Amcor agreed to supply Tiptree, the preserves brand owned by Wilkin and Sons, with RecyClass-certified collation shrink film and stretch wrap containing 30% post-consumer recycled content. The move prepares Tiptree for UK Plastic Packaging Tax changes from April 2027.

Leidos Supply, the UK MoD logistics delivery partner, recorded three awards for the Packaging and Soft Consumables supply contract, including £13.2m to DS Smith Packaging, £7.4m to MaxPack Group and £2.4m to Joseph Gleave & Son. The notice was published on 30 March 2026.

Menzies Distribution (MDS) will manage nationwide customer deliveries from Weedon Packaging's Manchester facility after a successful trial. Weedon Packaging is part of the Zeus Packaging Group.

Synchronicity Care Ltd (CDD Services) awarded Burlodge Ltd a 24-month contract worth £226,604 for polypropylene food containers, film and free-on-loan sealing machines, starting 4 December 2025.

Re:Water agreed a five-year, eight-figure partnership under which Ball Corporation will supply tens of millions of recycled aluminium bottles to support the brand's expansion in retail and hospitality.

Three family-run UK hauliers formed a joint national solution to run VPK Group's multi-year UK storage and distribution contract for packaging movements from its three main manufacturing sites.

US canmaker Ball Corporation signed a five-year, eight-figure agreement to supply aluminium drinks bottles to UK premium water brand Re:Water. The article is dated 25 November 2025.

UK premium water brand Re:Water signed a five-year, multi-million agreement under which Ball Corporation will supply tens of millions of recycled aluminium bottles. The article is dated 25 November 2025.

Wales-based baking case manufacturer Chevler has secured a major new US customer and is now shipping monthly containers of crimped baking cases across the Atlantic.

Kingsland Drinks has engaged MM Packaging, based in Deeside, to produce Fully Enclosed Cases from FSC-certified cartonboard for its multipacks of canned wines and ready-to-drink cocktails.

Team Leidos, delivering for the UK Ministry of Defence, awarded a four-year packaging and soft consumables framework with a notional ceiling of £73 million to MaxPack, DS Smith Packaging and Joseph Gleave and Son. The notice's award date conflicts with its publication date.

Allpack Packaging (Allgroup LLP) was awarded a published £5,500,000 contract by YPO for packaging materials, machines and consumables, announced 17 June 2025.

UK central purchasing body YPO published a contract award notice on 17 June 2025 for its 001278 packaging materials and consumables framework, with six lots and two suppliers per lot.

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation awarded its 84-month packaging materials and consumables contract, split into six lots, to Arrow County Supplies, Maxpack Group, Priory Business Group, Kite Packaging, Allpack Packaging and Victoria Grant in Wakefield, UK.

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation awarded a packaging materials, machines and consumables supply contract to six suppliers, including Allpack Packaging, Arrow County Supplies, Kite Packaging Group and Maxpack, running from 2025 to 2032.

UK Research and Innovation awarded a below-threshold contract to Protective Packaging Ltd to supply foil packaging, worth £19,781.34 excluding VAT, with delivery from 1 to 16 May 2025.

Engelmann & Buckham was selected to supply packaging lines, including filling and labeling systems, for Yara International's new production facility in Yorkshire, UK. The plant is slated to begin operations in early 2026.

DS Smith has renewed its packaging partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, covering manufacture, storage and delivery of packaging for JLR's products worldwide from the Mercia Park site in Leicestershire, valued at £108 million. The extension was made official at the beginning of April 2025.

DS Smith signed a £108 million, five-year contract to extend its fibre-based packaging supply to Jaguar Land Rover, including a just-in-time on-site service at JLR's Mercia Park plant in Appleby Magna, UK.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year supply agreement with a UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, worth up to £6m.

DS Smith extended its five-year fibre-based packaging contract with Jaguar Land Rover worth £108 million, including an on-site one-stop-shop at JLR's Mercia Park facility in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire.

DS Smith has extended its five-year, GBP 108 million contract to supply fibre-based packaging, warehousing and transport services to JLR's Mercia campus in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire.

Dunstable-based Twinplast won a contract to design and manufacture custom corrugated polypropylene shipping containers for a UK Buckfast bee supplier and breeder. The containers are designed for safe transport of live bees.

ESPO published a contract award notice for its packaging materials and pallet supply framework, with Lot 1 awarded to three suppliers. The notice confirms the awards made in the same procurement.

ESPO, a UK central purchasing body, appointed four suppliers to a packaging materials and pallet supply and collection framework worth £2,000,000, with a contract period from November 2024 to August 2026.

UK aluminium foil tray maker i2r Packaging Solutions has secured an exclusive sole supply agreement to supply Greencore with smoothwall aluminium products and wrinklewall containers, expanding an existing relationship.

2M Group of Companies signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to deploy Xampla's plastic-free Morro coating on paperboard packaging across the UK, manufactured at 2M's Milton Keynes facility, announced 5 December 2024.

Leidos Supply issued a prior information notice for a framework supplying packaging and soft consumables to the UK Ministry of Defence, estimated at £29 million to £73 million over up to four years from 2026. The notice is for market research only and is not a formal tender.

Peak Packaging UK signed a supply agreement to provide bag-in-box packaging to Britvic Soft Drinks for its Leeds filling site, starting in 2025.

2M Group of Companies has signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to supply its plastic-free Morro Coating for paper board packaging across the UK. The coating will be manufactured at scale at 2M's Milton Keynes facility under its Sustainable Packaging Technologies venture.

2M Group of Companies signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to supply Xampla's plastic-free Morro Coating across the UK. The coating will be manufactured at scale at 2M's Milton Keynes facility under its Sustainable Packaging Technologies venture.

Cheshire firm Packaging One signed a contract worth about $2.5 million (£1.98 million) with a global phone and tech manufacturer to supply its MediaWrap protective cardboard packaging. The deal, signed in September 2024, led the firm to add 40 staff and take US warehouse capacity.

On June 19, 2024 the 2M Group of Companies signed its first commercial agreement to exclusively supply Xampla's plastic-free Morro Coating to Huhtamaki for corrugate board foodservice containers, in a multi-year deal deployed at scale in on-the-go applications.

Post Office Limited awarded Kite Packaging Limited a contract to supply strapping consumables for note strapping machines and stretch wrap film for its National Distribution Centre, with a published value of £50,000.

Yorkshire Packaging Systems supplied a Mimi Uniblock 1123 sleeve wrapper that doubled packing capacity at a large UK corrugated board plant, and five more machines were later bought for the group's other UK sites.

UK government agency FCDO Services awarded a single-supplier contract to The Alternative Pallet Company for recyclable cardboard pallets, crates and packaging elements. The contract is worth £250,000 and runs for 35 months from November 2023.

UK bioplastic firm Kelpi won a contract with fresh fruit company Blue Skies, backed by Waitrose, to develop seaweed-based packaging for fresh-cut fruit, starting with a prototype and a pilot next year in an 18-month project.

Earthshot Prize winner Notpla signed a contract to supply an expected 75 million seaweed-based food packaging items to caterer Levy over three years for use in more than 50 UK sports venues.

UK logistics firm Europa Warehouse signed a contract to provide 3PL storage, fulfilment and transport from its Birmingham site to packaging distributor Paramount Global's European business.

Broadland Drinks signed a contract with Frugalpac and Journey's End to fill and distribute Interpunkt wines in Frugal paper bottles, making it the largest UK filler of Frugal Bottles. Journey's End will expand the bottles into the UK and beyond.

T.G. Nuttall Packaging Ltd signed a sales contract with GTS Europe for a two-colour Weipong Venus 820 casemaker, to be installed at its Manchester site in the second quarter of 2024.

Northern Ireland's Procurement and Logistics Service awarded a corrugated boxes supply contract to Diamond Corrugated Cases Limited for £860,005 (about €998,369), with three bids received.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year agreement with a leading UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, expected to generate £1.5-2.0 million in sales per year. The announcement was made on 20 March 2025 in Wythenshawe, Manchester.

Braintree District Council awarded Paramount Packaging (UK) Ltd a one-year supply contract of up to 5 million pink recycling sacks worth £122,500 on 22 May 2023.

P. Wilkinson Containers and William Say are supplying three separate commissions of Coronation tins for The Royal Collection, Waitrose and Daylesford. The Royal Collection and Waitrose orders integrate with existing ranges.

Liverpool-area logistics firm SSO Logistics Ltd signed a 12-month distribution deal with St Helens packaging supplier Venturepak, which makes injection-moulded food-safe plastic containers, using its Pallet-Track network.

The UK Ministry of Defence awarded Austin Hayes Group the DGM/1958 General Munitions Packaging Support Solution contract, valued at £44,978,000 over four years. The award was made on 17-18 November 2022 and published on 1 December 2022.

Menzies Distribution secured a multi-year extension of its distribution contract with aluminium packaging maker Ball Beverage Packaging UK, including 30 new longer semi-trailers over the next 12 months.

Valmet will deliver a new shipping carton paperboard production line, PM3, to Eren Paper's former UPM Shotton mill in Wales-UK, with about 650,000 tons annual capacity. Start-up is scheduled for Q2 2024; the order value was not disclosed.

Worcestershire contract filler Project 7 won a contract from parent company FUCHS to fill and package a Silkolene one-litre motorcycle engine oil in flexible pouches. The product is set to reach retail shelves in 2022.