Custom Food Packaging
Custom food packaging gives you an opportunity to differentiate your food in the marketplace.
Bespoke Packaging for Your Needs
Packaging provides the first impression of your product to the consumer. It elevates product quality, sustainability, and enhances value perception, all whilst representing and communicating your brand messaging.
Our design team creates unique packaging construction concepts and eye-catching graphic layouts to promote your brand. We manufacture from sustainably sourced, high-quality materials which are subject to stringent food safety testing for your application.
To create your bespoke food packaging solutions, we call upon extensive knowledge and expertise from across our business. Our account management integrates our project teams with yours so that we can provide versatile solutions that meet ever more complex requirements.
What our customers say
Pret A Manger
“We have built a solid partnership with Colpac and we continue to be impressed with the team’s dedication to creating the best possible solutions to present our fresh food. The new platters look superb, and the premise of this project truly represents our pledges to make our packaging 100% recyclable and to eliminate all unnecessary single-use plastic.”
Simon Oxley, Global Head of Packaging at Pret
Strathmore Foods
“The new packaging from Colpac allows us to offer our bestselling meals in a simple, convenient format. The initial launch has gone very well and we’re looking to utilise the packaging for other concepts and customers.”
Julie Nisbet, Managing Director at Strathmore Foods
Freshways
“Having worked with Colpac previously, we recognised the company’s strength in bringing innovative solutions to complex challenges. Together, we created a customer centric solution that maximised value perception on-shelf, managed cost, and helped with our commitment to plastic reduction.”
Ian Mullin, Head of Innovation at Freshways
Nonna
“FSC Forest Management certification, offered by Colpac products, is a key purchasing decision factor for gaining listings into retail as it testifies responsible sourcing. This is important to us and our customers who are concerned about their environmental and social impacts.”
Philippe Bodart, CEO at Nonna
Air Culinaire
“Working with Colpac has been fantastic. The new packaging designs blew us away and the finished article has exceeded our expectations. The product performs perfectly in our testing environment of the production kitchens and aviation. As we move forward with this partnership we cannot wait to expand the range into other areas of our business.”
Aaron Watson, Executive Chef at Air Culinaire
Partner to Leverage Our Expertise
Working in partnership is key to developing successful custom food packaging. We take the time to understand your objectives and priorities and work as an extension of your team to reach the best solution.
We proactively manage bespoke product development, working closely with you throughout the process. Our bespoke projects are driven by active and experienced account management to keep you informed of progress and help us to deliver exactly what you need, when you need it.
Keeping up to date with the pace of change to sustainability and compliance standards is challenging. Whether you need clarification of local sustainability directives for your marketplace, or details on product performance and material suitability, our experienced team members support our product development to prove our claims and meet customer priorities.
Materials Development and Choice
Material choice is core to the viability of your project. Materials need to withstand the complexity of all touchpoints within the supply chain and meet sustainability goals.
We work with our suppliers to commercialise and continually bring new boards, coatings, and films to market. We internally test suitability and work with leading laboratories and certification bodies to ensure materials are certified as food safe for their required usage.
We source specific materials for specific projects, utilising paperboard that works across supply chains and customers’ manufacturing processes. For a pack we developed with Strathmore Foods, the material is certified food safe for use in oven, freezer, microwave, and hot-hold environments. This material also has a water-based coating so is recyclable in line with OPRL guidelines.
Sustainable sourcing also ensures we work within transparent and traceable supply chains, particularly around FSC® certified materials.
Packaging Design Creativity
With highly qualified, creative product designers, our in-house design team loves to work on custom food packaging. This includes the creation of new packaging formats, clever closures, lightweighted solutions, and highly functional packs that work across complex food preparation processes.
We also have experienced, in-house graphic designers that add a touch of flair to your bespoke packaging. We create on-shelf impact by expertly applying graphics designed by you or drawing original artwork to showcase your brand.
Our design team was runner up for the Foodservice Packaging Association Design Team of the Year award in 2024, for our wrap pack project with Freshways.
When developing bespoke food packaging solutions, we protect our designs through copyright, patents, and trademarks. This means we retain ownership of our designs and innovations to protect originality for our customers.
Flexible Production
Agile factory processes mean we can work on more unusual projects, all within manufacturing environments that have achieved BRCGS AA+ certification.
With a UK manufacturing base, new product trials can be accomplished within the required timeframes. Our skilled production team conducts these trials to ensure that products can be manufactured in line with project commercials. We can support customers by producing smaller quantities for in-store trials to check product feasibility before progressing to full-scale production.
Our factory team is meticulous in checking print quality and colour matching to the latest pantone references. We also execute high quality assurance processes throughout our supply chain to validate the packaging that we produce, so you can be assured that your packaging is exactly what you need.