Political upheaval both nationally and internationally has left us facing rising costs and soaring inflation following global disruptions in supply chain continuity.

Whether you’re a business owner or a consumer, everyone is looking to cut costs to survive the storm. As a business owner, however, knowing where to make these cuts is vital to ensuring your profits are protected to keep you afloat in these tough financial times. 

As packaging experts deemed the UK’s Design Team of the Year 2022 (Packaging Awards), we suggest reassessing your packaging situation to determine whether you are receiving the maximum cost benefit from your practises. 

While knocking pennies off unit pricing may seem like the obvious solution, taking a look at how packaging can influence all areas of your supply chain will enable you to make far greater savings. 

Simple changes can offer significant savings in areas such as storage, transport, damages, productivity and efficiency. 

Below we highlight some key products to help slim your packaging spend all while being kind to the planet. 

5x5 nano pallet wrap and dispenser

If pallet wrap is an essential part of your packaging paraphernalia and operation, Kite’s exclusive 5x5 nano pallet wrap and dispenser are a must for your business. This patented innovation provides ‘machine technology in the hand’, cutting stretch film use by up to 60% as well as the associated tax liability, significantly reducing the cost of this packaging method for your business.

The ergonomically-designed dispenser allows operators to dispense film in a natural position while using one hand walking forwards, all without having to bend or stretch. Our dispenser and film can help boost productivity and efficiency by reducing stress to the back by 50% and offering considerable health and safety benefits in comparison to other systems. Operators can wrap pallets comfortably for longer periods of time with far greater efficiency, reducing wrap time and the associated labour costs. Not to mention, the health benefits mean fewer instances of sick leave due to back problems. 

Sounds like a win-win so far, right? 

Pre-stretch gears within the dispenser release the film at the optimum elastic point, eradicating any risks of understretching or overstretching. When either of these occur, goods are insufficiently protected and subject to damage during handling and transportation, leaving you to deal with the financial and carbon cost of the clean-up. In the case of understretching, more film is used than necessary, offering no cost benefits at all. Our stretch film and dispenser use nano-film technology to deliver improved performance and quality, helping you to avoid situations like this while you efficiently and cost-effectively wrap pallets. Not to mention, cutting down on plastic usage  is great for the environment so not only are you saving bank but also helping the planet.

Envirotape Polyester

This is the most sustainable tape we offer. Containing 30% recycled content, our envirotape polyester is exempt from the Plastic packaging Tax and can help reduce your packaging spend if you currently use tapes which render you liable to pay the tax. 

These extra-long, 150m rolls of tape are wound onto smaller 38mm cardboard cores, resulting in a direct reduction in cardboard waste by 63%. Offering considerable economic and environmental benefits when compared to your typical 66m tape on a 76mm core, switching to our envirotape polyester is a no brainer! For one, the smaller core frees up more storage space, which on transit vehicles means more units can be transported per journey, leading to fewer journeys and reduced delivery charges while you receive more than double the amount in tape. As a result of this, the carbon cost of this transaction is also significantly reduced as less fuel is expended transporting the tape. 

In addition to this, our envirotape polyester offers a cost benefit when purchased in wholesale quantities by providing more than double the amount of adhesion without costing twice as much. A clear and brown variety are available.

Single and double wall boxes  

While you may see these as just boxes, we see them instead as incredibly diverse forms of packaging. Let us tell you why. 

Our single and double wall boxes are a versatile and valuable resource which can package a limitless array of goods, making the need for multiple styles of boxes because you have multiple types of product redundant. They are available in a wide selection of sizes and can therefore aid SKU optimisation especially considering the latter, helping you to save money. 

Our sturdy, single wall boxes support most needs, employing a single layer of corrugation to provide high-quality protection to your goods in transit. If you are wanting increased resistance, our double wall boxes are just the product for you, using a double layer of corrugation to provide greater protection when shipping. Both varieties are delivered flat packed, whilst some sizes come multiscored for adjustments. 

Made with up to 90% recycled content, these kerbside recyclable boxes ensure responsible disposal whilst feeding a circular economy so you can rest assured you are saving money without it being an expense to the environment. We provide these at very affordable wholesale prices, which is exactly why our single and double wall boxes are popular products. Why not add them to your packing resources...

We’ll be back with more eco-friendly products to help you slim your packaging spend, so watch this space!