Boxing clever!

Exeter-based BoxWay Packaging Group has utilised its high-tech in-house design capabilities to develop solutions, which eliminate the use of plastic for online retailer, Ashridge Nurseries.

The company has been working closely with Somerset-based Ashridge Nurseries in the pursuit of newly designed cardboard boxes for its herbaceous plants in place of preformed plastic packs to protect their herbaceous pots during transit to its customers across the UK.

Rodney Marsh, Ashridge Nurseries’ fulfilment manager, said: “I am absolutely delighted with the fantastic solution BoxWay’s excellent, in-house structural design team have devised for us. This clever cardboard box is not only a key ecological development for us as a business to reduce our carbon footprint and offer our online customers a recyclable, eco-friendly packaging solution, but it also contributes to our considerable efforts to completely remove plastic from our whole supply chain.

"Becoming a plastic-free retailer is a major accomplishment for Ashridge Nurseries. We are now looking forward to rolling out more cardboard solutions for additional plant lines we sell online to customers across the UK.”

Tom Fooks, New Business Manager for Boxway Exeter, said: “It was a pleasure to work with Rodney and the Ashridge Nurseries team on this innovative project to devise a concept for a new herbaceous plant cardboard packaging solution that eliminates plastic, and I am thrilled with the result of the new eco-friendly, sustainable structured boxes. I very much look forward to further developing Ashridge Nurseries’ complete range of corrugated solutions, which complements this original design BoxWay Packaging has created.”