Your EPR packaging fees are costing you thousands. Smart design can offset them many times over.
- Smarter structural box size & design.
- Better pallet efficiency.
- Material optimisation.
It’s perfectly possible to save up to £100k= depending on your packaging portfolio.
Find your savings, let talk.
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Real Savings
SHIP MORE = SAVE MORE:Case Study 1. The Teabag Carton.
250 million teabags pa.
One 12mm reduction in carton width
1030 fewer pallets
£107,000 saved, every year.
(Storage costs alone, before transport or handling)
Case Study 2. The Trigger Spray Bottle.
20,000 bottles shipped weekly.
Bottle geometry redesigned for pallet efficiency.
6 fewer pallets per week.
312 fewer pallets annually.
Up to £41k saved annually.
The pattern:
Small design changes = enormous commercial impact.
This is what happens when packaging is designed with commercial thinking, not aesthetics.
EPR fees aren't going away. In fact they're getting worse.
- Hitting company cost bases right now.
- Increasing significantly year on year through 2026 and beyond.
- Poorly understood by most packaging buyers & designers.
- Viewed as an unavoidable overhead by most companies.
They don’t have to be:
Most companies respond to EPR by trying to reduce material weight or switch substrates. That helps, but it misses the bigger picture.
The real saving is in how packaging interacts with your supply chain.
- How many units fit on a pallet.
- How many pallets fit in a warehouse.
- How many truck movements are made annually.
- What that all costs versus what it needs to cost.
A few millimetres in the right place can save more than your entire EPR liability.
That’s not theory. That’s what I do.
What I Do.
I review your current packaging against your logistics costs, footprint & EPR liability.
Then I show you exactly where the savings are hiding.
Most clients are surprised by how significant the numbers are.
Who is this for: Food manufacturers, beverage companies,FMCG brands, retailers, industrial packers, anyone paying significant EPR fees in UK.
What you get: A clear picture of your current waste and astructural design recommendation thats offsets those EPR costs, through logistics savings.
Investment: From £750 for inital audit and recommendations.
2. Sales & Design Alignment Workshops.
If you run a corrugated sheet plant or box manufacturing operation, there’s a second problem hiding in your business.
Up to 80% of your desgn tems output is being wasted and never convert to orders.
For a designer that costs £50k pa, that’s a lot of their time and cost wasted.
The root cause is not design skills, it’s incentives. Sales are rewarded for enquiry volume which flood design with everything. Design processes it all. Most go nowhere.
My one day workshop delves into this. Sales and Design leave with a shared targetting strategy, a pilot plan and a completely different way of working.
Who is this for: Owners, MDs & Sales Mnagements of box plants.
What you get: One day workshop + 3 followup sessions + 90 day pilot.
Investment: £3500 for complete programme. (A lot cheaper than wasting 80% of design time).
3. Design Freelancing.
Whan you need that extra bit of design expertise and different thinking, holiday and sickness cover or just getting a better design offering for customers, I can help.
I’ve been a freelance box designer for 25+ years and work under confidential agreements with many box makers.
Everything is based on hourly rates.
4. Designer Training.
I run the unique eceeboxes Design Academy for all design levels and also new people to the business. All based on my 5 decades of experiences.
Who is it for: Design teams, individual designers, wanting to develop commercial and technical aspets of their role and career.
What you get: Structured training prgramme to your needs & 1:1 mentoring.
Ask me for investment costs.
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Who I work with.
Food & Beverage manufacturers facing EPR pressures.
UK Sheet Plants.
UK integrated plants.
UK Retailers.
Brand Agencies.
Industrial users of boxes.
eCom packers and users.
Retailer Ready pack users (SRP).
Club Stores, Costco & Sams.
WhatsApp me and explore what we can do together…
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Are you baffled by Amazon 6, ISTA & Club Store packaging?
I can help with the myriad of testing you may need to know, to get your pack approved for any use.
I’m one of few truly independent advisors for box testing and compliance etc.
Boxes fail because not enough testing and research has been carried out.
I can deal with these issues.
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About me.
Why work with me?
I’ve spent 50+ years as a box designer, optimiser and managing teams for various companies, global and national, delivering designs and training for others.
I work mainly with UK sheet plants. retailers, brand agencies and major industrial users across the UK.
I’ve seen first hand how much money sits hidden in packaging decisions that nobody questions.
A few millimetres here and a pallet config there, a carton width that’s never been challenged.
Thanks for taking the time to read about how I can help you
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