Why opt for bespoke packaging?
A standard box creates space around the product, causing it to rattle in transit until foam or paper is added to stop movement.
Standard packaging with a side sticker is the simplest route, but it serves no specific customer.
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 companies across Duffryn and the valleys beyond. Orders can be as small as one sample or as large as a 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.
Share your packaging requirements, and we will customise the recommendation to fit the product itself.
What tailored 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 choose the dimensions, allowing a made-to-measure box to cradle the product securely instead of letting it rattle through the empty space of a generic size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed as well, carefully matched to what is being packed and how it travels.
Printing a logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, constituting a less substantial undertaking than a completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for a single run, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without compromise.
Packing solutions we make for Duffryn enterprises
We produce a complete range of packaging boxes in bespoke sizes, printed in full colour featuring your artwork.
Selecting the appropriate box style and packaging is based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging experts will take you through the available options.
Store cartons and custom packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a widely used retail packaging option, suited to lightweight products including cosmetics and supplements, with closure flaps folding into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are sturdier cardboard lock boxes with a base that snaps flat when opened, stopping heavier items from forcing the bottom out.
Shipping and online retail boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product throughout the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing inside and out rather than only on the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are offered with gussets, providing additional depth to keep larger items firmly in place.
Keepsake containers, rigid packages and gable cartons
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded packaging provide presents with the presentation customers expect, without requiring them to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, featuring a fold up carry handle, are suitable for food gifts and hampers.
In premium ranges, we sometimes specify SBS board, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, instead of standard carton stock. Finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination enhance the overall effect.
Create support for your Duffryn business
Each order comes with packaging design assistance, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you’ve got a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists prepare print-ready files and check that the colours stay accurate on board, as packaging requires a greater resolution than a website image.
You do not need design experience to create packaging that suits your brand. Our team can begin with only a logo. Together, they develop the structure and expertly crafted print ready artwork, while supporting you through every technical decision along the way.
Our web-based tool lets you customise a box and view its look and feel on screen before printing. We also offer Pantone colour matching, keeping each repeat order consistent.
Do you need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our staff handles it as a routine artwork requirement, in the same way as any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for Duffryn’s industries
Eats and refreshments
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas food packaging contacting meat or dairy must comply with food contact standards, irrespective of where it is produced on both sides of the border.
We have BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, which means our food packaging is made in carefully controlled, traceable conditions that retailers assess before listing a product.
Drinks and distilleries
Across Wales, a flourishing drinks culture has emerged over the last twenty years, stretching from Brecon Beacons distilleries to newer gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes need to withstand transit and appear smart on the shelf as well! Finishes including foil stamping and embossing deliver much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Makeup and skincare products
For cosmetic and skincare brands, cartons must protect fragile glass and compacts while looking beautifully 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 subscriber-based brands
Retail ready and display packaging serves a purpose when products are placed on shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands face an entirely different challenge.
Every month, the same customer returns to an almost identical box, making a dependable finish equally important as the initial design.
Effective online retail packaging, produced to match your product packaging precisely, keeps goods secure during transit and reduces damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product shifting during transit, whilst keeping the print in view once the box opens.
For a subscription brand that reorders each month, maintaining uniform box dimensions maintains predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming progressively important as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Delivering to Duffryn from our Scottish workroom
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to businesses in Duffryn included as standard.
Following proof approval, the majority of orders arrive at a Duffryn address within two to three weeks, in line with our packaging delivery schedule across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is owned by KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, meaning an established team makes the boxes with its own presses.
Prior to the start of full production, you receive a proof and, where the format calls for it, a physical sample, as reorders keep the same artwork, rendering expansion wonderfully simple.
Employing a one box company for packaging throughout your entire product range simplifies the process.
You have a single invoice and a single dedicated point of contact, instead of pursuing multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for a different week.
Earth-friendly packaging by default
Each box we make is 100% recyclable as its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper come from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while audits track each sheet through the 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 after a parcel is opened.
When the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is employed in place of them.
Without a minimum order for Duffryn firms
Across 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 require no minimum order whatsoever.
Smaller businesses may order a single sample, a limited run for testing, or a full production run after demand has been established, with the price per unit varying at each quantity across this range.
You will consistently receive a written quote before production begins, while the high quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty are identical to the ones supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Before committing to a greater quantity, get a printed sample and assess the print, colour and how it sits in your hand.
The process to submit a custom 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 proof. We develop packaging that fits your product, prepare the print layout, then send you a proof to check.
Ask for a tangible sample where the format requires one, then give approval once you are happy with its colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Duffryn address, normally within two to three weeks.
Personalised packaging Duffryn Frequently Asked Questions
Can you furnish tailored packaging to Duffryn?
Yes. We make every item in Irvine, with standard delivery available across the UK, including every part of Duffryn and Wales, with no an extra charge for greater distance from the factory.
How much should be the minimum packaging quantity for Duffryn?
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.
Which package features can I modify?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be adjusted for every format, making sure the packaging meets your brief precisely. Branded packaging can also feature printing on both the interior and outside.
May I get samples of your wrapping products before making an order?
Yes. Your sample is delivered printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, allowing you to check that the colours are in line with your brief and the board feels suitable before authorising a larger order.
Does the packaging be recyclable along with does it break down naturally?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We do not employ plastic laminates that prevent recycling unless food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are offered where the format permits.
Is it possible to I order again the same layout at a later time?
Yes, reorders are made from the same artwork file, so expanding an order or placing it again for a new season does not require the packaging to be redesigned from the beginning.
Ask for a no-cost quote from Custom Pack Studio today.
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
No minimum order is required, each project comes with design support, and each piece of custom packaging created here begins with your product, never a template.
Send your enquiry, and we will reply with a written quotation.
