Why select custom packaging?
A regular box creates unfilled space around the product, allowing it to move noisily in transit until foam or paper is added to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with a label applied to its side might be convenient, but it is designed for no particular audience.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish complement your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout Maesteg and the valleys beyond. Orders can be as small as one sample or as large as a pallet delivered directly to your warehouse door!
Nothing we produce needs a minimum order, allowing you to leave stock and storage costs aside until a product has shown that it sells.
Provide your packaging specifications, and we will tailor the recommendation to the product.
What custom packaging entails
Bespoke packaging is created for your product from the outset, with its dimensions and print tailored to the item you are packing.
By selecting the dimensions, you ensure that a custom sized box secures the product securely, rather than letting it to rattle within the unnecessary space of a standard size.
Every element, including the construction, board weight, printing and finish, is tailored to the contents and the manner they are transported.
Printing a logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, offering a less ambitious project than completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be tailored, even for one item, enabling you to create packaging that fits precisely and without compromise.
Wrapping types we manufacture for Maesteg firms
We manufacture a full range of packaging boxes, made to custom sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork.
The ideal box design and packaging type depend on what you sell and the way it is handled, while our packaging specialists will talk you through the choices!
Store cartons and bespoke branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging mainstay, designed for lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a type of lock box, providing a stronger cardboard design with a base that snaps flat once opened, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Postal and online shopping boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product across the courier network, while making delivery into part of the brand experience and increasing visibility through printing on both its interior and exterior, not solely its outer face.
These custom printed boxes are available as well with gussets, creating extra depth so bulkier items can sit securely without shifting.
Keepsake boxes, sturdy boxes and roofed boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and additional branded boxes provide products bought as gifts the polished presentation customers anticipate, whilst saving them the effort of wrapping.
Gable boxes, including a fold up carry handle, are well suited to food gifts and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may specify SBS board, meaning, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination finishes can further enhance the outcome.
Create support for your Maesteg enterprise
Every order provides packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
Once your logo and brand guidelines are established, our design experts prepare files ready for print and ensure colours remain true on board, where packaging requires greater resolution than website imagery.
You do not need previous design experience to create packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can start with just a logo, define the structure and produce professionally designed artwork ready for print in collaboration with you, explaining each technical decision when it arises.
Our online tool enables you to personalise a box and preview its appearance on screen prior to printing, while Pantone colour matching ensures consistency each time you make a repeat order.
When you require packaging printed bilingually in English and Welsh, our team considers this as a standard artwork requirement, handled in exactly the same manner as any other language or colour change.
Personalised packaging for the Maesteg’s sectors
Food and drinks
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, wherever it is manufactured.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, which means our food packaging is manufactured in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers evaluate before including a product.
Refreshments and spirit-makers
Throughout Wales, a thriving drinks culture has developed during the past twenty years, extending from Brecon Beacons distilleries to more recent gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while preserving their shelf appeal, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing delivering a great deal of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Makeup and personal care products for Maesteg
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that safeguard delicate glass and compacts while presenting well on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes are suited to premium ranges that require a higher price point to be justified.
E-commerce and membership brands
Retail ready and display packaging has its role when products occupy shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands encounter an entirely different challenge.
Each month, the same customer returns to an nearly identical box, rendering a reliable finish equally important as the original design.
Effective online retail packaging, produced to correspond to your product packaging exactly, keeps goods secure during transit and reduces damage claims and returns.
Inside, a fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely during transit, as the print greets the eye the moment the box opens.
Subscription brands that reorder monthly can maintain pallet space and warehouse racking uniform by retaining a single box size. This becomes more important over time when order volumes exceed several hundred units.
Distributing Maesteg direct from our Scotland manufacturing facility
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with delivery throughout the UK to businesses in Maesteg provided as standard.
Following proof approval, the majority of orders reach a Maesteg address within two to three weeks, in line with our packaging delivery schedule throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an well-established packaging manufacturer that has produced print and packaging since 1997, with its experienced team producing boxes on its own presses.
Prior to the start of full production, you get a proof and, where the format calls for it, a physical sample, as reorders keep the same artwork, rendering expansion remarkably simple.
Employing a single box company for packaging throughout your whole product range makes the process straightforward.
Have one invoice and a single point of contact, instead of seeking out multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for a different week.
Renewable packaging as usual
Each box we make is 100% recyclable because the board itself is recyclable.
Our board and paper originate from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while audits trace every sheet through the supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes as neither is easily recyclable, and both create disposal issues after a parcel is opened.
When the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection takes their place instead.
There is no minimum order for Maesteg businesses
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, obliging you to fund stock and storage before establishing whether a product will sell.
There’s no minimum order requirement of any kind!
Smaller businesses can opt for a single sample, a short trial run, or a full production run after demand is demonstrated, with per-unit pricing scaling across every 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.
Before ordering in volume, request a printed sample and inspect its printing, colour and how it fits in your hand.
Steps to submit a custom packaging order
Share your brief. Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity and how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging design designed for your product, prepare the print layout, and provide a proof for you to check.
Ask for a physical sample if the format needs one, then sign off once you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine before reaching your Maesteg address, typically within two to three weeks.
Bespoke packaging Maesteg Frequently Asked Questions
Will you ship personalised packaging to Maesteg?
Yes! We produce everything in Irvine and deliver across the UK as standard, including every part of Maesteg and across Wales, with no extra charge simply because you are further from the factory.
What is the smallest packaging order in Maesteg?
No minimum order is required. You can ask for one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing set according to quantity in a written quote provided before production starts.
What packaging elements can I modify?
Dimensions, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be tailored for every format, making sure the designed packaging fulfils your brief exactly. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the inside and outside.
May you offer packaging item demonstrations prior to we place an order?
Yes. Your sample is delivered printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, enabling you to check that the colours meet your brief and the board feels suitable before approving a larger order.
Is the packaging suitable for recycling and compostable?
All packaging boxes are fully recyclable. We omit plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are made available when the format allows.
Is it possible to one make the same layout order at a later time?
Certainly! Reorders use the original artwork file, which means you can increase an order or repeat it for a new season without redesigning the packaging from scratch.
Get a free pricing from Custom Package Studio straight away.
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
There is no minimum order requirement, design support forms part of each project, and each item of custom packaging produced here starts with your product, not a template.
Send your enquiry and we will provide a written quotation.
