Packaging Industry Memberships
We have various packaging industry memberships and are actively involved in associations that support the packaging sector.
These memberships provide valuable resources, guidance, and networking opportunities across many topics. They facilitate our contribution to industry standards, environmental initiatives, and policy discussions in packaging and manufacturing.
Sedex
Sedex is one of the world’s leading online platforms and membership organisations helping companies to manage and improve working conditions in global supply chains. It provides data, practical tools, services, and a community network to help companies improve their responsible and sustainable business practices, and source responsibly.
Our Sedex membership is a signal of our commitment to social responsibility. It helps us to follow guiding principles and demonstrates to our customers that we are transparent about our social responsibility and our awareness of this throughout our supply chains.
Foodservice Packaging Association
The Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) is the representative voice of the industry, promoting the responsible manufacturing, sourcing, distribution, usage and disposal of food and foodservice packaging.
The FPA engages with all four UK governments representing the industry with key departments and committees including Defra, HM Treasury and BEIS. The FPA collaborates with other trade associations with a strong packaging remit such as INCPEN, UK Hospitality, the British Takeaway Campaign, Pack2Go Europe, Confederation of Paper Industries, British Plastics Federation and the Packaging Federation.
Being members of the FPA gives us access to guidance around policy and compliance. The FPA also provides a barometer on UK legislation and advocates for adherence to this across the industry.
British Sandwich Association
The British Sandwich & Food to Go Association (BSA) represents those businesses where sandwiches form a core part of the food-to-go offer.
The BSA sets technical standards and encourages innovation and excellence while providing a collective voice for all involved in the making, distribution and retailing of food-to-go.
As members of the BSA, we have opportunities to attend trade events and to advise the industry on topics such as recycling guidelines.
British Printing Industries Federation
The British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) is a leading trade association for British print. BPIF is dedicated to supporting its members and the wider print industry by promoting progression, inviting innovation and encouraging empowerment in every area of the sector.
We are members of BPIF, and BPIF cartons; a subsidiary of the organisation which is focused on folding cartons and other packaging.
As members, we have access to industry specific business support and opportunities for networking and collaboration. BPIF also actively supports us with expertise in policy issues that impact the packaging sector, which we can then share with our customers.
We have also been awarded both health and safety and environmental seals of excellence from BPIF.
Open 3P
The Open 3P data standard provides a common protocol to categorise and describe packaging, with the aim of making the packaging supply chain more data-enabled and unlocking the power of data to support sustainability.
We are part of the Open 3P Standard Custodian Board and are therefore involved in the development of the Open 3P Charter. This provides a route for companies across the packaging supply chain to signal their commitment to the principle of standardised, shareable data.
As custodian board members, we support the use of common terminology with our customers across the supply chain. The Open 3P data standard could also help us and our customers to recalibrate and standardise recycling infrastructure to support upcoming changes in legislation.
PackUK Interim Steering Group
PackUK is the scheme administrator for the UK’s Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR). The PackUK Steering Group brings together representatives from across the packaging value chain to support the development of the Scheme Administrator.
As the manufacturing representative on the steering group, we are committed to supporting the industry and providing an informed perspective to the development of pEPR and its governance. Our involvement gives us the opportunity to share our material and design expertise with government and to demonstrate the impact of the policy for manufacturers and our customers.
Alliance for Fibre-Based Packaging
The Alliance for Fibre-Based Packaging provides an expert voice for the industry on key topics relating to fibre-based packaging. The group focuses on the benefits of fibre and fibre-based composites which perform critical packaging functions to protect food and other consumer goods, provide consumer safety and hygiene, and enable convenience and efficiency to meet today’s lifestyle needs.
As a group, the Alliance for Fibre-Based Packaging aims to unify the voice of the fibre supply chain. Our ESG Director, Talia Goldman, is a co-chair and co-founder of the alliance, and represents Colpac in high-level industry discussions to advocate for paperboard. This positions us at the heart of industry, alongside experts from much larger organisations, helping us to drive positive change.