Funding For Packaging And Converting Businesses
Machinery, working-capital and expansion finance for corrugation, flexible and rigid packaging units — a machine-heavy business selling to customers who pay slowly.
How funding works in this sector
Packaging is a converting business, which means two things financially. First, raw material — kraft paper, polymer film, resin, ink — is a very large share of the cost, and its price moves without asking. Second, the plant is expensive: a printing, lamination or corrugation line is a serious capital item bought before the volume that justifies it exists.
Customers make it harder. Packaging supplies FMCG, pharma and e-commerce companies — good names, reliable payers, and slow ones. A converter therefore funds its own material, runs an expensive plant, and waits.
Where the money gets stuck
- Kraft paper, film and resin bought at a price that may not hold until the invoice is raised
- Minimum run sizes, which force stock a customer will draw down over months
- Printing cylinders, dies and tooling paid for at the start of a customer programme
- Credit to FMCG, pharma and e-commerce buyers on their standard terms
- Scrap and wastage, which in converting is a real cost rather than a rounding error
What lenders get wrong, and what we do about it
- Raw-material price movement is read as poor margin control when it is a pass-through that lags by a quarter — the file has to show the lag
- A new line is assessed against current turnover instead of the customer approval and the volume it unlocks
- Cylinders and tooling are treated as consumables when they are programme-linked capex and belong on a term structure
- Approved-vendor status with a large FMCG or pharma customer is a credit strength and rarely makes it into the file
Talk to someone who knows the cycle
Tell us the requirement and how your business actually gets paid. We will come back within one working day with the facilities that fit — and say so plainly if debt is the wrong instrument for what you are trying to do.
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The facilities that fit a packaging unit
Every product we arrange is available to this sector. These are the ones its cash-flow shape actually calls for.
Funding for your packaging & converting business
Tell us the amount, the purpose and how your customers pay you. A funding specialist will call back within 24 hours — no obligation, and no advance fee at any stage.