James Cropper

James Cropper

James Cropper is a world-class advanced materials and paper products group, with an operational reach in over 50 countries. Using materials from cotton and wood to carbon fibre we support industries from packaging to digital imaging and aerospace with products that are at the cutting edge of performance.

Colourform is James Cropper’s multi-awarding winning moulded pulp packaging innovation. Experts in our field, we deliver a full packaging service direct to brands.

Our design led process creates a truly bespoke solution that is both mono-material and plastic-free, responding to the needs of premium brands who want to deliver a quality, unique and sustainable customer experience.

With almost two centuries of knowledge and expertise, our personalised design, unique colour capability and customised decoration set us apart from convention.

Based in the English Lake District, we supply distinct, custom-made speciality paper products and packaging for many of the world’s leading luxury brands and designers.

The business is renowned globally for service, capability, pioneering and multi award-winning commitment to the highest standards of sustainability.

James Cropper’s goal is to be operationally carbon neutral by 2030 and to reduce carbon through its entire supply chain to net zero by 2050.

Products

Floral Street Pulp Box

Floral Street Pulp Box

Floral Street presented us with a fantastic conceptual idea and a great technical and creative challenge. They wanted to change the way perfume is presented, challenge the notoriously lavish over-packaging

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Wainwright Colours from Nature

Wainwright Colours from Nature

The Wainwright Colours from Nature collection is a coloured paper range made using dye derived from plant extract that would otherwise be wasted. The first two shades, Limestone and Herdwick

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Rydal Apparel

Rydal Apparel

Innovative papermaker, James Cropper, is giving used jeans new life as beautiful paper for packaging with its new Rydal Apparel range. Never before has worn denim been used in modern

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Chloe Parfum Packaging

Chloe Parfum Packaging

James Cropper has partnered with one of the luxury beauty market’s most notable names. The collaboration with Coty has elevated the circularity of packaging for Chloé fragrances, with the Chloé

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Dom Ruinart Chalk Wrap

Dom Ruinart Chalk Wrap

In 2020, Ruinart revolutionised its packaging with the new second skin case, which now envelops all its bottles. This sustainable innovation required two years of research and development. Today, it

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Mulberry Green

Mulberry Green

Mulberry Green is the brand’s signature shade and also emblematic of their commitment to social responsibility. The bespoke Mulberry Green colour was created at the mill in 2015, working jointly

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Dries Van Noten Fragrance

Dries Van Noten Fragrance

The Dries Van Noten fragrance glass bottle is protected by Colourform’s bespoke pulp mould with precision lines and soft edges. A silhouette of the bottle, the wrap packaging is beautiful

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Ulé Packaging for Shiseido

Ulé Packaging for Shiseido

Shiseido is the latest cosmetics brand to work with James Cropper, to deliver its responsible packaging strategy, as the beauty house launches Ulé, an innovative eco-conscious skincare brand. Using FibreBlend

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Lancôme, La Vie Est Belle

Lancôme, La Vie Est Belle

The Lancôme, La Vie Est Belle, Domaine de la Rose packaging follows the distinctive shape of the bottle and leaf shape ribbon. The very fine emboss detail results in textured

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Rydal Packaging Collection

Rydal Packaging Collection

THE NATURAL PAPER CHOICE FOR PREMIUM PACKAGING High value and luxury products are expected to look beautiful, be functional, and also be environmentally and socially responsible. It is important for

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News

THE DOM RUINART CHALK WRAP STORY

THE DOM RUINART CHALK WRAP STORY

Inspired by Colourform’s ‘Second Skin’ pulp packaging cases, Maison Ruinart collaborated again revealing a fresh facet of innovation with the chalk wrap or ‘ROCK’ enveloping its Dom Ruinart 2010 vintage champagne bottles.

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