Waddington Europe
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Waddington Europe Milton Keynes (acquired as Par-Pak in 2013) is a leading thermoformer of containers and trays with a wide range of plastic thermoformed packaging solutions to suit many food and industrial products.
The Buckinghamshire based site is 50 miles North West of London, boasting easy access to the UK motorway networks, for cost effective and efficient delivery.
At Waddington Europe Milton Keynes we can supply all our customers from either a large range of standard containers and trays, or offer our bespoke design services whether you are a Packer, Retailer or Distributor.
We enable our customers to meet their environmental commitments with high-recycled content and low carbon footprint products.
Plant Data
- Square Footage: 7,607 sq. ft. Manufacturing + 5,800 sq. ft. Distribution
- Date Constructed: 1997
- Date Novolex Acquired: 2018
- Number of Machines: 15 thermoformers, 2 semi-auto labelling machines and 1 auto labelling machine
- Operating Schedule: 16/5 Thermoforming
- Number of Employees: 79
- Union Status: Non-union
- Certifications: BRC AA Standard 12/01/2022, ISO 9001 24/03/2022
Health & Safety Overview
Across the breadth of Novolex facilities, employee safety is a top priority. Employees on the production floor and in our offices deserve and expect a safe working environment. Each year, we have implemented industry leading workplace safety policies and programs to constantly improve safety performance across the company. Safety took on new significance in 2020 as the world managed through the COVID-19 pandemic and our program continued to evolve in 2021 as we strive for zero injuries company-wide. A team of safety professionals worked closely with each facility to implement more standardisation across business units. These measures not only helped ensure compliance but also supported the plant health and safety teams with proactive initiatives, risk identification and abatement programs, and efforts that drove safety culture changes.
Food Quality Certifications
Full commitment from senior management, maintaining site standards, process control with ownership from every employee and HR support to ensure employees are healthy, properly trained and wearing PPE for safe manufacturing.
Zero Waste and Innovation
- Waddington Europe Milton Keynes are committed to sending Zero Waste to Landfill and are dedicated to improving waste management on site in line with the Defra waste hierarchy.
- Complete in-house design and tool making facilities.
- Down-gauging material where feasible with our customers and keeping the recyclability of our products at the forefront of everything we do.
- We have completed the ESOS energy audit and are looking at what we can address from the audit to reduce energy usage.
Products Manufactured
- Hinged trays for bakery products
