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A family-owned packaging business has celebrated its 40th anniversary with a sales record – notching up over £1million turnover in a calendar month for the first time ever.

The plastic packaging sector faces its biggest ever challenge – convincing a disbelieving public that its products are the most effective packaging for the future, as opposed to the planet destroying, toxic threat they are currently portrayed as.

LVF Packaging is urging the industry and government to adopt clear rPET Mono as the standard for packaging trays, citing its cost-effectiveness, recyclability, and potential to eliminate consumer confusion, while advocating for a unified nationwide recycling approach to drive a transformative shift toward a circular economy.

A packaging manufacturer from Leeds claims spaghetti will quickly replace plastic as the packaging material of choice after a breakthrough by its in-house research and development team.

LVF PACKAGING CALLS ON GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR MANUFACTURERS SWITCHING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY

LVF Packaging has installed 670 new solar panels at its headquarters in Leeds, meaning the packaging manufacturer has now invested over £300k in solar power - an investment that means the company is now producing all the electricity it requires to operate on a 24 / 7 basis.

LVF Packaging has become the sole UK manufacturing partner for a packaging innovation that has the potential to reverse the fate of 200-million plastic trays in the UK every single year.