History of the Impact Group

Impact is privately owned by the Lajovic family who have been making tubes since 1925. In 1958 Mr Dusan Lajovic (pictured) reached agreement to supply aluminium tubes to Colgate Australia after a chance meeting with a Colgate Executive. Impact was registered as a company based in Sydney. Impact went on to set-up or purchase tube making plants in the Philippines (1963), Malaysia (1964), Venezuela (1967), Indonesia (1967), New Zealand (1971), Melbourne, Australia (1972), Singapore (1979). In 1984 Impact became the first company in the world to obtain Colgate approval for laminate tubes made on an AISA machine. The company started producing its own proprietry tube laminates the same year. Modification of equipment and processes led Impact to produce tube laminates with uniquely high interlayer bond strengths that have never been matched by other suppliers. In 1994 the Lajovic family regained ownership and renamed Lajovic Tuba, the original family business in Slovenia. Following aggressive globalisation of the world's toothpaste manufacture, Impact rationalised, and now maintains facilities in Australia, Indonesia and Slovenia.