no time to waste

champions of SUSTAINABLE packaging

No time to waste

There is no time to waste when it comes to plastic pollution. Products used for an instant today will leave a legacy of waste for our children tomorrow. We founded Transcend Packaging to help break this cycle.

Our vision is to be the global leader in sustainable packaging.

We work with innovators, product developers and materials experts to manufacture tomorrow’s technologically advanced sustainable packaging. For too long we have embraced the single-use-plastic culture and we are overdue for change. Join us and our brands in championing a new era in plastic free packaging.

For our planet and ourselves, there is no time to waste.

Featured Products

UK-Based Industry Leader Transcend Packaging Joins Global Leader And US-Based Zume’s Worldwide Production Network To Deliver A Sustainable Alternative To Single-Use Plastic

The Zume and Transcend collaboration will enhance capacity of sustainable, affordable, and scalable wet moulded fibre, using next-generation robotic technology

Digitally Printed Cartons

Leading brands are increasingly seeking alternatives for traditional carton printing due to increasing demand for shorter, flexible and more sustainable supply chains.

In one of the most significant technological advancements for the packaging industry, digital printing, a recent innovation that’s looking to end minimum order quantity restrictions, has rock-bottom minimum run requirements, reducing order sizes and waste, as there’s no need to hold stock.

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U-bend Industrial Straw®

Our new u-bend industrial straw ® represents a significant design advancement as we have continued to grow our straw business into a position of UK category leadership, supplying most major quick service restaurant brands and recently announcing the bendable/U-bend straw for juice boxes with Ribena.

T-Eco

Transcend has developed our new ‘T – Eco’ home delivery and takeaway container to help advance the state of the art in takeaway packaging. We are working with like-minded companies to source sustainable materials that offer the performance of single-use plastic in an more eco-friendly format.

The Transcend Brand DNA

Transcend’s goal is to create sustainable packaging products that offer a meaningful contribution toward reducing plastic waste as leading brands work to make minimise the ecological impact of their packaging at the end of its useful life. Through our commitment to innovation, disruption and new product development, Transcend is helping promote meaningful change in the packaging industry.

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Making a Difference

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How you can make a difference

Across Transcend and our production process, we are committed to environmental stewardship. From design, materials and methods, we believe in a comprehensive approach to packaging that minimizes environmental impact across the supply chain.

This is how Transcend makes a difference, click below to learn how you can too:

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Newsworthy

Transcend Packaging produces low cost face shield to fight spread of COVID-19

Aug 7, 2020 | News

Sustainable packaging company creates CE-certified PPE face shield for NHS and other key workers The face shield is disposable and inexpensive, providing an extra layer of protection for workers looking to slow the spread of COVID-19 Over a million face shields –...

Transcend doubles down in disruption at Spectator Awards

Oct 19, 2019 | News

Transcend Packaging won both the 2019 Spectator Economic Disruptor Award for North West and Wales and the Runner-Up for Economic Disruptor of the Year, in acknowledgement of the company’s game-changing impact on sustainable packaging.

Transcend goes from strength to strength with BioStraw deal

Sep 22, 2019 | News

Transcend Packaging has acquired the assets of Leeds-based BioStraw. The acquisition will see BioStraw focus on licensing its intellectual property and bringing new products to market.

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Cbeebies – Do You Know

Apr 28, 2020 | Inside Transcend

We are proud to have welcomed Maddie Moate and the CBeebies team to Transcend HQ to feature on CBeebies ‘Do You Know.’ On this episode Maddie demonstrated how paper straws were made. We are delighted to help educate children on how sustainable products are produced....

Transcend Recognised by Chwarae Teg

Jan 9, 2020 | Inside Transcend

The strength of Transcend is our people. To build a great team, we are committed to the values of gender equality and respect within our workforce. We are delighted to be recognised by Chwarae Teg with the ‘Achieving’ Level of the fair play employer award for gender...

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