ILLIG strengthens sales and service in Australia and New Zealand

Heilbronn/Melbourne/Wellington, 14.08.2025 – ILLIG packaging solutions GmbH appoints Tasman Machinery, based in Melbourne, as its new representative for sales and service in Australia and New Zealand. The partnership takes effect immediately and covers the full range of ILLIG thermoforming systems.

With this new collaboration, ILLIG is reinforcing its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and offering customers direct local access to consultation, spare parts, and technical support. Tasman Machinery brings decades of experience in plastics processing and is a well-established provider of equipment for packaging manufacturers in the region.

"With Tasman Machinery, we are gaining a competent local partner who will professionally support our customers and carry forward our promise of quality," says Jochen Butz, Area Sales Manager at ILLIG. "Australia and New Zealand are highly developed markets with a strong packaging industry – this new partnership is a consistent step for us to strategically expand our international presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Together, we want to achieve long-term growth in the region and combine customer proximity with technical excellence."

"We are very much looking forward to working with ILLIG. As one of the world’s leading providers of thermoforming solutions, ILLIG brings exactly the innovation, precision and reliability that our customers in Australia and New Zealand expect. Our goal is to introduce ILLIG’s technologies to the Australian and New Zealand markets in a targeted way and to build long-term partnerships" adds Dermid McKinley, Managing Director at Tasman Machinery.

About Tasman Machinery
Founded in 1972, Tasman Machinery is a leading provider of machinery solutions for the plastics processing industry in Australia and New Zealand. The company supplies high-quality equipment and technical support for injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming, and recycling applications.

About ILLIG
ILLIG is a global leader in thermoforming and packaging systems for the production of sustainable plastic and fiber-based packaging. Its services include the development, design, assembly, and commissioning of complex production lines and tools, as well as customized retrofit solutions.