Why go for custom packaging?
A standard box has room around the item, letting it to move about during transport until somebody packs the space with foam or paper to hold it still.
Standard packaging bearing an attached sticker is the simplest choice, but it is designed for no one specifically.
Custom Pack Studio produces bespoke packaging tailored to your product, making sure the box, print and finish reinforce your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We manufacture custom-made boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies across Pillgwenlly and the surrounding valleys, with orders spanning a single sample to a full pallet delivered straight to a warehouse door.
We have no minimum order requirement for anything we produce, enabling you to avoid storage and stock costs until a product’s sales potential is established.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we’ll tailor the recommendation to suit the product itself.
What bespoke packaging signifies
Custom packaging creates the box around your product from the start, so its size and printing reflect exactly what you are putting inside.
You choose the measurements, enabling a made-to-measure box to hold the product securely without movement resulting from surplus space in 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 on a stock box creates personalised packaging, involving less work than a completely customisable design.
Using bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be customised, including a single item, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without compromise.
Packing options we make for Pillgwenlly organisations
We produce a complete range of packaging boxes, made to bespoke sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Selecting the most suitable box style and packaging format depends on your products and their handling requirements, which our packaging experts will clearly explain.
Store cartons and logo packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a widely used retail packaging choice, suited to lightweight products including cosmetics and supplements, with closure flaps that fold into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a type of lock box, offering a stronger cardboard design with a base that snaps flat once opened, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and internet shopping parcels
A custom mailer box safeguards your product throughout 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.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide extra depth, allowing bulkier items to sit securely without shifting.
Gift boxes, rigid boxes and roofed boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes along with other branded boxes give purchases made as gifts with the presentation customers expect, without requiring them to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes with folding carry handles are well suited to food presents and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may specify SBS board, meaning, solid bleached sulphate, a light-coloured, safe for food contact paperboard, instead of standard carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination can further enhance the finish.
Build support for your Pillgwenlly brand
We provide packaging design support with each order, irrespective of your artwork’s current stage.
Once your logo and brand guidelines are in place, our design experts create files ready for print and ensure colours stay true on board, where packaging demands greater resolution than website imagery.
You do not need design experience to create packaging that fits your brand. Beginning with nothing more than a logo, our team develops the structure and produces professionally designed, print-ready artwork with you, clarifying each technical decision when it arises.
Our digital design tool enables you to customise a box and view its appearance on screen before printing starts. Pantone colour matching is available too, helping every repeat order stay consistent.
If you need packaging produced in both English and Welsh, our team considers it a usual artwork requirement, exactly like any other language or colour change.
Specialised packaging for the Pillgwenlly’s sectors
Meals and drink
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, regardless of where it is manufactured on either side of the border.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, meaning our food packaging is manufactured in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers review prior to listing products.
Beverages and liquor producers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a flourishing drinks scene, covering Brecon Beacons distilleries and newer gin and whisky producers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while retaining 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 beauty products
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts whilst looking good on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging incorporating soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whilst rigid boxes complement a premium range that must support a higher price point.
E-commerce and subscription labels
Retail ready and display packaging has its role when products are placed on shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands encounter an wholly different challenge.
The same customer opens an almost identical box each month, which makes a consistent finish just as important as the initial design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, tailored precisely to your product packaging, secures items in transit while cutting damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue keeps the product firmly in transit, while the design is immediately visible once the box is opened.
When a subscription brand reorders monthly, retaining consistent box dimensions makes pallet capacity and warehouse racking easy to anticipate, an ever more important consideration once volumes exceed several hundred units.
Dispatching to Pillgwenlly from our Scotland studio
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Pillgwenlly.
After proof approval is confirmed, the majority of orders arrive at a Pillgwenlly address within two to three weeks, on the same timetable as the rest of our packaging across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its established staff produces the boxes using its own presses.
You will review a proof and, when required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts. Repeat orders use the same artwork, so scaling up never means beginning from scratch!
Employing a single box company for packaging across your entire range of products makes everything straightforward.
You have a single invoice and a single dedicated point of contact, rather than pursuing several suppliers, each giving a different price for a different week.
Eco-friendly packaging as the norm
Each box we make is 100% recyclable because its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper start with FSC and PEFC certified sources, while every sheet is traced through an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes because neither is readily recyclable, creating disposal difficulties once a parcel is opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used in place of them.
Zero minimum purchase requirement for Pillgwenlly companies
Across a large part of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, meaning you to fund stock and storage before ascertaining whether the product will sell.
No minimum order is required.
Small businesses are able to order one sample, a restricted trial run, or a complete production batch after proving demand, and with per unit pricing adjusted for each order quantity throughout the range.
You will consistently receive a written quotation before production starts, while the high quality materials and packaging products provided 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 inspect its print, colour and how it fits in your hand.
Steps to place a custom packaging order
Provide your brief! Phone 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity and approximately how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging that suits your product, arrange the print layout, then provide you with a proof for checking.
Request a physical sample if the format requires one. Approve it once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine before making its way to your Pillgwenlly address, usually within two to three weeks.
Tailored packaging Pillgwenlly Frequently Asked Questions
Can you supply custom packaging to Pillgwenlly?
Yes. We manufacture every product in Irvine, then deliver throughout the UK as standard, reaching every corner of Pillgwenlly and the whole of Wales without adding a additional fee because the destination lies further from our factory.
What exactly would be the minimum packaging requirement at Pillgwenlly?
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 begins.
Which parcel components can I customise?
Each aspect of the format, including size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, so that the packaging matches exactly your brief. Branded packaging may also be printed internally and externally.
Can I request specimens of your packaging products before placing an order?
Absolutely! Your sample arrives printed and finished precisely as it would be in production, enabling you to verify the colours satisfy your brief and ensure the board feels right before authorising a bulk order.
Is the container suitable for recycling and compostable?
Every box is fully recyclable. We steer clear of plastic laminates that prevent recycling, unless food safety makes them essential, while biodegradable protective materials are offered wherever the format permits.
May one place another order for the same layout at a later time?
Yes, reorders are produced from the same artwork file, so increasing an order or repeating it for a new season does not require the packaging to be redesigned from the beginning.
Request a free estimate from the Custom Pack Studio team right now.
Please call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk with details of your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
Order exactly what you need, with no minimum quantity! Each project comes with design support, and all custom packaging created here is designed around your product rather than relying on a template.
Send your enquiry and we will return a written quote.
