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Shrink sleeves for branding, a premium finish and product safety

2020-04-17T10:00:23+00:00April 17th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Shrink Sleeves, Sustainability|Tags: , , , |

At Chadwicks we continue to produce high quality shrink sleeves for customers and brands across the globe. Printed shrink sleeves have become popular within the beverage, dairy and food industries, but also within non-food sectors. The flexibility of shrink sleeves as a packaging and marketing medium mean that they are being used for an increasing variety of applications. Shrink sleeving allows customers better branding opportunities all the way around the product on small and medium [...]

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Fully recyclable lidding solution with rPET lids

2020-03-30T12:42:02+00:00March 30th, 2020|Categories: Blog, lidding|Tags: , , |

New technologies are emerging every year in flexible packaging driven largely by the need to develop more sustainable packaging solutions and the pre-cut lidding market is no exception.  Dairy, food and beverage customers across our UK and European customer base are increasingly looking for packaging alternatives that offer sustainable value whilst at the same time maintain product integrity and safety. One area in which we are seeing change is the type of material that customers [...]

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The Benefits of Aluminium Lidding

2020-03-05T12:20:58+00:00March 5th, 2020|Categories: Blog, lidding, Sustainability|

As concerns grow around the environment, more and more companies are looking for sustainable packaging solutions that demonstrate their commitment to preserving the environment and responding to changing consumer demands. Aluminium lidding is an appealing option for sustainable packaging as it is a completely recyclable and endlessly renewable material – the quality of the aluminium foil is not affected by the recycling process. Foil lids can be labelled as ‘widely recycled’ under the On-Pack Recycling [...]

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Lifting the lid on Chadwicks studio manager Paul Starling

2020-02-10T10:50:21+00:00February 10th, 2020|Categories: Blog, lidding|Tags: , |

Paul Starling is Studio Manager at Chadwicks and has over 40 years’ experience in print and packaging, starting his career as a time-served hot metal compositor. He has been with Chadwicks for 24 years. He uses his creative skills, along with state-of-the-art computer hardware and software to transform a customer’s flat conceptual design into final print. Whether you have an initial design ready for us to use or you don’t know where to start, Paul [...]

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Vegan friendly lidding

2020-02-03T14:21:30+00:00February 3rd, 2020|Categories: Blog, lidding, Sustainability|Tags: , |

A record 400,000 people signed up to Veganuary this year – a term that wasn’t in the English psyche until fairly recently – compared to 250,000 in 2019, 168,500 in 2018 and just 3,300 five years ago. In 2018 the UK launched more vegan products than any other nation globally and in the same year the plant based market in the UK was valued at £440,000,000 and growing. In the last five years the number [...]

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Electricity from renewable sources

2020-01-15T13:42:35+00:00January 15th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Sustainability|Tags: |

We are proud to announce that from April 2020 we will only be using electricity produced from entirely renewable sources. This means less emissions into the atmosphere and allows us to contribute towards a low carbon future. Improving energy efficiency has always been an important consideration for us as a company - it’s one of the most cost-effective ways for businesses like ourselves to reduce our energy consumption and associated bills, and importantly pass on [...]

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2019 a year in review

2019-12-17T12:09:48+00:00December 17th, 2019|Categories: Blog, lidding, News|Tags: , , |

2019 has been a busy and exciting year for Chadwicks with new appointments, long service awards, new innovations and a brand new look for our website. As the year draws to a close we look back on some of its highlights.  We started the year ‘Down Under’ with John Harrison joining us as Technical Sales Manager for Australia and New Zealand. A move which has enabled us to offer a more personal service to existing [...]

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Customer care administrator celebrates 25 years service at Chadwicks

2019-12-12T14:28:45+00:00December 12th, 2019|Categories: Blog, lidding, Shrink Sleeves|

Chadwicks’ Customer Care Administrator, Vicki Slater, is celebrating 25 years’ service with the company. Vicki started her career at Chadwicks in the export department before moving across to customer care to manage the company’s UK based accounts. A move which enabled her to have more flexible working arrangements to fit around her family. Commenting on her 25 years’ service Vicki said: “I am proud to have reached such a significant milestone with a company that [...]

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Chadwicks develops new lid for premium product range

2019-10-23T11:54:06+00:00October 23rd, 2019|Categories: Blog, lidding, News|Tags: , , , |

  Market leading pre-cut lid and shrink sleeve manufacturer Chadwicks of Bury (part of the Clondalkin Group), has developed an aluminium lidding material to seal to glass. Developed in-house by Chadwicks, the decorative lids have been produced for a new premium yogurt range from Alston Dairy. Ken Dunlop, Sales Manager at Chadwicks said: “Typically, sealing pre-cut lids to glass presents many technical difficulties, however when Alston Dairy approached us about developing a new type of [...]

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Lids for Unilever’s new limited edition

2018-09-24T22:43:25+00:00September 24th, 2018|Categories: Blog|

Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury is delighted to have designed and manufactured another innovative lidding solution for the capsules used in Unilever's T.O by Lipton revolutionary tea machine. This follows Unilever's decision to invest in and add a new limited edition tea capsule variant to their already extensive range. The T.O by Lipton™, which was launched last year, is the result of 5 years R&D by brand-owner, Unilever and is entirely different to any other product on the market. [...]

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