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Charpak Ltd

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30 St Peters Road,
Huntingdon,
Cambridgeshire,
PE29 7DG,
United Kingdom

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Food

Food

Food
Specialists in Food and Food Service Charpak has the highest BRC AA approval for food packaging.

Charpak deliver bespoke packaging for ambient and chilled food in food-to-go, chilled desserts, bakery and celebration cakes, convenience and ready meals, chocolate and confectionery, cheese and dairy, fish and shellfish, premium alcohol and luxury gifting.

Whether you’re looking for premium product packaging or transit trays from A-B, our expert consultants will be happy to assist.

Desserts & Cakes
Charpak’s packaging is designed to show off your stunning products. Charpak deliver exceptional packaging for exceptional products.

For cheesecakes, chilled desserts, delicate individual petit fours, and single or twin-pack sharing and individual cakes, celebration cakes and cake bars look no further.

We can create moulds for your 3D cakes, manufacture standard clam packs or custom design your premium retail product packaging. Our imaginative packaging design ideas create outstanding products helping our clients regularly achieve national recognition winning industry awards.

Cheese & Dairy
Charpak design and manufacture thermoformed packaging for all year-round products, and seasonal ranges. Whether you’re looking for a range of grab and go options, snack packs, snacking for dairy; original design ideas for Christmas, Halloween, Easter or Summer our special edition custom collections can be manufactured for small and large scale production runs.

We offer food packaging for cheese and cracker food gifting, luxury gift packaging and unique and innovative cheese and chocolate advent calendars.
Chocolate Assortments & Confectionery

Chocolate Assortments & Confectionery

Charpak custom design and manufacture packaging for premium indulgent chocolate confectionery, chocolate assortments and luxury selection boxes.

With appearance and taste sensation combined with perfect presentation, appealing to consumers’ senses this makes for a winning combination.

Our design and technical team also develop imaginative production aids so you can manufacture the perfect mouthwatering chocolate. For perfection in premium packaging speak to our product packaging experts today.


In addition to a wide range of innovatively designed premium food packaging, Charpak designs and produces packaging for seasonal products. Charpak’s agile production facilities are flexible to support clients’ ranges of lower quantities − including Valentines, Easter, Halloween and Christmas.

Luxury packaging to show off your perfect products can be manufactured in crystal clear packaging, stunning silver, glorious gold, gorgeous green, Christmas red or sizzling orange. Charpak can colour match your brand so your product stands out on shelf effortlessly reinforcing your brand. Our thermoforming capabilities can also emboss your brand on your packaging.
Convenience, Food To Go & Snacking

Convenience, Food To Go & Snacking

Ready Meals
With modern day convenience and food-to-go as an ever-growing opportunity, the design and manufacture of food-to-go packaging must meet specific criteria for use, as well as looking fabulous to entice shoppers.

Imaginative packaging solutions include Charpak’s impressive eat me keep me packs.
Custom designed, unique scratch cooking packaging is our expertise.
Manufactured from over 95% of recycled material and food contact approved.

With more food being consumed out-of-home it must be easy to recycle. Not only does Charpak’s custom-designed packaging differentiate your products on shelf; Charpak’s thermoformed plastic packaging is designed for recyclability*

Convenience, Food-to-Go and Snacking
Charpak design and manufacture packaging for chilled and ambient ready meals.

For gourmet, luxury and premium meals exceptional packaging that compliments your brand positioning will maximise consumer appeal and stand out on shelf.

To capitalise on consumer trends of ‘scratch-cooking’ and ‘home-finishing’ meal kits we will develop original concepts for you in proven materials. Every design is fully manufacturable.
Chilled Fish & Shellfish

Chilled Fish & Shellfish

Chilled Fish & Shellfish
If you’re looking for the wow factor in sushi, seafood and shellfish product packaging, Charpak lead the way in exceptional design and manufacture of premium thermoformed packaging, all of which is grade BRC AA food contact approved.

Charpak’s imaginative and innovative creative design ideas will create standout for your premium fish, and added value shellfish.
Value Added Packaging

Value Added Packaging

Premium Alcohol & Luxury Gifting
In the highly competitive luxury gifting, premium beverage packaging, and beauty and cosmetics sectors displaying products beautifully requires a high-end solution.

For prestige gift packaging and added value product packaging Charpak’s knowledge and expertise guarantees the highest quality finished product.

Charpak Ltd design and manufacture in the UK, and are known for lifting gifting above the ordinary. With exciting creative ideas, our design team will create your extraordinary.
Automotive & Advanced Engineering

Automotive & Advanced Engineering

Automotive & Advanved Engineering
Our exceptional custom-made packaging solutions protect sensitive electronics and high gloss, high value products, during manufacture, in transit, and distribution between locations in protective packaging.

UK based, Charpak design and manufacture protective packaging and production aids for robotic automated lines, in line with industry 4.0.

Reducing damage, spoilage and minimising product reworks
Reducing or eliminating unnecessary waste and costs
Minimise handling enabling faster production and faster changeover times
Improved overall efficiency improving profitability

Charpak can work with a complete closed loop system. All Charpak’s packaging contains recyclate material and is manufactured with a minimum of 50% post-consumer waste.

Supporting the automotive industry in meeting EU targets to reduce environmental impact, improvements in CO2 emissions and provide solutions to reduce organisations’ carbon footprint.
Materials

Materials

Charpak are innovating with new materials and packaging technologies to ensure wherever feasible packaging is made from recycled plastics, is recyclable, and can be widely recycled.

Our BRC / ISO 9001:2015 Certification guarantees you the highest hygiene, safety and cleanlinest standards.

Charpak is an active member of RECOUP and a Founding Member of The UK Plastics Pact.
PET Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate

PET Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate

APET, is a type of PET and one of the best clear plastic materials for thermoformed packaging.

APET is a highly shiny and transparent clear plastic packaging whose optimum use is on shelf display and visual merchandising in retail.

APET is best used for automotive, manufacturing solutions, DIY and household, transport and distribution, electronics, beauty and cosmetics, and luxury gift packaging (non-food).

About us

Based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Charpak Ltd are independently owned with over 30 years heritage in designing and manufacturing innovative world-class thermoformed plastic packaging.

Charpaks' rigid plastic packaging products include own label packaging, new product development NPD, box inserts, clam packs, point of sale trays and transit trays. As well as a standard range, Charpak also provide a bespoke service.

Charpak plastic packaging products are adaptable to almost any shape, to maximise point of sale visibility. Our unique Charlok clip ensures pack security without the need for welding or further sealing.

Charpak boasts specialist teams which deal with every aspect of the process from the initial concept, through to the finished product, providing a confidential, highly skilled and very efficient service.

Charpak packaging products can be found in all major supermarkets and retail chains. Typical market sectors and applications that Charpak work within include, but are not limited to, cosmetics & toiletries, food & drink, electrical & DIY, manufacturing, medical, music & publishing, sports & leisure and toys & games. We actively work with clients in demanding markets.

At Charpak, we believe that sustainability is key to the future of packaging. With packaging reduction in mind, we source UK produced recycled and recyclable materials with full food grade approval.

We also believe that packaging sells a product if it is done right. At Charpak, we do it right - every time!

Medical
At Charpak we have an on-site validated and monitored class 7 (class 10,000) pharmaceutical clean room, purpose designed and built by pharmaceutical clean room specialists to manufacture thermo formed and vacuum formed plastic packaging using the most stringent cleanliness levels expected. In addition, we have extensive food grade production facilities.

Food & Beverage
Charpak was one of the first direct contact food grade packaging companies to achieve the BRC/IoP technical standard demanded by all major supermarkets and retail chains.

Cosmetics & Toiletries
From FMCG packaging to exclusive gift packaging our design and manufacture expertise produces ideal solutions for household brands.

Manufacturing
Many OEM processes such as within the micro electronics industry, require cost effective, accurate transit trays to transport, protect and locate products between production stages.Charpak provides a range of solutions in a range of materials including conductive and dissipative plastics.

Materials
Charpak design and manufacture plastic packaging products from a wide variety of plastic film including bio-compostable and bio-degradable materials.

APET / PE, PETG can be supplied as clear or with a medical blue tint.

RPET is produced using a high percentage of consumer waste together with an ABA layer of food grade material. Our homogenised rPET material is produced using super clean PCW with FDA/FSA approval.

Specialised Polymers available as a mono layer high clarity film with multi-layer materials available to enhance specific properties including gaseous barrier, reduced evaporation, taint avoidance and chemical resistance.
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