What's New

We Do Packaging relocate to new premises

22nd December 2015

It is with great pride that we announce our relocation to larger premises. This move will allow us to consolidate our three warehouses and offices into one new 10,000 square feet unit. This will enable us to stock and serve faster and more efficiently. Our corrugated manufacturing plant will also be on site offering just in time and next day production

Our new central Sussex location will allow us to maintain our same day or next day delivery service to current customers, whilst improving delivery times to many other areas

We will continue to operate our cash and carry from our new address and will welcome your visit. Being just off the A22 and A267 it's and easy location to find with a huge yard for customer parking. If you can't get to us the please call us and we will aim to deliver same or next day to you.

All telephone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses will remain the same. We will be moving over the Christmas period 2015 and will commence trading from our new address on Monday 4th January 2016

Our opening ours will be Monday - Friday 07:30 - 16:30

Will it Break? - Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day special

27th January 2014

Bubble Wrap® Appreciation Day is celebrated every year on the last Monday in January, and this is the first Will it Break? video created in honour of this popular awareness day. With the new 'Extreme Series' launched to show the difference in packed and unpacked product impacts.

 

In order to test Sealed Air's trademark Aircap®, a member of the Bubble Wrap® brand family, invented in 1957 by Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, Professor Packaging aims to conquer the mile-long wire in North Wales to see if his precious egg can survive.


Paste the link to watch the video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Fzwq03hZY 

Welcome

Black Sacks and Bin Bags

20th January 2014

Waste bags - Black Sacks - Rubbish bags - Bin Bags

'Waste bags and Sacks' are flexible material used for lining litter or waste containers or bins. This serves to keep the container sanitary by avoiding container contact with the rubbish. After the bag in the container is filled with litter, the bag can be conveniently pulled out by its edges, closed, and tied.

It is widely used for collection, storage, disposal and handling of different waste stream such as clinical, recycling, domestic, hospital, kitchen waste etc. Most bags nowadays are made out of plastic. 'Waste bags' also known as garbage bags, rubbish bags, refuse sacks, bin liner & can liner etc.

History of Waste (Garbage) bags

The familiar black/green plastic garbage bag (made from polyethylene) was invented by Harry Wasylyk in 1950.Harry Wasylyk was a Canadian inventor from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who together with Larry Hansen of Lindsay, Ontario, invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag.

Garbage bags were first intended for commercial use rather than home use - the bags were first sold to the Winnipeg General Hospital. However, Hansen worked for the Union Carbide Company in Lindsay, who bought the invention from Wasylyk and Hansen. Union Carbide manufactured the first green garbage bags under the name Glad Garbage bags for home use in the late 1960s.

Welcome

Poly-tubing & Sheeting

17th January 2014

'Poly-tubing' is a flexible, continuous roll of polythene sleeving open at one end and rolled up at other; either on plastic or cardboard core. Economical & easiest way to package or enclose objects of same width but various lengths. Ideal for packaging odd shaped or long items. Simply insert your product into the tubing, cut to required length and heat seal, staple or tape one or both ends. It is also known as 'Layflat tubing'. Usually rolled up to 12" in diameter on a 3" wide core.

 

'Sheeting' - When Polytubing is slit it is known as 'Sheeting'. There are variety of Sheeting available on the market today, depending the way they cut and wounded. Examples of these are Single wound sheeting, Double wound sheeting, Centrefold sheeting, J-fold sheeting & Centerslit sheeting. Sheeting provides economical protection from dirt, dust and moisture.

 

How it is made?

 

Most Polytubing & Sheeting are made from polyethylene; mostly from Low density polythene, which is made from crude oil and natural gas, non-renewable resources. The most common way to produce 'Polytubing' is by blown film extrusion, also called the 'tubular film process'.

 

In Blown film production process - polythene melt is extruded through an annular slit die, usually vertically, to form a thin walled tube. Air is introduced via a hole in the centre of the die to blow up the tube like a balloon. into the tube causing it to expand and form a bubble. Mounted on top of the die, a high-speed air ring blows onto the hot film to cool it. The tube of film then continues upwards, continually cooling, until it passes through nip rolls where the tube is flattened to create what is known as a ' lay-flat' tube of film. This lay-flat or collapsed tube is then taken back down the extrusion ' tower' via more rollers. The lay-flat film is then either kept as such or the edges of the lay-flat are slit off to produce two flat film sheeting and wound up onto reels. If kept as lay-flat is known as 'layflat tubing' or 'Polytubing'