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Industry news KITE PACKAGING ENTERS THIRD YEAR OF CARBON NEUTRALITY March 2023 brought renewed confirmation of carbon neutrality for Kite Packaging Group Limited from Carbon Neutral Britain. In 2022, Kite achieved carbon neutral status under Scopes 1 and 2, extending their offsetting to also include third-party deliveries under Scope 3. Following on from last year, the employee share-owned company has maintained this, successfully offsetting a total of 1338 tonnes of CO2e emissions, far exceeding their emissions for the year. All Kite trucks and outbound deliveries made by third-party couriers have been offset and are therefore carbon neutral. The company is continuing to operate with carbon neutral delivery, whether that is between Kite’s NDC and RDCs or directly to their customers and will be shown on customer delivery notes. The employee share-owned company avoided a further 198 CO2e by using renewable energy in their operation, having fitted solar panels at their new premises in Puma Park, Coventry. This is in keeping with their ambitions to use renewable energy for electrical consumption. Kite Packaging remains committed to environmental causes, collectively effecting meaningful change that helps us care for the wellbeing of our planet. To find out more about the products and services available at Kite Packaging, please visit www.kitepackaging.co.uk. Catch up on all the latest in our news round up PINTAIL CANDLES MARKS 30TH ANNIVERSARY Pintail Candles is celebrating a significant birthday this year. The company has been making fine fragranced candles in the South Lakeland countryside for 30 years. Director James Long started the business in 1993 at a time when the candle market was dominated by big manufacturers and the number of small boutique candle makers could be counted on one hand. His first workshop was in a basement and his first range was a collection of pillar and taper candles. After a couple of years, he moved to a converted milking parlour and took on his first employee. It was at this time that Pintail Candles became one of the first candle makers in the UK to produce candle tins, a product which they have been associated with ever since. With a growing business, his wife Fiona joined the firm full time and Pintail Candles moved again to its current location in Flookburgh, a small fishing village where cockles, mussels and the famous Morecambe Bay shrimps are harvested. It is also home to the beautiful and colourful pintail duck which inspired the name of their company. Over the succeeding years they pioneered the concept of an occasions candle and when cocktails were all the rage, Pintail was the first to make cocktail candles in a tin. James explains that their success has been in blending traditional candle making with contemporary fragrances and styling. “Although the company has grown, we still individually hand pour our candles. This creates a beautiful finish on the candle with a fragrance throw that fills a room with scent, all the way to the end of the burn,” he says. Fiona describes their ethos as sourcing everything as close to home as possible and supporting their local area: “We were lucky to grow up in the South Lakes of Cumbria and we wanted our business to remain in the area to provide local jobs. We use local designers and printers and most of raw materials, tins and wicks come from the UK.” Pintail Candles now sells its candles all over the UK, from the Shetland Islands to the Channel Isles as well as to Europe and various points around the globe. Fiona and James would like to thank their customers for their support over the year, many of whom have been stocking their candles for nearly as long as they have been making them. www.pintailcandles.com 8

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