to finish
- Our compounding team has 25 years experience in manufacturing cosmetic products, this ensures great quality products
- Our factory manufactures to strict GMP (good manufacturing process)
- We can manufacture over 1,200,000 x 50ml hotel amenities in a month and we have 5 dedicated filling lines.
EFFICIENCY & QUALITY
Our 6 000m² factory and warehouse in Kya Sands, north of Johannesburg, is the largest amenities manufacturing facility in southern Africa. Our fully automated production lines ensure that we are able to produce at speed: we have capacity to manufacture an access of 100 000 bars of triple milled palm soap every day.
However, our clients aren’t interested solely in quantity. They demand quality, too, which is why our facility has been purpose built to comply with ISO standards.
We manufacture our own bottles and tubes, meaning we can control our impact on the environment. This, combined with our in-house printing facility, ensures that we have complete control over every stage of production.
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
At TBAC SA, we’re passionate about keeping our manufacturing process in South Africa so we can uplift our community. We also believe that women are the heart of any community.
- We choose to maintain a gender parity mindset, challenge stereotypes and bias, forging positive visibility of women and celebrating women’s achievements in the workplace.
- We are proud to have an internal team that is made up of 54.8% women and a distributor network that includes 72.9% women. Our goal is to always maintain a 50/50 split as we continually work on empowering, including and supporting women.
- Over and above guest amenities, we manufacture slippers and laundry bags. Our textile team is made up of 10 full time seamstresses.
- We are piloting a soap recycling project aimed at creating a sustainable business for the Kya Sand community. The project will not only create a sustainable livelihood for many, it will also help keep the community safe.
