Why select personalised packing materials
A conventional box leaves empty space around the product, enabling it to move noisily in transit until foam or paper is inserted to stop movement.
Choosing off-the-shelf packaging with a label on the side may be straightforward, but it belongs to no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio produces custom-made packaging for your product, ensuring that the box, print and finish enhance your brand instead of overshadowing it.
We manufacture custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses throughout Cathays and the surrounding valleys, with orders varying from one sample to a pallet load delivered directly to a warehouse door.
We require no minimum order for any item we make, allowing you to avoid stock and storage costs until a product’s sales potential is determined.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we will adapt the recommendation to the product itself.
What personalised packaging entails
With custom packaging, your box is created around the product from day one, so its dimensions and print fit precisely what you are packing.
You decide the dimensions, enabling a made-to-measure box to cradle the product securely rather than letting it rattle through the empty space of a standard size.
Every aspect, including the construction, board weight, printing and finish, is adapted to the contents and the way they are transported.
Printing a logo onto a stock box creates personalised packaging, representing a less substantial undertaking than a fully customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be tailored, even for a single item, helping you to create packaging that fits perfectly without compromise.
Packing options we create for Cathays businesses
We make a full range of packaging boxes to custom sizes, printed in full colour using your artwork.
Choosing the right box style and packaging depends on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists will guide you through the available options.
Retail cartons and bespoke branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a popular choice for retail packaging, well suited for low-weight products such as cosmetics and supplements, featuring flaps that tuck in at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier form of lock box, constructed from cardboard with a base that snaps flat upon opening, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Postal and online retail boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product across the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside rather than only on the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are offered with gussets, providing extra depth to hold bigger items firmly in place.
Surprise boxes, durable boxes and pitched-top boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded packaging provide presents with the presentation customers anticipate, without them having to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, complete with a handle that folds up, are an excellent choice for food gifts and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may choose SBS board (solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard) over standard carton stock, while finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination enhance the outcome.
Design guidance for your Cathays company
Every order includes packaging design assistance, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design experts prepare print-ready files and verify that colours stay accurate on board, as packaging needs greater resolution than an image on a website.
Prior design experience is not necessary to produce packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can begin with no more than a logo, creating the structure and expertly designed, ready to print artwork with you, while explaining each technical decision in clear terms as it comes up.
Our online tool allows you to personalise a box and preview its look and feel on screen before it reaches print, while Pantone colour matching ensures every repeat order remains consistent.
If packaging is needed in both English and Welsh, our team regards this as a standard artwork requirement, managing it exactly as it would any other language or colour change.
Bespoke packaging for the Cathays’s businesses
Cuisine and beverages
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, wherever it is manufactured on either side of the border.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, confirming our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions reviewed by retailers before stocking products onto their shelves.
Beverages and spirit makers
Across Wales, a thriving drinks culture has developed during the past twenty years, stretching from Brecon Beacons distilleries to more recent gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit and appear smart on the shelf as well! Finishes including foil stamping and embossing provide much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Skincare and beauty products
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons which protect fragile glass and compacts while presenting well on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes give premium ranges the presence to support a higher price point.
E-commerce and membership companies
Retail ready and display packaging are important when products sit in shops or marketplace fulfilment centres, while subscription brands face a distinct challenge.
As the same customer opens an nearly identical box each month, keeping a consistent finish is as important as the initial design.
Efficient online retail packaging, made to match your product packaging exactly, keeps goods protected in transit and minimises damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue keeps the product secure during transit, while the print remains visible as soon as the box is opened.
Subscription brands that reorder monthly can maintain pallet space and warehouse racking consistent by retaining one box size. This becomes increasingly important when order volumes rise above several hundred units.
Delivering to Cathays from our Scotland
All products are manufactured at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Cathays.
After your proof is accepted, the majority of orders arrive at a Cathays address within two to three weeks, corresponding to the delivery timescale for our packaging across 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 creates the boxes with its own presses.
You check a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production begins, while reorders retain the same artwork, ensuring that scaling up never requires the process to start again.
Using one box company for packaging throughout your whole product line keeps everything simple.
You have one invoice and one dedicated point of contact, instead of pursuing several suppliers, each quoting a different price for a separate week.
Planet-friendly packaging as typical
Each box we produce is 100% recyclable as its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper start with FSC and PEFC certified sources, while each 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 is readily recyclable, causing disposal difficulties once a parcel is opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection replaces them instead.
There is no minimum purchase for Cathays companies
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging demands minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, meaning you to fund stock and storage before determining whether the product will sell.
We have no minimum order whatsoever.
Small businesses can begin with a single sample, place a limited trial run, or proceed with full production once demand is proven, while unit pricing scales across every quantity in between.
Prior to production begins, you will always receive a written quotation, whereas the high-quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty remain identical to those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to ordering in bulk, request a printed sample to assess the print, colour and fit in your hand.
Steps on how to request bespoke parcel materials
Share your brief by calling 01294 314 919 or accessing the online design tool. Let us know the product, required quantity, and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging that fits your product, arrange the print layout, then send you a proof to check.
Request a physical sample when the format requires one. Approve it when you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine before making its way to your Cathays address, generally within two to three weeks.
Tailored packaging Cathays Enquiries
Did you send personalised packaging to Cathays?
Yes. We make all items in Irvine and provide standard delivery across the UK, covering every part of Cathays and all of Wales, without charging a separate fee for locations farther from the factory.
What’s the minimum amount needed for packaging from Cathays?
There is no minimum order. We can manufacture a single box or thousands in any format, with quantity-based pricing confirmed in a written quotation before manufacture starts.
What packaging elements can I customise?
Every format gives you complete freedom to change the size, structure, board weight, print and finish, making sure the resulting packaging meets your brief precisely. Your branded packaging order can also be printed on the interior as well as the exterior.
Can you supply demonstrations of your parcel products before I submit an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to production standards, allowing you to verify that the colours meet your brief and the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Is the container suitable for recycling and biodegradable?
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 offered wherever the format allows.
May I make the identical Cathays design request in the future?
Yes, reorders are produced from the same artwork file, so expanding an order or repeating it for a new season never requires the packaging to be redesigned from the beginning.
Request a free quote from our experts at Custom Pack Studio without delay.
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
We set no minimum order. Every project includes design support, and each item of custom packaging we produce here is developed around your product, rather than a template.
Send your enquiry, and we will reply with a written quotation.
