Why go for bespoke packaging
A typical box leaves room around the product, enabling it to rattle in transit until someone fills the gaps with foam or paper to hold it still.
Choosing off-the-shelf packaging with a sticker on the side may be straightforward, but it belongs to no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates custom-made packaging for your product, making sure that the box, print and finish enhance your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We make custom-made boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses throughout Penlan and the nearby valleys, with orders spanning one sample to a complete pallet delivered directly to a warehouse door.
We do not require a minimum order for anything we make, therefore stock and storage costs remain unnecessary until you know a product will sell.
Tell us your packaging requirements, and we’ll tailor the recommendation to fit the product precisely.
What bespoke packaging involves
Custom packaging is designed for your product from the outset, with its size and print adapted to what you are packing.
You select the dimensions, ensuring a made-to-measure box holds the product securely rather than letting it rattle within excess space created by a generic size.
Every aspect, including the construction, board weight, printing and finish, is tailored to the contents and the manner they are transported.
Printing your logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, requiring less work than a completely customisable design.
Tailored packaging puts every panel, fold and finish in your hands, even for a single piece, allowing you to create a bespoke solution that fits perfectly, with no compromise.
Wrapping styles we make for Penlan organisations
We produce a complete range of packaging boxes to bespoke sizes, printed in full colour featuring your artwork.
The ideal box style and packaging format are based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists will talk you through the choices!
Store boxes and labelled packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a favourite in retail packaging, ideal for lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck in at both the upper end and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a type of lock box, offering a sturdier cardboard design with a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and ecommerce boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network, while turning delivery into part of the brand experience and strengthening visibility because it is printed inside and out, not only across the outer face.
Gusseted variants of these custom printed boxes provide additional depth, allowing bulkier items space to sit securely without shifting.
Present boxes, rigid boxes and carton boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes provide presents with refined presentation customers anticipate, without requiring them to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, with a fold up carry handle, are excellent for food presents and hampers!
For premium ranges, we may select SBS board, solid bleached sulphate and a bright, food safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock, while foil and soft touch lamination enhance the final effect.
Develop backing for your Penlan business
Each order includes support with packaging design, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you’ve got a logo and branding guidelines, our design experts produce print-ready files and check that colours reproduce accurately on board, as packaging needs greater resolution than website imagery.
Prior design experience is not required to create packaging that reflects your brand. We can start with no more than a logo, developing the structure and expertly designed, ready to print artwork with you, while explaining each technical decision clearly as it comes up.
Our online tool allows you to personalise a box and preview its look before printing. Pantone colour matching keeps every repeat order consistent.
Do you need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our team handles it as a standard artwork requirement, in the same way as any other language or colour change.
Bespoke packaging for Penlan’s sectors
Meals and refreshments
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while all food packaging that is in contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, regardless of where it is manufactured on either side of the border.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level verifies that we produce food packaging in controlled, traceable conditions, meeting the checks retailers require prior to listing products.
Beverages and liquor makers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a genuine drinks scene, from distilleries in Brecon Beacons to newer gin and whisky producers farther north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while maintaining shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing delivering much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Skincare products and beauty products
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that safeguard delicate glass and compacts while being prominent on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range seem worthy of its higher price point.
Online commerce and recurring labels
Retail and display packaging is important when a product is placed in a shop or marketplace fulfilment centre, whereas subscription brands encounter a different evaluation.
Every month, the same customer returns to an almost identical box, making a reliable finish just as important as the initial design.
Packaging designed to match your product’s exact dimensions keeps items secure in transit, lowering damage claims and returns from ecommerce orders.
A fitted insert or printed tissue stops the product from moving during transport, while making sure the print is immediately visible when the box is opened.
For a subscription brand placing repeat orders monthly, keeping consistent box dimensions makes pallet space and warehouse racking predictable, an ever more important factor as volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Sending to Penlan from our Scottish factory
Everything is manufactured at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to businesses in Penlan provided as standard.
After proof approval, most orders arrive at a Penlan address within two to three weeks, in line with our packaging delivery schedule throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, which means an long-standing team makes the boxes with its own presses.
You receive a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production begins. Reorders use the same artwork, allowing you to scale up without restarting the process from the beginning.
Using a single box company for packaging across your entire product range keeps everything simple.
You receive one invoice and operate through a single point of contact, rather than pursuing several suppliers, each quoting different prices for separate weeks.
Environmentally friendly packaging as the norm
Each box we produce is 100% recyclable since its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper are sourced from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, where each sheet traced via an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We’re reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes as neither is easily recycled, while both create disposal headaches after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection takes their place.
No minimum purchase for Penlan businesses
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, obliging you to finance stock and storage before determining whether a product will sell.
We do not have a minimum order requirement.
Small businesses may order one sample, commission a limited trial run, or move on to full production once demand is established, with unit pricing scaling at each quantity across this range.
You will always receive a written quote before production starts, while the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are identical to those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a large order, request a physical sample to evaluate its printing, colour and how it fits into your hand.
Methods to purchase personalised packaging
Send your brief! Phone 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity and approximately how it is sold.
Design and proofing. We create packaging that fits your product, prepare the print layout, and provide a proof for your approval.
Request and approve. Request a physical sample when the format calls for one, then approve once you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine before reaching your Penlan address, generally within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Penlan Customer Questions
Could you produce tailored packaging to Penlan?
Yes. We make every item in Irvine and provide standard delivery across the UK, covering every part of Penlan and all of Wales, without charging a separate fee for locations more distant from the factory.
Which would be the lowest packaging amount at Penlan?
No minimum order applies. You may order a one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing scaled to quantity in a written quotation provided before production begins.
Which packing sections can I personalise?
Dimensions, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be tailored for every format, making sure the designed packaging meets your brief exactly. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the interior and exterior.
Can you possibly send samples of your packaging solutions products before I place an order?
Certainly. The sample is printed and finished to precisely the same standard as a production run, enabling you to confirm that the colours meet your brief and that the board has the right feel before approving a bulk order.
Is the wrapping suitable for recycling and biodegradable?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates that prevent recycling except when food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are utilised whenever the format permits.
May we get again the same layout later?
Yes, reorders use the original artwork file, so increasing an order or placing it again for a new season does not require the packaging to be redesigned from the ground up.
Ask for a complimentary price estimate from the Custom Pack Studio team today.
Please telephone 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product details, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
No minimum order is required, each project comes with design support, and each piece of custom packaging created here starts with your product, never a template.
Begin your enquiry, and we will come back with a written quotation.
