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Inter Primo
Company type	Aktieselskab
Industry	Plastic, extrusion, bioplastics, polymers
Founded	1959
Headquarters	Copenhagen, Denmark
Key people	Fleming Grunnet (Chairman of the Board); Claus Tønnesen [da] (President & CEO)
Products	Extruded plastic profiles;
Revenue	DKK 1.02 billion (2019)
Number of employees	894 (2019)
Website	www.primo.com

Inter Primo A/S is a Danish multinational plastic extrusion company headquartered in central Copenhagen, Denmark, with 14 production facilities in eight countries^[3] and an additional office in Norway. Inter Primo is controlled by Primo Holding A/S.

Inter Primo manufactures plastic profiles for a range of industries, including medico, offshore, building, transport, and lighting.

Inter Primo employs 894 people in Europe and China and markets its products globally. The corporation is a result of more than 20 mergers and acquisitions since Inter Primo was established in 1959 in Tistrup, Denmark.

The company is owned by Primo Holding A/S, which is owned by three other holding companies, D. Grunnet Holding A/S, F. Grunnet Holding A/S, and M. Grunnet Holding A/S,^[4] owned by the chairman of the board Fleming Grunnet and his two daughters Mette and Dorthe.^[5]

History

1959

Primo is established in Tistrup Denmark by entrepreneur Chresten Jensen. The company's plastic profiles were sold to hardware stores and lumber yards.^[6]

1977

Chresten Jensen sells his share of the company to Fleming Grunnet. Primo takes over the two companies Ureflex and Krone Plast, both located in Denmark.^[7]

1984

Primo takes over Swedish Kontraplast AB – Primo's first investment abroad – and establishes Primo Sweden AB. In the following years, Primo buys the Swedish plastic manufacturer Sondex and the Finnish OY WH Profil AB – a subsidiary to KWH Group – and thus establishes OY Primo Finland AB with Roger Häggblom as managing director.^[7]

1986

Inter Primo is founded.^[8] Primo UK is established the next year in Manchester, England.

1990

Primo buys two German profile manufacturers and establishes Primo Profile GmbH in Germany.^[7]

1995

OY Primo Finland acquires a competing company and becomes Finland's dominating profile manufacturers in the coming years. The same year Primo UK shuts down all activities due to a lack of success on the British market.^[7]

1996

Primo Sweden buys Smålandslisten AB, which produces silicone mouldings. Primo builds a new factory in Zory, Poland – Primo's first factory built from scratch. The Polish subsidiary Primo Profile Sp. Z o.o. is established and takes over the profile production from Spyra-Primo.^[7]

1997

Primo takes over Vefi Profiler AS in Norway.^[9]

2000

Inter Primo establish headquarters in Vestergade in Copenhagen, Denmark. Primo Danmark acquires the plastic division for windows from Rationel Vinduer A/S.

2004

Primo Profile GmbH opens a new factory in Berlin, Germany, and establishes a joint venture with German Profilex and buys a 25 pct. share of Profilex China in Zhuhai, Kina. The year before Primo acquired the Danish extrusion company OTV Plast A/S.^[10]

2005

Primo Finland initiates production in St. Petersburg, Russia. Swedish production is gathered in a new factory in Limmared in Västra Götaland.^[7]

2019

Primo buys Essentra Extrusion in Buitenpost, the Netherlands for 16.2 million euros^[11]^[12] and establishes itself in the Netherlands under the name of Enitor Primo.^[13] The company celebrates its 60 years anniversary.^[14]