Reasons to select personalised packaging
A regular box creates empty space around the product, enabling it to rattle during transport until somebody fills the gap with foam or paper to keep it still.
Conventional packaging with a label applied to its side may be convenient, but it is intended for no particular audience.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand rather than covering it.
We produce bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout Maindee and surrounding valleys, with orders ranging from one sample to a pallet delivered directly to a warehouse door.
We require no minimum order for any item we produce, allowing you to avoid storage and stock costs until a product’s sales potential is established.
Tell us about your packaging needs, and we will adapt the recommendation to fit the product itself.
What custom packaging signifies
Custom packaging creates the box around your product from the outset, so its size and printing reflect exactly what you are packing.
By selecting the dimensions, you ensure that a custom sized box holds the product securely, rather than allowing it to rattle within the unnecessary space of a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed as well, carefully matched to what is being packed and how it travels.
Printing a logo onto a stock box creates personalised packaging, representing a more modest undertaking than a fully customisable design.
Using customised packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be customised, including a single item, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without compromise.
Packing styles we make for Maindee enterprises
We produce a complete range of packaging boxes, tailored to custom sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Choosing the correct box style and packaging type depends on your product and the way it is handled. Our packaging specialists will guide you through the available options.
Retail cartons and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a popular choice for retail packaging, ideal for low-weight products like cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold inwards at both the upper end and lower end.
Crash lock boxes are a stronger type of cardboard lock box, with a base that snaps flat when unfolded, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Mailer and internet shopping boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product across the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing inside and out rather than only on the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are available as well with gussets, providing additional depth so bulkier items can sit securely without shifting.
Gift boxes, strong boxes and pitched-top boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded boxes give gift purchases with the presentation shoppers anticipate, without requiring them to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, complete with a handle that folds up, make an excellent choice for food gifts and hampers.
For high-end ranges, we occasionally specify SBS board, or solid bleached sulphate, a light-coloured, food safe paperboard, instead of standard carton stock, while finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination improve the overall effect.
Create support for your Maindee business
We provide packaging design support with each order, irrespective of your artwork’s current stage.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists create print ready files and verify that colours are reproduced accurately on board, because packaging needs higher resolution than a website image.
Prior design experience is not required to create packaging that reflects your brand. We can start with nothing more than a logo, developing the structure and expertly designed, ready to print artwork with you, while explaining each technical decision clearly as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and preview its look and feel on screen before it is printed, while Pantone colour matching ensures every repeat order stays consistent.
If packaging is required in both English and Welsh, our team regards this as a standard artwork requirement, managing it precisely as it would any other language or colour change.
Custom packaging for Maindee’s specialised industries
Cuisine and drink
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, and all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must comply with food contact standards, regardless of which side of the border it is produced on.
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.
Beverages and spirit-making sites
During the past two decades, Wales has developed a authentic drinks scene, from distilleries in Brecon Beacons to more recent gin and whisky producers further north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transit while preserving their shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing delivering much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty products and aesthetics
Cosmetics and skincare companies require cartons that safeguard delicate glass packaging and compacts while presenting an attractive appearance on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range appear worthy of its higher price point.
E-commerce and subscription brands
Retail ready and display packaging are important when products occupy shops or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands face a different challenge.
The same customer opens an almost identical box every month, making a consistent finish just as important as the original design.
Effective online retail packaging, made to correspond to your product packaging precisely, keeps goods protected during transit and reduces damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely during transit, while the print remains in view as soon as the box is opened.
As a subscription brand reorders monthly, retaining consistent box dimensions keeps pallet capacity and warehouse racking easy to anticipate, an ever more important consideration once volumes exceed several hundred units.
Delivering to Maindee from our Scotland studio
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to businesses in Maindee included by default.
After proof approval, the majority of orders arrive at a Maindee address within two to three weeks, in line with our packaging delivery schedule across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its experienced team creates the boxes using its own presses!
You get a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts. Repeat orders use the same artwork, allowing you to scale up without restarting the process again.
Using a single box company for your entire product range makes packaging.
It all passes through one invoice and a single point of contact, saving you from the frustration of chasing multiple suppliers quoting different prices for different weeks.
Eco-friendly packaging as routine
Each box we produce is 100% recyclable because its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper originate from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while audits trace each 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 material is easy to recycle and both create disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used instead.
Not any minimum purchase for Maindee enterprises
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging demands minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to finance stock and storage before ascertaining whether the product will sell.
There’s no minimum order requirement at all!
Small businesses are able to order one sample, a limited trial run, or a full production batch once they have proved demand, and with per unit pricing adjusted for every order quantity across the range.
Prior to production starts, you will always receive a written quotation. 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.
Before ordering in bulk, ask for a printed sample to inspect the print, colour and fit in your hand.
How to purchase personalised packaging
Send your brief by ringing 01294 314 919 or using the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity, and approximately the way it is sold.
Design and proofing. We create packaging design suited to your product, prepare the print layout, then provide a proof for you to approve.
Ask for and approve a sample. If the format requires one, order a physical sample, then sign off when you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine prior to being delivered to your Maindee address, usually within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Maindee Frequently Asked Questions
Will you provide tailored packaging to Maindee?
Yes. We produce each product in Irvine, and then deliver throughout the UK as part of our standard service, extending to every corner of Maindee and all of Wales without levying a additional charge because the destination is further away from our factory.
What would be the lowest packaging amount at Maindee?
No minimum order. We can manufacture a single box or thousands in whatever format, with quantity-based pricing confirmed in a written quotation before manufacture starts.
What packing components can I personalise?
Each aspect of the format, such as size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, so that the packaging matches exactly your brief. Branded packaging may also be printed inside and outside.
Can you please send illustrations of your packaging products before I choose to place an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to precisely the same standard as a production run, enabling you to confirm that the colours match your brief and that the board has the correct feel before approving a bulk order.
Is the container able to be recycled and biodegradable?
Every packaging box is completely recyclable. We omit plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are offered when the format allows.
Can someone submit the identical Maindee design request at a later time?
Certainly, reorders use the original artwork file, enabling you to add to an order or prepare for another season without redesigning the packaging.
Enquire about a without charge assessment from Custom Pack Studio right away
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, sharing your product, packaging requirements and preferred quantities.
Order exactly what you need, with no minimum quantity! Every project comes with design support, and all custom packaging created here is designed around your product rather than relying on a template.
Send your query and we will provide a written quotation.
