Weedon Corrugated Products of Audenshaw, Manchester, has passed its recent BRC (British Retail Consortium) audit for quality and food safety at the highest level, level ‘A’. The BRC operates a programme of internationally recognised hygiene standards for the packaging used for food and drink. Accreditation at level ‘A’ means Weedon Corrugated Products’ customers can be 100% confident that the company’s manufacturing processes will deliver top quality corrugated packaging for the food and drink markets.

Weedon Corrugated Products, one of the country’s leading independent manufacturers of corrugated packaging, had previously held BRC accreditation at level ‘C’. The company’s improved performance demonstrates the effectiveness of changes in its management systems since it was acquired by the Weedon Group in 2011. Considerable effort has been spent on streamlining its processes and bringing it up to the standards of the rest of the Group.

Managing Director, John Weedon, commented: “Within the Weedon Group we are dedicated to providing a top quality service to our customers. BRC provides the industry-wide benchmark for food safety and quality and level ‘A’ is the pinnacle for us to aim at when packaging food.

“This accreditation relies on the efficiency of our systems and processes and our attention to detail. It is testimony to the significant improvements that have been introduced at our Manchester factory and to the hard work of all our staff who have adopted new working procedures.”

Weedon Corrugated Products is already accredited to the ISO 9001:2008 quality management standard and by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which guarantees that the company is using timber and forest products produced from well-managed forests.