Why you ought to pick custom packaging
A typical box leaves empty space around the product, allowing it to rattle during transport until someone fills the gap with foam or paper to prevent it from moving.
Selecting off-the-shelf packaging with a label on the side may be easy, but it belongs to no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio produces bespoke packaging customised for your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We make bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies across Erddig and the nearby valleys, with orders ranging from a single sample to a complete pallet delivered directly to a warehouse door.
We have no minimum order on anything we make, meaning you do not incur stock and storage costs until a product proves it sells.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we’ll adapt the recommendation to suit the product itself.
What tailor-made packaging entails
Custom packaging designs the box around your product from the outset, meaning that its size and printing reflect exactly what you are putting inside.
You choose the measurements, enabling a made-to-measure box to hold the product firmly without movement caused by excess space in a standard size.
Each element, ranging from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is adapted to the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo on a stock box amounts to personalised packaging, a less extensive undertaking than completely customisable design.
With customised packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be tailored, even for a single run, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without compromise.
Packing methods we create for Erddig enterprises
We make a complete range of packaging boxes, each manufactured to custom sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Selecting the correct box style and packaging type hinges on your product and how it is handled. Our packaging experts will take you through the options available.
Store cartons and labelled packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons continue to be a standard for retail packaging, well suited for lighter products including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold in at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a more robust type of lock box, made from cardboard with a base that snaps flat when opened, meaning that heavier products cannot force the bottom out.
Postal and online retail packages
A bespoke mailer box protects your product across the courier network, turning delivery into an exciting part of the brand experience while boosting visibility through printing on both the inside and outside, rather than just the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are available as well with gussets, providing extra depth so bulkier items can sit securely without shifting.
Keepsake boxes, rigid boxes and gable-top boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and additional branded boxes give products bought as gifts the refined presentation customers expect, while saving them the effort of wrapping.
Gable boxes, with a handle which folds up, are particularly suitable for food presents and hampers.
For premium ranges, we sometimes specify SBS board, or solid bleached sulphate, a light-coloured, food-safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock, while finishes including foil and soft touch lamination improve the overall effect.
Design support for your Erddig brand
Every order includes packaging design assistance, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists prepare print-ready files and verify that colours stay accurate on board, as packaging requires greater resolution than a website image.
You do not need prior design experience to develop packaging that represents your brand. Our team can begin with a logo alone, define the structure and create professionally designed artwork ready for print working with you, clarifying each technical decision when it arises.
Our web-based tool lets you to personalise 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.
Need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our team handles it as a routine artwork requirement, just like any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for the Erddig’s sectors
Food and drink
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while all packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact requirements, regardless of which side of the border it is manufactured.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level confirms that we manufacture food packaging in controlled, traceable conditions, meeting the checks retailers require prior to listing products.
Drinks and liquor makers
Over the past twenty years, Wales has developed a distinctive drinks industry, spanning distilleries in the Brecon Beacons and newer gin and whisky producers across the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while retaining their visual appeal on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing providing much of the impact required for limited releases and seasonal gift sets.
Make-up and personal care products
Cosmetics and skincare companies require cartons that safeguard delicate glass packaging and compacts whilst presenting an attractive appearance on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes complement premium ranges intended to support a higher price point.
Internet commerce and recurring tags
Retail ready and display packaging has its role when products occupy shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, yet subscription brands face an entirely different challenge.
Since the same customer opens an nearly identical box each month, maintaining a consistent finish is just as important as the initial design.
High-grade e-commerce packaging, made precisely to fit your product packaging, keeps items secure in transit and minimises damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product from shifting during transit, whilst keeping the print in view as soon as the box opens.
For a subscription brand placing repeat orders monthly, maintaining consistent box dimensions keeps pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an ever more significant factor as volumes surpass a few hundred units.
Sending to Erddig from our Scotland atelier
All products are manufactured within our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Erddig.
Most orders reach a Erddig address within two to three weeks following proof approval, following the same schedule as our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its experienced team makes the boxes on its own presses!
You receive a proof and, where the format calls for it, a physical sample before full production starts. Reorders retain the same artwork, so scaling up does not mean having to start again.
Employing a single box company for packaging throughout your whole product range makes everything straightforward.
Everything flows through a single invoice and one point of contact, sparing you the frustration of pursuing several suppliers quoting varying prices for different weeks.
Ethical packaging as usual
Every box we produce is fully recyclable, because of the board it is made from.
Our board and paper are obtained from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet traced through an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
Across our processes, we are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill because neither is readily recyclable, while both present disposal challenges after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection takes their place.
Zero minimum buy for Erddig businesses
Across much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, obliging you to finance stock and storage before establishing whether a product will sell.
There’s no minimum order requirement of any kind!
Smaller businesses can choose a one sample, a short trial run, or a full production run after demand is demonstrated, with per-unit pricing scaling across each quantity in between.
You will consistently receive a written quotation before production begins, while the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are identical to those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to purchasing in volume, request a printed sample and examine its print, colour and how it fits in your hand.
Methods to request custom packaging
Send your brief by calling 01294 314 919 or using the online design tool. Tell us the product, quantity required, and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We create packaging design designed for your product, prepare the print layout, and provide a proof for you to check.
Ask for and authorise. Ask for 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, subsequently delivered to your Erddig address, normally within two to three weeks.
Personalised packaging Erddig FAQs
Do you provide bespoke packaging to Erddig?
Yes! We manufacture everything in Irvine and deliver throughout the UK by default, including every part of Erddig and across Wales, with no extra charge solely because you are farther from the factory.
What the smallest amount to place packaging at Erddig?
No minimum order. We can produce one box or thousands in any format, with quantity-based pricing confirmed in a written quotation before manufacture starts.
What elements of the packaging can be modified?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be customised for every format, making sure the designed packaging meets your brief precisely. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the inside and exterior.
Can you send examples of your packaging products before I go ahead and place an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to exactly reproduce a production run, allowing you to verify that its colours satisfy your brief and that the board feels appropriate before approving a bulk order.
Is the packaging able to be recycled and compostable?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are offered where the format permits.
May someone apply the same artwork later?
Yes, repeat orders use the same artwork file, which means you can raise quantities or prepare packaging for a new season without redesigning everything from scratch.
Get a cost-free quotation from our Custom Pack Studio experts right away
Please call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk with details of your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
There is no minimum order requirement, design support is part of each project, and every item of custom packaging made here is designed around your product rather than a standard template.
Submit your query and we will provide a written quote.
