Antalis Packaging is one of Europe’s’ leading packaging experts. This expertise helps businesses to optimise their packaging process and space, overcome sustainability challenges, reduce costs, minimise transit damage and enhance the customer experience.
Antalis Packaging offers solutions for packing, protecting, storing, dispatching and transporting.
Chris Liddell, Packaging Director UK & Ireland at Antalis Packaging speaks to Warehouse & Logistics News.
What are your best-known products/solutions/services?
Antalis Packaging offers packaging solutions, from bespoke packaging to new packaging and machinery. We are known for our range of products—from protective packaging, corrugate boxes and boards, void fill, tapes, and stretch films to automated equipment. Our machinery team can offer support in selecting and purchasing equipment and provide installation, training, and maintenance services.
Which industry sectors are your customers in and which ones are growing fastest?
We work with anyone who packs, protects, stores, dispatches, or transports goods, including e-commerce, retail, distribution, logistics, and manufacturing.
What are your most recent products and innovations?
We continually enhance our range of eco-responsible solutions, including introducing alternatives to plastic using recycled natural fibres and working on projects to replace wood-based packaging with alternative fibres. Some exciting examples are Bamboo and ocean-recovered plastics, which are acknowledged as ecological problems. For example, we have helped a customer replace their virgin PVC with rPET, which has been sustainably collected from the environment. It’s great because PET is recyclable.
What are the major trends and developments affecting your category and your customers, and how are you responding?
Sustainability remains high on the agenda, and we have expanded our range of sustainable packaging essentials and our environmental services such as greenCONSULT. More businesses are reducing the impact that their packaging has on the environment. It’s not just recyclability, but the wider impact on land use, water consumption and the challenge that GHG emissions cause.
Labour availability and cost continue to be issues. Our automation team is helping address this through the use of machinery to make their packaging operations more effective.
Can you tell us about any recent customer contracts and how you helped the customer meet their challenges?
Assa Abloy’s Door Handle Packaging won two awards in 2024 at the Environmental Packaging and UK Packaging Awards. Antalis helped them remove all plastics with a new sustainable pack design.
A manufacturer that consumed 61 tonnes of board was working to minimise its environmental impact. Our SPC team tested their current double wall boxes and recommended switching to a single wall board. This gave a 33% reduction in board use, 21 tonnes reduction in CO2 per year and an increase of cartons per pallet, eliminating 100 pallet movements.
How does business in 2024 compare to previous years? What’s your strategy for succeeding in the current climate?
2024 has provided new challenges, but for Antalis, this has led to new opportunities as clients come to us to find solutions. We will continue to invest in new products, people, innovation and solutions.
What’s the latest news from your company?
Antalis Packaging’s peakCONSULT, launched in 2024 as part of our smartCONSULT range of services, helps businesses identify their pain points by exploring their operations to see where efficiencies or changes can be made.
New additions to the Antalis range offer alternatives for businesses seeking to replace single-use plastics. For example, paper strapping and documents enclosed wallets. A new range of quick assembly, lightweight postal boxes have been added along with a cotton twine machine that offers a 100% natural alternative to traditional strapping.
Can you tell us about any areas where you’re currently making technical advances e.g., safety, sustainability, environment?
Our SPC features a demonstration suite for packaging machinery and a dedicated design studio. It also has testing equipment that examines sustainable material types for packaging. We consider the impact packaging has on the environment and can offer a more sustainable solution.
Are you investing in staff training and skills development?
Antalis has recently appointed Category Manager Steve Marples and New Business Development Manager Steven Rolfe to support customer needs. Iain Cunningham was Appointed Head of Packaging at Antalis Ireland earlier this year.
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