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A complete and utter history of loose fill packaging. Prologue.
Just because there were no packing peanuts before 1962, it doesn’t mean that up till then people just dropped things loosely into their cardboard boxes and cartons and hoped for the best. All manner of things were employed in an attempt to stop things getting broken; in fact, anything thatRead More›
Great Moments in Packaging: No 5 – Bubble Wrap
We all love bubble wrap. Go on, who can honestly say they’ve never spent a pleasant ten or fifteen minutes popping the bubbles on a sheet that’s arrived wrapped around a present or purchase? Exactly; and if you’re like me, you’ll do it before you use whatever it was itRead More›
Touching the void
Void fill is one of our biggest selling items. And one of our biggest. If we’re delivering to a local customer – in Derby, Nottingam or Mansfield, for example – that’s not a problem. We can throw it into one of our own vans and run it over ourselves. ButRead More›
The tissue at issue
Tissue paper has many uses beyond the obvious. Being a packaging supplies company, Davpack is mostly concerned with its uses in that field which, in its basic form, includes general wrapping, scrunching, void-filling and interleaving. Acid-free tissue is a wrapping and protective packaging material that not only looks and feelsRead More›
Excess cannot lead to success
The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) has issued a factsheet in defence of packaging which aims to dispel certain myths about the business. Chief among these is that manufacturers routinely use excessive amounts of packaging materials, resulting in large amounts of waste being sent to landfill. NoRead More›