Packaging is an essential part of modern life – protecting and preserving goods, ensuring they are transported efficiently and cost-effectively, and enhancing their appearance at the point of sale.
Formed in the UK in 1959 as Lincolnshire Packaging, LINPAC has driven developments in plastic packaging, container and film technologies worldwide since 1969, and released a stream of innovations. We continue to enhance the performance of our products, reduce the volume of raw materials used per pack, promote reuse and returnable transit systems, develop new applications, improve machinability and deliver more attractive packaging solutions for our customers.
Still based in the UK, LINPAC today is an international market leader with annual revenues of EUR 1.3 billion (£1.1 billion). Comprising four core divisions, we offer tailored packaging and supply chain products and services worldwide. Our 7,500 employees are based at 83 locations across 29 countries on four continents.
We service a wide variety of market sectors – from retailing and food production to the public sector, and from automotive manufacturing to fishing. Our integrated solutions include primary food packaging, returnable crates/containers for distribution and on-shelf display, asset management, RFID, and the recycling of post-consumer plastic packaging waste and end-of-life products.
This breadth of scope creates a point of difference between us and our competitors. We work across the entire packaging market – including primary and secondary transit packaging – and our plastics recycling is undertaken in-house. No other business has the same spread of capabilities.
We also lead the industry in providing sustainable and environmentally sound products, operations and services. Not only does this help us grow responsibly, but it ensures we continue to raise efficiency – in other words, it makes good business sense. One of our core product ranges – returnable transit packaging (RTP) – is designed specifically to increase sustainability in our customers’ supply chains.
In today’s global village many requirements are replicated in different regions. LINPAC is a repository for this expertise – a single source supplier of consistent and high quality packaging and supply chain products and services for some of the world’s most successful businesses.
LINPAC is privately owned and was ranked 31st in The Times Top Track 100 list of private UK companies (June 2008).
Group CEO, Mike Arrowsmith (left), has led the company since 2005, and is clear about his objectives. "We are developing a number of complementary manufacturing and services businesses that are each market leaders in their own specialist areas. These include the production of plastic packaging for food, returnable transit packaging and rigid plastic containers, plus asset management and RFID services.
"My goal is to steer these businesses closer to their markets by migrating their focus from merely selling products and services, towards offering complete, integrated solutions that remove cost and headaches for customers – thereby raising their competitiveness.
"Through investment in people, processes and effective technologies, we have created centres of manufacturing and service excellence around the world – bringing our customers high quality and innovative packaging and supply chain solutions, along with superb customer service, and all at a competitive price. This is what LINPAC stands for."
LINPAC – Leading INnovation in Packaging And Containers