Packaging Companies

GWP Group consists of several distinct, specialist UK packaging companies, each focusing on a specific material or product group.

As such, your business can benefit from exceptional expertise across an extensive range of packaging products, many of which are not available from other packaging companies. And while this offers tangible benefits to a vast number of businesses just like yours, our real success as a company is attributable to the close working relationships that span all five of the GWP divisions and the extended Macfarlane Group of manufacturing companies.

Where your requirements include multiple packaging disciplines, the structure of GWP allows us to do business with you as a single entity. This approach lets you procure every aspect of your packaging from one source, reducing costs, paperwork and administration within a single contract.

GWP Packaging offers your business a fresh approach to corrugated cardboard packaging design. As one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in the Southwest, our focus is always on making your packaging cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

At a well-equipped design and production facility in Wiltshire, we manufacture high-quality, corrugated transit packaging for several leading industrial companies and an infinite number of applications.

So, whatever your packaging requirement—from simple corrugated cardboard boxes to highly complex composite packaging designs—we have the experience and people to help.

GWP Protective is a leading UK foam converter that designs and manufactures custom foam inserts. An extensive flight case manufacturing capability also complements our expertise in foam conversion.

Additional products include a wide range of presentation cases and several branded protective case options, including Peli™, Explorer, Nanuk, SKB, Zarges, SSI Schaefer, and many more. We offer one of the most comprehensive ranges of branded cases and inserts available from any foam converters or packaging companies in the UK today.

From a clean and modern production facility in Wiltshire, we supply primarily, but not exclusively, to the defence, aerospace, oil, medical, electronics, and automotive industries.

GWP Correx® is the UK’s largest (by volume of material processed) independent converter of Correx® corrugated plastic material.

As a result, we can offer your company many years of experience in designing and manufacturing fully bespoke multi-trip packaging, returnable tote boxes, warehouse picking bins, internal dividers, and other Correx® boxes and packaging.

Our highly skilled, experienced, and knowledgeable team can design and manufacture corrugated plastic packaging to perfectly suit your application. So, regardless of your application, you can source everything you need from a single packaging company.

GWP Conductive is the market leader in anti-static packaging, with over 85 per cent market share in the UK.

Unlike competing conductive packaging companies, we design and manufacture your ESD-safe and anti-static packaging in-house, including a broad mix of stock and bespoke products.

Offering your business access to industry-leading brands, including Corstat, Corriplast, and exclusive SSI Schaefer products, our approach is driven purely by your operations’ requirements. As a result, we are always prepared to explore new products, processes, and solutions to meet your specific requirements.

GWP Coatings coats corrugated cardboard as a trade service to other packaging companies throughout the UK.

We could briefly summarise our service as “Choose a colour to match your environment or a finish to meet your application.”

Our coatings can be applied to runs as short as 200 square metres of material, can be matched to any Pantone colour, and include a range of specialist finishes providing waterproof, anti-abrasion, and corrosion-resistant properties. Such low-order volumes ensure exceptionally cost-effective solutions for short runs that would otherwise not be commercially viable.

GWP Group became part of Macfarlane Group in 2021.

Macfarlane Packaging is the largest protective packaging distributor and one of the biggest packaging companies in the UK. It also supplies customers throughout Ireland and Continental Europe.

With over 70 years of experience and serving over 17,000 businesses nationwide, Macfarlane Packaging operates through a national network of regional distribution centres – each of which has a dedicated customer service, procurement, logistics and sales team.

The Macfarlane manufacturing division – of which GWP Group is now a part – designs and manufactures bespoke industrial packaging using a broad range of materials and techniques.

With two sites in Grantham and Westbury, and 28 distribution locations that allows for supplying customers across the UK, Macfarlane Packaging Design & Manufacture produces packs utilising a range of materials, including timber, heavy-duty corrugated, foam, GRP (glass reinforced plastic) and more. The division employs over 140 people and produces several thousand different types of bespoke composite packs to customers in the industrial, defence, aerospace, electronics and medical sectors.

Barum & Dewar have over 25 years of experience delivering complex protective packaging, including custom-fabricated cases and engineered foam. They have built a strong reputation across sectors such as space, defence, and aerospace, providing a deep understanding of these industries combined with a focus on innovation and long-term partnerships.

Pitreavie Packaging offers both a range of stock products and bespoke solutions that they manufacture in-house. Solutions they offer include conventional corrugated, transit packs, cases, foam, and specialist chilled packaging.

Polyformes Ltd is a UK-based manufacturer, supplier and converter of high-performance foam products, with over 40 years of experience in the foam industry. Their products are commonplace in a vast range of different sectors, including medical, construction and aviation.

Based in Cambridgeshire, Suttons Performance Packaging was established in 1962. Becoming part of Macfarlane Group PLC in 2023, it specialises in the design and manufacture of corrugated and foam packaging, with particular expertise in ready assembled packs.

While each packaging company within GWP is a leader in its field individually, as a group, the total adds up to much more than the sum of the parts. Our combined services, alongside Macfarlane Packaging’s geographical reach, are ideal for multi-national organisations and smaller regional businesses alike.

No matter how challenging a design brief, GWP is confident that we can offer you a protective packaging solution based on a high degree of engineering, technical excellence, industry-specific knowledge, and more than 30 years of experience.

However, if you are unsure which GWP company to speak to—or if your requirement encompasses products and/or expertise from multiple packaging companies—please do not hesitate to get in touch.