Protective packaging to transport your products with confidence

Protective Packaging

If you're shipping your products, you want peace of mind that they'll arrive in optimum condition.

Reliable protective packaging is essential to safeguard your goods, reputation and bottom line.

Whether your product travels by rail, road, sea or air, we design, manufacture and test robust and secure packaging to withstand the rigours of handling and eliminate unnecessary damage.

Benefits of Paper-Based Protective Packaging

Superior Protection. Paper-based and cardboard packaging can be layered or moulded to provide outstanding shock absorption, cushioning and protection.

Versatility. Easily accommodates different styles, formats, dimensions and print designs - everything from large corrugate shippers to slim e-commerce mailer packs.

Lightweight. To reduce the carbon footprint and shipping costs.

Consumer Appeal. Naturally tactile for a luxurious, premium feel which aligns with growing consumer eco-consciousness.

Environmentally Sustainable. Up to 100% recycled content and 100% recyclable.

The McLaren Protective Packaging Range

Corrugate

Corrugate is the most widely used transport packaging, in the form of corrugate shippers, trays and mailer packs. These protective packaging solutions hold and protect your products on their journey to your retailers while providing another opportunity for effectively showcasing your brand en route via high-quality print.

We design and manufacture high-quality corrugate protective packaging at our facilities in Scotland for brands throughout the UK and Ireland.

Choose to purchase this individually or as part of our One Stop Purchasing option.

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Two female workers stacking cardboard packaging dividers at the McLaren factory

Divisions

Protect your goods from scuffing, breakage and crushing during transportation, storage and presentation using division/partition packaging.

This is a key part of your product protection and should be considered as part of your overall protective packaging decisions.

We manufacture multi-cell divisions in a wide range of configurations and sizes to suit your product requirements and to ensure that your products arrive at their final destination in perfect condition.

Benefit from our expertise, innovation and testing process to help eliminate unnecessary damage to your products.

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Solidboard packaging box on production line

Solidboard Boxes

The food and produce sector needs to carefully transport products to protect and maintain their quality.

Solidboard is a speciality material due to its strength, cost and excellent performance in extreme environments such as refrigerators and freezers.

We have decades of experience in designing and manufacturing high-quality solidboard boxes for the food sector, giving you a transport packaging solution which ensures your premium products are well protected during transit to arrive at their destination fresh and in optimum condition.

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One Stop Purchasing

Use our One Stop Purchasing service to streamline your purchasing requirements through a single source. Simply choose your presentation packaging, pick your protective transport packaging and have it all delivered by one supplier.

We have been successfully sourcing divisions from Interlok divisions for well over 20 years and we have found them to be a dependable partner who can be relied upon to deliver on time, in full and with no quality defects. Despite the problems of a global pandemic Interlok still continued to supply to the same high levels and their experienced team at Port Glasgow show a passion for what they do."

Category Purchasing Manager, Global Drinks Group

We have worked with McLaren Packaging now for a number of years for everything from corrugated whisky cases through to high end presentation boxes. The products they supply have always made the grade and continue to impress both us as the customer in terms of lead times and design assistance and the clients we have worldwide in customer satisfaction. Along with many thousands of cartons at a time, we also have a frequent requirement for small numbers of high end items of packaging that McLaren can handle equally well in a timely fashion. Increasingly as the business grows, the need for a one stop shop has become apparent and with one supplier and one point of contact to work through, it has made a huge difference to the success of meeting orders in turbulent times. With a fast turnaround from the design phase through to delivery McLaren make the grade."

Founder & Owner, Scotch Whisky Distillery

Bringing a completely new product to market is never easy, however McLaren's have taken all the hard work and made it look simple. Their support on product specification, colour attainment & on line co-packer quality has been fantastic. As a family run business, they have no functional silos, offer a very hands on approach which I love."

Head of Packaging, UK Drinks Company

We have worked with Compack for over 20 years now. The reason for the long partnership is that their attention to detail is incredible. The quality of boxes and consistency of colours that we receive is the best we have seen. The team are also very attentive and will always do what they can to help us out. It is rare to find a supplier that will produce consistently high quality products over such a long period but Compack have done that for us.”

Owner and Director, International Food Company

We have been working together with Duncan and his team at Blue Box Design for over 12 years now and we continue to build on this great relationship. Our aim with Blue Box Design was to create a luxurious high end presentation box which would showcase our luxury product, to our global markets – this has certainly been the case."

Operations Director, Luxury Fabric Brand