What makes go for custom packaging
A standard box leaves empty space around the product, allowing it to rattle during transit until someone fills the gap with foam or paper to prevent it from moving.
Typical packaging with a sticker attached is the simple choice, yet it has not been designed specifically for anyone.
Custom Pack Studio designs tailored packaging around your product, making sure the box, print and finish suit your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We create custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout Brynglas and the valleys beyond. Orders can be as small as one sample or as large as a pallet delivered directly to your warehouse door!
Nothing we produce requires a minimum order, enabling you to set stock and storage costs aside until a product has proved it sells.
Share your packaging requirements, and we’ll customise the recommendation to fit the product precisely.
What personalised packaging means
Custom packaging begins with a box specifically designed for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish exactly reflect its contents.
You choose the measurements, ensuring a made-to-measure box keeps the product secure rather than allowing it to rattle within excess space created by a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are also individually designed to suit the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo onto a stock box amounts to personalised packaging, a less extensive undertaking than fully customisable design.
With tailored packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be adjusted, even for a single unit, enabling you to create custom packaging that fits exactly.
Packaging formats we create for Brynglas firms
We manufacture a full range of packaging boxes, tailored to custom sizes and printed in full colour using your artwork.
The best-suited box style and packaging type are based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists will talk you through the options!
Retail boxes and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are still a familiar retail packaging option for lighter products, including cosmetics and supplements, featuring flaps that fold tidily into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier kind of lock box, constructed from cardboard and having a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Shipping and online retail boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product throughout the courier network, while turning delivery into part of the brand experience and increasing visibility as it is printed inside and out, not only across the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes create extra depth, allowing bulkier items space to sit securely without shifting.
Gift boxes, rigid boxes and carton boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and other branded boxes provide products bought as gifts with the polished presentation customers expect, removing the need for customers to wrap them on their own.
Gable boxes featuring folding carry handles are well suited to food gifts and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may select SBS board (solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard) over standard carton stock, whereas finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination improve the outcome.
Craft guidance for your Brynglas enterprise
We offer packaging design support with each order, regardless of your artwork’s current stage.
After your logo and brand guidelines are established, our design experts create files suitable for print and make sure colours remain true on board, where packaging requires greater resolution than website imagery.
You need not have any prior experience in design to create packaging that represents your brand. We can start with only a logo. Together, you will establish the structure and create professionally designed, print ready artwork, while we explain every technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and preview its look and feel on screen before it goes to print, while Pantone colour matching ensures each repeat order stays consistent.
When you need packaging produced in both English and Welsh, our team considers it a usual artwork requirement, exactly like any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for the Brynglas’s industries
Meals and beverages
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef have Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, regardless of where it is manufactured on either side of the border.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level confirms that food packaging is produced within controlled, traceable processes, meeting the checks retailers conduct prior to approving products for listing.
Tipples and spirit producers
Over the past two decades, Wales has established a authentic drinks scene, from distilleries in Brecon Beacons to newer gin and whisky producers farther north.
Presentation boxes for bottles need to endure transit while remaining striking on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing bringing much of the impact to a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Personal care items and skincare essentials
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect fragile glass and compacts while looking presentable on shelves.
We create cosmetics packaging using soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range feel worthy of its higher price point.
Internet commerce and recurring labels
Retail ready and display packaging matter when products are held in shops or marketplace fulfilment centres, whereas subscription brands encounter a different challenge.
Every month, the same customer returns to an almost identical box, making a dependable finish just as important as the initial design.
High-quality e-commerce packaging, made precisely to fit your product packaging, holds items safe in transit and minimises damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product shifting in transit, while keeping the print in view as soon as the box opens.
For a subscription brand that places repeat orders monthly, keeping uniform box dimensions maintains predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming increasingly important as volumes surpass several hundred units.
Shipping to Brynglas from our Scottish-based factory
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Brynglas.
Once your proof is approved, most orders arrive at a Brynglas address within two to three weeks, matching the delivery timeframe for our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is owned by KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, meaning an long-standing team produces the boxes with its own presses.
You approve a proof and, where needed by the format, a physical sample before full production begins, while reorders keep the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Using a one box company for packaging throughout your full product range streamlines the process.
You have one invoice and a single dedicated point of contact, rather than pursuing multiple suppliers, each giving a different price for a different week.
Renewable packaging as the default
Each box we create is fully recyclable, with that recyclability inherent in the board itself.
We procure our board and paper from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet traced through an audited chain of custody to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes, as neither material is easy to recycle and both cause disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used in their place.
No minimum purchase for Brynglas firms
Throughout the sector, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to fund stock and storage before knowing if a product will sell.
There is no requirement for a minimum order .
Smaller businesses may order a single sample, a limited run for testing, or a full production run once demand has been established, with the price per unit adjusting at each quantity throughout this range.
You always get a written quotation before production starts, and the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for fifty are identical to those supplied for ten thousand.
Before placing a larger order, ask for a printed sample to evaluate the print, colour and how comfortably it fits into your hand.
Methods to place a personalised packaging order
Send us your brief. Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity and how it is sold.
Design and proofing. We design packaging that fits your product, produce the print layout, and supply a proof for your approval.
Request and authorise. Request a physical sample when the format requires one, then sign off once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery: Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Brynglas address, usually within two to three weeks.
Bespoke packaging Brynglas Common Questions
Can you provide personalised packaging to Brynglas?
Certainly. All items are made in Irvine, with standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of Brynglas and throughout Wales. We do not charge extra for distance from the factory.
What is the least order for packaging at Brynglas?
No minimum order! Choose one box or several thousand in any format, with prices calculated according to quantity in a written quotation before production begins.
Which packaging elements can I personalise?
Each aspect of the format, such as size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, ensuring that the packaging aligns precisely with your brief. Branded packaging may also be printed internally and externally.
Can you possibly send examples of your wrapping products before I choose to place an order?
Of course! Your sample arrives printed and finished precisely as it would be in production, allowing you to verify the colours satisfy your brief and make sure the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Is the wrapping able to be recycled and environmentally friendly?
Every box is fully recyclable. We steer clear of plastic laminates that prevent recycling, unless food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are provided wherever the format permits.
May one make the same design order again?
Certainly, reorders rely on the original artwork file, allowing you to add to an order or prepare for another season without redesigning the packaging.
Get a cost-free quote from the Custom Pack Studio team without delay.
Please telephone 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product details, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
We set no minimum order. Every project provides design support, and each item of custom packaging we produce here is developed around your product, rather than a template.
Submit your enquiry and we will provide a written quote.
