The Label Makers’ impressive track record of providing leading spirits brands with striking, stand out labels continues, as it works with Spirit of Manchester Distillery to launch a new spiced botanical rum called One-Eyed Rebel. More known for its core gin range, this has been the distillery’s first foray into the rum category, which is set to grow by 9% in the UK this year, with flavoured and spiced rums being the biggest growth drivers. In creating the distiller’s vibrant

The boutique handmade chocolate company, Dirty Cow, has boosted its sustainability credentials after collaborating with Parkside to create a compostable pack for its range of innovative vegan and dairy free ‘messy’ chocolate bars. Dirty Cow launched its new sustainable packaging range with Sainsbury’s ‘taste of the future’ trial listing. The move represents the next step in the brand's sustainability journey, utilising a new pack specifically designed to provide a practical,

Paula’s Choice has been disrupting the beauty industry for years, boasting smart, results driven formulas and transparency throughout the brand to ensure that customers are well informed about their choices. For the past few years, Paula’s Choice has been trading with Smurfit Kappa Benelux, with excellent results. In February 2021, the company partnered with third party logistics provider Walker’s Logistics, which helped it to navigate UK sales – both from the Paula’s Choice

Chivas Brothers is the Scotch whisky business of Pernod Ricard and has an award winning portfolio of some of the world’s best known and revered single malt and blended Scotch whiskies. It is a long standing partner of Smurfit Kappa Composites, and the two companies have collaborated for many years on innovative packaging that enhances the brands and its sustainability credentials. This latest project demonstrates how a strategic partnership approach delivers ongoing value thr

Sharpak has unveiled a new premium look hybrid pack for sushi, designed with multiple benefits for food to go brands, retailers, consumers and importantly, the environment. The Luxifood pack comprises an rPET lid and new novel cartonboard base that ensures all moisture is retained and doesn’t leak or seep from the pack in store or transit. Ideal for both grocery and food to go retail destinations, Luxifood has been manufactured completely in-house and incorporates numerous fe

Smurfit Kappa Food Contact Packaging provides some advice... Consumers are becoming more sustainable: a YouGov survey concluded that a huge 69% of respondents thought that companies should be required by law to create environmentally friendly packaging – even if it meant them paying more for the goods. Meanwhile, the same survey found that 46% of people actually feel guilty about the amount of plastic they currently buy. And while on the whole the nation has focused on plasti

To avoid being caught out by the Plastic Packaging Tax, due to come into force in April 2022, Antalis Packaging offers its insight on how to get ready. Over the last few months, Antalis Packaging has been making preparations to help its customers minimise the impact of the tax. Here, Antalis’ packaging technologist manager, Jason Poxon, explores what the new tax might mean for businesses and shares some of the steps to take to ensure you are not caught out. No one likes payin

A new lifecycle analysis report has highlighted the outstanding environmental credentials of cartonboard packaging when compared against fossil based alternatives. ‘Cartonboard Life Cycle – Comparing the carbon footprint of carton packaging against alternative solutions’, goes into the granular detail of the cradle to grave environmental performance of cartonboard in frozen food, ready meal, fast food and small electricals packaging, compared to other commonly used packaging

This summer, Robinsons, Lipton Ice Tea and drench 500 ml bottles are moving to 100% recycled plastic (rPET). The 500 ml on the go bottles are the first to use recycled plastic from a new rPET manufacturing facility in North Yorkshire. The facility, built by Esterform Packaging Limited following Britvic’s £5 million investment support in 2019, is powered by 100% renewable energy and provides Britvic with a secure supply of quality food grade rPET in the UK. Mark Tyne, Esterfor

Determined to deliver a sophisticated take on make at home recipe boxes, e-commerce brand Wild Radish pours a love of good food into everything it does. Launched during the Covid lockdowns, the boxes are designed to bring a touch of luxury to the market, slowing down and emphasising the joy of cooking, not just eating. Of course, from an e-commerce packaging perspective, that presents a problem. A more everyday brand can take a few dents in its boxes, or ingredients thrown to

pladis, the global snack company behind some of the UK’s most loved and iconic brands, has been on a mission to substantially reduce its environmental impact by updating the packaging of various products to more ecological alternatives. This is part of the company’s sustainability agenda, which reflects its commitment to making all its packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. Most recently, pladis has made steps forward to move toward more paper based solutions

Hashtag Organics says that trade finisher ACA will definitely be given the contract for the next new product it launches in its CBD (cannabis extract, a safe non-narcotic) spa treatments range. Emma O’Neil, managing director, said: ‘Our branding and our packaging has to be very high end to match our product. When we moved our CBD products from the pharmaceutical sector into the spa and high street bar markets we decided we needed outside professional design and we placed the

The first lockdown in March 2020 was certainly a surprise – and a hurdle – for Niche Cocktails, which had just launched a canned cocktail business. The original goal had been to sell in the trade space, marketing to pubs and hotels so its drinks could be sold in bars. Stay at home orders obviously put this on hold. Not to be deterred, the founders decided to pivot the business, shifting their attention to the D2C consumer space – especially as drinking at home was on the rise

Rochperle Grease Resistant boards are now available throughout the UK from Premier Paper. Rochperle Grease Resistant (GR) is a range of KIT 8 rated plastic free barrier boards that have a high white front and a tactile, cream reverse. The board’s grease resistance and reinforced sizing treatment make it the ideal choice of product when producing food packaging for products such as bakery goods. The Rochperle GR range is stocked in-depth and available across the UK, off the sh

Community Playthings create quality wooden toys and furniture for nurseries and primary schools. They required quality presentation boxes to house their beautiful wooden toys and spoke with Denmore Press about what could be achieved. Denmore used a wood inspired material to reflect their brand and built a hinged lid over a paperboard box with a magnetic closure using Winter & Co's Napura Khepara Walnut, a thermoreactive board that looks like wood. They even gave the logo an e

Durham Box has produced distinctive new gift and shipping packaging for Knaresborough based craft beer micro brewery, Turning Point Brew Co. The vibrant selection gift pack, comprising either 4 x 440 ml cans, or 4 x 330 ml cans, was created to showcase innovative beers from the brewer’s core range, including the iconic Disco King, an American pale ale and three popular Custard sweet ales in various unique flavours. Formed in 2017, Turning Point Brew Co’s founders have seen a

Stora Enso and packaging technology company Pulpex have joined forces to industrialise the production of eco friendly paper bottles and containers made from wood fibre pulp. These renewable products will offer an alternative to PET plastics and glass. The exclusive partnership leverages Stora Enso’s formed fibre technologies and ability to convert end products at an industrial scale. The joint development agreement is formed exclusively between Stora Enso and Pulpex, a sustai

MOTH (Mix Of Total Happiness) is one of the latest canned cocktail brands to emerge from Greater London. MOTH has the goal of turning any preconceived idea about canned drinks on its head. It has recently celebrated the launch of a range of ready to drink (RTD) cocktails. In December 2020, Samuel Hunt, co-founder of MOTH, got in touch with Saxon Packaging for some bright and bold, 12 x 150 ml shelf ready packaging (SRP) boxes for the exclusive launch into Waitrose stores acro

Long Tail Mixers is an award winning British brand that focuses on mixers for dark spirits and is the brainchild of two lifelong friends who both share a passion for ‘the darker side of spirits’. Back in August 2020, co-founder Alex Jolliet got in touch with Saxon Packaging to produce three luxury gift packaging solutions, after being referred by existing clients, El Rayo Tequila. Each gift box needed to house a branded highball glass, as well as two featured 50 ml bottles of

Eden Mill has recently re-packaged its Love Gin miniatures range in new 5cl bottles. The distinctive and bespoke glass packaging, created by Croxsons, complements Eden Mill’s existing 70cl and 50cl Love Gin bottles, launched last year. Available in various flavours, the miniatures are currently being used for two types of four pack recyclable gift boxes, the distiller’s virtual tastings and seasonal promotions. Eden Mill is Scotland’s first single site distillery and brewery,