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

A luxury presentation pack for contemporary whisky Creag Isle, designed by Pollard Boxes, combines high impact on-shelf presentation with an effective ‘opening experience’. The box’s solid frame construction features vacuum formings at the top and base into which the bottle is held securely. The box is complemented by a slipcase which slides open to reveal the bottle, creating greater interaction with the brand and a sense of excitement and anticipation for the recipient. At

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

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

With Pure DecorX, BillerudKorsnäs is introducing the latest development in White Top Kraftliner. The launch opens up great improvement potential for decorative corrugated packaging, in terms of strength, print appearance and sustainability. Pure DecorX is a three-ply construction made of 100% primary wood fibres, which makes the liner strong, stiff and with high thickness. In practice, this means great lightweighting opportunities, high runnability in converting machines, red

Bradford based The Label Makers has created an eye catching label for one of the fastest growing rum brands, The Kraken Black Spiced Rum. The label wraps around two-thirds of a specially embossed black gloss bottle commissioned to launch the brand’s limited edition. The label was designed by NB Studio. With the rum brand taking its name from the ‘Kraken’, a mythical giant squid like sea monster in Scandinavian folklore, the iconic bottle is styled on a Victorian demijohn, inc

Northern Monk is no stranger to premium beer packaging, having shown time and time again its recognition for the value of the unboxing experience. Over the years, it has commissioned many extraordinary packaging designs to accommodate products, all with the aim of creating remarkable brand experiences for customers. In November 2020, Northern Monk contacted Saxon Packaging for a luxury gift packaging solution for its new limited edition ‘Heaven Chocolate Box’ – a luxury gift

Saxon Packaging has been supporting El Rayo with its packaging since early 2019. The autumn of 2020 saw Jack Vereker, co-founder, El Rayo Tequila, requiring a new luxury gift packaging solution for premium tequila. Named the ‘T&T Gift Box’, this corrugated gift pack was designed to hold two 5cl bottles of the company’s flagship products (No 1 Plata and No 2 Reposado) and four cans of Indian tonic. Emma Bishop, internal sales co-ordinator, Saxon Packaging, and the in-house des

Mondi has started up its new speciality kraft papermachine at its Štětí mill in the Czech Republic. The €67 million investment in the machine makes it Europe’s first dedicated papermachine for speciality kraft paper grades made out of fresh and recycled fibre for retail and online shopping bags. The papermachine will produce up to 130,000 tonnes of speciality kraft paper per year, meaning Mondi will have one of the largest product portfolios for consumer shopping bags in Euro

Creative agency Sea has designed the packaging for start up cosmetics brand Please & Thank You, using luxury recyclable materials from Fedrigoni. Inspired by British nature and craftsmanship, the agency created a brand identity reflective of the nation’s quintessential politeness and quirky humour. Fedrigoni paper was selected for its full recyclability and premium quality, complementing the naturally eco friendly, vegan and cruelty free nature of the soaps. Bryan Edmondson,

Impactful labels by The Label Makers have helped created a premium look for rum brand, Lost Years – a debut collection of four unique rum blends from independent rum house, Cane & Able. Sourced from leading Caribbean and Latin American distilleries, inspiration for the Lost Years brand has its roots in marine conservation, with an inspirational story centred on supporting one of the region’s most celebrated and endangered creatures, sea turtles. Backed by its partnership with

Saica Pack has joined forces with babywear brand BibaDo to design and create a visually captivating packaging solution for an innovative range of bibs. The bib, designed to be worn like a top, is the only product on the market which straps to a child’s highchair, covering the gap between them and their tray. In turn, it significantly reduces mess and parents can save up to 30 minutes a day when weaning young children. After being challenged by BibaDo to create something that

Durham Box’s new Nozomi single pass LED inkjet digital press is currently being put through its paces in the run down to Christmas, in producing short run campaigns and regional promotions. One such seasonal project passing through the corrugated manufacturer’s digital print facility has been consumer packaging and an unusual advent calendar for Edinburgh Beer. Established in the Scottish capital at the start of the pandemic, Edinburgh Beer is a collaboration project that sup

As part of its mission to help create a circular economy, Arjowiggins has launched Sylvicta – a new sustainable alternative to plastics in packaging. Sylvicta is a translucent, functional barrier paper that has been proven to preserve the quality of food and cosmetics just as well as conventional plastics – all the while ensuring limited impact on the environment. Testament to its sustainable properties, the paper is fully recyclable, compostable, marine degradable and made f

Saxon Packaging has been working with Beavertown Brewery since the beginning of 2013 and has created a number of packaging solutions for the brewer’s range of beer. In November 2015, Saxon Packaging was asked by Beavertown to design a new bespoke gift pack for its premium bottled beer Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. ‘The beer we produce is to the highest standard we could possibly achieve – we give it our all. We have always approached our branding and design the same way, attempting to

Foilco prides itself on its forward thinking approach to foil solutions – taking pre-existing or developing issues within the print industry and creating unique products to help solve them. Glitter, a history long, micro-plastic problem, that has already had its fair share of media coverage, is now being used as a benchmark for the type of finishing ‘not’ to use in print. Foilco has developed the perfect glitter alternative, which it is calling the Astral Range – a hyper-real

Luxurious colour co-ordinated packaging from rigid box specialist Pollard Boxes is helping to establish brand image and identity for the latest advanced hair dryer from ghd. The Pollards box provides high impact packaging that maximises visual communication between ghd and its consumers to deliver a clear statement about the hair dryer in terms of both its technical performance and aesthetic appeal. The quality of the materials, the snug fitting lid and familiar ghd foil bloc

What with Covid and the stresses and strains of modern living we all need a little support system sometimes, and looking back at an idea from 2018 we think it might be time to rekindle this little gem... For a limited time in Terminal C of Philadelphia Airport during the 2018 holiday season travellers could pick up a Popeyes 'Emotional Support' Fried Chicken Box. This box contained a three-piece Chicken Tender combo meal and had great packaging too! The boxes were designed b

Senso is the latest perfume designed by CAIA Cosmetics, a female fronted and industry disruptive Swedish cosmetics company, set up by models Bianca Ingrosso & Vanessa Lindblad. Their new peach coloured Senso perfume box is wrapped with Munken Kristall 120gsm from Arctic Paper on the outside lid and tray, making it both beautiful and sustainable. The packaging is printed by Göteborgstryckeriet AB with white embossed foil stamping and debossing on the lid for a tactile and styl

Over the last 18 months, Brentwood based label manufacturer Baker Labels has transitioned its pre-press studio department to use Hybrid’s software system, including the products Packz, Proofscope and Cloudflow. As early adopters of digital print in 2006, Bakers was one of the first companies in the UK to install HP Indigo print technology. Since then it has made continual investment in digital print capabilities, culminating in the current configuration of three HP Indigo WS6