Why would you opt for custom packaging
A regular box leaves room around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until foam or paper is added to prevent movement.
Selecting off-the-shelf packaging with a label on the side may be easy, but it belongs to no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging tailored to your product, ensuring 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 Pontllanfraith and surrounding valleys, with orders varying from one sample to a pallet delivered directly to a warehouse door.
Nothing we produce needs a minimum order, allowing you to set stock and storage costs aside until a product has shown that it sells.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we will adapt the recommendation to the product itself.
What personalised packaging means
Custom packaging begins with your product, with the box dimensions and print specification designed to suit exactly what you are packing.
By choosing the dimensions, you ensure that a custom sized box holds the product firmly, rather than letting it to rattle within the unnecessary space of a standard size.
Every element, from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is customised for the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo onto a stock box creates personalised packaging, but it is a smaller project than a fully customisable design.
With customised packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be tailored, even for one run, allowing you to create packaging that fits exactly without any compromise.
Packaging styles we create for Pontllanfraith enterprises
We create a full range of packaging boxes, each manufactured to bespoke sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Selecting the suitable style of box and packaging format depends on your products and how they are handled. Our packaging specialists will talk you through the available choices.
Retail cartons and tailored branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging staple, intended for lightweight products including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a stronger type of lock box, made from cardboard with a base that snaps flat upon opening, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Mailer and online 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 versions of these custom printed boxes offer additional depth, giving bulkier items room to sit securely without moving.
Present boxes, sturdy boxes and roofed cartons
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes give products bought as presents the polished presentation customers anticipate, without customers needing to wrap them.
Gable boxes featuring collapsible carry handles are well suited to food presents and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may choose SBS board (solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard) over standard carton stock, while finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination improve the outcome.
Build support for your Pontllanfraith organisation
Each order comes with packaging design assistance, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design experts prepare print-ready files and verify that colours remain accurate on board, as packaging requires higher resolution than an image on a website.
You don’t need experience in design to create packaging that suits your brand. Our team can start with only a logo. Together, they create the structure and professionally produced print ready artwork, while supporting you through every technical decision along the way.
Our online tool lets you personalise a box and preview its appearance before printing. Pantone colour matching maintains each repeat order consistent.
When your packaging needs English and Welsh text, our staff handles this as a routine artwork request, just as we would handle any other language or colour amendment.
Specialised packaging for Pontllanfraith’s own industries
Food and refreshment
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef have Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas 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, satisfying the checks retailers carry out prior to approving products for listing.
Drinks and distilling
Over the past twenty years, Wales has developed a distinctive drinks industry, encompassing distilleries in the Brecon Beacons and newer gin and whisky producers across the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while retaining shelf appeal, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing delivering much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Makeup and makeup products
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect delicate glass containers and compacts, while providing an attractive presentation on retail shelves.
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.
Internet commerce and subscription brands
Retail and display packaging is important when a product is placed in a shop or marketplace fulfilment centre, whereas subscription brands encounter a different assessment.
Because the same client opens an nearly identical box monthly, maintaining a consistent finish is just as important as the original design.
High-quality e-commerce packaging, produced precisely to fit your product packaging, holds items safe in transit and lowers damage claims and returns.
A tailored insert or printed tissue holds securely the product during transit, whilst ensuring the print stays immediately visible as the box opens.
For a subscription brand that places repeat orders monthly, maintaining uniform box dimensions preserves predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming progressively important as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Dispatching to Pontllanfraith from our Scotland facility
Everything is produced at our Irvine site, with UK delivery to businesses in Pontllanfraith included as standard.
Following proof approval, most orders arrive at a Pontllanfraith address within two to three weeks, matching our packaging delivery schedule across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio forms part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, where a seasoned team creates boxes on its own presses.
You check a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts, while reorders retain the same artwork, ensuring that scaling up never requires the process to start again.
Employing a one box company for packaging throughout your whole product range streamlines the process.
You get one invoice and work via a single point of contact, rather than pursuing several suppliers, each offering different prices for separate weeks.
Sustainable packaging as default
Every box we make is fully recyclable, with this recyclability inherent in the board itself.
Our board and paper are sourced from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while an audited supply chain tracks every sheet back to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes because neither is easy to recycle, and both cause disposal issues once a parcel is opened.
When the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protective materials are employed instead of them.
No minimum order for Pontllanfraith enterprises
Throughout the industry, custom packaging often demands minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to pay for stock and storage before discovering if your product will sell.
There is no requirement for a minimum order .
Small businesses may order a single sample, limited runs for testing, or a complete production run once demand has been established, with the unit price scaling according to the quantity ordered.
You always get a written quote before production begins, and the high quality materials and packaging products provided for fifty are identical to those provided for ten thousand.
Prior to committing to a larger quantity, get a printed sample and assess the print, colour and how it fits in your hand.
Steps on how to request custom packaging
Share your brief. Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity and the way it is sold.
Packaging design and proofing. We develop the packaging design suited to your product, arrange the print layout, and supply a proof for your approval.
Ask for a physical sample where the format calls for one, then give approval once you are satisfied with its colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine before reaching your Pontllanfraith address, generally within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Pontllanfraith FAQ
Will you supply bespoke packaging to Pontllanfraith?
Yes. We produce every product in Irvine, and then deliver throughout the UK as standard, extending to every corner of Pontllanfraith and the whole of Wales without applying a additional fee because the destination lies further from our factory.
Which is the minimum parcel order in Pontllanfraith?
There is no minimum order is required. You can ask for one box or several thousand in whatever format, with pricing adjusted according to quantity in a written quote issued before production begins.
Which packing parts can I personalise?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be tailored for each format, making sure the designed packaging fulfils your brief precisely. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the interior and exterior.
Could you provide samples of your packaging products before I make an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to precisely reproduce a production run, enabling you to confirm that its colours meet your brief and that the board feels appropriate before approving a bulk order.
Is the packaging suitable for recycling and can it be biodegradable?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety requires them. Biodegradable protective materials are available where the format permits.
Could we reorder the same design in the future?
Indeed, reorders use the same artwork file, so increasing an order or repeating it for another season does not require the packaging to be redesigned from scratch.
Obtain a free quote from Custom Pack Studio right now.
Contact us on 01294 314 919 or at contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
No minimum order applies, design guidance is provided with each project, and each item of custom packaging made here is developed around your product rather than a standard template.
Send your enquiry and we will return a written quotation.
