Westpak to exhibit at Packaging Innovations 2025
Westpak are pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at Packaging Innovations 2025. The two-day exhibition takes place at the NEC Birmingham from 12th – 13th February 2025 and showcases the leading innovative brands and products from across the UK packaging industry.
Westpak win Gold at Lunch! 2024
Westpak recently exhibited at the 2024 ‘Lunch!’ show which ran from the 18th-19th September at ExCeL London. A number of exciting new food packaging innovations were featured on Westpak’s stand, including HeatWave, which won the highest possible Gold level award as part of the event’s ‘Innovation Challenge’.
Westpak becomes certified with the Forest Stewardship Council®
Westpak Group Ltd has now secured certification with the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) as part of its ongoing commitment to enhanced packaging sustainability.
Westpak introduce ‘HeatWave’ pizza packaging innovation to heat up product performance
Westpak have launched a breakthrough new packaging innovation that greatly improves the heat retention of delivery and takeaway pizzas. Known as ‘HeatWave’, this latest packaging innovation creates a raised and aerated platform, minimising heat dissipation through the base of takeaway pizza boxes. The product offers impressive heat retention figures as well numerous practicality and environmental benefits.
Westpak unveil latest packaging ranges at ‘Packaging Innovations 2024’
Westpak recently unveiled a series of innovative and environmentally sustainable new food packaging innovations at the 2024 Packaging Innovations exhibition. Westpak’s expansive exhibition stand saw the unveiling of new packaging ranges including ‘StickLok’ tamper-evident takeaway bag, ‘HeatWave’ thermal pizza box liners, ‘AgriBlend, foodservice containers manufactured form agricultural waste and a number of other innovative new packaging additions.
Card-based food packaging – everything you need to know.
The range of card-packaging options is surprisingly vast, with numerous material types – each with their own strengths and ideal applications.
Is recycling safe from the UK culture wars?
The UK’s culture wars are a bit like quicksand – once something falls in, it can be almost impossible to drag it away. These partisan battlegrounds rarely explore the complexities of the issues they latch on to, with environmental debates often centre-stage. But recycling seems to be different. For now, at least, recycling has no enemies. Why is this so and will this continue to be the case?
Westpak are ‘Highly Commended’ at the 2023 Footprint Awards
Westpak Group Ltd have been recognised as ‘Highly Commended’ for the ‘Innovations in packaging’ award at the 2023 Footprint Awards. Taking place on the 8th June at the at the RIBA headquarters in London, the awards ceremony celebrated the foodservice and hospitality sector’s leading responsible business initiatives across a total of 12 prestigious award categories.
Westpak’s sustainable packaging shown across Waitrose & Partners Duchy Organic refresh
Westpak have frequently worked alongside Waitrose & Partners, supplying sustainable packaging for numerous fresh produce lines. Recently, several core pieces of our supplied packaging have been featured in-store as part of the supermarket’s ‘Duchy Organic’ range, including microflute kiwi and grape punnets.
Has ‘sustainability’ become a packaging cliché?
‘Sustainability’ has become a major component of the consumer mindset throughout the foodservice packaging industries and beyond. The downside to this rapid increase in awareness has become clear, with the market being flooded with clichéd terminology and near-meaningless declarations of environmentalism. Large amounts of sustainability terminology are in danger of not just being misleading, but losing meaning altogether.
