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MarvinH

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • England
Insulated box's
« on: July 25, 2012, 11:27:46 am »
Can anyone reccomend supplier or type of insulated box to post half butchered lamb.
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shropshire_blue

  • Joined Nov 2011
  • Dorset BH21
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Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 12:53:12 pm »
We've been looking into this for Lou's new business.


We found two options - cardboard with polystyrene liner or cardboard with wool liner.  Polystyrene is cheaper, but obviously we are going for the wool with ice packs.


The wool one is from the wooly shepherd in Somerset.


Hope that helps...

Factotum

  • Joined Jun 2012
Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2012, 08:32:50 pm »
A source of polystyrene boxes here:

http://www.jbpackaging.co.uk/polystyrene-boxes.html

They sell gel packs too.

HTH

Sue

woollyval

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Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2012, 10:32:09 pm »
As the founder of the Woolly Shepherd and one of the first people to work out how insulated wool packaging actually works all I can do is say that if you go with the wool you will not regret it! If you collect and re use your boxes you will be able to re use the liners many times, however if you need to send them with no possibility of a return and reuse, put a leaflet in the box saying what the purchaser can do with their wool, will make customers really value the packs if they see they can be used for a variety of other things, such as hanging basket liners, upholstery wadding, hot water bottle wadding in quilted covers, etc!
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shropshire_blue

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Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 11:52:07 pm »
Ahhh, Val, I wondered if it was you...  We've just ordered some samples from you and are going to be posting things to family at varying distances to see if we can keep stuff frozen.


Cheers,
Neil
 (husband of Lou @ The Vintage Kitchen)

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 06:34:00 am »
 www.advanced-pp.co.uk/   Made to measure :fc:

woollyval

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Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 10:33:35 pm »
Ahhh, Val, I wondered if it was you...  We've just ordered some samples from you and are going to be posting things to family at varying distances to see if we can keep stuff frozen.


Cheers,
Neil
 (husband of Lou @ The Vintage Kitchen)

Not me anymore unfortunately as I broke up the main WoollyShepherd business last year and sold the part with the name to a local partnership who now do the insulation side of things and woolly clouds n stuff. Now concentrating on other woolly stuff!
www.valgrainger.co.uk

Overall winner of the Devon Environmental Business Awards 2009

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2012, 02:20:27 am »
[quote =woollyval
Not me anymore unfortunately as I broke up the main WoollyShepherd business last year and sold the part with the name to a local partnership who now do the insulation side of things and woolly clouds n stuff. Now concentrating on other woolly stuff!

That wasn't the people on CountryFile was it?

woollyval

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Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2012, 08:27:01 pm »
Urmmmm fraid so.....I spent half an hour persuading CF researcher to feature it!
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Overall winner of the Devon Environmental Business Awards 2009

MarvinH

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • England
Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2012, 07:25:54 pm »
Had a look around the website links suggested, thankyou. Though what kind of internal dimensions would be needed for half lamb say aprox 10kg?? thanks
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woollyval

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Re: Insulated box's
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2012, 08:30:56 pm »
You would need what they would know as a Riverford medium box and you would need to put ice packs in x 2 of the sort that look like ice cubes (you soak them in water then freeze)
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