UK paper packaging from Alma Park, Grantham, since 1967
A 50-year, third-generation family business making branded paper packaging for restaurants, delis, farm shops and supermarkets. The video walks through BRCGS-certified production, solar-powered presses, rainwater harvested for press wash-down, and waste heat from the compressor warming the building.
A 3-minute walkthrough — what we make, how we make it, and the sustainability work behind every product.
Grantham Manufacturing is a 50-year-old third-generation family business started by my grandad, then taken over by my dad, and now more recently, me and my brother. So you'll come across Grantham Manufacturing's products if you are at a restaurant and someone serves you a lovely tasty burger, and it's on a bit of branded paper, and that branding is facing up at you. That's what we're about.
Our customers range from independently owned farm shops and delis to some of the larger high street shops and restaurants and supermarkets.
Part of the business is really to push and drive for excellence. It's something that we've built our model on since the very inception of the business. Achieving BRC was a huge part of the business. BRC is a national recognized standard, helping us benefit the customer by adhering to quality procedures, making sure that our product that we produce is to a high standard.
We're well-located in the country, so distribution is really good. Buying from a UK manufacturer will give you a lot of flexibility with lead times, the cost of transport, as well as a significantly lower carbon footprint.
Sustainability is a huge part of this business. Our raw materials are sourced from sustainable forests. Since we've moved to the new site, we've been able to massively improve our efficiencies here, and with that, we'll hopefully be able to pass that on to the customer.
On a good day, approximately 50% of the energy that we need to run our machines comes off the solar panels on our roof. A lot of the wash down for the printing presses uses water that we have harvested from the roof. The waste heat from the compressor that we have is also used to heat the building.
The manufacturing facility that we have is very green, as well as the products that we manufacture because they are also biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable.
As part of the Grantham Manufacturing culture here, we like to pride ourselves in dealing with the smaller customers and the larger customers, and it's important that we have that relationship with yourselves where we can understand what you need and reflect that in the product that we produce. We have retained customers that have been with us for a long time. They've seen our growth. We've grown with them. We've been able to develop products for them. So I think it's that knowledge and that wealth of experience that we've amassed over the years that we've been trading that can help hold your hand through the process from start to finish.
Grantham Manufacturing is a 50-year-old third-generation family business started by my grandad, then taken over by my dad, and now more recently, me and my brother. So you'll come across Grantham Manufacturing's products if you are at a restaurant and someone serves you a lovely tasty burger, and it's on a bit of branded paper, and that branding is facing up at you. That's what we're about.
Our customers range from independently owned farm shops and delis to some of the larger high street shops and restaurants and supermarkets.
Part of the business is really to push and drive for excellence. It's something that we've built our model on since the very inception of the business. Achieving BRC was a huge part of the business. BRC is a national recognized standard, helping us benefit the customer by adhering to quality procedures, making sure that our product that we produce is to a high standard.
We're well-located in the country, so distribution is really good. Buying from a UK manufacturer will give you a lot of flexibility with lead times, the cost of transport, as well as a significantly lower carbon footprint.
Sustainability is a huge part of this business. Our raw materials are sourced from sustainable forests. Since we've moved to the new site, we've been able to massively improve our efficiencies here, and with that, we'll hopefully be able to pass that on to the customer.
On a good day, approximately 50% of the energy that we need to run our machines comes off the solar panels on our roof. A lot of the wash down for the printing presses uses water that we have harvested from the roof. The waste heat from the compressor that we have is also used to heat the building.
The manufacturing facility that we have is very green, as well as the products that we manufacture because they are also biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable.
As part of the Grantham Manufacturing culture here, we like to pride ourselves in dealing with the smaller customers and the larger customers, and it's important that we have that relationship with yourselves where we can understand what you need and reflect that in the product that we produce. We have retained customers that have been with us for a long time. They've seen our growth. We've grown with them. We've been able to develop products for them. So I think it's that knowledge and that wealth of experience that we've amassed over the years that we've been trading that can help hold your hand through the process from start to finish.
Five decades of innovation and resilience
Established in 1967 providing diecut shapes of release papers for food and self adhesive tape interleaving. This die-cutting service evolved in the early 70's into gaskets and joints for the plumbing and heating equipment suppliers and manufacturers. By the late 70's the management of GML was taken on by the second generation who began evolving the paper converting part of the business to include products for Industrial and Retail Packaging.
A two colour flexo press and wax coating machine were acquired in 1981 and Printed Waxed Breadwrap was added to GML's range of products. Being printers and coaters of papers, the product range was able to expand. Coupled with investment in high speed sheeting and slitting equipment, a programmable guillotine and two 4 colour flexo presses the 80's was a period of expanding GML's relationship with independent packaging merchants alongside its investment in the skills base of the workforce.
Always taking an opportunity to innovate production techniques to fit a new market place, a range of protective meat wrappers was introduced in the early 90's with GML expanding its end user customer base into France and Germany, winning in 1996 an Export Achievement Award.
Riding many a storm over the next decade, a significant way-post in the life of GML was in 2012 when the first of the 3rd generation of the family joined the business making growth of its exciting Deliwraps customer base possible.
2015 started with the expectation of a further growth in output but this was halted in May of that year with a fire which destroyed the production unit and most of its converting machinery. A combination of vision and self-belief turned this near disaster into re-establishing production over the ensuing 4 months in locally rented premises whilst planning the build of a new, more purpose designed factory.
In 2018 all production was re-located into the new factory, boasting ground source heating, an array of solar pv panels, rain water harvesting and an integral warehouse.
The Management strength was further enhanced in 2020 with the joining of a second of the 3rd generation of the family.
The arrival of 2021 was marked by certification to the coveted ISO 9001:2015 Standard, testament to the Management and Employees steadfast belief in the GML of today and the GML of tomorrow. To finish off a difficult year GML was also awarded with the BRC Packaging & Packaging Materials standard.
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