High-volume fulfilment operation and assembly lines depend on fast, repeatable and consistent box assembly. When your team needs to meet strict delivery targets, the choice between a generic cardboard box and a crash lock box directly impacts your labour hours, material waste, and daily throughput. Inevitably, your company performance. What is the Mechanical Difference Between… Continue reading Crash Lock Boxes vs Standard Cardboard Boxes: A Practical Guide for Faster Packing and Reduced Waste
When your business grows, your packaging supply needs to keep up. It’s a common issue for expanding manufacturers and e-commerce brands: the service that worked for small volumes starts to struggle as your orders increase. This often results in missed delivery dates, inconsistent quality, and the risk of stock running out. You need a packaging… Continue reading What Should I Do If My Packaging Supplier Can’t Scale With My Business?
Your packaging does much more than simply transport your product, it protects your reputation, streamlines your operations, and serves as your brand’s first physical handshake with the customer. For businesses across the UK, from busy e-commerce fulfilment centres to food processors, sticking with outdated or generic off the shelf stock boxes can often lead to… Continue reading Do Your Packaging Designs Need An Update? A Guide to Smarter, Sustainable Corrugated Design Solutions
Your packaging is the heartbeat of your dispatch line. It affects everything from production speed and shipping costs to the unboxing experience your customer receives. Yet, many businesses stick with a supplier that lets them down because they worry that switching will be a hassle. We believe your packaging supplier should be a partner, not… Continue reading When is it time to switch packaging supplier?
When it comes to modern manufacturing, reliability isn’t just luck, it’s engineered. Every on-time delivery, every consistent print finish, and every efficiency gain is the result of deliberate, continuous improvement. At Fencor Packaging Group, through our manufacturing site at Manor Packaging, our Continuous Improvement Manager ensures your packaging supply chain operates with the same precision… Continue reading Continuous Improvement in Action: Engineering Reliability, Efficiency and Sustainability
Sustainability isn’t just about ticking a box, it’s about packaging that saves costs, keeps you compliant, and strengthens your brand. Manor Packaging, part of the Fencor Packaging Group, specialises in intelligent and sustainable corrugated packaging solutions, and we created this guide to cut through the jargon and show you what genuinely sustainable packaging looks like… Continue reading Sustainable Packaging and Why Bespoke Corrugated Boxes Are the Smart Choice
Consumers form their first impression of your product in just seven seconds, and in that brief window, your packaging must act as a ‘silent salesperson’. With many purchasing decisions made at the point of sale, this interaction is a critical commercial moment. Established in 1987, Manor Packaging has over 35 years of trading experience in… Continue reading The First 7 Seconds: How Packaging Psychology Drives Consumer Choice
As you read this article, thousands of products are stalled on production floors and in warehouses across the UK, delayed by supply chain issues, and often due to late packaging. These delays are more than a nuisance; they threaten the productivity, profitability, and customer loyalty of manufacturers, retailers, and producers alike. Delayed packaging risks disrupting… Continue reading The True Cost of Late Packaging Deliveries, and How to Avoid Them
Every detail in your supply chain matters, and one of the most critical factors is OTIF: On-Time, In-Full. This isn’t just industry jargon; it’s a direct measure of your supplier’s reliability, and it means that your packaging arrives within a precise window, because arriving too early can disrupt your workflow just as much as arriving… Continue reading Why OTIF (On Time, In Full) Delivery Matters More Than You Think in Your Packaging Supply Chain
Choosing between corrugated and plastic packaging is a significant decision that hits your bottom line, your brand reputation, and even your legal compliance. While plastic still has its uses, when considering the overall picture for UK e-commerce, bespoke corrugated cardboard packaging is the more intelligent and cost-effective choice for most UK businesses. This guide from… Continue reading Why Corrugated Beats Plastic for UK Packaging
