Fred Lill
Lil Packaging; Europe’s largest independent producer of ecom packaging, on a mission to eradicate plastics from ecommerce. The company has a reputation for being the most efficient peel & seal packaging plant, producing 40% faster than any other manufacturer.
Winner of the ecommerce innovation award February 2023 – Lil Scented Breezezebox is the world’s first and only fragrance-scented ecom box, thus unboxing experience is no longer limited to the two senses of sight & touch only.
Another world’s first; Lil became the first & only Zero Carbon packaging manufacturer in 2022 with the launch of its new all-renewable-electric manufacturing HQ in Huntingdon. Since paperboard packaging typically represents 6-10% of a health & beauty brand's total carbon footprint, choosing Lil slashes clients carbon footprint 6-10% respectively.
The sustainable paperboard inventions of co-owners Fred Lill [Sales] and brother Barry Lill [Operations] have substituted >20,000 tonnes of single-use plastics from the internet retailing sector. The 3 most famed being:
2008, Lil envelope → paper-based alternative to Jiffy bags……chosen by the world’s largest internet retailer.
2014, Lil Breezebox → a paper voidfill integrated box to eradicate need for polystyrene/plastic voidfill.
2018, Lil bag → the worlds first kraft-paper alternative to polythene mailbags.
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