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We serve businesses of various sizes, allowing you to find the ideal packaging solutions for your requirements with ease.
Industrial & Specialist Packaging
Industrial packaging is vital to quickly, safely and efficiently move product, components and equipment throughout supply chains. Our industrial teams at Macfarlane Packaging can design any protective packaging tailored to a specific product, industry, or application, with these solutions manufactured to order at one of our UK production sites.
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Heavy Duty Corrugated
Timber Crates & Boxes
Protective Cases
Large Transit Containers
Foam Conversion
Correx®
Handling / Storage
Anti-Static Packaging
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As the UK’s largest distributor of protective packaging materials, we can help you with industrial packaging to suit any business.
Industrial packaging is used for transporting and storing goods during manufacturing or within a supply chain. Unlike consumer or retail packaging, which serves both promotional and shipping purposes to end-users, industrial packaging focuses solely on facilitating transportation and storage within industrial settings or supply chains.
Industrial packaging encompasses various materials such as corrugated cardboard, Correx®, moulded plastic, and timber crates. These can be used in isolation, such as for heavy duty corrugated boxes, or in combination to create composite packaging.
Macfarlanes industrial packaging design and manufacture team can provide packaging for virtually any industry shipping large, fragile, expensive or specialist industrial products. However, our industrial packaging is particularly popular for medical, aerospace, automotive, defence, offshore/sub-sea and electronics industries.
Macfarlane supplies a range of products, encompassing everything from single trip through to returnable supply chain solutions. Our packaging designers assess not only your products, but also your logistics, handling requirements and many other factors, to advise on the best solution for your specific application. We can then design and manufacture single trip options, such as heavy duty corrugated, timber or composite packs, or create reusable packaging such as Correx® totes or bespoke protective cases.
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We serve businesses of various sizes, allowing you to find the ideal packaging solutions for your requirements with ease.
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Industrial Packaging Solutions
With hundreds of industrial packaging options, you can be confident that whatever you need, Macfarlane Packaging has the solution.
We provide a unique approach to designing and manufacturing industrial packaging. So regardless of the industry sector your business operates in, or the challenges you are facing with your packaging, Macfarlane Packaging can help.
Our industrial packaging covers a broad range of products and solutions. This includes custom designed composite, timber and heavy-duty corrugated packaging. It also encompasses high performance protective cases which can be enhanced with bespoke foam inserts. We can supply Correx® and a range of returnable packaging and handling products. And we also have a wide range of specialist industrial packaging, such as anti- static, specialist coatings, sewn products, picking bins, 19” rack cases and much more.
This range of options can seem daunting, but our experienced designers and product experts help our customers with impartial advice on the best solution for any specific application or requirement. And with the vast majority of the industrial packaging we supply manufactured in house, you can also be certain it is of the highest quality, cost effective, and sustainable.
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Protective packaging products and services to businesses throughout the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe
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Understanding UK Packaging Waste Reporting
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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…