Hole in one as Lesters and Loughborough University deliver new Boccia ramp and golf game

Posted on 22 Jan 2024 by The Manufacturer

One of the UK’s fastest growing manufacturers of high-performance packaging has joined forces with Dr George Torrens at Loughborough University to develop a specialist ‘Boccia’ ramp.

Lesters, which employs over 60 people at its factory in Burntwood, has used its strong design values and knowledge of cardboard to come up with a fully recyclable product for the paralympic sport that involves propelling balls from a seated position to land as close as possible to the ‘Jack’. The corrugated fibreboard ramp has…

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