Macpac’s proven track record in providing superior functional packaging to major pharmaceutical companies stood them in good stead when they were approached by The University of Cambridge earlier this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began its spread across the UK. The...

A broader online presence serving key markets: General Food, Bakery, Horticulture and PPE face visors. Macpac is no stranger to selling on-line through its website, for over 4 years it has sold its highly successful Plantpac range on a digital platform. With a rapidly...

Simon Firth, Sales Manager at Macpac was recently interviewed by Horti Daily and Floral Daily. He reports on a record year! Simon Firth on Macpac's horticultural packaging: "It's a year with record high sales" Over the last months, plant sales have been high. This...

The premier packaging and food industries publications cover a progressive story in the history of one of the UK’s largest privately, family-owned thermoformers. It’s been quite a month for Macpac having achieved a British Retail Consortium Global Standard ‘AA’...

Macpac has again achieved an AA grade rating for a 4th consecutive year to the British Retail Consortium Global Standard.  This was the first time Macpac had been audited to the new Issue 6 standard for Packaging & Packaging materials. The AA rating reinforces...

In the coming weeks Macpac will be launching its new on-line 'shopping' website providing a one-stop shop for box quantities of selected packaging in key sectors and showcasing all that's best in design and manufacture. 'Ready-to-Post' Plantpac range Macpac has been...

In March there were dire prospects for the horticultural sector, the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) suggested that if garden centres remained closed then the value of lost sales could reach £687m by the end of June and £1.2bn by Christmas this year. They...

Macpac has always suggested that brand owners, retailers and manufacturers need to work with a packaging design and manufacturer that understands the complexities of design, the technicalities and preferences of material choice, the brand fit as well as environmental...

On-line sales has for many in the horticultural sector meant the difference between survival and failure during the Covid-19 crisis. With more than £1bn in lost sales during the period on-line sales have filled the vacuum to the tune of 94%. Some 70% of bedding plant...

Thermoformed packaging designer & manufacturer Macpac Ltd, has designed and produced a PPE visor that attaches to a hard hat for workers requiring vital protection to combat Covid 19. Developed with UK's largest Railway Infrastructure company The visor was rapidly...