Food packaging company Aegg Creative Packaging has hired 5 new members including sales director, customer support manager, production director, senior manufacturing engineer and a maintenance engineer to support expanding UK and export demand for PS, PET and PP food pots and bowls.

Also, the company is planning to appoint an additional team in 2018 to support the new 60,000 manufacturing unit located in Eye, Suffolk.

Our new Sales Director, Richard Drayson, brings with him a wealth of experience, having worked in the food industry since gaining a degree in Food Science, with his most recent role working for Annabel Karmel, the baby and toddler food business.  Richard has spent his career working with UK and global retailers including Europe, the Middle East and Australia and will work with Aegg to deliver key sales objectives within the growing business. 

Tonia Stewart, Customer Support Manager, also has years of experience of working within the food industry, supporting both internal and external customers, including international retail customers.  Tonia will be assisting our growing sales team and will also be the main point of contact for our sister service miniAegg, the food packaging service aimed at customers requiring a range of our off-the-shelf products in smaller quantities, from one box upwards. 

Nigel Lawrence, our Production Director, has spent over 38 years developing plastic packaging and devices for pharmaceutical and food applications in various technical roles, managing projects and processes from first concepts through to routine and ongoing production.  Nigel is overseeing the development of the new manufacturing facility at Eye, Suffolk, which he says will be a ‘world class site to be proud of’.

Joining Nigel’s team is new Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Tony Edwards, who has always worked in the plastics industry, specialising in plastic moulding technologies.  Prior to joining Aegg, Tony  worked as a new technology/ innovation engineer, introducing extrusion blow moulding technology and developing a prototype membrane used for venting baby feeding bottles.  Tony is helping to set up our new moulding and packaging facility at Eye in Suffolk.   

Mat Lawrence has also joined the team at Eye as maintenance engineer, assisting the team with the set-up and maintenance of the new manufacturing facility.

Aegg’s managing director Jamie Gorman said “We are experiencing continued growth within Aegg.  This is due to several sizeable longterm turnkey projects we have taken on, combined with a growing export side of the business.  Due to increasing demand for our services, we are investing in growing our team, providing further expertise, knowledge and experience to our customers, as well as additional production facilities, with our new UK manufacturing facility in Suffolk.”