Comprehensive packaging solutions

Your Packaging Partner Across Product, Process and Purpose

McLaren Packaging Group unites a family of expert businesses, each focused on delivering exceptional paper-based packaging for the UK’s food, drinks and premium goods sectors.

Whether you’re looking for standout shelf appeal, engineered product protection or robust transit performance, our group offers a complete solution designed, manufactured and delivered in Scotland.

As a group, we support your ambitions with innovation, quality and a shared commitment to sustainability.

Trusted by leading brands

Deep Roots in the Drinks Industry

Our legacy began in Scotland’s spirits sector, supplying packaging to the country’s leading distilleries. That foundation continues to guide us today as we serve many of the UK’s most respected drinks & luxury brands.

With over four decades of expertise and a network of trusted partnerships, we are trusted for our innovation, technical expertise and high-quality standards, whether you need packaging that elevates, protects or connects with consumers.

Our Companies – Connected by Purpose

McLaren Presentation

Specialists in presentation-led formats including luxury tubes, rigid boxes and cartons. Where aesthetics and sustainability go hand in hand.

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Corrugated cardboard product tray on display in the packaging factory

McLaren Corrugate

Suppliers of corrugated packaging for protection and display. Focused on supply chain resilience, high recycled content and precision manufacturing.

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McLaren Divisions

Manufacturers of solid board and corrugated divisions and fitments, built to protect high-value goods in transit and storage. Precision-engineered, performance-driven.

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Sustainable. For Life.

We understand the pressure to demonstrate progress on sustainability. That’s why we embed environmental responsibility across every stage of our process—from raw material sourcing to carbon reporting and energy use.

Our group-wide approach to sustainable packaging helps customers reduce emissions, minimise waste and improve recyclability, without compromising performance or brand integrity.

We invest in low-carbon production, renewable energy and responsible forestry standards to help our clients reach their goals.

Take a look at some figures from just one of our solar installations which helps to power the manufacture of our cardboard corrugate and tubes:

150

times larger solar install than average UK residential home

398

kwh of electricity produced per year by McLaren Packaging (enough to power 161 homes)

153

tonnes of carbon prevented from being released into the atmosphere each year

Sustainable. For Life

The McLaren Packaging Experience

Experience packaging design, innovation and manufacturing in an immersive and unique way.

We actively encourage creative collaboration between our experienced teams as we guide you through the development process from concept to delivery.

Through this collaborative approach and knowledge transfer, we bring to life your new packaging design - on brief, on time and within budget.

Let’s shape the future of packaging, together.

We have worked with McLaren Packaging now for a number of years for everything from corrugated whisky cases through to high end presentation boxes. The products they supply have always made the grade and continue to impress both us as the customer in terms of lead times and design assistance and the clients we have worldwide in customer satisfaction. Along with many thousands of cartons at a time, we also have a frequent requirement for small numbers of high end items of packaging that McLaren can handle equally well in a timely fashion. Increasingly as the business grows, the need for a one stop shop has become apparent and with one supplier and one point of contact to work through, it has made a huge difference to the success of meeting orders in turbulent times. With a fast turnaround from the design phase through to delivery McLaren make the grade."

Founder & Owner, Scotch Whisky Distillery

Bringing a completely new product to market is never easy, however McLaren's have taken all the hard work and made it look simple. Their support on product specification, colour attainment & on line co-packer quality has been fantastic. As a family run business, they have no functional silos, offer a very hands on approach which I love."

Head of Packaging, UK Drinks Company

We have been successfully sourcing divisions from Interlok divisions for well over 20 years and we have found them to be a dependable partner who can be relied upon to deliver on time, in full and with no quality defects. Despite the problems of a global pandemic Interlok still continued to supply to the same high levels and their experienced team at Port Glasgow show a passion for what they do."

Category Purchasing Manager, Global Drinks Group

We have worked with Compack for over 20 years now. The reason for the long partnership is that their attention to detail is incredible. The quality of boxes and consistency of colours that we receive is the best we have seen. The team are also very attentive and will always do what they can to help us out. It is rare to find a supplier that will produce consistently high quality products over such a long period but Compack have done that for us.”

Owner and Director, International Food Company

We have been working together with Duncan and his team at Blue Box Design for over 12 years now and we continue to build on this great relationship. Our aim with Blue Box Design was to create a luxurious high end presentation box which would showcase our luxury product, to our global markets – this has certainly been the case."

Operations Director, Luxury Fabric Brand