January saw a growth in UK manufacturing production. Beating economists’ expectations, it rose to a three month high according to the closely watched measure of manufacturing – the Market/CIPS Purchasing Managers Index.

Great news if you’re in manufacturing and on the receiving end of increased orders. But with success can come the challenge of tailoring the manufacturing floor space to manage your increased output. A nice challenge to have some may say. However, it’s more of a headache if you’re actually tasked with finding a solution.

One way to tackle this is to review the amount of space taken up in your warehouse by packaging stocks. If you are ordering large amounts of packaging stock at a time and storing it in your warehouse Macfarlane Packaging may be able to offer a solution to help you expand your production space.

We offer a stockholding service, drip feeding packaging to your production lines as you need it with regular deliveries. This gives you the opportunity to free up your warehouse space, remove storage racking and perhaps expand your production lines.

This can also help to improve your cash flow, freeing up the money you once used to bulk buy slow running stock.

Macfarlane Packaging also offer a full custom bespoke packaging service along with a wide range of stock products available for next day delivery.

So, take a look at your warehouse, could you do something more productive with your packaging storage space?