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Luxury Packaging Awards 2015 | Luxury Food Pack winner

WINNER

Cadbury Glow Luxury Packaging by Mondelēz International

 

Luxury Packaging

 

Congratulations to Cadbury Glow the judges felt this was a ‘Superb presentation of the product adding real Luxury Packaging to the pack and making it very special with ‘brilliant cardboard engineering’.

Cadbury Glow offers givers an elegantly designed gift with subtle, luxurious cues. Starting with the sleeve, the beautiful graphics connect the brand on multiple levels. The word ‘Glow’ is inviting, subtly whispering to consumers about special moments between you and your loved ones. The centre of the ‘O’ emanates light, offering depth and curiously while connecting the word ‘Glow’ and the design together as one. The light dapples are reminiscent of blurred light through a camera lens, creating a soft, glowing wallpaper that is friendly and inviting. The entire primary packaging is made from metallised cartonboard with the addition of a ribbon loop acting as a nod to traditional gifting cues. In addition, a number of finishes and effects were used to support the graphic elements; a pearlescent varnish creates a shimmering effect together with a spot gloss that enhances the glowing light. The hero features are embossed to draw further attention to the logo and praline image. The inner treasure box allows gold to be the star, with only a simple debossed logo on the front right door coupled with subtle white dapples. The gold and purple graphics are undeniably premium while also being distinctly Cadbury and warm.

Why Recycle?

Why Recycle

Why Recycle?

If you’re not already recycling, we explain how easy it is and how you can really make a difference.
For those who already recycle, discover the positive effect your recycling efforts are making and find out what else you could do.
Recycling conserves resources.
Why Recycle ? When we recycle, used materials are converted into new products, reducing the need to consume natural resources. If used materials are not recycled, new products are made by extracting fresh, raw material from the Earth, through mining and forestry.
Recycling helps conserve important raw materials and protects natural habitats for the future.
Recycling saves energy.
Using recycled materials in the manufacturing process uses considerably less energy than that required for producing new products from raw materials – even when comparing all associated costs, like transport.
Plus there are extra energy savings because more energy is required to extract, refine, transport and process raw materials ready for industry compared with providing industry-ready materials.
Recycling helps protect the environment.
Recycling reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging), refining and processing raw materials all of which create substantial air and water pollution.
As recycling saves energy it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which helps to tackle climate change. Current UK recycling is estimated to save more than 18 million tonnes of CO2 a year – the equivalent to taking 5 million cars off the road.
Recycling reduces landfill.
When we recycle, recyclable materials are reprocessed into new products, and as a result the amount of rubbish sent to landfill sites reduces. There are over 1,500 landfill sites in the UK, and in 2001, these sites produced a quarter of the UK’s emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
What Happens To Our Recycling?
Ever wondered what happens after your recycling bins are collected or you drop something off at the recycling centre? We explain how your recycling becomes a valuable resource.
Recyclable items are predominantly collected from your home in two ways. There are kerbside ‘sort’ schemes where recyclables are sorted into their respective materials on the lorry at the kerbside; and co-mingled collections where all your recyclables are put into one compartment on the lorry before being taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and sorted.
At the MRF, all the mixed recycling is sorted and separated into different types of materials by hand or machine (or both) before being sent to manufacturers who make it into new products.
Once collected and sorted, recycled materials become valuable commodities in the worldwide market.
What is recycled in the UK?
There are many recycling plants in the UK, reprocessing million of tonnes of material every year.
All of the newsprint manufactured here in the UK is now made from 100% recycled paper.
All of the organic (garden and kitchen) waste we collect is recycled here, usually quite close to where it is collected.
Over 80% of the glass collected for recycling is used in the UK, the majority of it to make new glass bottles and jars.
There is an ever increasing range of high quality products that are made in the UK from recycled materials. To find out what happens to the things you recycle watch our short animations and read the fact files.
Does the UK export any recyclable material?
Countries such as China are prepared to pay high prices for recyclables such as waste plastic; mainly because they do not have readily available sources of virgin materials (no indigenous forests or oil supplies) and they have a large manufacturing industry that requires these products.
Even though exporting our recyclables means a bigger recycling loop because recyclable materials are transported further, it is still a better environmental option than using virgin, raw materials.
It minimises the need to use our natural resources such as oil using recycled materials significantly reduces energy use and carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.
The transport impacts are reduced because the materials are transported in container ships returning to China after bringing the goods to the UK.
It means those materials are not being landfilled.

The Humble Cardboard Box

The Humble Cardboard BoxThe Humble Cardboard Box

 

The Humble Cardboard Box It’s difficult to imagine packaging without cardboard. It is the most commonly used type of packaging in the UK, making up a larger percentage of overall packaging than any other material. Virtually everything we use and consume has been packed in cardboard at some point with around five billion cardboard boxes used per year in UK.
It wasn’t always so, and although cardboard can be traced back to China about three or four thousand years ago, its modern use is more recent. That doesn’t mean that it is uncontentious however, with several different claimants as the inventor of the cardboard box. The French even have a cardboard box museum laying out their claims as cardboard originators in the mid-19th century.

 

The fact is that the development of the box is more of a cumulative effort with the process gradually being refined. The first written mention of cardboard is in printer Joseph Moxon’s 1683 book Mechanick Exercises. The oldest recorded cardboard box design is thought to be a game box from 1817 for a German board game called ‘The Game of Besieging’.
At this time cardboard was relatively expensive as both board and boxes were handmade. However the 1879 development of one-step cutting and creasing by Robert Gair in Brooklyn, opened up the market for mass-produced foldable boxes. Using Gair’s process, one single press could produce in two and a half hours what his entire factory used to turn out in a day. In 1896, the National Biscuit Company, or Nabisco, ordered two million of the pre-cut, pre-folded boxes.

The Humble Cardboard Box
Then in 1906, the Kellogg brothers adopted mass produced cardboard boxes for Cornflakes. The printed cardboard box became the go to option for packaging designers, especially for foodstuffs. The development of pre-packaged FMCG goods saw a move away from the sale of loose items, weighed and bagged by hand, and ultimately led to the creation of the self-service supermarket.
Flexible, cheap and recyclable, cardboard has been a gamechanger in how we shop and remains an vital packaging option to this day.

Kiln dried hamper wood wool now dust free!

Kiln Dried hamper wood wool

Kiln dried hamper wood wool is an excellent hamper packaging, no chemicals are used in the production of wood wool, if you are looking for that organic, rustic look that seems to be very fashionable these days then wood wool will definitely do that for you.

When you’re looking for hamper packaging supplies and especially the loose fill for a hamper you need to make sure it not only looks good but also keeps your lovely products safe and secure – our wood wool does just that!

Kiln Dried & Heat Treated to ISPM 15 International Standards, Fully Accredited to FSC & Soil Association. **NOW THIS IS DUST FREE**

YouGov poll shows preference for Christmas gifts packaged in cardboard

A YouGov poll reveals that more people prefer their festive gifts through the post packaged in cardboard than any other format.

YouGov poll

For a lot of recipients, the real thrill of receiving Christmas presents is the unwrapping rather than the contents, it found.
This boost for the corrugated packaging industry is from a nationwide online YouGov poll survey of 2,052 people, commissioned by the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI).
The survey asked: “Which one, if any, of the following packaging materials would you prefer to receive Christmas gifts through the post in this season?” Of those responding 47% said cardboard, 10% opted for polystyrene, 9% paper and just 4% preferred plastic.
Corrugated also came out strongly with a second question among those researched concerning sending Christmas gifts through the post. According to the YouGov findings 41% thought cardboard would offer the best presentation without compromising protection of the contents, against 16% for polystyrene, 9% for paper and 7% plastic.
Significant support for cardboard packaging came from a cross-section of society in the YouGov findings. The east and south of England scored the highest approval rating regionally with 55% and 54% respectively favouring receiving their festive treats in cardboard against other packaging materials.
Interestingly, of those surveyed with children in the household, a massive 48%, almost half those responding, said they preferred receiving gifts through the post in cardboard – probably a reflection of the popular belief among parents that their toddlers really do have more fun playing with the cardboard boxes at Christmas rather than the actual toys that are inside them!
CPI’s director of packaging affairs, Andy Barnetson, believes that the result of the Christmas survey is testament to the material’s enduring appeal to consumers for transforming a shop-bought commodity into a personal gift, as well as being the easiest packaging to recycle after opening.
He said: “It is clear from this latest survey that cardboard is overwhelmingly the most popular packaging whether sending or receiving Christmas gifts – there’s nothing like a gift-wrapped cardboard box to set the pulses racing on Christmas morning, especially among children. It also backs up earlier polls showing that cardboard packaging improves customer satisfaction with their products.
“Then when it comes to cleaning up, households can have their recyclable material taken away by local councils’ kerbside collections or, alternatively, take it to civic amenity sites and recycling facilities at supermarkets.”
Corrugated’s renowned environmental and protective qualities are boosting its appeal, making it a vital logistics partner in the 21st Century supply chain.