Paper and Packaging


The paper and packaging industries are among the most specialised in manufacturing business today. The importance of remaining lowest cost producer whilst maintaining quality in this predominantly commodity market has led to many plants being closed down or moved overseas to lower cost environments. Organisations are increasingly creating niche markets where the slightest increase in margin can be the difference between survival and failure.

What we do


Newton has considerable experience working with paper and packaging manufacturing organisations to realise value from existing operations, and by so doing, enhancing their operational performance and financial delivery. We are proud of our factual achievements made whilst working with experienced and professional in-house teams.

Specific processes


Our consultants have experience of increasing paper machine efficiencies in tissue, paper and boxboard environments. This includes stock-limited and machine-limited processes, within the UK, Europe and the North America.

  • Converting and finishing – these value-adding processes frequently have to deal with imperfections from paper machines as well as the line effect of downtime across multiple in line machines.
  • Printing – print quality, short run lengths and paper quality requirements make world class productivity levels difficult to achieve.
  • Corrugating – in one of the most commodity driven paper sectors high productivity and low costs are essential in an aggressive international market place.
  • Laminating and coating – combining paper with often advanced polymer and chemical processes makes achieving low waste and high efficiency a significant challenge.
Newton has worked with our clients to substantially improve the operational performance of each of these processes.

For more information on our work, please contact us.

"I did not believe this was possible – in fact no one here thought we could achieve this. It has massive implications for me and my business"
– Mill Manager