Who Are We?

Waddington® Europe - a Novolex brand, is a European thermoformed packaging specialist.

We are a highly experienced and trusted supplier of packaging solutions across a wide range of categories including food, pet food, medical, industrial, and much more.

We can provide our customers with a complete end-to-end packaging supply service, including design, extrusion, tooling manufacture and thermoforming. Our flexible, streamlined approach enables us to have full control from design to supply, giving our customers more bang for their buck.

Our teams are always working to bring novel product solutions to market. We constantly improve and invest in our processes to increase efficiency and productivity, allowing us to manufacture at increased speed and high volume with minimal waste.

Through exceptional execution, service and continued focus on environmentally sustainable and innovative solutions, we strive to make a difference to our customers, our communities and our planet. 

Thermoformed Packaging

Waddington Europe are specialists in thermoformed packaging, with an extensive range of solutions. Find out more about thermoforming here. 

Vertical Integration

We are a vertically integrated company, which means we can provide our customers with a complete end-to-end and quality-driven packaging service.

In-house design

Whether it's working one-on-one with customers on bespoke projects or finding ways to make standard products better, our in-house design and technical team work hard to bring innovation and new products to market. 

In-house extrusion

We have in-house extrusion capabilities to produce PET, Laminates and PP. We can manufacture at high speed and volume with minimal wastage.

In-house tooling

We can support all our sites with in-house tooling manufacture, which means shorter lead times, reduced costs, quality assurance, and easy customisations.

Scalability

With a 61 machine strong production line capability, we are easily able to service all sizes of order volumes, from smaller one-off seasonal projects to large ongoing repeat orders.

Novolex Locations in Europe

Waddington Europe have three thermoforming production sites located in Milton Keynes and Bridgwater (UK), Arklow (Ireland). Burrows Europe is Novolex’s paper-based food packaging production site based in the Netherlands. Also, Netherlands-based is Novolex’s European distribution centre for plant-based packaging company Eco Products.