My brother Neil Goldman, who has died aged 74, was chief executive of the business Colpac, where he was at the forefront of innovations in the British paperboard food packaging industry for more than 50 years.
Neil joined Colpac, which was originally a hat box-making firm owned by his father, in the early 1970s, just as the consumption of takeaway food was beginning to boom in the UK, and quickly saw an opportunity for the business to branch out into supplying fast food packaging made out of paperboard, rather than the plastic almost exclusively used at the time.
