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Enhance Customer Experience
Customers reward companies that show they care. Packaging can help you deliver an engaging customer experience and drive brand loyalty
Reducing Packaging Costs
90% of a packaging operation’s costs are hidden. We can add value to your packaging operation by helping you identify, reduce, or even eliminate these costs, which are an invisible burden to your business.
Unpacking cost reductions
At Macfarlane Packaging, we're experts in reducing packaging costs. Through our holistic approach, we analyse your packaging supply chain and make recommendations that can help you eliminate expenses across six key areas - storage, transport, productivity, administration, customer experience, and damages & returns. We call these areas the Significant Six.
One of our key services is a Packaging Review, it allows us to identify opportunities to save you time, save you money and improve your sustainability. We can then demonstrate the impact new packaging solutions have on your bottom line with our Packaging Optimiser. The Optimiser is a unique piece of software that calculates financial and carbon emission savings delivered by packaging.
Solutions can be as simple as changing the orientation of a box or recommending a new product, through to a full packaging redesign or installing packaging machinery. Whether you want to cut transport emissions, save on storage costs or minimise the cost of reverse logistics, our experts can help you unpack savings...
Reducing the most significant costs in your packaging operation
Reduce storage costs
Reduce the amount of packaging stock held at your site to free up valuable space and improve cash flow
Reduce transport costs
Maximise your pallet yield or parcel sizes to minimise transport costs, lower fuel use and reduce your emissions
Reduce damages and returns
Our innovative packaging can help you dramatically reduce the cost of damages and returns, protecting your reputation and products
Reduce admin costs
We can take the hassle and costs out of your admin with single source packaging supply and our e-trading services
Increase productivity
We can help you develop a more flexible, resilient, and cost-efficient operation that saves you time, lowers labour costs and speeds up production
Significant Six Packaging Review
Our Packaging Review can help to reduce or eliminate hidden costs, saving you money while simultaneously supporting your CSR goals by reducing the environmental impact of your whole operation.
Packaging Optimiser
The Packaging Optimiser breaks your operation down into six key areas where we know big costs can hide, which we call the Significant Six. We review materials to find the right packaging to protect your products, meet sustainability goals and unlock cost savings.
See how we can help you reduce packaging costs
Our latest packaging blogs
How to Measure a Box
Choosing the right size cardboard box is all about finding the optimum size for your product and allowing for sufficient in-box protection. This short guide will walk you through the step-by-step process of measuring a box.
Unboxing Survey 2025 Highlights: What Consumers Think About eCommerce Packaging
Now in its tenth year, the Macfarlane Packaging Unboxing Survey offers a valuable snapshot of how consumers experience ecommerce packaging. With rising customer expectations, increasing sustainability pressures and tighter regulations, packaging has never mattered more.
Our 2025 findings show that while retailers have made significant strides t
How Box Optimisation Can Help Minimise Your EPR Liability
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is reshaping the way businesses think about their packaging. As brand owners and distributors, you are now more accountable for the environmental impact of the packaging you place on the market. This means your packaging choices - from design to material make-up - directly influence the financial contribution
Easy ways of branding your small business packaging: updated
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Understanding Anti-Counterfeit Packaging
In today’s interconnected world, protecting your products and brand from counterfeiting is becoming increasingly essential. The UK government es…
A Guide To Connected Packaging – Updated
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The Macfarlane Packaging Catalogue
The Macfarlane Packaging catalogue also explains how we can help you reduce your packaging costs, support you with packaging automation or even with custom packaging design.
Our packaging catalogue includes all our products ranging from cardboard boxes, packing tape and bags to pallet wrap and strapping products, as well as machinery and warehouse equipment.