Wrexham entrepreneur’s breakthrough in frozen food delivery

A Wrexham businessman has designed an innovative and environmentally-friendly way to deliver food parcels. David Jones, managing director of temperature-control packaging company IcerTech, based on Wrexham’s Industrial Estate, has created the UK’s first all-cardboard insulated mail order box following calls from food producers for environmentally-friendly boxes suitable for posting chilled and frozen products to customers.

Most insulated boxes keep their contents cold by having thick polystyrene or foam liners inside the box, but the new style box uses corrugated cardboard liners and tests prove it is just as good at keeping contents cold.

The packaging industry has been seeking alternatives to polystyrene and foam boxes and liners for years, and IcerTech’s research and development department has become the first to develop an alternative.

IcerTech currently employs 10 people and has a £50,000 turnover, which it expects to double this year thanks to advance orders and growing interest in its cold chain packaging.

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