The Five Pillars of Supply Chain Efficiency: How Pick Bin Sizing Improves Warehouse Picking Efficiency
Pick is one of Lesters’ five pillars of supply chain efficiency, alongside Store, Pack, Ship and Return. Together, these pillars form the framework we use to identify opportunities and provide solutions across every stage of a customer’s supply chain. The first stage, Pick, is about creating an efficient picking environment in which warehouse teams can […]
What is Sustainable Packaging? A Practical Guide for UK Businesses
In this guide, we’ll explain what sustainable packaging means, explore the benefits of sustainable packaging, discuss common materials, and look at how businesses can implement more sustainable packaging solutions without compromising on product protection. What is Sustainable Packaging? Sustainable packaging refers to packaging that is designed, manufactured, transported, used, and disposed of in a way that minimises environmental impact. […]
GMP‑Ready Packaging: What’s Changing in Specs, Testing & Documentation
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is no longer something businesses in pharma, medical and food sectors can treat as a tick-box exercise. Regulators are looking deeper into supply chains, and packaging is under more scrutiny than ever. If your cartons, pallet boxes or corrugated solutions sit anywhere near regulated products, you need to understand how GMP expectations are changing. For […]
Sustainable packaging and the circular economy
What is circular packaging? Circular packaging refers to the reduction of raw materials for the more sustainable packaging materials used to packaging products that consumers use daily. The sole focus of ‘circular packaging’ is to fit into the agenda of a ‘circular economy’ which aims to redefine the term ‘waste’. This is achieved by reducing […]
Unique packaging ideas for small businesses
For most businesses, choosing the right packaging for your products can elevate your brand and add value – encouraging retailers to place your products on their shelves. For smaller businesses, the ability to add an element of excitement to their customers by providing a memorable unboxing experience can help to build brand awareness. Customised sustainable packaging, […]
What is shelf ready packaging?
Shelf ready packaging (SRP), also known as retail ready packaging (RRP), is a form of display packaging a product is contained in that is ready for sale. Typically made from corrugated cardboard, shelf ready packaging is delivered to retailers as a merchandising unit that is ready to be placed direct onto shelves. Benefits of shelf […]
A guide to sustainable packaging furniture
Sustainable packaging is identified as packaging that that causes less harm to the environment and its people. As with retail packaging, more businesses and their customers are reconsidering their carbon footprint which impacts the products that are offered, how they are made, what they are made of and how they are shipped. Fundamentally, sustainable packaging […]
Box of Tricks – Lesters Packaging
Box of Tricks Greg Burton, Design Manager at Lesters, talks to DPA about the importance of packaging and why it is now one of the earliest considerations in product development. Traditionally, packaging has often been an afterthought when designing a product, pushed to the back of the mind in pursuit of cost-effective production processes and […]