Taghleef Latin America

History

1988

Since its foundation in 1988, TiLA has looked internationally to build its business. Today with on-going sales in many countries all over the world North, Central and South America as well as several countries in Europe and Asia, it can truly be said that TiLA has become a one of the major players in the international BOPP marketplace. Our first production facility was located in Cartagena, Colombia, where today there are three production lines.

2004

TiLA opened a second manufacturing facility in Altamira, México with a 55 million lb/yr (25.000 Ton/yr) capacity line. This line was designed with a unique multi-layer coextrusion capability that will further allow the company to introduce new films with unique performance characteristics. In 2008 TiLA added to its Mexican facility an additional 66 million lb/yr (30.000 Ton/yr) to reach 200 million lb/yr total.

2018

The company was founded in 1988 under the name of BIOFILM S.A. and in 2018 became part of Taghleef Industries group (Ti), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of BOPP, BOPLA, and CPP films for packaging, labels, industrial, and graphic arts applications. With this merger, BIOFILM S.A. changed its legal name to Taghleef Latin America S.A. (hereinafter TiLA).

Our Product

TiLA products are grouped into six main families: Clear High Barrier, Coextruded, Metallized, White Opaque, Labels and Plain (non-heat sealable). Innovation at Taghleef is based on technologic platforms that include clear barrier, enhanced sealing technologies, ultra high barrier and metallized films, among others.

This last product family, metallized films, illustrate TiLA´s commitment to innovation and value-added product development. With ten state-of-the-art metallizing chambers and a total inhouse capacity of 66 million lb/yr (30.000 Ton/yr), TiLA is the largest supplier of metallized BOPP films in Latin America and one of the largest suppliers of packaging grade BOPP films in the whole continent.