Cut the Costs of Shipping Fragile Goods
We regularly assist customers with shipping boxes for fragile goods. Glass baubles, gaming electronics, drink bottles, camera equipment and porcelain tiles. These are some of the items that we’ve designed and manufactured protective packaging for. In addition to ensuring these items arrive undamaged, we explore ways to cut the costs of shipping fragile goods. In […]
Packaging Pollution: Brands Exposed
A place on a Top Companies list usually means positive publicity, but the Dirty Dozen is different. It focuses on packaging pollution and names the brands exposed as being responsible for the highest volume of branded litter in the UK. Surfers Against Sewage highlight the issue, but what can be done to tackle packaging waste […]
What can we Learn from Easter Egg Packaging?
It’s hard not to notice that Easter Eggs started making an appearance on the supermarket shelves as soon as the Christmas stock had cleared. Perceived as one of the worst examples of excessive packaging, do Easter Eggs deserve their bad press? Excessive Packaging in Decline There is no doubt that the volume of packaging used […]
Tackling the Blemish of Waste in Beauty Packaging & Products
The beauty industry is known to produce high volumes of packaging, amounting to around 120 billion units per year. Much of this is not recycled. Many beauty brands are keen to ditch the reputation for excessive packaging, single-use materials and an on-trend throw-away culture. Companies including Buff Natural Bodycare and All Earth Mineral Cosmetics have […]
What Happens to All the Cardboard Boxes?
It is likely that in the countdown to Christmas, you received many orders packaged in cardboard boxes. With many retailers forced to close in lockdown, online shopping grew at at accelerated rates through 2020. All those e-commerce deliveries can leave you with quite a collection of cardboard boxes. Some of the boxes may have been […]
Prevent Christmas Packaging Waste
Christmas 2020 will be a little different to usual. Social distancing will impact on family gatherings, office parties and shopping. The number of gifts bought online has been steadily growing over the past decade and a sharp rise is expected this year. As online sales peak, what is the impact of good e-commerce packaging design […]
Don’t Order those Boxes!
Stop! Don’t order those boxes just yet. Before you opt for standard packaging, we have an important question for you to consider; what do you want the packaging to do? Packaging serves many purposes. Understanding exactly what you need is the first step in getting the best packaging solution. Protective Shipping Boxes Damaged goods are […]
Packaging Under Fire
For many years, Amazon was criticised for excessive packaging. The smallest of products were often sent in large cardboard boxes. In response to this, the global company tried attaching delivery labels to product packaging, which completely removed the need for boxes. This was a simple solution, but many complaints were received around Christmas, where the […]
Eliminate Packaging Frustrations
It is argued that packaging is at least as important as the product it contains. It provides the opportunity to communicate considerable information in an instant, whilst also serving a practical purpose. It can make the difference between your products making it into the shopping trolley or remaining on the shelf. Whilst packaging brings many […]
