For what reason choose custom packaging
A typical box leaves space around the product, allowing it to rattle in transit until someone fills the gaps with paper or foam to keep it in place.
Basic packaging with a sticker attached is the easiest option, but it is not designed for anyone in particular.
Custom Pack Studio produces tailored packaging particularly for your product, making sure the box, print and finish uphold your brand instead of overshadowing it.
We make custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses throughout Ely and the valleys beyond, with orders varying from one sample to a full pallet delivered directly to your warehouse door.
You can purchase any quantity of the products we make, so inventory and storage costs remain unnecessary until you have established that a product sells.
Share your packaging requirements, and we will adapt the recommendation to the product itself.
What tailor-made packaging implies
Custom packaging forms the box around your product from the outset, with its dimensions and print customised to what you are packing.
You choose the dimensions, allowing a custom-sized box to cradle the product securely rather than letting it rattle through the empty space of a generic size.
Each element, from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is customised for the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo on a stock box produces personalised packaging, involving less work than a completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for one item, enabling you to create packaging that fits precisely and with no compromise.
Packaging styles we create for Ely enterprises
We produce a comprehensive range of packaging boxes, each made to bespoke dimensions and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Selecting the suitable box style and packaging format depends on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists can guide you through the available options.
Retail cartons and company packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging staple, designed for lightweight products including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps which tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier kind of lock box, constructed from cardboard with a base that snaps flat upon opening, meaning that heavier products cannot force the bottom out.
Mailer and web store packages
A custom mailer box protects your product throughout the courier network, while making delivery into an extension of the brand experience and boosting visibility by printing on both its interior and exterior, not just its outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes offer additional depth, enabling bulkier items to sit securely without shifting.
Keepsake boxes, solid boxes and carton boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes provide presents with polished presentation customers expect, without them needing to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, featuring a fold up carry handle, are well suited to food gifts and hampers.
For premium ranges, we sometimes specify SBS board, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock. Finishes including foil and soft touch lamination enhance the overall effect.
Build guidance for your Ely organisation
Every order includes packaging design support, regardless of the stage your artwork has reached.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design experts create print-ready files and check that colours remain accurate on board, because packaging requires greater resolution than an image on a website.
You don’t need design experience to develop packaging that fits your brand. Our team can begin with only just a logo. Working together, they determine the structure and create expertly designed, print ready artwork, explaining each technical decision as the project develops.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and review its appearance on screen before printing, while Pantone colour matching ensures that repeat orders remain consistent.
If packaging is required in both English and Welsh, our team treats this as a standard artwork requirement, handling it precisely as it would any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for Ely’s enterprises
Meals and beverages
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, and all food packaging which comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, regardless of which side of the border it is produced on.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, ensuring our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers review prior to stocking products onto their shelves.
Drinks and spirit producers
Throughout Wales, a flourishing drinks culture has developed over the last twenty years, stretching from Brecon Beacons distilleries to more recent gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes have to withstand transit and appear smart on the shelf too! Finishes such as foil stamping and embossing create much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty products and beauty of the Ely
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts while standing out on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range feel worthy of its higher price point.
E-commerce and subscription companies
Packaging intended for retail shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres is significant, but, subscription brands experience a distinct challenge.
The same customer opens a nearly identical box every month, making a consistent finish as important as the initial design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, precisely tailored to your product packaging, secures items in transit while cutting damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product from shifting during transit, while ensuring the print is immediately visible when the box is opened.
For a subscription brand that reorders each month, retaining identical box dimensions helps maintain pallet space and warehouse racking predictable, an increasingly significant consideration as volumes surpass several hundred units.
Shipping Ely immediately from our Scotland plant
Everything is made at our Irvine site, with delivery throughout the UK to businesses in Ely provided as standard.
Once proof approval is confirmed, the majority of orders reach at a Ely address within two to three weeks, on the same timetable as the rest of our packaging across 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.
You sign off on a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production begins, while reorders keep the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Choosing one box company for packaging throughout your entire product range maintains simplicity.
Enjoy a single invoice and one point of contact, instead of seeking out multiple suppliers, each offering a different price for another week.
Renewable packaging as usual practice
Every box we produce is fully recyclable, because of the board it is made from.
Our board and paper come from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while audits track every sheet through the supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are minimising single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes because neither can be readily recycled, and both create difficulties with disposal after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used in its place.
Not any minimum buy for Ely firms
Across a large part of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to fund stock and storage before determining whether the product will sell.
We have no minimum order requirement.
Smaller businesses can start with a single sample, place a small trial run, or move to full production once demand is confirmed, while unit pricing scales across every quantity in between.
You always receive a written quote before production starts, and the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for fifty are exactly the same as those provided for ten thousand.
Before purchasing in volume, request a printed sample and inspect its printing, colour and how it fits in your hand.
How should you place a personalised packing order
Provide your brief by ringing 01294 314 919 or using the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity, and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We create packaging design designed for your product, arrange the print layout, and send a proof for you to review.
Request and approve. Ask for a physical sample when the format calls for one, then sign off once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and completed in Irvine before being delivered to your Ely address, generally within two to three weeks.
Bespoke packaging Ely Common Questions
Could you furnish specialised packaging to Ely?
Indeed! We manufacture everything in Irvine and deliver throughout the UK by default, including every part of Ely and throughout Wales, with no additional charge simply because you are farther from the factory.
What’s the smallest order to place packaging through Ely?
There is no minimum order requirement applies. You can request one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing set according to quantity in a written quote issued before production commences.
Which package parts can I tailor?
Each aspect of the format, such as size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, so that the packaging matches exactly your brief. Branded packaging may also be printed inside and outside.
Can you supply demonstrations of your packing goods before I submit an order?
Certainly. The sample is printed and finished to exactly the same standard as a production run, enabling you to confirm that the colours meet your brief and that the board has the right feel before approving a bulk order.
Is the packaging suitable for recycling and can it be biodegradable?
All packaging boxes are completely recyclable. We exclude plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are offered when the format allows.
Can I order again the same design later?
Yes, reorders are produced 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.
Get a free quote from the Custom Pack Studio team right now.
Please telephone 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product details, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
Order exactly what you need, with no minimum quantity! All project comes with design support, and all custom packaging created here is designed around your product rather than relying on a template.
Send your query and we will send a written quote.
