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Reedbut Group Ltd

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3 North House,
Bond Avenue,
Bletchley,
Milton Keynes,
MK1 1JJ,
United Kingdom

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eLetterbox Postal Boxes

Our eLetterbox pack can be printed on both sides of the box and produced in a single pass. Give your customers that wow factor; branding inside and the option to add a discrete message to the outside. No need to double-box or bag, just have one postal box to send your products out safely and securely to your customers.

- 100% recyclable & responsibly sourced FSC® materials
- No tape required
- Letterbox-friendly (within Royal Mail large letter rate)
- Print can be applied to both sides in a single machine pass
- Bespoke sizes to suit your requirements and reduce your carbon footprint

eLok Self-Locking Postal Box

Our eLok self-locking postal box was developed as a solution to a more sustainable way of packaging for eCommerce. Easy pack opening for a great customer experience and quality print is available inside and out.

- 100% tamper evident
- 100% recyclable
- Quick assembly
- No glue or tape required
- Cost effective
- Resealable for returns if required
- Bespoke and stock sizes available

Bespoke eCommerce Boxes

Our cardboard postal boxes are manufactured based on your needs − whatever you’re intending to send, we can make a box that fits it perfectly. Printed inside and out with your brand colours and messaging, with a focus on sustainability and reducing empty space, we’ll ensure a unique and memorable unboxing experience for your customers.

- Responsibly sourced FSC® approved materials
- Print can be applied to both sides in a single machine pass
- Customised to suit your products
- Designed and developed with sustainability in mind

Flowers & Horticultural Transit Boxes

Our cardboard boxes can be custom designed to protect delicate flowers and plants whilst in transit, ensuring a beautiful bouquet or arrangement arrives safe and sound. We understand the need to protect fragile contents like flowers, and we can combine this need with eye-catching colours and messaging, for an experience that ticks all the boxes.

- Innovative and protective cardboard boxes
- Breathability to ensure flowers and plants stay fresh
- Secure closures and a sturdy exterior to prevent damages
- Printed inside and out with your branding

Healthcare Cardboard Packaging

We are proud to support Nursem, as seen on Dragon’s Den, with their cardboard packaging requirements. We developed a range of cardboard boxes to suit their individual products, sets, and bundles, making sure they all arrive securely. We also manufacturer boxes for Lloyds Direct, to send medications and other pharmaceutical products in a unique branded pack that reminds their customers who they are and what they’re all about.

- Bespoke boxes designed around the products
- Secure during transit and easy to open
- Printed with brand colours and messaging inside and out
- Sustainable, recyclable materials and water-based inks

Fashion Packaging

We can design and manufacture a unique postal box to provide your customers with an unboxing experience that echoes the personal touches of the in-store experience. Printed inside and out and sized bespoke to suit your products, we can combine high-quality packaging for fashion items with a focus on sustainability and protecting the environment.

- High-quality packaging for luxury fashion items
- Sustainably sourced recyclable materials
- Secure postal boxes to ensure safe delivery
- Printed inside and out to make your brand shine

Cardboard Mail-Wraps

Our mail-wraps are available in various sizes and depths to comply with Post Office guidelines, and are made from fully recycled cardboard to provide improved protection over conventional mailer bags or envelopes. Suitable for sending books, DVDs, pictures, and more.

- Secure and easy-to-use
- A range of sizes to suit
- Quick to assemble
- Cost-efficient and sustainable

Packaging For Luxury Items

Our corrugated cardboard postal boxes can protect expensive items like beauty products, jewellery, and perfumes, with tamper-evident closure and discrete external printing to help mitigate the risk of theft. On opening the box, the customer is met with a stunning and vibrant internal print, delivering an unboxing experience with a real WOW factor!

- Secure and tamper-evident closure
- Limited external printing to mitigate theft if desired
- Internal printing to make your brand shine
- Designed with your products in mind
- Deliver a unique unboxing experience

Food Cardboard Boxes

We are BRCGS certified for direct food contact, and our design team can work with you to develop the most appropriate cardboard box solution to deliver your eCommerce food products. From biscuits and cupcakes to vegetables and deli produce, we can manufacture the perfect box to make sure your goods arrive safely.

- Protect perishable items
- Keep breakable containers safe and secure
- Maintain shelf life and reduce food waste
- Sustainable packaging printed inside and out

e-Envelope Corrugated Mailer Pack

Our innovative e-Envelope corrugated mailer pack can be printed inside and out in a single machine pass. Flat or thin items are well-protected during transit, with extra rigidity built in to keep important packages secure.

- 100% recyclable
- FSC® approved materials
- Tape-free
- Plastic-free
- 100% Tamper-evident
- Print can be applied to both sides in a single machine pass
- Bespoke and stock sizes are available

Die-Cut Divisions

Suspension fittings and divisions provide simple and effective cushioning for transporting fragile, delicate and expensive items like ceramics and glassware, or valuable electronics.

Pallet Packs & Packaging

Cost effective and environmentally friendly alternatives to wooden and metal crates. Our Pallet Packs can be tailor-made to suit your shipping requirements and pallet sizes; supplied plain or printed, flat pack or assembled and attached to a pallet if required.

Transit Packaging

We can manufacture bespoke boxes designed to incorporate measured levels of transit protection, offering the required stacking strength to ensure your valuable products reach their destination safely. Reducing transit damage ensures you do not have to worry about the cost of damages and returns.

Food Shelf Ready Packs

The use of striking printed Shelf Ready Packs (SRPs) can provide a significant advantage over plain display trays (SKUs). SRPs have been proven to increase prominence in a crowded retail environment, enhance visibility and, most importantly, multiply your sales.

We’re able to take your design guidelines and create an attractive yet functional SRP to ensure both retailer and customer can easily access your products.

Dry Ingredients & Mixes Packaging

Combining an outer transit box with a point of sale display unit, this format saves both time and labour for your stockists. Bespoke packaging designed to protect and enhance your product and also to conform to specific industry and retailer requirements.

The use of striking printed Shelf Ready Packs (SRPs) can provide a significant advantage over plain display trays (SKUs). SRPs have been proven to increase prominence in a crowded retail environment, enhance visibility and most importantly, multiply your sales.

Drinks & Alcohol Retail Packaging

We have been creating and delivering custom printed packaging for drinks and alcohol for many years and have faced many design challenges. Typical briefs for products include packaging solutions for single bottles packs, multipacks, gift packaging and point of sale displays. As part of our service, we also supply full-colour digital mock-ups to help visualise the finished product.

Whatever the brief, we always provide our clients with high quality, value for money solutions.

Retail Window Patching

Our inhouse window patching is a technique that applies a thin plastic film to a die-cut window on any box. The window enhances your customers experience with an insight into the product without opening the packaging.
When applied internally the film creates a food safe barrier eliminating the need for bags

- Reduces Packaging Waste
- Visually Enhances Product

Food Retail Trays

Trays are perfect for both retail grocery logistics and point-of-sale display. Individually designed to give the perfect fit every time, shelf ready trays are the ideal way to transport and present fresh produce.

Plain or printed with your design, we can create bespoke products to meet and exceed your brief.

Food & Beverage Retail Boxes

Custom printed packaging for food and beverages in the retail sector or more discrete packaging for ingredients and catering packs, the Reedbut Group can create, manufacture and deliver.

We can also supply full-colour digital mock-ups to help visualise the finished product, whatever the brief.

We always provide our clients with high quality, value for money solutions.

Archive Boxes

We manufacture a range of archive and storage boxes, including our patented STRONGLok box. Watch our short film about STRONGLok to see all of these benefits for yourself.

Specially constructed for the long-term storage and preservation of documents, photographs, files, etc. All of our archive boxes can be printed in the design of your choice in up to three colours using high-quality flexographic ink.

STRONGLok Cardboard Boxes

Product benefits compared to traditional archives boxes

- Simple, fast assembly for improved productivity
- Saves 26 hours of assembly time over 5000 boxes
- 100% recyclable − no metal staples − FSC certified
- Saves 3 pallet spaces per 1080 box and lids
- Capable of holding 16Kg

skytidy® Airline Trash Compactor Box

The skytidy® range featuring Zodiac and Iacobucci

Over four years of rigorous testing in standard single and double trash compactor systems, the skytidy® Zodiac was built to ensure it performs as a seamless component of the inflight trash compactor cycle. Puncture-resistant, fully waterproof, and made from recycled materials, it’s ideal for both quick runway turnarounds and hygienic storage of accumulated rubbish.

We supply skytidy® to a number of airlines including British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Norwegian, Air Caraïbes, Iberia, TUI, and EVA Air, manufacturing 24/5 with a fully automated system for worldwide distribution.

As part of the skytidy® product range, we now offer the skytidy® Zodiac trash compactor box, skytidy® Iacobucci for top-loading trash compactor units, skytidy® ecotrays, designed as a substitute for conventional plastic cabin trolley trays, and skytidy® trolley-top trays, sustainable utility boxes for aircrew to place food, drinks, cutlery, and decanters while serving passengers.

skytidy® Zodiac & lacobucci Trash Compactor Box

Features and Benefits

- The skytidy® Zodiac is fully compatible with all front-loading trash compactor units
- The skytidy® Iacobucci is fully compatible with top-loading trash compactor units
- Solid-fibre board construction from FSC® approved recycled materials and sustainable kraft paper
- Fully collapsible for easy inflight storage
- Safety tested for flammability and toxicity FAR/CS 25.853, CS 25.855, CS 25.1713, ABD0031
EU Registered Design: 002398446-0001/0002

skytidy® Cardboard Ecotrays

Our skytidy® ecotrays can be pre-loaded by vendors with inflight meals, snacks, and drinks, then removed from cabin trolleys for dispensing. With the option of flexible digital printing, these recyclable cardboard trays can also be used to promote food and drink and other inflight purchases, or communicate other messages to passengers.

skytidy® Trolley-Top Trays

The skytidy® trolley-top trays are utility boxes for aircrew to place food, drinks, cutlery, and decanters while serving passengers. Utilised at eye-level in the cabin environment, that can be branded with full-colour graphics for promotions, offers, and customer information. Following cabin service, the sustainable cardboard boxes can be used to remove passenger waste back to the galley area, for easy and efficient inflight clean-up.

About us

In the packaging industry for over 45 years, Reedbut Group Ltd manufactures corrugated/cardboard packaging. In order to satisfy our customers' growing needs, we ensure that we deliver and develop innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective packaging solutions continuously.

The company has 3 locations; its head office is in Milton Keynes. There are also sites in Andover and Strood where the company operates. Our company is one of the largest independent sheet plants in the UK, with 90+ employees and an annual turnover exceeding £20 million.

We work with green materials and strive to create sustainable manufacturing processes in the rapidly growing corrugated packaging market.

Our Product & Services Include:

eCommerce

A wide variety of exclusive and innovative cardboard boxes for eCommerce are available from us, including letterbox-friendly postal boxes, cardboard mailers, and mail-wraps. Designed to make your products stand out, all of your eCommerce packaging needs are covered.

Industrial & Protective

In order to maintain the integrity of your products, we manufacture cost-effective and environmentally-friendly shipping solutions. We offer protective cardboard boxes for industrial goods that can be used to optimize packaging, transport, and storage costs.

Shelf Ready Packaging

With shelf-ready cardboard boxes, you can increase in-store visibility, drive sales, and raise brand awareness. With their tear-off tops, these boxes serve as safe and secure transit cases, as well as instant display cases.

Retail

Customers are attracted to retail packaging with impressive print and creative designs. Our company produces high-quality flexo printed cardboard boxes for retail, as well as digital printing for shorter runs.

Storage

In addition to our patented STRONGLok box, we manufacture cardboard boxes for storage and archiving.

With high-quality flexographic ink, our cardboard storage boxes are specially designed for long-term storage and preservation of documents, photographs, files, and more.

skytidy®

skytidy® airline trash compactor boxes are an exclusive Reedbut Group product developed in collaboration with a leading British airline. The solution helps make onboard rubbish collection easier. Worldwide delivery is available from stock.

Sustainability

Environmental protection is a priority for us as a forward-looking company. The quality of our products and services is underpinned by our environmental policy; we strive to become carbon neutral by continuously monitoring our impact on the environment.

Our packaging products are all FSC® certified, which allows us to identify, purchase, and use wood, paper, and other forest products made with sustainable materials. We are members of Sedex, have a bronze EcoVadis sustainability rating, and are BRCGS-certified for direct contact food packaging.

When it comes to packaging, quality, durability, and design can't be compromised. Our design and manufacturing processes will continue to be adapted to meet your needs while protecting the environment.