We’re attending the Irish Beauty Show at RDS Dublin on the 5th of March, and are so excited to meet innovative, invigorating, and independent Irish beauty brands! Wow. That was a lot of alliteration. We wanted to formally introduce ourselves to the exhibitors, so we developed ‘Package Me Pretty’, a black matte laminate box with…
5 reasons why you should stick labels to the man in 2018 and swap for sustainable sleeves instead. Labels… stick… you get it? We’ll stop. 1. Show off more of your brand Producing food and profiting from it – it’s all a good idea until you realise the legislative requirements that come with it.…
It’s the trend that’s still in fashion almost 200 years after it was introduced by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, but we’re guessing the addition of Prosecco / Champagne maybe appeared a little bit later on. A real must for ladies who lunch, sometimes an afternoon tea coma can quickly ensue, and the multitude…
Here at PPP the only thing we really get romantic about is when we produce a particularly good piece of packaging (they’re all good, to be honest, but we can’t boast too much). It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And while we may be self-confessed experts on packaging, we’re glad to say…
There’s a big, shiny, light-grabbing elephant in the room. So, it’s time to talk about it. Can carton-board packaging with foiling be recycled? Yes – yes it can. via GIPHY We were wondering the question ourselves, what, with all this recent uproar about recycling. So we did a little bit of digging. One of our…
Food without gluten, dairy and (gasp) – meat, can still be delicious. There we’ve said it. So how can we make such a claim? Well, we’ve found out from our customers that it is possible as much as it is commendable to make tasty, if not tastier, free-from foods. We do quite a lot of…
Quickly following on from the flurry of soon-forgotten News Year’s resolutions (Dryanuary, Tryanuary & Veganuary anyone?) is the flood of expert predictions of what will be trending in 2018. Well, with 45 years’ experience behind us, we’re here to give our 2 cents on what we think we’ll be seeing more of in packaging this…
If you didn’t sing this blog title as you read it, then you may be suffering from a severe case of Scrooge. We put together our Christmas Checklist: Festive Feast, and now it’s time to move to gifts & gadgets. These are all products by our customers, and whether its for someone else or yourself,…
There are two types of people at Christmas: Those who have everything organised, stockpiled and ready to go from day dot, or you know, the rest of us who do a supermarket sweep on Christmas Eve wondering if 10 packets of pigs in blankets will actually be enough (it is). We’ve comprised a Christmas Checklist…
With nine out of ten customers calling for a plastic-free aisle according to a poll commissioned by campaign group A Plastic Planet (Independent.co.uk, July 2017), it is more important than ever for food producers to consider the green credentials of their packaging. As we approach Christmas, our gastronomical consumption hits astronomical heights, meaning our food…