Seafood

Polystyrene – also known as expanded polystyrene (EPS) or Styrofoam – has traditionally been used by the seafood sector to pack and distribute fresh fish and seafood. As a material that is not only cheap and lightweight; its insulation properties mean it’s been a seafood sector packaging go-to for decades. The news, therefore, that France […]

The fishing industry has traditionally been reliant on polystyrene or EPS fish boxes to transport and distribute fish across its supply chains. As a material that combines low cost with high insulation properties, it is the go-to seafood packaging material that has been used for decades.

For seafood processors, and anyone within the fishing industry that needs to transport or distribute fish and seafood, polystyrene boxes has always been the go to choice. Here in the UK alone, it is estimated that there are in excess of 22 million polystyrene boxes for fish and seafood used annually across the UK seafood sector.

Coolseal is the leading alternative to traditional polystyrene fish packaging boxes for the fishing and seafood industries. With polystyrene historically being the go-to material used to transport fish, we have seen a shift over the last few years to more sustainable and more economical packaging alternatives.

Grimsby is a town that’s long been synonymous with the fishing industry. Today, it remains one of the biggest seafood processing destinations in the UK, and is a place where Coolseal is making a huge impact in moving the fishing industry away from the use of polystyrene boxes, to a more sustainable and 100% recyclable fish box alternative.