Retailers who need to send wine bottles through the post can now do this both safely and in an environmentally friendly way thanks to Flexi-Hex®, an innovative 100% plastic free packaging system being launched today by Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s number one supplier of protective packaging.

Macfarlane Group PLC, the UK’s largest distributor of protective packaging products, has this morning announced its Interim Results for the first half of 2019, revealing pre-tax profit growth of 8.7% on turnover up 5.4%. Stuart Paterson, Chairman of Macfarlane Group PLC, today said:

Macfarlane Packaging are exhibiting at Automechanika, the UK’s leading show for the automotive aftermarket and vehicle production sectors, next month.

Macfarlane Group PLC (“Macfarlane”) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Ecopac (UK) Limited (“Ecopac”), a protective packaging distribution business based near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

When Norman Macfarlane founded his commercial stationery business, N.S. Macfarlane & Co Limited, on 26th April 1949, after being demobbed following his National Service, he couldn’t have known that it would develop into the very significant business that it is today.