Decades of packaging experience,
decades of packaging excellence.

For more than twenty-five years, First Circle Packaging has supported customers across the UK and Ireland with rigid plastic packaging built on experience, investment and care. Across our four sites, our skilled team combines specialist knowledge with hands on expertise, delivering reliable packaging solutions.

Meet the team

Bottle making driven by history.

Our story began in 1999, when Nampak brought two long running UK bottle makers, Plysu and Blowmocan, together to create a business rooted in rigid plastic packaging.

For many years, our expertise was built around the dairy sector, producing high volume, reliable bottles for some of the UK and Ireland’s best known names. Today, that same experience supports customers across a much wider range of industries, from food and drink to homecare, personal care and industrial packaging.

In 2020, we became First Circle Packaging Ltd, marking the next chapter of the business. Our name changed, our capabilities continued to grow and our focus expanded, but the craft remained the same: specialist packaging, made by experienced people, across four trusted sites.

In a world where plastic packaging has never been more important but has never seen more scrutiny, we believe the key to progression of any kind is a combination of courage, skill, hard work and partnership.

We are constantly striving for innovation, looking for smarter ways to improve our packaging, refine our processes and raise standards across the business.
By making the most of both our own resources and those of our partners, we create high quality packaging
that is efficient, reliable and built to perform in the real world.

Courage.
Being willing to challenge what packaging looks like today, and to keep pushing for better tomorrow.
Skill.
Decades of packaging experience across our UK and Ireland sites, applied with care to every bottle we make.
Hard work.
A specialist team that puts in the careful, hands on work every single day to deliver the right result.
Partnership.
Working closely with our customers to use resources wisely, solve problems well and create packaging that works for everyone.

Why First Circle?

From trusted products and practical innovation to sustainability and careers, everything we do is built around creating better packaging for our customers and a stronger business for the future.

Packaging built to protect and perform
From dairy and food to homecare, personal care and industrial sectors, we supply reliable rigid plastic packaging designed around the needs of each customer, product and production environment.
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Focus on sustainability
Every bottle produced at First Circle Packaging is 100% recyclable and we aim to use at least 30% recycled material in every product we produce. We are constantly investing in efficient processes to reduce our energy consumption and environmental impact, and our aim is to deliver zero-to-landfill.
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Built by passionate people
Our business is powered by experienced, hands-on people across four UK and Ireland sites. We invest in talent, support development and create opportunities for people who want to grow with a business that is always moving forward.
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Always looking to the future
Innovation runs through everything we do, from product development and manufacturing improvements to making better use of space, materials and resources. We are always working to improve quality, efficiency and the value we deliver to our partners.
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