What makes you opt for custom packaging
A conventional box leaves room around the product, causing it to rattle in transit until foam or paper is packed in to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with a sticker attached is the simple choice, but it has not been designed specifically for anyone.
Custom Pack Studio creates tailored packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish complement your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We create custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses throughout Offa and the valleys beyond. Orders can be as small as one sample or as large as a pallet delivered straight to your warehouse door!
Nothing we produce requires a minimum order, allowing you to set stock and storage costs aside until a product has proved it sells.
Provide your packaging specifications, and we will tailor the recommendation to the product.
What custom packaging consists of
Custom packaging begins with a box designed specifically for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish exactly reflect its contents.
You choose the dimensions, enabling a custom-sized box to hold the product firmly without movement resulting from surplus space in a standard size.
Each aspect, including the construction, board weight, printing and finish, is customised to the contents and the way they are transported.
Printing a logo onto a stock box produces personalised packaging, constituting a less substantial undertaking than a fully customisable design.
Tailored packaging places each panel, fold and finish in your hands, even for a single piece, enabling you to create a bespoke solution that fits precisely, without compromise.
Packaging styles we make for Offa firms
We produce a complete range of packaging boxes, tailored to custom sizes and printed in full colour using your artwork.
Selecting the appropriate box style and packaging depends on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists will guide you through the options available.
Retail containers and personalised packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are still a well-known retail packaging choice for lightweight products, including cosmetics and supplements, featuring flaps that fold tidily into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a type of lock box, providing a sturdier cardboard design with a base that snaps flat once opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Shipping and online retail cartons
A custom mailer box protects your product across the courier network, turning delivery into an exciting part of the brand experience while increasing visibility through printing on both the inside and outside, rather than just the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes create additional depth, allowing bulkier items space to sit securely.
Keepsake boxes, solid boxes and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded packaging provide gifts with the presentation customers expect, without requiring them to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, supplied with a handle that folds upwards, make an excellent choice for food gifts and hampers.
In premium ranges, we sometimes specify SBS board, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock. Finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination improve the overall effect.
Design guidance for your Offa business
Each order includes packaging design assistance, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
Once your logo and brand guidelines are in place, our design experts prepare files ready for print and ensure colours stay true on board, where packaging demands greater resolution than website imagery.
Prior design experience is not required to produce packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can begin with no more than a logo, developing the structure and expertly designed, ready to print artwork with you, while explaining each technical decision in clear terms as it arises.
Our online tool lets you customise a box and view its appearance before printing. Pantone colour matching keeps every repeat order consistent.
When you need packaging printed in both English and Welsh, our team treats it as a standard artwork requirement, in the same way as any other language or colour change.
Custom packaging for the Offa’s operations
Meals and potations
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef have Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, wherever it is manufactured on either side of the border.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level confirms that food packaging is manufactured within controlled and traceable processes, meeting the checks retailers undertake before approving products for listing.
Beverages and liquor producers
Throughout Wales, a flourishing drinks culture has emerged during the past twenty years, extending from Brecon Beacons distilleries to newer gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes have to withstand transit and look smart on the shelf too! Finishes such as foil stamping and embossing create much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty products and self-care products for Offa
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts while presenting well 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.
Internet commerce and subscription companies
Packaging designed for retail display matters when a product sits in a shop or marketplace fulfilment centre, yet subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
The same customer opens a nearly identical box every month, making a uniform finish as important as the original design.
Effective online retail packaging, produced to correspond to your product packaging exactly, keeps goods protected in transit and minimises damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely in transit, while the design is straight away visible when the box opens.
When a subscription brand places repeat orders monthly, retaining uniform box dimensions makes pallet capacity and warehouse racking easy to anticipate, an increasingly important consideration once volumes exceed several hundred units.
Dispatching to Offa from our Scotland workshop
All items is made at our Irvine site, with UK delivery to companies in Offa included by default.
After your proof is accepted, most orders are delivered to a Offa address within two to three weeks, matching the delivery timescale for our packaging 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.
You approve a proof and, where needed by the format, a physical sample before full production begins, while reorders retain the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Employing one box company for packaging throughout your whole product range makes everything simple.
You have a single invoice and one dedicated point of contact, rather than pursuing multiple suppliers, each giving a different price for a separate week.
Eco-friendly packaging as standard
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable as the board itself makes possible that recyclability.
Our board and paper come from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while audits track 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 is easy to recycle, and both create disposal issues once a parcel is opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection replaces them instead.
Absolutely no minimum requirement for Offa companies.
Throughout the wider industry, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to finance stock and storage before knowing whether a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement at all!
Small businesses can start with a single sample, place a limited trial run, or proceed with full production once demand is established, while unit pricing scales across each quantity in between.
You always receive a written quotation before production starts, and the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for fifty are identical to those supplied for ten thousand.
Before placing a bigger order, request a printed sample to assess the print, colour and how comfortably it fits in your hand.
Methods to make a tailored packaging order
Provide your brief by phoning 01294 314 919 or via the online design tool, then let us know 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 and approve a sample. If the format requires one, order a physical sample, then sign off when you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Offa address, generally within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Offa Common Questions
Can you deliver bespoke packaging to Offa?
Yes. We make all items in Irvine and offer standard delivery throughout the UK, serving every part of Offa and all of Wales, without adding a separate fee for locations more distant from the factory.
What exactly represents the lowest packaging quantity at Offa?
There is no minimum order. Whether you require one box or several thousand in whatever format, you will receive quantity based pricing via a written quote before production starts.
What elements of the packaging can I personalise?
Each format gives you complete freedom to adjust the size, structure, board weight, print and finish, making sure the resulting packaging meets your brief exactly. Your branded packaging order can also be printed on the interior as well as the outside.
Is it possible that I request examples of your packaging materials before placing an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to exactly reproduce a production run, enabling you to verify that its colours satisfy your brief and that the board feels suitable prior to approving a bulk order.
Can the packaging able to be recycled and can it be compostable?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We avoid plastic laminates that prevent recycling except when food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are used whenever the format allows.
Can I reorder the same layout at a later date?
Yes, repeat orders continue using the same artwork file, meaning you can raise quantities or prepare packaging for a new season without reworking everything from the beginning.
Enquire about a free quotation from Custom Pack Studio immediately
Please call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk with details of your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
We have no minimum order. Each project provides design support, and each item of custom packaging we produce here is designed around your product, rather than a template.
Submit your query and we will provide a written quotation.
