Why prefer bespoke packaging
A regular box leaves space around the product, allowing it to rattle in transit until foam or paper is added to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with an adhesive label is easy, but it is intended for no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish complement your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses across Fairwater and the nearby valleys, with order quantities spanning one sample to a pallet load delivered straight 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.
Tell us your packaging requirements, and we’ll tailor the recommendation to fit the product perfectly.
What bespoke packaging means
With custom packaging, your box is created around the product from the outset, so its dimensions and print suit exactly what you are packing.
You select the dimensions, so that a custom-sized box keeps the product secure rather than letting it rattle within surplus space created by 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 onto a stock box constitutes personalised packaging, a less extensive undertaking than completely customisable design.
Using bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be tailored, including a single item, enabling you to create packaging that fits perfectly without compromise.
Wrapping types we develop for Fairwater businesses
We manufacture a full range of packaging boxes, tailored to custom sizes and printed in full colour using your artwork.
Choosing the most appropriate box style and packaging format depends on your products and their handling requirements, which our packaging experts will clearly explain.
Shop cartons and bespoke branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons remain a retail packaging standard, ideal for lighter products including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold in at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a type of lock box, offering a sturdier cardboard design with a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and ecommerce boxes
A bespoke mailer box protects your product across the courier network, transforming delivery into an exciting part of the brand experience while boosting visibility by printing on the inside as well as the outside, not merely the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes offer extra depth, allowing bulkier items space to sit securely without shifting.
Present boxes, sturdy boxes and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and other branded boxes provide products bought as gifts the refined presentation customers anticipate, while sparing them the effort of wrapping.
Gable boxes, with a fold up carry handle, are great for food gifts as well as hampers!
For premium ranges, we occasionally 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.
Develop guidance for your Fairwater venture
Each order includes packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and branding guidelines, our design specialists create print-ready files and verify that colours are reproduced correctly on board, as packaging needs greater resolution than website imagery.
You need no previous design experience to develop packaging that fits your brand. Starting with no more than a logo, our team develops the structure and creates professionally designed, print-ready artwork alongside you, clarifying every technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to personalise a box and preview its look on screen prior to printing, while Pantone colour matching maintains consistency each time you place a repeat order.
Need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our team handles it as a standard artwork requirement, just like any other language or colour change.
Personalised packaging for Fairwater’s industries
Cuisine and drinks
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef hold Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must satisfy 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 welcoming products onto their shelves.
Refreshments and distilling
Across Wales, a flourishing drinks culture has developed over the last twenty years, extending from Brecon Beacons distilleries to more recent gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes need to withstand transit and appear smart on the shelf as well! Finishes such as foil stamping and embossing provide much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty products and grooming
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons which protect fragile glass and compacts whilst presenting well on shelves.
We produce cosmetics packaging incorporating soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes complement a premium range that needs to support a higher price point.
Internet commerce and subscription companies
Packaging intended for retail display matters when a product sits in a store or marketplace fulfilment centre, yet subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
Each month, the same customer returns to an nearly identical box, making a dependable finish just as important as the initial design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, precisely tailored to your product packaging, secures items in transit while reducing damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue stops the product shifting during transit, whilst keeping the print visible once the box is opened.
For a subscription-based brand that reorders each month, keeping uniform box dimensions maintains predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming progressively important as volumes surpass several hundred units.
Dispatching to Fairwater from our Scotland workshop
All items are made at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to businesses in Fairwater supplied as standard.
The majority of orders reach a Fairwater address within two to three weeks following proof approval, following the same timetable as our packaging across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its established staff produces the boxes on its own presses.
You sign off on a proof and, where needed by the format, a physical sample before full production starts, while reorders retain the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Working with a single box company for packaging throughout your entire product line makes everything straightforward.
Have a single invoice and one point of contact, instead of seeking out multiple suppliers, each offering a different price for a different week.
Green packaging as expected
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable as the board itself makes possible that recyclability.
Our board and paper are sourced from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with each sheet tracked via an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
Throughout our processes, we are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill as neither is easily recyclable, while both present disposal challenges after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used in their place.
No minimum minimum purchase requirement for Fairwater businesses
Throughout the wider industry, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to fund stock and storage before knowing if a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement.
Small firms can order a single sample, a limited trial run, or a full production batch once they have proved demand, and with per unit pricing adjusted for each order quantity across the range.
You receive a written quote before production begins, while the high-quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are the same as those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to ordering in bulk, request a printed sample to check the print, colour and fit in your hand.
Ways to purchase bespoke packaging
Share your brief! Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity and approximately how it is sold.
Design and proofing. We develop packaging design appropriate for your product, produce the print layout, then supply a proof for you to approve.
Request and approve a sample. If the format calls for one, order a physical sample, then sign off when you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, subsequently delivered to your Fairwater address, generally within two to three weeks.
Personalised wrapping Fairwater Help Guide
Do you deliver personalised packaging to Fairwater?
Yes. We manufacture all items in Irvine and provide standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of Fairwater and Wales, without an extra charge simply because of the distance from our factory.
What’s might be the minimum parcel level for Fairwater?
There is no minimum order. We can produce one box or thousands in whatever format, with quantity-based pricing confirmed in a written quotation before manufacture starts.
Which packaging elements can I personalise?
Every format permits adjustments to size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring the packaging matches your brief exactly. Branded packaging can additionally be printed on both the interior and exterior.
Could you supply examples of your packaging goods before I submit an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to precisely reproduce a production run, allowing you to confirm that its colours satisfy your brief and that the board feels suitable prior to approving a bulk order.
Is the container recyclable and biodegradable?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety makes them necessary, and biodegradable protective materials are provided where the format permits.
Can we purchase again the same design later?
Indeed, repeat orders use the same artwork file, so increasing an order or repeating it for another season doesn’t require the packaging to be redesigned from the beginning.
Enquire about a free pricing from Custom Pack Studio now
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
Order exactly what you need, with no minimum quantity! All project includes design support, and all custom packaging made here is designed around your product rather than relying on a template.
Start your enquiry, and we will reply with a written quotation.
