Ever left the milk out of the fridge in warm weather and it’s gone off? Annoying isn’t it. Milk is like any product from a cold chain supply industry – always at risk from unmonitored temperature changes. Well, Caps & Closures has come up with a clever solution called ThermoShield to solve the problem.

With the recent easing of COVID-19 restrictions, we at Caps & Closures have also updated how we operate. Our primary concern is still and always is protecting the health, safety, and well-being of our employees, customers, and suppliers. We will continue to monitor the situation and rely on the Department of Health communications. We feel a great responsibility to assist in limiting the spread of COVID-19 while ensuring we provide business continuity to our customers.

Today local manufacturers face unprecedented challenges through the unpredictability of the new “Covid-normal”, causing chaos with our supply chains. At Caps and Closures, we see this as an exciting opportunity to buy local and boost the local manufacturing industry.

Since 2013, when Coca-Cola replaced its logo with people’s names and invited the entire UK to ‘Share a Coke’ there’s been a huge buzz around ‘personalisation’. With 150 million personalised bottles sold in the UK alone, it’s a small wonder. Consumers also quickly warmed to ‘Get well soon’ labels on Heinz Soups and ‘Snickers’ replacing its logo with single word emotions like ‘Bored’. It’s all about creating that deeper connection. Going way beyond packaging, from that simple love-heart in your daily coffee fix to making your face the centre of the Bitmoji ‘avatar’ world, personalisation is now all-pervasive. In fact, it’s gone hyper.

In the words of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. In our present challenging times, resembling for many a Greek tragedy never has this been truer. Now’s the time for us all to sow the seeds of creative thinking across the manufacturing world.