It sounds like the start of a tough pub quiz: what links Mars ice cream, Covid tests, PG Tips’ pyramid teabags, and the circular glucose-monitoring patches increasingly stuck on Britons’ arms?
The answer is a maker of niche packaging machines, Mpac. The Aim-listed firm designs and builds complicated, often bespoke devices for factories. Over the years, that has included the kit that packs 12 Mars ice creams into a box per second, the equipment that packed Unilever’s pyramid-shaped teabags in the 1990s, and, more recently, the kit that helped scale up pandemic virus testing.
Blue-chip customers use Mpac now to organise the packaging machinery for products as diverse as contact lenses, drinks and asthma inhalers.
The company, which recently opened a new corporate headquarters
