Explanations choose bespoke packaging
A typical box leaves empty space around the product, allowing it to rattle during transit until somebody fills the gap with foam or paper to prevent it from moving.
Choosing off-the-shelf packaging with a label on the side may be simple, but it belongs to no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging for your product, ensuring that the box, print and finish enhance your brand instead of overshadowing it.
We make custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies across Bargoed and the valleys beyond, with orders ranging from a single sample to a complete pallet delivered straight to your warehouse door.
We have no minimum order for anything we make, so stock and storage expenses are unnecessary until you are certain a product is going to sell.
Share your packaging specifications, and we will tailor the recommendation to the product.
What personalised packaging covers
Custom packaging starts with your product, with the box dimensions and print specification designed to suit exactly what you are packing.
You choose the dimensions, enabling a custom-sized box to cradle the product securely rather than letting it rattle through the empty space of a standard size.
Every element, ranging from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is adapted to the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo onto a stock box produces personalised packaging, representing a more modest undertaking than a completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be tailored, even for one run, allowing you to create packaging that fits precisely without compromise.
Packing styles that we produce for Bargoed organisations
We offer an comprehensive range of packaging boxes, made to bespoke dimensions and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Choosing the appropriate box style and packaging format is dependent on your products and how they are handled. Our packaging specialists will talk you through the available options.
Retail cartons and bespoke branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a conventional retail packaging type for lighter products, such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck into place at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a more robust type of lock box, formed from cardboard and featuring a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from forcing the bottom out.
Postal and electronic commerce boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product throughout the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside instead of only on the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are offered with gussets, providing extra depth to keep bigger items firmly in place.
Gift boxes, durable boxes and gable-shaped boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes give products bought as gifts the polished presentation customers expect, without customers needing to wrap them.
Gable boxes, with a fold up carry handle, are brilliant for food gifts and hampers!
For premium lines, we may choose SBS board, solid bleached sulphate and a bright, food safe paperboard, over standard carton stock, while foil and soft touch lamination improve the final effect.
Design assistance for your Bargoed brand
Each order comes with packaging design assistance, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you’ve got a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists create print-ready files and check that the colours stay accurate on board, as packaging needs a greater resolution than a website image.
You do not need any prior design experience to develop packaging that represents your brand. Our team can begin with just a logo. Together, you will establish the structure and produce professionally designed, print ready artwork, as we explain each technical decision as it arises.
Our web-based tool lets you personalise a box and view its look and feel on screen before printing. We also provide Pantone colour matching, keeping every repeat order uniform.
When you need packaging printed in both English and Welsh in English and Welsh, our team regards this as a standard artwork requirement, managed in precisely the same way as any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for Bargoed’s companies
Cuisine and beverages
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, wherever it is manufactured.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, which means our food packaging is manufactured in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers review prior to listing products.
Drinks and liquor producers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a thriving drinks scene, covering Brecon Beacons distilleries and newer gin and whisky producers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transport while preserving their shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing delivering a great deal of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Skincare and grooming
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons which protect fragile glass and compacts while looking presentable on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes provide premium ranges the presence to support a higher price point.
Electronic commerce and membership brands
Packaging intended for retail shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres is important, however, subscription brands experience a distinct challenge.
Because the same customer opens an almost identical box monthly, keeping a uniform finish is as important as the original design.
Effective online packaging, created precisely to fit your product packaging, maintains items secure in transit and lowers damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue stops the product from shifting during transport, while making sure the print is straight away visible when the box is opened.
As a subscription brand places repeat orders monthly, retaining uniform box dimensions keeps pallet capacity and warehouse racking predictable, an ever more important consideration once volumes exceed several hundred units.
Delivering to Bargoed from our Scottish facility
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Bargoed.
Following proof approval, deliveries to a Bargoed address generally reach within two to three weeks, matching the timetable for all our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is owned by KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, which means an established team produces the boxes with its own presses.
You examine a proof and, when required by the format, a physical sample ahead of full production begins, while reorders retain the same artwork, meaning that scaling up never requires the process to start again.
Using a one box company for packaging throughout your full product range streamlines the process.
You receive one invoice and deal with one contact, steering clear of multiple suppliers quoting different prices for different weeks.
Renewable packaging as typical
Every box we make is fully recyclable, with this recyclability rooted in the board itself.
Our board and paper begin with FSC and PEFC certified sources, while every sheet is traced through an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes, as neither material is readily recyclable and both cause disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
When the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protective materials are employed instead of them.
There is no minimum purchase for Bargoed businesses.
Across much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to fund stock and storage prior to establishing whether a product will sell.
We do not have a minimum order requirement.
Smaller businesses can start with one sample, place a limited trial run, or move to full production once demand is proven, while unit pricing scales across every quantity in between.
Prior to production starts, you will invariably receive a written quotation, while the high-quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty remain identical to those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Before placing a larger order, ask for a printed sample to evaluate the print, colour and how comfortably it fits in your hand.
How to request tailored packaging
Share your brief by telephoning 01294 314 919 or accessing the online design tool. Tell us the product, required quantity, and approximately how it is sold.
Packaging design and proofing. We develop the packaging design suited to your product, arrange the print layout, and provide a proof for your approval.
Ask for a physical sample if the format requires one, then give your approval once you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Bargoed address, usually within two to three weeks.
Bespoke packaging Bargoed FAQ
Do your team offer custom packaging shipping to Bargoed?
Yes. We make every item in Irvine, with standard delivery available across the UK, including all of Bargoed and Wales, without an extra charge for greater distance from the factory.
What exactly is the lowest packaging requirement at Bargoed?
No minimum order is required. You may order a single box or several thousand in any format, with pricing scaled to quantity in a written quotation issued before production starts.
Which packing features can I personalise?
Every aspect of the format, including size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, so that the packaging matches exactly your brief. Branded packaging may also be printed internally and externally.
Can you kindly send demonstrations of your packing products before I go ahead and place an order?
Certainly! Your sample arrives printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, enabling you to verify the colours meet your brief and make sure the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Will the packaging be recyclable as well as can it also be biodegradable?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates that prevent recycling unless food safety makes them required, while biodegradable protective materials are provided where the format allows.
May one place another order for the same design later?
Yes, repeat orders continue using the same artwork file, which means you can increase quantities or prepare packaging for a new season without redesigning everything from scratch.
Ask for a free pricing from the Custom Pack Studio team right away.
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
We set no minimum order. Each project provides design support, and every item of custom packaging we produce here is developed around your product, rather than a template.
Submit your enquiry to us today, and we’ll respond to you with a written quote!
