Compelling reasons go with custom packaging
A regular box leaves space around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until someone packs the gaps with paper or foam to hold it still.
Standard packaging bearing an attached sticker is the easiest option, but it is designed for no one specifically.
At Custom Pack Studio, bespoke packaging is shaped around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand instead of overshadowing it.
We make custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses across Gabalfa and the valleys beyond, with orders varying from a single sample to a complete pallet delivered directly to your warehouse door.
Nothing we produce requires a minimum order, enabling you to set stock and storage costs aside until a product has shown that it sells.
Share your packaging specifications, and we will customise our recommendation precisely to the product concerned.
What bespoke packaging represents
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, so that a custom-sized box keeps the product secure rather than allowing it to rattle within excess space created by a generic size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are also custom designed, carefully matched to what is being packed and how it travels.
Printing a logo onto a stock box produces personalised packaging, but it is a less extensive project than a fully customisable design.
With customised packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for a single run, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without any compromise.
Wrapping styles which we design for Gabalfa firms
We manufacture a complete range of packaging boxes, tailored to custom sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Choosing the right box style and packaging is based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging experts will take you through the options available.
Store cartons and tailor-made brand packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons remain a familiar retail packaging choice for lightweight products, such as cosmetics and supplements, featuring flaps that fold tidily into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a kind of lock box, providing a sturdier cardboard design with a base that snaps flat once opened, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Delivery and e-commerce boxes
A bespoke mailer box safeguards your product across the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside rather than only across the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are offered with gussets, providing extra depth to keep bigger items securely in place.
Present containers, rigid packages and pitched-roof cartons
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and other branded boxes provide products bought as gifts with the refined presentation customers anticipate, removing the need for customers to wrap them on their own.
Gable boxes, including a fold up carry handle, are suitable for food presents and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may select SBS board (solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard) rather than standard carton stock, whereas finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination enhance the result.
Build backing for your Gabalfa business
Every order includes support with packaging design, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and branding guidelines, our design specialists produce print-ready files and confirm that colours reproduce accurately on board, as packaging needs greater resolution than website imagery.
You do not need any prior design experience to create packaging that represents your brand. Our team can start with only a logo. Working together, you will determine the structure and create professionally designed, print ready artwork, while we explain every technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and check its appearance on screen before printing, while Pantone colour matching ensures that repeat orders remain consistent.
When you require packaging printed in both English and Welsh in English and Welsh, our team considers this as a standard artwork requirement, managed in exactly the same manner as any other language or colour change.
Custom packaging for the Gabalfa’s industries
Dishes and libations
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, regardless of where it is manufactured.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, meaning our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers verify prior to listing products.
Beverages and liquor producers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a flourishing drinks scene, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and more recent gin and whisky producers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transportation while retaining 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.
Makeup and self-care
For cosmetic and skincare brands, cartons must shield fragile glass and compacts while presenting elegantly on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging using soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range appear worthy of its higher price.
Electronic commerce and recurring payment brands
Retail ready and display packaging has its role when products occupy shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, yet subscription brands encounter an wholly different challenge.
As the same customer opens an nearly identical box every month, maintaining a consistent finish is as important as the original design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, tailored precisely to your product packaging, keeps items secure in transit while cutting damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue stops the product from shifting during transit, while keeping the print in view as soon as the box is opened.
For a subscription brand that places monthly reorders, sticking to identical box dimensions keeps pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an increasingly valuable benefit once volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Sending to Gabalfa from our Scotland factory
All products are manufactured at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Gabalfa.
After proof approval is obtained, the majority of orders arrive at a Gabalfa address within two to three weeks, following 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 been producing print and packaging since 1997, with its experienced team making boxes on its own presses.
You will review a proof and, when required by the format, a physical sample before full production begins. Reorders use the same artwork, so scaling up never means starting from scratch!
Working with one box company for packaging throughout your whole product line keeps everything simple.
You have a single invoice and a single contact, avoiding the need to chase multiple suppliers quoting different prices for different weeks.
Sustainable packaging as usual
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable because its board is able to be recycled.
Our board and paper come from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while an audited supply chain traces each sheet back to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes because neither is readily recyclable, creating disposal difficulties once a parcel is opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is employed in place of them.
No minimum order size for Gabalfa enterprises
Across the wider industry, custom packaging frequently requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to fund stock and storage before knowing whether a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement of any kind!
Small businesses may order a one sample, limited runs for testing, or a complete production run once demand has been established, with the unit price varying according to the quantity ordered.
Prior to production starts, you will always be sent a written quote. The high quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty are exactly the same as those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a large order, obtain a printed sample to evaluate its print, colour and its fit in your hand.
Ways to submit a custom packaging order
Send your brief by telephoning 01294 314 919 or using the online design tool. Tell us the product, required quantity, and approximately how it is sold.
Design and proofing. We develop packaging design suited to your product, produce the print layout, then supply a proof for you to approve.
Ask for a physical sample if the format needs one, then give your approval once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine before making its way to your Gabalfa address, typically within two to three weeks.
Bespoke wrapping Gabalfa FAQ
Do you send bespoke packaging to Gabalfa?
Yes. We produce every product in Irvine, then deliver throughout the UK as part of our standard service, extending to every corner of Gabalfa and the whole of Wales without adding a additional fee because the destination lies further from our factory.
What’s the least amount needed for packaging with Gabalfa?
There is no minimum order requirement. You may order one box or several thousand in whatever format, with pricing determined by quantity and confirmed in writing before production starts.
What packaging parts can I customise?
Each format allows adjustments to size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring the packaging meets your brief precisely. Branded packaging can additionally be printed on both the interior and outside.
Might I obtain examples of your packaging items before submitting 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 right before authorising a larger order.
Is the packaging able to be recycled and environmentally friendly?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We avoid plastic laminates that prevent recycling except when food safety demands them, while biodegradable protective materials are used whenever the format permits.
May we order again the same template at a later date?
Yes, repeat orders use the same artwork file, meaning you can increase quantities or get packaging ready for a new season without reworking everything from scratch.
Enquire about a complimentary pricing from Custom Pack Studio immediately
Please telephone 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product details, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
We have no minimum order. Every project provides design support, and each item of custom packaging we produce here is designed around your product, rather than a template.
Send your enquiry, and we will reply with a written quotation.
