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Tamar Packaging adds more Edale carton capacity

Set in the heart of the UK’s beautiful ‘west country’, better known for its holiday locations and adventures, Tamar Packaging Solutions is a specialist BRC-accredited manufacturer of direct food contact cartons, with a special eye for detail. The current production facility, which was opened in 2002, was purpose-built to meet BRCGS clean room standards for food packaging, with all the obligatory protective hats, coats, and footwear for staff and visitors that are part of the quarantine requirements. This, along with its detailed care in all aspects of production has ensured at least an A Grade in BRC Global Standard for Packaging Materials every year since 2003, an accolade of which the company is mighty proud.

In fact, Tamar is currently AA+ rated, thanks to an unannounced audit in June this year, and it also became FSC accredited in 2022. Paper-based packaging with an ‘FSC™ Certification’ confirms to customers and suppliers that the wood used to create the product has been responsibly managed, taking into account sustainability measures like water and energy usage, community support, and the end-products overall environmental rating.

Paul Baker, Technical Operations Manager, Tamar, explains, “Our strategy is constantly developing but will always focus on the new opportunities being opened by the ever-changing demand in the packaging sector.”

It was this lateral thinking that initially brought about contact with Edale in 2017 with the installation of a seven-colour FL5 press carton press with a 510mm web width to add to its existing four-colour Edale Sigma.

With business continuing to grow, a two-colour FL5 was added in 2020, which has been retrospectively upgraded to a three-colour. In 2021, the seven-colour FL5 was upgraded to an eight-colour followed by the addition of the latest eight-colour FL5 in late 2022. All the Edale FL5 presses are well-equipped with features including AiiR autonomous inking, impression and print registration, large unwinds, rail-mounted turn bars, UV and IR drying/curing capability, BST monitors, rotary die-cutters (RDC), and shingling delivery tables.