Do you consider your packaging part of your product? Very often, packaging is treated as just that, packaging - it can be so much more! Could your packaging enhance the ‘Gifting and Receiving’ experience’? Could your packaging target specific market sectors or types of customers? Customers buy gifts all year...
The Christmas countdown has begun! Here are the details of our opening hours over the festive period.... Our Christmas shutdown will be as follows; Factory and Offices close on the 23rd of December at 12 noon Re-opening on the 3rd of January 8.30am Deliveries required over this period can be...
Do your samples arrive in the best condition? Do they make the right impact? Your company has spent months researching, designing, developing, and finalising your latest product offering. The target list is complete, and you have emailed, spoken, and arranged to send samples of your latest fantastic product. The follow-up...
At Dairi-Pak we’re passionate about safety, be that the safety of our team or our packaging product. To ensure product safety and consistently high quality standards, we operate to the BRCGS Packaging Materials (Issue 6) standard. What is BRCGS? BRCGS is a globally recognised quality standard that helps a supplier...
Packaging Waste Regulations and what does your business need to do to comply? You may not be aware of the Producer Responsibility Regulations, also known as the Packaging Waste Regulations. This article explains the regulations, how to check if they affect you, and what to do. What are the Packaging...
We’ve explained the story about how cardboard is made so we thought it would be interesting to go back one step and describe the process about how paper is made. Paper starts from timber, which comes from well managed forests (to ensure sustainable growth). Tree types used in the making...
When purchasing printed cardboard packaging, you have a variety of print options readily available to you. We do our best to make navigating the development of your first bespoke packaging as easy as possible, but if you haven't dealt with any printed materials before, inevitably there is going to be...
Do you need to reduce your labour, materials and logistics costs? Reviewing how you palletise your finished product could be the key to unlocking savings in all these areas. The size and specification of your corrugated cases can have a considerable impact on the number of products shipped per pallet...
There's a huge focus on minimise the impact of packaging, and rightly so. Have you ever wondered just how sustainable cardboard packaging is? The UK paper industry produced 3.63 million tonnes of paper in 2020, according to figures from the CPI. 53% of this was for packaging, 20% for tissue...
Packaging is a key element of any product. The recent changes in the way consumers purchase products (especially when working from home) means that more products are being sold remotely, which makes the need for packaging even more important. With this increase in demand so too comes increase in costs...
Who fancies a 22 mile scenic cycle challenge, whilst doing a good turn? Borderland Rotary members joined Tim Gray (Managing Director of Shrewsbury packaging manufacture Dairi-Pak Ltd), James Davies (owner of Mule Cycles) and Jane Pritchard (community liaison from AICO) at the Aico headquarters in Oswestry to start the countdown...
Have you adapted your packaging to an omnichannel approach? Consumer shopping habits have changed. Your product now needs to grab your customers’ attention across multiple online and offline platforms: this could be at a wholesalers, in a retail environment, in an ecommerce store or on a traditional producers’ market stall...
