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Priory Press Packaging has almost doubled its production capacity and created four new jobs following a £1m investment in a new, cutting-edge press supported by Ulster Bank’s asset finance division, Lombard. Now commissioned, the highly efficient press, which features a fully automated plate changing and make-ready process to ensure print and colour accuracy and minimise…

    Economy Minister Announces Investment for PPP   The Economy Minister, Diane Dodds, visited our premises on the 16th September to discuss our investment in new machinery, coping with COVID-19 and expansion into new markets.     Invest NI has been working with Priory Press Packaging since 2011 and has offered us a range…

Plant-Based Plant-Nation!   As a packaging company, we are seeing more and more meat-free, dairy-free and vegan food sleeves and boxes, going down our production line.      The rise of Veganism is tightly connected to a younger generation. They are rethinking the food they eat and have a growing concern about the planet. Additionally,…

  FSC® Press Release   What is FSC®? Click here for their UK website. Is your packaging forest friendly? Watch their latest video  Please do not hesitate to contact us about what FSC® means for your packaging.

  NEAT! Fresh   “Big taste, small footprint.” That says it all! With an aim to produce fine Gluten & Dairy free meals with a huge emphasis on looking after our world, this new company is going to take the UK by storm.    NEAT! Fresh were keen to get our FSC® logo on their packaging…

PEFC Press Release   What is PEFC? Find out here.     PEFC Press Release

  Lane 44 is Shaving the Planet!   Lane 44 is the sustainable, Eco-friendly razor company that aims to ‘shave the planet’ with plastic free shaving!       These razors are fully metallic and use entirely recyclable metal blades. “Each year, we dispose of over 2 billion plastic razors and multi-blade cartridges. Plastic is…

#SSFS & Showcase   We visited two shows within the last few days – we have been very busy bees! Scotland’s Speciality Food Show was first and Showcase in Dublin was next!   Priory Press Packaging is a family business so it’s important to us that we treat our customers like family! With customers all…

  6 Merry Must-Haves Part II   Christmas is less than one week away! Here are a few of our festive favourites in our packaging!     Lane 44     This brand has an amazing ethos and sets a great example to other brands. For one, they are completely free of throw away plastics…

  We’re Certain You’ll Love Our Certifications   Priory Press Packaging has proudly secured its FSC® and PEFC certifications and has maintained its BRCGS High Hygiene AA grade!   We believe packaging doesn’t have to cost the earth. We are proud of our strong environmental sustainability ethos which is reflected in our certifications. We are…

    5 Petrifying Pinterest Packaging Ideas for Halloween   We loved looking up these petrifying Pinterest packaging ideas to get us into the Halloween Spirit!   Pinterest have a boo-tiful range of Halloween inspired packaging designs and we have included our favourites below! With modern fast-paced attitudes when it comes to consumer shopping, first…

  Busy Bees at The Busy Botanist    The Busy Botanist has been growing and evolving rapidly! This is what we love to watch within our customers and we are very excited for their future developments.   Based in Killorglin, this herbal tea company was founded by best friends, Jo Arbon and Clair Kelly, as…

  Going Green – Sustainable Packaging Tips     It’s no secret that more brands are pledging to go green. The Attenborough effect and recent promises from the UK government to eliminate plastic waste by 2042, has influenced brands to rethink their packaging.       Packaging is a vital part of the supply chain.…

  See.Sense: ICON2   We caught up with Junior Designer, Alix Taylor, about the much-anticipated See.Sense product which we’re sure, will be just as popular as the previous ones. Introducing, ICON2! A new and improved version of ICON, their outstandingly successful product produced in 2015.   Husband and wife duo, Philip and Irene, founded the…

Happy International Day of Friendship! We’re hosting our second competition this year and we want you to be a part of it! Who pops into your head when we mention friendship? We’d love the competition winner to either enjoy these gifts for themselves, or pass on to a close friend. It’s time to be extra…

  #PlasticFreeJuly Challenge There’s a global month movement that is inspiring us to join along and to spread the word. Here’s a little bit about the Plastic Free July challenge to give you some information and inspiration. Read our Environmental Policy to find out our steps towards a better world!     “The Plastic Free…

    Father’s Day Gift ideas for Daddy Cool     Although the typical dad tells you he ‘doesn’t need anything,’ we’re suggesting 6 gifts which will convince him otherwise.     Personalised gift or craft Personalised gifts or crafts are memorable and much more treasured due to the sentimental value and uniqueness. You could…

  7 Benefits of Eco-Friendly Packaging   This guest article was written by Rombus Packaging exclusively for Priory Press Packaging. It features 7 benefits of switching to Eco-friendly packaging solutions from both a business and consumer perspective.   Here is also an article written by Custom Earth Promos, a promotional materials company that specialises in reusable…

Balmoral Show 2019   Northern Ireland’s largest agricultural event and an important date in the Northern Irish calendar. A pretty big deal! We attended on Thursday the 16th of May and we caught up with current customers, tried tasty snacks and explored what talent Northern Ireland has to offer.   This year was the 151st…

    Earth Day 2019   The world’s most environmental movement on the 22nd April. This year’s #EarthDay campaign is ‘Protect Our Species.’ Priory Press Packaging are passionate about the environment and we have strong ethical values which are at the forefront of our company.   Last year, the Earth Day campaign was to end…

    4 Magnificent Mother’s Day Gifts   Mother’s deserve the world and more. So, it’s hard to think of a gift or two that sums up your appreciation of her (without costing the world!) We’ve categorised every magnificent mother into four groups. Gintastic Mum, Snacktastic Mum, Quirktastic Mum and Glamtastic Mum.      …

Catex 2019!   As Catex is Ireland’s largest and most influential food service event, it was only right that Priory Press Packaging ventured down to Dublin for another visit. Priory Press Packaging is a family business so it’s important to us that we treat our customers like family! With customers all over the UK and…

  It’s Cool To Be Kind!   Happy Monday! Yesterday was Random Acts Of Kindness Day – We hope you spent it accordingly! For our Random Act of Kindness, we would be delighted to giveaway an Itty Bitty Inspiration Box from our lovely customer, Itty Bitty Book Co. Who better to promote kindness than Astra…

    5 Eco-Friendly Ways To Show The Planet Some Love!  Happy Valentine’s Day from Priory Press Packaging! Although this is different from the typical Valentine’s Day gift suggestions, the planet deserves the same loving as your significant other (or more, in fact!)   When you work with Priory Press Packaging, you can be assured…

We did it last year, so we’re doing it again this year! This is our PPP Christmas Gift Guide 2018 complete with just some of our customers fab gifts they have to offer this Christmas. Lets see what’s on our wish list! BPerfect Gift Set Just when you thought BPerfect couldn’t get any more perfect…

  Introducing our new completely compostable BRCGS AA Grade approved Food to Go range. Consisting of food trays (small, medium, large), waffle trays, taco trays, hot dog boxes, food boxes (small & large), and churro cones we have every foodie franchise covered! With your logo, brand colours, social media handles and slogan proudly printed on your food to go…

Chr_ _ _ _ a s is *just* around the corner – practically knocking on the door, so we’ve decided to create a little digital advent calendar of 10 little doors with our Merry Must-Haves for this Christmas! Let’s get started – there’s a lot to get through.     Jawbox Gin Giftset  Somewhere, some…

1. Inside Surprise – Print on both sides Sometimes we spend so much time concentrating on how the outside of a gift box is going to look, we completely forget about the inside! Printing on the inside of your box offers your customer a really luxurious experience where there’s no plain white to be seen…

Back in Summer, we told you about 4 plastic free packaging customers of ours that ranged from ice cream producers to noodle soup makers! They had all achieved plastic free packaging with a little help from us. Now it’s nearly winter, we’re pleased to say that 4 more customers have produced completely plastic free packaging…

Behance is a great source for any designer or brand looking for a little bit of inspiration. So we scoured Behance for the most BOO-tiful and Spook-tacular packaging designs we could find, and we’ve left them right here for you to have a look. Expect more puns, exciting ergonomics and just damn good design.  …

We don’t know what you did last summer, and quite frankly, we think it would be a bit weird if we did (thank goodness for GDPR). Here at Priory Press Packaging, we believe that horror stories belong in the movies and not when you’re trying to get your business and brand off the ground with…

  Halloween is coming and the goose may be getting fat but we won’t be, as we’ve found 4 Low Fat, No Fat Foods from our customers to indulge in! Find out what foods are not only tasty but low fat or no fat for hibernating this winter!     Grown Up Marshmallows Janet, the…

Priory Press Packaging launch completely compostable Food to Go packaging range!  Since first achieving BRCGS AA grade certification in 2016, Priory Press Packaging has continued to expand its product offering beyond ‘conventional’ carton board packaging whilst maintaining its high manufacturing standards and second-to-none customer service. In our ongoing efforts to help our customers and local…

  Here at PPP, we’re extremely lucky to have a team of talented designers. We thought it was time you should get to know them a little better.   When did you start at PPP? I started working for Priory Press Packaging in September 2014 when the company was based in Holywood, I moved with…

Back in the good old days before social media, you could probably consume some street food and *not* feel the need to take an Instagram – but those days are gone, and now it’s all about having that Instagrammable food product to get the millennials going. This includes branded food-to-go packaging that will make you…

Are you ready for it? Get regulatory-ready packaging this summer! We produce 10ml cartons & SRP’s so we can provide you with Peachy Prices, Very Berry Good Design and a Sub-Lime Supply! Our packaging will keep you Cool, Calm & Compliant and if you Go Green you’ll keep the environment happy too. So Guava Think…

Some companies have FAQ pages, here at PPP we like to do things a little bit differently … we have 4 of your top packaging questions/myths unpacked, zapped, eliminated & knocked out. Ding ding ? Round One. Round One: If I buy less packaging, it’ll cost less. Mmm, nope. You’ll always be doing yourself a…

Differentiate with a die cut We’ve blogged before about how cutting a hole in your packaging is actually a good idea. But custom die-cuts aren’t just reserved for boxes, they can be effective in sleeves too. Take for example Shemins, their die-cut has been used so that when the customer picks it off the shelf,…

Schools out for summer this week, which also means its time for the kiddiewinks to give a gift to their favourite teachers who have educated them and endured them for yet another school year. Perhaps not a patch on an old-fashioned apple, it is difficult to get the balance right between showing off and giving…

There are all types of Dad’s out there but with the help of our customers products, we’ve whittled it down to four dads – meet Cycle Dad, Sweet Tooth Dad, Foodie Dad & The Dad-Who-Has-Everything Dad! We’ve sussed out the perfect Father’s Day gifts for each of them so you can take the credit and…

Dust off your tongs, shorts and sun cream – it’s BBQ time.? Yes, this week we’re being treated to some seriously hot weather here in the UK and Ireland and it’s your once-in-a-year opportunity to get the BBQ out and enjoy some great local produce. Here’s 5 foods you’ll need to pull off the biggest…

We’re all in agreement that after a sober dose of Blue Planet and quick hit of reality from the government, plastic-free packaging is the way to move forward for food packaging. However, it may seem easier said than done… or is it?     For four of our customers – it is. It may have…

On Monday the 21st of May, we were back at it again with Just Live a Little for My Best Breakfast  – School No.2! This time we were at St Pauls in Belfast, were somehow even after their lunch, our P7’s were still looking forward to Breakfast!   *Permission was given by students/parents and teachers…

Yesterday we were lucky enough to be invited along to the Food is Great breakfast in collaboration with Food NI, by the lovely Christine Cousins who we had met previously at Blas na hEireann. The breakfast featured 3 key speakers from Defra, Food NI (Chairwoman Michelle Shirlow) and Mash Direct (Director Jack Hamilton) who talked…

This month is #Vapril, a campaign organised by UKVIA (UK Vaping Industry Association) an information forum for Vape product manufacturers and their customers alike. Vapril aims to share the facts and figures behind opting for vape instead of cigarettes, ex smokers stories and their 3 step Vapril challenge. So let’s have a quick look at…

A plastic-free aisle. It’s a conscious consumers heaven, and a manufacturers hell. Following its inception in the Netherlands, there was a lot of reports of the launch of the first plastic-free aisle, but not a whole lot of detail on how it had been achieved. So now that the media storm has settled, we’ve scoured…

This month is National Pet Month, a campaign that promotes caring for your canines – and what better way to look after your little’s (and big’s!) than treat them to a range of raw food and healthy treats with amazing health care benefits. Our customers have created these 5 fab foods in their kitchens, by…

It may have been cancelled due to the Beast from the East, but when it was finally time to attend the Irish Beauty Show, the pink carpet was rolled out and the sun was shining at the RDS Dublin for our first ever beauty trade show experience! If you cast your mind back to early…

*Permission was given by students/parents and teachers for photos to be taken inside the classroom and to be shared on Priory Press Packaging & Just Live a Little websites*   From a recipe with everything under the sun in it being called ‘Why Not?’ granola to ‘Oat + Protein = Oatein’ granola, we had a…

Today at PPP HQ we had a visit from Graphic Design students completing their HND at Belfast Met! They are currently studying their packaging module, and what better place to be than PPP to see how packaging is created from start to finish. Oscar, one of our studio designers, is not only a former student…

At PPP HQ, innovative solutions to what were previously packaging problems are a daily occurrence – hand our studio team a Rubix cube of a project and we guarantee they’ll have it sussed in seconds! That doesn’t mean, however, we can’t admire or appreciate the work of other packaging designers all over the world. So…

My Best Breakfast: Just Live a Little join forces with P7 pupils to wage war on sugary cereals. Following on from the launch of their Low Sugar Granola, Portaferry-based gourmet granola brand Just Live a Little is teaming up with primary schools to educate P.7 students about what really goes in their breakfasts. Inspired and…

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…

Unravelling the mysteries of boxes and sleeves. Disclaimer: Grab a cup of tea, this might be a long one. During our Q&A session at the Blas na hEireann Irish Food Awards, two lovely ladies by the names of Jo and Clair from the Busy Botanist said that knowing what to ask for in their packaging…

Want to win our Halloween PPP Party Pack? We’ve teamed up with our customers RubyBlue Spirits to giveaway a bottle of Ruby Blue Potato Vodka, Ruby Blue Chilli Pepper Liqueur, and all the party pieces you could need! HOW TO WIN 1. You must be over 18 2. Like our page & RubyBlue Spirits FB…

We’ve got a case of the Blas na hEireann blues… For years, our customers have raved about Blas na hEireann. Not only because they came home with a shiny souvenir of a gold, silver or bronze award – but because for one weekend in September, Dingle in County Kerry is the place to be for…

Are your products Gluten-Free? That’s great – so is everyone else’s on the shelf. In early 2017, half of British Consumers were purchasing free-from foods in their weekly shop (Kantar, 2017), so it is no surprise that the free-from market has become increasingly lucrative, worth a predicted £561m by the end of 2017. There can…

At Priory Press Packaging we’re more than just a printer. We have an in-house dedicated design studio full of creatively inclined individuals – but we don’t like to brag about it. Too much. Some of our customers come to us already armed with artwork, but every now and again a customer will give us complete…

At one point or another we’ve all had the fear. The fear that a sticky toffee pudding may not be as good as our own recipe, or that one we had in a restaurant one time. The shopping aisles are full of lots of sticky toffee puddings – but which one do you go for?…

Did you know that apart from having sleeves & boxes that are 95% biodegradable, we have other green goings-on here at PPP. ♻ There’s even more where this came from, check out our environmental policy here PrioryPress Environmental statement 2016_Oct

We are a BRCGS AA Grade certified packaging facility and supplier, and we’re very proud of that fact. We worked very hard to achieve it – and of course we haven’t mentioned it anywhere. Ever. Sometimes when we tell new customers we are BRCGS AA certified with a slightly smug grin we are met with…

Here at PPP we love a good pun. That’s why our customer’s See.Sense new packaging is nothing short of iconic. See.Sense is the brainchild of Philip McAleese, who invented his first product – the intelligent bike light following a cycling accident. He was constantly cussed out by drivers saying they couldn’t see him – despite…

At PPP we don’t limit ourselves to any one market as we’re always looking for an opportunity to innovate. Sure, we have lots of customers that fall under the Food, Food to Go, Health, Beauty and Lifestyle markets – but if someone comes to us with a packaging problem, like ensuring e-cigarette oil packaging stays…