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As the UK’s largest distributor of protective packaging materials, we can supply an unrivalled range of heavy duty corrugated boxes.
Heavy-duty packaging typically uses robust materials such as corrugated cardboard, wood, metal, or plastic, ensuring durability and protection for goods during transportation and storage.
Several grades of double-walled and triple-walled cardboard (characterised by multiple layers of fluting) are typically classified as heavy-duty. The weight (GSM) of the papers utilised in its production also influences the material’s strength.
Heavy-duty cardboard packaging uses only this material in its manufacture. Composite packaging, however, combines various materials to create customised protection for a particular product, component, or machinery. Typical composite packaging incorporates corrugated cardboard, foam, and timber. Widely embraced across manufacturing, medical, aerospace, and industrial sectors, composite packaging ensures a bespoke, optimised level of protection.
There are several benefits to using composite packaging. However, the key benefit is the precisely tailored protection provided to large, expensive, and/or fragile items during transit. A range of optional features, such as integral pallets and ramps to unload contents, also significantly improves usability for packing staff and end users.
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With an extensive team of designers, product experts and in-house manufacture, Macfarlane Packaging can create a fully bespoke heavy duty corrugated solution to your exact requirements.
Whether you transport large medical devices, are a tier 1 or 2 automotive supplier, provide critical military products or ship any large, bulky or expensive items, your packaging is crucial. As such, being a leading B2B supplier of industrial transit packaging, we can use our extensive material knowledge and design expertise to create a pack tailored precisely to a specific product and application.
Our range of heavy-duty corrugated packaging includes triple wall boxes, timber frame wraps, stock and bespoke pallet boxes and solid fibreboard boxes. We are also the only UK manufacturer of Tri-Mite packaging, a unique triple wall material that can feature joints cut at 45-degree angles for vastly improved strength and reusability. And Macfarlane Packaging are also the largest supplier of composite packaging (using multiple materials) within the UK.
Regardless of the heavy duty packaging our experts recommend, you can be certain it will provide the optimum level of protection for your products or items during transit. We also take great care to maximise transport efficiency, minimise environmental impact, and to take a holistic view of your costs to drive savings throughout your packaging inventory.
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Macfarlane Packaging announces automation agreement with Lantech
Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s leading distributor of protective packaging, announces today (18 March) a new automation distributor agreement with U…


Macfarlane Packaging announces automation agreement with Lantech
Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s leading distributor of protective packaging, announces today (18 March) a new automation distributor agreement with U…


Macfarlane Packaging announces automation agreement with Lantech
Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s leading distributor of protective packaging, announces today (18 March) a new automation distributor agreement with U…