PERTH’S LEADING PRINT & PACKAGING SPECIALIST
Established in 1972, Percival Print & Packaging are a highly experienced and knowledgeable manufacturer of paperboard-based packaging with a reputation for delivering packaging solutions Australia wide.
We value our client’s business and do not just take their orders for granted, instead, we offer a refreshing approach to customer engagement where time honoured values, quality craftmanship and customer focused service ensure a packaging solution is developed to meet our clients’ needs.
PERTH’S LEADING PRINT & PACKAGING SPECIALIST
Established in 1972, Percival Print & Packaging are a highly experienced and knowledgeable paperboard-based packaging manufacturer synonymous with the manufacturing of high-quality Folding Cartons and Pharmaceutical Pamphlets Australia wide.
We value our client’s business and do not just take their orders for granted, instead, we offer a refreshing approach to customer engagement where time honoured values, quality craftmanship and customer focused service ensure a packaging solution is developed to meet our clients’ needs.
SPECIALISED PRINT SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR INDUSTRY
Our packaging experience includes all aspects of Soft folding and Corrugated packaging, extending across the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector including Food, Beverage, Health & Beauty, Pharmaceutical and other industrial packaging.
THE PERCIVAL PROCESS
From initial customer engagement to delivery of the final product, the Percival Process guarantees quality and
instills confidence that the final product will showcase your product above your competitors.
1. PLAN
2. PRICE
3. PROTOTYPE
4. PERFECT
5. PRINT
6. PACKAGE
SPECIALISED PRINT SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR INDUSTRY
Our knowledge and experience of paperboard-based packaging solutions extend across Food, Beverage,
Pharmaceutical, Food Service, Health & Beauty and other industries.
ABOUT US
OUR EXPERIENCE IS
YOUR ADVANTAGE
We produce a wide variety of commercial print and packaging for a large number of companies throughout Australasia within the Food & Wine, Health, Beauty, Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical industries.
In August 1972, George and Heather Percival founded George Percival Printers, operating with a small printing press from their basement garage at their home in Trigg WA. This small family business soon gained a reputation for producing high quality commercial print and consequent business growth resulted in a move to larger premises at Hector Street, Osborne Park in 1977.
George recognised the demand for custom packaging and began focusing on manufacturing pharmaceutical pamphlets and soft folding cartons. This strategic move became the catalyst for today’s business model and birthed the name Percival Print & Packaging.
As packaging continued to grow and account for an ever-increasing percentage of the business, the factory relocated once again in 1991, to Herdsman Parade, Osborne Park, before moving once more in 2007 to our current premises in East Perth. From humble beginnings in 1972, fast forward 50 years and Percival Print & Packaging are now a highly respected packaging manufacturer delivering packaging solutions Australia wide.
George Percival is sadly no longer with us, but his philosophy of offering a fresh approach to customer engagement with time honoured values and quality craftmanship, focussing on customer service endures. Today, we combine technical precision and attention to detail to ensure that we deliver quality custom-made packaging to our clients.
The foundations of our team are built on individuals who are exceptional, passionate, knowledgeable and value our client’s businesses. Their knowledge and experience of fibre-based packaging extends across various industries including Food, Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Food Service and Health & Beauty.
MEET THE TEAM
COLIN LAMOND
MANAGING DIRECTOR
35 years industry experience
Qualified printer and
Print Management
Grad Cert Business
MAICD.
PAUL LAMB
PRODUCTION MANAGER
37 years industry experience
Certificate of Trade Studies Printing
Machinist
Certificate of Trade Studies Print
Finishing
Cert IV Competitive Manufacturing.
ANTHONY PITTAWAY
SALES DIRECTOR
35 years industry experience,
incl 8 years in Paper Merchanting at
Spicers Paper.
Qualified Print Machinist
Former Director of
Printing Industries of Australia,
& current LIA President in WA..
YEN LIEU
INTERNAL ACCOUNT MANAGER
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING SPECIALIST
Accounts/ Reception
11 years industry experience
Bachelor of Business in Accounting and Finance.
ALAN HOLLIS
ACCOUNT MANAGER
32 years of Print and Account
Management experience gained
across creative agency,
client and manufacturing
environment roles in the UK
and Western Australia
CAM Diploma.
KĀREN SCHAAFSMA
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATOR MANAGER
43 years’ Experience in Printing and
Construction Industries
Cert IV Bookkeeping & Accounting.
SUSTAINABILITY
Percival Print & Packaging support responsible environmental management practises in every facet of our operations ensuring a more efficient, resilient and sustainable supply chain for our customers. Our Environmental Policy facilitates this goal through the use of innovative packaging design, a comprehensive recycling program and the use of sustainable raw materials such as vegetable-based printing inks and FSC certified paperboard.
Sustainable packaging
The primary function of packaging is to contain and protect products from point of manufacture through the supply chain to the retail store or end user, to attract people to buy a product to achieve more sales and to provide product information. “Sustainable packaging” is packaging that performs this function but also has lower Environmental impact compared to existing or conventional packaging
As an APCO member https://www.packagingcovenant.org.au/documents/item/1091 we advocate the covenants 10 sustainable packaging principles: –
Although we apply these principles to our own packaging requirements, we are also committed to upholding the principles in alignment with our packaging design experience providing sustainable packaging solutions for our customers helping them to achieve packaging functionality and meet Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Targets:
- 100% of all Australia’s Packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025
- 70% of Australia’s plastic Packaging will recycled or composted by 2025
- Problematic and Unnecessary single use plastics will be phased out through design, innovation or introduction of alternatives.
Our aim is to encourage companies to only choose FSC certified paperboard for their packaging. The paperboard industry plants more than it harvests and today there are 25% more trees in the developed world than in 1900. Paperboard is biodegradable, renewable and sustainable. Growing and harvesting trees provides jobs while forestry plantations provide clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat and carbon storage. A decline in the demand for paperboard products risks a decline in sustainably managed re-growth forests. Use printed paperboard packaging it is tangible; it is effective in getting your message across and when recycled it will come back to us as paper or paperboard.
FSC WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
The Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) are a global not-for-profit organisation that sets the standards for what a responsibly managed forest is, both environmentally and socially. FSC certified forests must meet rigorous standards, this means FSC certified forests are healthy, and benefit local communities as well as providing jobs for workers.
FSC certification tracks the wood from the forest to the shelf. So, when you see the FSC label on a product, you can be sure that the paper or timber came from responsible sources. FSC helps forests remain thriving environments for generations to come, by helping you make ethical and responsible choices at your local supermarket, bookstore, furniture retailer, and beyond
AWARDS
Percival Print & Packaging understands the importance of today’s packaging requirements and why the look and feel is decisive in gaining our attention to specific products through differentiation and desire. Packaging is one of the most important advertising mediums for selling products of all kinds, the ability of packaging to convey a message is imperative if the product is to be chosen over competing products in a crowded marketplace.
Through continual re investment Percival’s utilise machinery with the very latest technology. The cutting-edge technologies used give us the capabilities to produce the highest quality of print possible.
These high standards have been recognised by our industry peers on many occasions, in 2022 Percival Print & Packaging excelled once more by winning Gold and two Silver awards in the packaging category at the local PICA awards, this was topped by winning Gold at the National Print Awards – Packaging Category the same year.
The below accolades underpin our commitment and reputation for our quality of workmanship, professionalism and customer service.
CERTIFICATION
Percival Print & Packaging are officially accredited with ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 Certification
We have developed an Integrated Management System (IMS) which combines all aspects of our organisation’s systems, processes and standards into one smart system. This central management system allows our business to streamline its management systems as a whole. Our IMS uses the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 standards as a framework allowing our organisation to document and improve our practices to meet and/or exceed the expectations of our customers, stakeholders and Interested Parties. Our management system uses the Plan, Do, Check, and Act method, this approach to process planning supports our strategies for the manufacturing and supply of custom-made paperboard folding cartons and other related printed products.
Recent certification of ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety aligns with our Health & Safety Policy of providing a ‘safe working environment for our staff, contractors, and visitors’.
In layman’s terms this means our packaging products have been manufactured in a safe working environment, to the highest quality standards while reducing our environmental impact.
PACKAGING
OUR WORK IS ON SHOW
FOR ALL TO SEE
Stroll down any aisle of your local supermarket, and you’re likely to see years of expertise right on the shelf in front of you. It’s quite literally a hands-on collection of our work.
FOOD
Retail food packaging covers many applications Including; Dry foods, Dairy, Smallgoods, Seafoods, Fresh produce packaging for vegetables using paperboard-based punnet trays, Baked goods and Frozen ready meals. At Percival’s we understand that the environment in which the product is packed in and/or displayed can impact the integrity of the packaging, that’s why we insist on rigorous testing by our clients to ensure the packaging is fit for purpose and unaffected.
FOOD SERVICE
Percival Print & Packaging have been manufacturing Fast food and Bakeries packaging for decades, we understand the regulatory requirements associated with low migration vegetable-based inks and indirect food contact. Our capabilities in this area covers Simple 2pt, 4pt and 6pt glued cartons, chip cartons, salad boxes, noodle boxes, burger/hotdog clamshells and many different sizes of pre-formed trays.
BEVERAGE
Whether your product is in glass bottles, aluminium cans or plastic bottles containing beer, milk, wine tea, juice or soft drinks we have multi pack wraps, carry packs and gift packs designed to suit. We use a variety of different substrates for beverage applications; however, we recommend a wet strength board which is a high-performing unbleached kraft paperboard engineered for strength to withstand the demands of wet and cold environments.
HEALTH & BEAUTY
The market for Health and Beauty products is vast, extremely competitive, and ever changing. Percival Print and Packaging’s experience in providing packaging solutions to personal-care manufacturers and contract packers help them succeed in their marketplace. Whether it’s applying embellishments such as Foiling and Embossing or using recycled stocks with environment conscious consumers in mind we have a design and stock to suit.
PHARMACEUTICAL
We specialise in manufacturing folding cartons for the pharma industry, our Pharmaceutical folding boxes can include Braille embossing, 2D matrix codes and/or we can also insert into the carton while being folded a pre-folded leaflet. With our experience and strong quality management systems we provide assurance to our clients their packaging complies with all FDA regulatory requirements. Furthermore, we conduct final QA checks when the product passes through the Quality Control Module (Accuchecker) on our Bobst Gluing Machine. This quality control device checks for scratches, blemishes, hickeys and colour variation.
CORRUGATED POS/SRP/MAILING
Ecommerce continues to grow and so does product competition, sourcing your corrugated boxes and ecommerce packaging can help you reduce costs, eliminate transit damage and aid customer retention. While Litho-laminated or corrugated shelf ready packaging (SRP) is ideal for most retail environments, easy to use and cost efficient. Corrugated cardboard Point of Sale displays designed to match your exact requirements can also be a powerful way of increasing sales, brand differentiation and giving your products an edge in increasingly competitive retail spaces.
OTHER INDUSTRIES
There are many other industries using folding cartons for their products from tapware, pens to chalk or air con parts whatever your packaging requirements are, we have a solution.
OTHER SERVICES
Window Patching – we can glue PVC plastic to soft folding or corrugated cartons allowing a visual connection between product and consumer.
Tray Erector – Paper board or micro flute board for pre-formed food trays, Burger clamshells, noodle boxes and salad containers are ideal for environmentally sustainability in the reduction of single use plastics.
Pharmaceutical Pamphlet folding – specialised intricate folding of pharmaceutical pamphlets is perfect for when a large amount of product information or multiple languages are required.
OTHER SERVICES
NOW ITS PRINTED
WHAT NEXT?
Streamline your company’s print storage, Percival Print & Packaging offer clients complete printing & distribution warehousing facilities.
WAREHOUSING & LOGISTICS
Percival Print & Packaging offer a complete inventory management and warehousing service, we can you keep track of real-time stock levels ensuring end to end management of all products stored at our dedicated warehouse. Take the worry out of running out of stock, Limits are set using minimum & maximum stock levels with automatic signaling when minimum stock holding is reached.
COMMERCIAL PRINT
Percival Print and Packaging origins were founded in the Commercial print market, our reputation as a quality printer has been developed since 1972, servicing many government organisations, large corporates and creative agencies with an attention to detail and a commitment to excellence. Whatever your promotional needs and budget, we have the experience and dedication to provide quality printing to your deadlines. Trust us with your next direct mail flyer, corporate brochure, booklet, leaflet or calendar.
LABELS
Labels are synonymous with packaging; Percival Print & Packaging can provide all your label requirements for your products. Labels can be supplied in roll or sheet format, using various label stock substrates suited to various applications with embellishments such as foiling and embossing.
FAQ’s
What are your MOQ’s?
We don’t have minimum order quantities; we can manufacture 1 carton or 1 million cartons.
Can paperboard cartons be composted?
Yes, Paperboard cartons can be composted if suitable systems exist where cartons are collected.
Can paperboard be recycled?
Paper board suitable for recycling must be identified and sorted upon collection, any other paperboard-based packaging not suite for recycling due to sanitary or technical reasons can be composted should suitable systems exist
What is biodegradability?
Biodegradability refers to the process when Organic Material is broken down by Micro-Organisms to produce a mulch which can be used in agriculture and horticulture.
Paper based cartons are ideal for composting because the wood fibre is biodegradable, meaning it can be broken down into a natural state by bacteria using microbial enzymes, thereby producing carbon dioxide, water and compost.
GLOSSARY
To help you to understand packaging & printing terminology, please have a look at our glossary. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
4-COLOUR-PROCESS – the process of combining four basic colours (CMYK) to reproduce all colours of the spectrum when mixed in proper proportion.
2PT, 4PT & 6PT GLUING – a style of tray or carton that is glued in 2, 4 or 6 positions, this allows the item to be glued flat.
AQUEOUS COATING – a clear, fast-drying water-based coating that is used to protect printed pieces, typically applied to the entire printed sheet (usually by the last unit on a printing press).
BLEED – an area of ink or colour that extends past the perimeter of the area to be trimmed.
BOXBOARD – board manufactured from recycled paper and is often brown or grey in colour, mostly used for rigid boxes.
BLIND EMBOSSING – an image pressed onto a sheet without ink or foil.
CALIPER – the thickness of the board usually expressed in microns (1000 micron = 1mm). Paperboard folding cartons are usually 450-800 microns, corrugated cartons are general between 800-3000 microns.
CARRIER BOARD – a package generally used for multiple packaging of cans, bottles and other unit containers, and incorporating a handle or other means of carrying, usual a wet strength board.
CLAMSHELL – a one-piece box with the ability to be entirely closed on itself to house a product.
CMYK – abbreviation for cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black), the four process colours, when combined together in varying proportions can be made to produce the full colour spectrum. In contrast, display devices, such as computers monitors or TVs, typically define colours using RGB method.
CORRUGATED BOARD (CORRUGATED FIBERBOARD) – a paper-based material consisting of a fluted (wavy) corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards, widely used in the manufacture of corrugated boxes and shipping containers.
COUNTER DISPLAY BOX – a box that usually sits on a counter or shelf at a cash register, containing multiple units, and the top of the box folds up and inward to display information about the product.
CREASE – a score or impression in a substrate that facilitates folding and bending.
DIE CUTTING FORME – the tool made to cut and crease the specific shape and size required for your boxes from the appropriate cardboard or corrugated board.
DEBOSSING – a process where the logo or design is slightly pressed into the paper.
DIELINE – a diagram of a package design showing all events, such as folds, creases, cuts, perforations and bleeds.
DIE-CUTTING – the process of cutting the shape of the box out of a larger piece of cardboard.
DPI – considered as “dots per square inch,” a measure of output resolution in relationship to printers, image setters and monitors.
DUST FLAPS – the unglued side flaps that extend and turn down into the carton upon closure to keep dust and other foreign particles out.
EMBOSSING – process of imprinting paper to create a raised pattern or design.
FINISHES – printed paper or board can be coated using machine varnish (matt or gloss), UV varnish (high gloss) or film laminate (high gloss or matt).
FLAP – extension of the side wall panels that, when sealed, close the remaining openings of a box, usually defined by one scoreline and three edges.
FLEXOGRAPHY – type of rotary printing using flexible plates and fast drying, water-based inks.
FLUTE (FLUTING) – the wavy, rippled sheet that fits between two linerboards of a piece of corrugated fiberboard. The most popular are E-flute (1.5mm approx) & B-flute (3mm approx).
FOIL STAMPING – the application of pigment or metallic foil, often gold or silver, to paper where a heated die is stamped onto the foil, making it adhere to the surface leaving the design of the die on the paper.
FOLDING CARTON – a generic term for any style of pack which can be supplied flat.
GLUE FLAP – the flap on the end of a carton that is applied with glue and adhered to the opposite end to form the carton.
GRAIN – the direction of the majority of the fibers in the board.
GREYBACK – The generic name for a duplex board, so called due to the greyish colour on the uncoated side caused by the unbleached recycled content.
GSM – it stands for Grams per Square Metre and gives the density of the board or paper.
IMAGE RESOLUTION – the sharpness of an image; the number of pixels per unit area in an image expressed as dpi (dots per inch).
KRAFT – a paper or board containing unbleached wood fibers (brown in colour).
LAMINATE – to cover with plastic film.
LITHO-LAMINATE – to bond or glue a sheet of paper or paperboard to a fluted board.
MAKEREADY – the work associated with set-up of equipment before running a job.
OFFSET PRINTING (LITHOGRAPHY) – a printing method in which ink is transferred from a plate to a smooth rubber “blanket” roller that transfers the image to paper (or cardboard).
OVERS – the extra printed products delivered to a customer over and above the net amount ordered.
PANEL – a face, side, top or bottom of a box.
PANTONE COLOUR – a library of printing industry standard colours which can be matched and reproduced accurately. Please note that lamination can distort final colour finish.
POP (POS) DISPLAY – the abbreviated name of the Point of Purchase (Point Of Sale) Displays, promotional displays often made of sturdy corrugated board, they have very visible signage and shelve the products they are advertising.
PRESS CHECK – an opportunity for the customer, Graphic Designer, Brand Manager etc. to witness the printing of their product and give feedback to the Printing and Pre-press Departments if necessary.
PMS – the abbreviated name of the Pantone Colour Matching System.
PROOF – any method of testing and verifying artwork prior to production of plates, dies and tooling.
REGISTRATION – the positioning of one process onto another. Registration can affect how the printed sheet looks if the colors do not line up correctly. Registration can affect the die cutting, if the die does not line up correctly to the print.
REVERSE OUT – print that is cut out of the background print revealing a different colour or the board/paper colour behind.
RGB – stands for the colours red, green, and blue. In web design, colours are defined in terms of a combination of these three colours. In contrast, print designers typically define colours using CMYK model.
SBS – stands for Solid Bleached Sulphate – a type of paperboard material commonly used to make box packaging. It is the highest quality and most expensive paper board substrate produced from bleached virgin wood pulp.
SHELF-READY PACKAGING – packaging that goes straight from the factory to point of sale without being unwrapped.
SINGLE WALL BOARD – a board combination comprising of: liner/flute/liner.
SLEEVE – material creased and glued to create a four-sided, rectangular tube that slides over a rigid box.
SLOT – a wide cut or pair of closely spaced parallel cuts including removal of a narrow strip of material made in a fiber board sheet, usually to form flaps without bulges caused by thickness of the material.
STOCK BOXES – cartons produced in larger quantities in advance and broken down into smaller quantities for sale.
STRIPPING – the removal process of the excess board created by windows or the nesting of cartons during die-cutting process.
SUBSTRATE – material onto which the print ink is ultimately applied, such as paper, board etc.
THUMB NOTCH (THUMB CUT) – a semi-circular cut made in the sides of the lid to facilitate its removal from the base of the box.
UV COATING – a high gloss liquid coating bonded and cured with ultraviolet light.
VARNISH – a clear ink applied on-press to printed surfaces for looks and protection.
WINDOW – a die-cut opening in a carton that allows the contents of the packaging to be seen, often covered by transparent film.
PRINT REQUIREMENTS
File Formats – Illustrator, InDesign or press ready pdfs. See table below for more details.
Bleed – Minimum 3mm.
Resolution – Photos should be at least 300dpi for best results. All line art or bitmap images should be 600 dpi or higher. Photos and logos taken from the internet are not acceptable for commercial print a they are typically 72 dpi. Please remember that images should be 300 dpi at actual size and not upscaled when placed into your design.
Colours – Ensure all documents use CMYK colour modes, NOT RGB, Ensure all placed images are CMYK as well, setting your native files to CMYK colour mode does not override the placed image colour modes. If using PMS spot colours, please specify clearly and remove all unused PMS swatches from documents.
PDFs – High Quality or Press Quality required. Before exporting your PDF, please ensure that the colour space is set to CMYK and not RGB in the native programme that you used to create your design. Include trim mark. Include bleed. Embed all fonts. Please supply Photoshop files for all images, including those that are embedded. Please Note: It is not possible for us to make any changes or corrections to PDFs if fonts are not embedded.
Native Files – Package your document together with all links (images, logos ect.) and fonts. Please supply a PDF or Hard Copy as well, for us to compare the document against.
Die Lines – Specify as an appropriately named spot colour that is set as over print & place on a separate layer.
Varnishes – Specify as an appropriately named spot colour that is set as over print & place on a separate layer.
FILE FORMATS WE DON’T ACCEPT
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Word (can be used for text only. No photos, drawings, charts etc.)
TOP NO NO’S WHEN SUPPLYING FILES
- Using images and logos taken from web pages
- Supplying RGB files
- No bleed
- Supplying low res screen PDF’s