Why pick tailored packaging
A conventional box leaves space around the product, making it rattle during transit until foam or paper is added to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with a sticker is straightforward, but it is intended for nobody in particular.
At Custom Pack Studio, bespoke packaging is shaped around your product, making sure the box, print and finish support your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout Maritime Quarter and the nearby valleys, with orders spanning one sample to a full pallet delivered directly to a warehouse door.
You can order any quantity of the products we make, so stock and storage expenses remain unneeded until you have established that a product sells.
Tell us your packaging requirements, and we’ll tailor the recommendation to fit the product perfectly.
What bespoke packaging entails
Custom packaging begins with a box specifically designed for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish precisely reflect what it contains.
You select the dimensions, enabling a custom-sized box to hold the product securely without movement resulting from surplus space in a standard size.
Every element, ranging from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is adapted to the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, representing a more modest undertaking than a fully customisable design.
Using bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be tailored, including a single item, helping you to create packaging that fits exactly without compromise.
Packing types we produce for Maritime Quarter businesses
We produce a complete range of packaging boxes in bespoke sizes, printed in full colour featuring your artwork.
Selecting the right box style and packaging depends on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging experts will guide you through the options available.
Shop packages and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging staple, intended for lightweight products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps which tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a kind of lock box, offering a stronger cardboard design with a base that snaps flat once opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and internet shopping boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside instead of only on the outer face.
Gusseted variants of these custom printed boxes provide extra depth, giving bulkier items room to sit securely.
Surprise packages, solid cases and roofed packages
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and additional branded boxes provide purchases made as gifts with the presentation customers expect, without them needing to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes with folding carry handles are suitable for food gifts as well as hampers.
For high-end ranges, we may choose SBS board (solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard) rather than standard carton stock, whereas finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination improve the result.
Design solutions for your Maritime Quarter company
We provide packaging design support with each order, regardless of your artwork’s current stage.
Once your logo and brand guidelines are established, our design experts create files suitable for print and make sure colours remain true on board, where packaging requires higher resolution than website imagery.
You do not need prior design experience to develop packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can start with just a logo, establish the structure and create professionally designed artwork ready for print in collaboration with you, clarifying each technical decision when it arises.
Our digital design tool enables you to customise a box and preview its appearance on screen before printing begins. Pantone colour matching is also available, helping every repeat order remain consistent.
If packaging is required in both English and Welsh, our team treats this as a standard artwork requirement, managing it precisely as it would any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for Maritime Quarter’s industries
Meals and drinks
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, and all food packaging that touches meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, regardless of which side of the border it is produced on.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level verifies that we manufacture food packaging in controlled, traceable conditions, meeting the checks retailers require before listing products.
Refreshments and spirit-makers
Over the past twenty years, Wales has established a flourishing drinks scene, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and newer gin and whisky producers in the north.
Presentation boxes for bottles must withstand transit while remaining striking on the shelf, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing adding much of the impact to a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Make-up and aesthetics
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons which protect fragile glass and compacts while looking presentable on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes complement a premium range that must support a higher price point.
Online shopping and recurring categories
Retail ready and display packaging has its role when products occupy shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, yet subscription brands face an entirely different challenge.
The same customer opens an almost identical box every month, making a consistent finish just as important as the original design.
High-quality e-commerce packaging, made exactly to fit your product packaging, keeps items secure during transit and reduces damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue keeps the product secure in transit, while the print stays in view as soon as the box is opened.
For a subscription brand that reorders monthly, retaining identical box dimensions helps maintain pallet space and warehouse racking predictable, an increasingly important consideration as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Distributing Maritime Quarter direct from our Scotland manufacturing facility
Everything is produced at our Irvine facility, with delivery across the UK to businesses in Maritime Quarter included as standard.
After proof approval, deliveries to a Maritime Quarter address generally arrive within two to three weeks, following the timetable for all our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, where an experienced team creates 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 packaging throughout your whole product line makes everything uncomplicated.
You get one invoice and work with one contact, steering clear of multiple suppliers quoting different prices for different weeks.
Green packaging as usual practice
Every box we create is fully recyclable, with this recyclability rooted in the board itself.
Our board and paper are procured from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet traceable through an audited chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes, as neither material is readily recyclable and both cause disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used in its place.
There is no minimum purchase for Maritime Quarter companies
Across the industry, custom packaging commonly requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, meaning you must fund stock and storage before finding out whether your product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement whatsoever.
Small businesses may place an order for one sample, a limited run for testing, or a complete production run once demand has been established, with the price per unit varying at each quantity throughout this range.
You 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 purchasing in bulk, request a printed sample and examine its printing, colour and how it fits in your hand.
How to make a personalised packaging order
Provide your brief. Ring 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool. Tell us the product, quantity and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging designed for your product, prepare the print layout, and send a proof for your review.
Ask for a physical sample where the format requires one, then provide approval once you are satisfied with its colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Maritime Quarter address, typically within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Maritime Quarter Frequently Asked Questions
Does your business offer personalised packaging shipping to Maritime Quarter?
Yes. We produce each product in Irvine, and then deliver throughout the UK as standard, reaching each corner of Maritime Quarter and the whole of Wales without applying a additional charge because the destination is further away from our factory.
What would be the smallest packaging amount at Maritime Quarter?
There is no minimum order. Whether you require one box or several thousand in whatever format, you will be provided with quantity based pricing via a written quotation before production begins.
Which packing features can I customise?
Each aspect of the format, such as size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, ensuring that the packaging matches exactly your brief. Branded packaging may also be printed internally and externally.
Would you provide packing goods demonstrations before we put in an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to production standards, enabling you to verify that the colours meet your brief and the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Can the packaging become recyclable along with does it biodegrade?
Every packaging box is completely recyclable. We omit plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are made available when the format permits.
May someone make the very same Maritime Quarter design purchase at a later time?
Indeed, reorders use the same artwork file, meaning that increasing an order or repeating it for another season doesn’t require the packaging to be redesigned from scratch.
Enquire about a no-cost quotation from Custom Pack Studio today
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
There is no minimum order requirement, design support is part of every project, and each item of custom packaging made here is developed around your product instead of a standard template.
Send your enquiry, and we will reply with a written quote.
