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Barton Jones Packaging Ltd
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Food and meat outer packaging

Outer boxes, trays and transit packs for chilled, frozen and ambient food, supplied from BRCGS Storage and Distribution certificated storage with the traceability an audit expects.

The problem

What usually goes wrong

Food and meat outers have to do two jobs at once: survive a cold, damp, high-humidity chain, and satisfy an auditor who wants to know exactly where the board came from and how it was stored.

Standard board softens in a chill store. Boxes lose stacking strength, pallets slump, and what looked fine at despatch is a rejected delivery at the depot.

Buyers also carry the compliance burden. If your packaging supplier cannot evidence certified storage and chain of custody, that gap lands on your audit, not theirs.

Typical pack

Packaging components we usually specify

  • Corrugated outer boxes for chilled, frozen and ambient despatch
  • Die-cut trays and cap-and-tray formats for retail-ready presentation
  • Stacking-strength boxes designed for multi-layer pallet loads
  • Printed outers with product, batch and handling information
  • Pallet stretch film, strapping and corner protection for the finished load
  • Polythene bags, layflat tubing and liners where an inner barrier is needed

Materials

Relevant materials and board grades

  • B and C flute single wall for lighter ambient outers
  • BC double wall where pallet height and chill conditions demand stacking strength
  • Moisture-resistant and heavyweight liners for chilled and frozen environments
  • White top liners where the outer is part of the retail presentation
  • FSC certified board under licence C214479 for chain-of-custody claims

In-house

Our manufacturing and assembly capabilities

  • Bespoke box sizes made in-house so pallet fit is designed in rather than hoped for
  • Printed outers carrying your branding, product data and handling marks
  • Sampling and prototyping so a new line can be trialled before a full run
  • Assembly and kitting where a pack needs more than one component
  • Specification documents and certification paperwork ready for your audit file

Stock holding

How we hold stock for you

  • Stock held in BRCGS Storage & Distribution certified premises
  • Call-off against production runs and seasonal peaks, with traceable batch records
  • Scheduled deliveries on our own vehicles, free on orders over £100 within 30 miles of Letchworth

Accreditations

Relevant accreditations for this sector

  • BRCGS Storage & Distribution
  • FSC C214479
  • Verified Carbon Standard
See our accreditations and request the literature

Real example

Holding stock through a seasonal peak

A meat processor was running out of outer boxes during peak weeks and paying premium rates for emergency deliveries, while the rest of the year they had pallets of board occupying chilled-adjacent racking they needed for product.

We moved to an annual quantity, priced at volume, held in our BRCGS Storage and Distribution certificated storage, with a weekly call-off that steps up automatically through the peak.

They freed racking, dropped the unit price, and stopped paying for emergency freight. The certification paperwork now sits in their audit file rather than being chased each year.

Sector enquiry

Ask for our BRCGS and FSC documentation

Tell us the lines you pack and the conditions they travel in. We will spec the board and send our certification pack for your audit file at the same time.

  • Chilled, frozen or ambient
  • Box dimensions and pallet pattern
  • Print requirement and any retail-ready format
  • Annual volume and peak weeks
Use the enquiry form01462 680888

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