Paper prices increasing!

The UK corrugated industry has seen a number of significant costs impact box plants at the same time:

• Rising containerboard (i.e. the paper that we use to make corrugated boxes) prices, driven by global energy cost increases following recent geopolitical instability and disruption to oil and gas supply.
• Higher energy costs, with oil and gas prices increasing significantly over recent months, impacting production costs across the paper and packaging supply chain.
• Higher wages, alongside continued inflationary pressure in the UK labour market. A range of other costs have also increased (e.g. pallets and transport). 

The combined effect of the above inflationary inputs requires us to raise prices in May 2026