What custom packaging means
Our tailored packaging is precisely engineered to accommodate a particular item, letting you choose the measurements, the configuration, the artwork and the final coating.
In contrast, placing a personalised logo onto a standard, ready-made carton represents a separate task with fewer customisation options.
By opting for our bespoke packaging, you will be provided with customised casing dimensions matched to your item, relevant board durability chosen for its planned journey, and personalised printing on your preferred surfaces.
We develop the packaging design carefully around the product from the outset.
We truly adore collaborating with food producers, cosmetics brands, online sellers and craft spirits makers all over the UK!
The custom packaging we make
We manufacture an wide range of packaging styles, which are all adapted to your custom dimensions and fully printed with your artwork.
The best packaging design for your item is shaped by its physical nature, sales method, and delivery journey, and our specialists will guide your selection.
Folding cartons
These typical reverse tuck-end and crash-lock bottom structures serve as the main packaging options for items on shop shelves.
With a reverse tuck end carton, the top and bottom flaps insert in opposite directions, which provides an ideal packaging option for lightweight products such as cosmetics and supplements.
Crash-lock boxes have a self-assembling base that locks instantly upon opening to support weightier items, whilst both designs are shipped flat for rapid manual setup.
Postal and mailer boxes
Are you perhaps selling online? A bespoke mailer box will protect your product throughout the courier network while transforming delivery into a thrilling brand experience!
With bespoke printing on all surfaces, these mailer boxes elevate the usual digital retail transaction into a high-end tactile event whilst maintaining the structural integrity required to survive the pressures of transit.
Moreover, we produce expandable e-commerce cartons designed specifically for products requiring more depth or versatile packaging.
Sleeves and wallets
A stylish sleeve glides easily over the product or inside tray to quickly introduce eye-catching branding whilst maintaining the original packaging, delivering an remarkably smart and affordable solution for showcasing premium seasonal lines and special-edition releases.
Created to encase the item in the manner of a folder, this wallet style box provides an elegant flat display for store items, images and stationery.
Gift boxes and presentation packaging
When buying items intended as gifts, employing a bespoke presentation box improves the overall aesthetic to meet consumer needs whilst completely doing away with the need for manual wrapping.
This tailored presentation is easily achieved through structured presentation boxes, elegant magnetic closures, and bespoke inserts, whilst refined embellishments such as metallic foil block detailing, textured embossing, and luxurious soft touch coatings helpfully elevate the final creation into luxury packaging that achieves a higher market value.
Packaging design support if you do not have a designer
Ready to bring your ideas into reality? We deliver full creative support as part of our service, whatever stage your artwork is at!
Upon receipt of your existing corporate guidelines and final designs, we will carefully tailor our processes to these specifications and arrange your assets for final manufacture.
To get ready your packaging for press, we redraw any logo sent as a JPEG or other image format because actual manufacturing demands a much higher resolution than online platforms demand.
Starting from a basic initial concept, our specialists develop your packaging architecture and production-ready graphics, engineering bespoke structural solutions when stock containers fail to suffice. We explain every technical specification throughout the entire process, including material thickness and image definition.
Alternatively, you may employ our virtual design software to tailor a container and include your bespoke branding prior to contacting us, or book a tailored meeting should you prefer to discuss your requirements beforehand.
Custom packaging for Gretna’s industries
We manufacture bespoke packaging for beverage creators, food producers, cosmetic brands and online retailers throughout Gretna.
All field dictates its own standards, whether it is safe use in food contact to the exquisite surface finish a high-end carton requires.
Food and drink
Are you ready for the lively atmosphere of the Scottish food and drink industry? Within this extremely demanding market, your packaging must look completely sensational on the shelf whilst being fully safe for consumer contact!
Did you realise we hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level? Our packaging is produced under carefully controlled, verifiable conditions that retailers check before listing any product!
Whisky and craft spirits
We create custom printed bottle cartons and premium gift packaging for specialist distilleries and independent spirit producers, completing each creation with refined embellishments like metallic foil, embossed detail and velvet soft-touch lamination.
By choosing to eliminate minimum order requirements, we enable a distillery to carry out small production runs of bespoke labels for specific releases without the need the necessity of acquiring excessive quantities.
Cosmetics and beauty
We produce bespoke printed packaging for beauty and hair organisations, including specialised embellishments including lamination, metallic foiling and structural embossing._
In addition to safeguarding delicate glass vessels and cosmetic compacts, premium packaging must command attention on retail shelves, a twofold requirement readily fulfilled by the chosen surface finish._
E-commerce and subscription brands
We produce customised shipping cartons, tailored wrapping paper and bespoke packaging dividers for e-commerce retailers and subscription businesses.
Custom packaging created to fit the item exactly ensures secure transit whilst significantly reducing the financial burden of replacements and returned items.
Receiving a custom-made, branded package elevates the simple act of unboxing, enhancing the experience much further than the plain reality of opening a regular, characterless brown carton.
A packaging supplier perfect for Gretna businesses
Were you aware that we produce every single product in-house at our own Irvine workshop in Ayrshire?
Local enterprises throughout Gretna can rely on this method to help keep turnaround times remain fast whilst transport expenses are kept at minimal.
Our prompt logistics ensure that companies throughout Gretna and the wider UK enjoy identical fast turnaround regardless of their distance from our facility.
As an key arm of KennedySmith Press Ltd, Custom Pack Studio is underpinned by an experienced Scottish packaging manufacturer that has been focusing in high-quality print and packaging production since 1997.
Made on the dedicated presses of those specialist artisans, your packaging is produced to the strict and exacting finishing standards expected of an industry leader.
Before commencing mass fabrication, you will inspect a layout schematic and a physical model if the design pattern demands it.
Sustainable packaging as standard
Each of the manufactured cartons is completely recyclable because the inherent properties of the board itself deliver this eco-friendly quality.
By sourcing our board and paper from FSC and PEFC certified sources, we make sure each sheet is kept fully traceable through an verified pathway to sustainably managed forests.
Utilised heavily for postal cartons and mailing boxes, corrugated board delivers reliable protection whilst being one of the most often recycled packaging mediums across the United Kingdom.
Ready for a bit of fantastic news? We are completely phasing out single-use plastic and EPS from our operations! For what reason? Because those troublesome white foam blocks and plastics are notoriously difficult to recycle, posing serious environmental hazards once disposed of. we are trading them for greener alternatives!
When the project layout allows, our team recommends utilising paper that can be recycled or environmentally responsible protective materials whilst deliberately precluding unnecessary surplus.
Order one box or ten thousand
Typically, bespoke packaging requires a minimum quantity of either five hundred or one thousand items.
Are you trying out an innovative new creation or running off a restricted holiday range? That can mean paying for stock and warehousing beforehand before you even see it sells!
Without any minimum order caps to restrict you, your quantity is completely your decision, from one solitary box to 10,000. A quiet debut becomes a secure way to assess the market .
Prepared to expand? We can guarantee your price quote in writing for any volume before we even start the presses, and because we save your original artwork for future runs, growing your brand is an absolute breeze!
How to order custom packaging
Ready to share your brief? Just call 01294 314 919 or fill in our form to detail your product, quantity, and sales method! Should you be uncertain, we will happily recommend the perfect format!
During design work and proofing, we sketch the ideal box around your product, create the print, and issue a proof. We also offer a physical sample whenever the format demands it.
Ready to go for the magic to happen? As soon as you sign off on the proof, we begin work immediately manufacturing your order at our Irvine factory, usually taking only two to three weeks!
Sent directly to your doorstep, your order arrives flat pack and ready for easy assembly at any address across Gretna or the rest of the UK.
Custom packaging Gretna FAQ
What counts as custom packaging?
Custom packaging is designed carefully to the physical dimensions and technical requirements of your specific item. The dimensions, material depth, structural soundness, graphic design, and surface finish are all set for your merchandise, so that the container fits snugly whilst projecting your corporate identity. Simply affixing a brand mark to a standard container constitutes personalised packaging, whereas true custom packaging is conceived entirely from the product itself.
Is there a minimum order?
Not at all. There are no minimum minimum quantities on any choice, so you can order just one box or thousands. This approach supports independent creators and anyone testing a new item. Estimates increase with quantity, and you receive a written quote before production.
Do you deliver to Gretna?
Our Irvine manufacturing facility supplies enterprises in Gretna. Local production cuts down on delays and delivery costs for local brands._
What are your lead times?
Production starts upon your proof approval with standard delivery allowing two to three weeks, though basic cartons often turn up sooner. State your deadline during the initial enquiry for immediate confirmation of availability.
Can you help if I do not have a designer?
Operating frequently from merely an identity mark and a rudimentary concept, our specialists refine your original vision into finalised graphics, a progression that includes a comprehensive creative consultation. Or, you may initiate the drafting process independently with our digital creation platform, transferring the project to our custodians whenever you feel prepared to do so.
Is the packaging recyclable?
Made from FSC and PEFC certified board, every single box is fully recyclable. We purposefully omit plastic laminates and coatings that impede this recycling process, unless food safety absolutely demands it, and we always talk through your options first.
Request a free quote from Custom Pack Studio today
If you wish to elevate your business, captivate clients at the very first glance, or secure a fully trustworthy packaging partner, Custom Pack Studio is the perfect team to achieve your ambitions.
By removing minimum order thresholds we offer enterprises with the full versatility needed to prosper. We frequently guide organisations during their progression pathway, initiating support on a limited scale and systematically expanding our service capacity in alignment with your expansion.
Beginning your journey starts most easily with a brief phone chat.
Please reach us us directly by calling 01294 314 919 or contacting contact@custompackstudio.co.uk to go over your specific product, your packaging specifications and your projected order volumes.
Your provided quote specifies the precise format, the typeface style and the itemised cost for the exact quantity you need!
We require no minimum order, provide professional design support, and create each box to match your product precisely.
Please do not hesitate start your consultation with us at Gretna when you are ready to do so.
