KM Packaging celebrating 30th anniversary

Since its formation in 1984, KM Packaging has dedicated its resources to developing flexible packaging products for food manufacturers and processing companies. During that time, as well as targeting the UK market, the company has also created an international profile with long-standing customers, distributors and partners in countries and regions as far afield as the Americas, South Africa, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

KM Packaging’s product history includes lidding film for aluminum foil trays, which it pioneered in the late 1990s, and KM Velvet Feel, a premium packaging film with a unique feel and texture targeted at the luxury confectionery and high-end boxed goods markets around the world, which was unveiled last year. The fourth generation of KM films is about to be launched as the company continues to innovate in order to meet the needs of this growth sector, it said.

KM Packaging commercial director Graham Holding said: ‘30 years ago not many people worried about what happened to packaging after the consumer had unwrapped a product. Today, as well as meeting the recycling challenges at the end of its life, the packaging has to work to minimize food waste by keeping products fresher for longer. In this way the contribution towards reducing carbon in lifecycles is truly amazing.

‘The food and packaging sectors have changed almost beyond recognition in the last 30 years; many of the KM team have been instrumental in packaging developments that have improved presentation and technical performance and freshness of some of our favourite food products, as well as creating packing for brand new products.

‘At KM we have stayed close to retail trends and constantly looked for new ways to innovate, to provide our customers with solutions to meet anticipated demand – and by and large we’ve got it right.’