Reasons select personalised packaging
A regular box creates 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.
Conventional packaging with a sticker is straightforward, but it is designed for nobody in particular.
At Custom Pack Studio, bespoke packaging is shaped around your product, making sure the box, print and finish support your brand instead of overshadowing it.
We produce custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses across Cross Hands and the valleys beyond, with orders varying from one sample to a complete pallet delivered straight to your warehouse door.
Nothing we produce needs a minimum order, allowing you to leave stock and storage costs aside until a product has shown that it sells.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we will tailor the recommendation to fit the product perfectly.
What bespoke packaging entails
Custom packaging is designed around your product from the start, with its size and print adapted to the item you are packing.
By choosing the dimensions, you ensure that a custom sized box secures the product securely, rather than letting it to rattle within the unnecessary space of a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed to suit the packed contents and how it is transported.
Printing a logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, involving less work than a completely customisable design.
With customised packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for one run, allowing you to create packaging that fits precisely without compromise.
Wrapping styles we manufacture for Cross Hands enterprises
We make a full range of packaging boxes to custom sizes, printed in full colour using your artwork.
Choosing the suitable box style and packaging format depends on your products and how they are handled. Our packaging specialists will talk you through the available choices.
Store cartons and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are still a familiar retail packaging option for lightweight products, such as cosmetics and supplements, featuring flaps that fold neatly into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are sturdier cardboard lock boxes with a base that snaps flat upon opening, preventing heavier products from forcing the bottom out.
Mailer and electronic commerce boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product throughout the courier network, while making delivery into part of the brand experience and increasing visibility by printing on both its interior and exterior, not just its outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide extra depth, giving bulkier items space to rest securely.
Surprise containers, sturdy cartons and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and other branded boxes give products bought as gifts the polished presentation customers expect, while saving them the effort of wrapping.
Gable boxes, featuring a fold up carry handle, are suitable for food gifts and hampers.
For high-end ranges, we occasionally specify SBS board, or solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock, while finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination enhance the overall effect.
Create backing for your Cross Hands identity
Each order includes support with packaging design, irrespective of how far your artwork has developed.
After your logo and brand guidelines are in place, our design experts create files ready for print and ensure colours stay true on board, where packaging requires higher resolution than website imagery.
You need no previous design experience to create packaging that suits your brand. Starting with no more than a logo, our team develops the structure and produces professionally designed, print-ready artwork with you, explaining every technical decision as it arises.
Our web-based 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.
When your packaging requires English and Welsh text, our team handles this as a standard artwork request, just as we would manage any other language or colour amendment.
Bespoke packaging for the Cross Hands’s enterprises
Cuisine and beverages
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that contacts meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, regardless of where it is manufactured.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, which means our food packaging is made in carefully controlled, traceable conditions that retailers assess before including a product.
Tipples and spirit producers
During the past two decades, Wales has established a authentic drinks scene, from distilleries in Brecon Beacons to newer gin and whisky producers further north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while maintaining their visual appeal on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing providing much of the impact needed for limited releases and seasonal gift sets.
Skincare products and cosmetics
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect fragile glass and compacts while presenting well on the shelf.
We produce cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes give premium ranges the presence to support a higher price point.
Internet commerce and subscription labels
Packaging designed for retail display is important when a product sits in a store or marketplace fulfilment centre, but subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
As the same customer unpacks an nearly identical box each month, preserving a consistent finish is equally important as the initial design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, tailored precisely to your product packaging, keeps items secure in transit while reducing damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue stops the product from moving during transport, while making sure the print is immediately visible when the box is opened.
For a subscription brand placing repeat orders each month, keeping uniform box dimensions keeps pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an ever more significant consideration as volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Bringing to Cross Hands from our Scotland studio
Everything is produced at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Cross Hands.
The majority of orders reach a Cross Hands address within two to three weeks following proof approval, using the same timetable as all our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer that has produced print and packaging since 1997, with its experienced team producing boxes on its own presses.
Before full production begins, you receive a proof and, when the format calls for it, a physical sample, as reorders retain the same artwork, rendering expansion wonderfully simple.
Choosing one box company for packaging across your whole product range preserves simplicity.
You have a single invoice and one dedicated point of contact, rather than pursuing several suppliers, each giving a different price for a different week.
Ethical packaging as the default
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable because its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper are obtained from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with each sheet traceable through an audited chain to responsibly managed forests.
Across our processes, we are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill as neither is easily recyclable, while both pose disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protective materials are used in their place.
No minimum order for Cross Hands organisations.
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging demands minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, meaning you to fund stock and storage before ascertaining whether the product will sell.
We have no minimum order whatsoever.
Small businesses may order a one sample, limited runs for testing, or a full production run once demand has been established, with the unit price varying according to the quantity ordered.
You will consistently receive a written quotation before production begins, while the high quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty are identical to those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a bigger order, request a printed sample to evaluate the print, colour and how comfortably it fits in your hand.
Methods to purchase custom packaging
Provide your brief! Phone 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity and roughly how it is sold.
Packaging design and proofing. We create the packaging design tailored to your product, arrange the print layout, and provide a proof for your approval.
Request a physical sample if the format calls for one, then sign off once you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Cross Hands address, generally within two to three weeks.
Personalised packaging Cross Hands FAQs
Can you supply customised packaging to Cross Hands?
Yes. All items are manufactured in Irvine, with standard delivery across the UK, including every part of Cross Hands and throughout Wales. We make no additional charge for distance from the factory.
What is the minimum packaging quantity at Cross Hands?
No minimum order! Choose a single box or several thousand in any format, with prices calculated according to quantity in a written quotation before production starts.
Which parcel sections can I adapt?
Every format can be customised regarding size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring your packaging fits the brief perfectly. Want to make an impact? Your branded packaging order can include printing both inside and outside.
May I obtain samples of your packing goods before submitting an order?
Certainly. The sample is printed and finished to precisely the same standard as a production run, allowing you to verify that the colours match your brief and that the board has the right feel before authorising a bulk order.
Could the packaging suitable for recycling and can it be biodegradable?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We avoid plastic laminates that prevent recycling unless food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are used whenever the format permits.
Can one submit the same layout later?
Yes, repeat orders continue using the same artwork file, which means you can raise quantities or prepare packaging for a new season without redesigning everything from the beginning.
Ask for a no-cost price estimate from the Custom Pack Studio team immediately.
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
Order exactly what you need, with no minimum quantity! Every project includes design support, and all custom packaging made here is designed around your product instead of relying on a template.
Start your enquiry, and we will respond with a written quotation.
