We have developed our range of products to cater for water based paints, solvents, waxes, pastes, fillers & coatings. Our different packaging solutions offer a variety of features such as folded & printed side seams, tactile warnings, bespoke sizes, non standards or UN approval. We offer bespoke artwork options (IML & labelled & printed) in order to create and promote your brand. We also offer embossing on many of our metal products.
The materials used in these ranges spread through tin plated steel, poly coated steel, PP, PET and HDPE plastics - some of which are suitable for aggressive solvents, and others give perfect product clarity. If you are unsure what packaging may suit your paint or wax application, then please contact one of our team for more advice - or select from one of the ranges below for more product images and information.
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The Dypro Multi-Purpose Dye is made for professional dyers and is available in 24 colours. This year the company launched a larger 750ml tin, supplied by us. The brand’s iconic chameleon emblem stands out on the printed metal tins, eye-catching amongst other competitor brands, and each one carries the Metal Recycles Forever logo, emblazoned on the bottom as a reminder to consumers to make sure they recycle their empty dye can.
The Dypro Multi-Purpose Dye is made for professional dyers and is available in 24 different colours. The dye is suitable for natural fabrics such as cotton, linen, viscose, wool and silk as well as a range of manmade fibres. It can also be used for dying fabric details such as buttons and feathers, making it ideal for costumes and theatrical props.
In August 2019, the brand launched a larger 750ml can. The classic lever lid tin is supplied by P Wilkinson Containers and is produced at our London factory using solar power. It joins the current 500ml product currently available on the market.
The brand’s iconic chameleon emblem stands out on the printed metal tins, eye-catching amongst other competitor brands, and each one carrying the Metal Recycles Forever logo, emblazoned on the bottom as a reminder to consumers to make sure they recycle their empty dye can.
Thorndown Paints, based near Glastonbury in Somerset, is a modern specialist paint manufacturer creating interior and exterior wood and innovative, peelable glass paint.
Founded by husband and wife team, Ben Thornborough and Caroline Thornborough, Thorndown’s brand is heavily inspired by its West Country heritage and its 48 colour palette is named after local fauna and flora and heritage spots in Somerset.
The company needed a reliable and nimble packaging supplier that could meet the demands of increasing product orders.
Thorndown’s eco-friendly, water-based paints are non-toxic, virtually VOC-free (volatile organic compounds) and halogen-free. The wood paint has long-lasting UV protection and can be diluted to create a stained effect. Made from 100 per cent recycled plastics, the peelable glass paint can be used straight onto glass surfaces and simply removed by peeling it off.
It was important Ben Thornborough – Thorndown that the paint’s packaging represented the same ethos as the company – easy to use and environmentally friendly.
To fit this brief, P. Wilkinson Containers’ London factory produced unique metal cans which have a wider diameter of 176mm than a standard 2.5 litre can, making it easier for decorators, DIYers and tradesman to dip a brush into the paint. The cans also have more air space above the paint level making it easier to mix and stir the paint inside when open.
The team also created a special embossing tool which allowed the paint’s logo to be stamped on all sizes of paint can lids from the smallest 150ml to 750ml and 2.5 litres. The manufacturing line also applies the digitally printed labels, which have a velvety, tactile finish and features Thorndown’s iconic fox or crab motif, to each paint can.
“P. Wilkinson Containers’ ability to turn around packaging within a three-week period, half the time of other suppliers, has been essential to the growth of Thorndown Paints. We are able to order smaller quantities of packaging as and when we needed it, saving on valuable storage space,” Ben Thornborough, Thorndown Paints, Managing Director.
Wilkinson Containers is able to hold packaging on-site at its warehouse ready on demand for Thorndown Paints.
We are proud to have been the supplier of choice for Farrow & Ball Paints since well before thier very first printed tins many many years ago. We have worked with closely to ensure consitant quality and supply through all their dramatic stages of growth. All of our tins are manufactured in our London factory (William Say).
Edward Bulmer Natural Paint have designed a range of water-based, natural paint colours available today, which are inspired by the founder’s interior design background within heritage properties. The paint collection uses non-toxic paint formulations avoiding the use of petrochemicals making them safer and healthier to use. In line with the founder’s environmental ethos, the company were looking for a paint can which was totally plastic free.
William Say helped design and manufacture two improved paint cans, 2.5L and 5L, for Edward Bulmer. Firstly, to enable the company to use an entirely plastic free can, William Say was able to offer a metal handle as well as the can body and the team worked with the client to adjust the specifications of the cans so that they could be used by paint mixing-shaker machines.
Previously, Edward Bulmer had used white tins which were then labelled, so to improve manufacturing efficiency, time and reduce packaging costs, William Say’s cans use pre-printed tinplate which are already branded with the company’s eye-catching leaf design. As well as manufacturing the tins, P Wilkinson Containers also holds a supply of the bespoke tinplate ready for manufacturing, enabling Edward Bulmer to order new stock at short notice.
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2019 certainly felt like a year of change – at the very least, the start of what could be a really important shift in the way both
Peggy Staniforth joined P. Wilkinson Containers & William Say in 1958 at the age of 35 and has touched three generations over the time spent with us.
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