October means "pumpkin month" at our Hinckley, UK site!

We've manufactured big display containers and boxes to help transport and sell pumpkins for many years. A few years ago we heard that farmers were having difficulty quickly deciding which pumpkins had grown sufficiently to meet the requirements of their multiple retail clients. Hinckley design department were challenged to create a solution and they did not disappoint.

You can see in the image below - taken from the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph - that if the pumpkin fits through the template, it's not big enough and is then left to grow for a few more days. 

The pumpkins going into DS Smith corrugated boxes typically weigh 30 kilogrammes each. But that’s nothing compared to the world record for the heaviest pumpkin - an astonishing 1193 kilogrammes!