Why opt for bespoke packaging?
A regular box leaves spare space around the product, allowing it to rattle during transit until someone fills the gap with foam or paper to prevent it from moving.
Standard packaging with a sticker is straightforward, but it is intended for nobody in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates tailored packaging around your product, making sure the box, print and finish suit your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We manufacture bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses throughout Port Tennant and the nearby valleys, with orders spanning a single sample to a full pallet delivered straight to a warehouse door.
Nothing we produce requires a minimum order, so you can leave stock and storage costs aside until a product has proved it sells.
Share your packaging specifications, and we will customise our recommendation specifically to the product concerned.
What bespoke packaging means
Custom packaging is created around your product from the outset, with its size and print adapted to the item you are packing.
You select the measurements, enabling a made-to-measure box to keep the product securely without movement resulting from excess space in a standard size.
Every element, from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is tailored to the contents and their journey.
Printing your logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, requiring less work than a entirely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be altered, even for a single unit, allowing you to create custom packaging that fits perfectly.
Parcel styles that we create for Port Tennant enterprises
We make a complete range of packaging boxes in custom sizes, printed in full colour with your artwork.
Selecting the right box style and packaging is based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists will guide you through the available options.
Retail cartons and marked packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a standard retail packaging format for lighter products, such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck into place at the top and bottom alike.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier type of cardboard lock box, with a base that snaps flat when opened, stopping heavier products from forcing the bottom out.
Shipping and digital commerce boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network, while turning delivery into part of the brand experience and strengthening visibility as it is printed on the inside and outside, not only across the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide additional depth, allowing bulkier items room to rest securely without shifting.
Present boxes, rigid boxes and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes provide presents with refined presentation customers expect, without them needing to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, with a fold up carry handle, are excellent for food presents and hampers!
For premium ranges, we occasionally specify SBS board, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, instead of standard carton stock. Finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination improve the overall effect.
Craft aid for your Port Tennant brand
Each order includes packaging design support, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you’ve got a logo and branding guidelines, our design experts prepare print-ready files and confirm that colours are reproduced accurately on board, as packaging requires greater resolution than website imagery.
You do not need experience in design to develop packaging that suits your brand. Our team can begin with only a logo. Together, they develop the structure and professionally produced print ready artwork, while guiding you through each technical decision along the way.
Our web-based tool lets you to customise a box and preview its look and feel on screen before it reaches print, while Pantone colour matching ensures each repeat order stays 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.
Personalised packaging for Port Tennant’s industries
Cuisine and beverages
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, while food packaging in contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, regardless of where it is produced on either side of the border.
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.
Beverages and distilling
Over the last twenty years, Wales has established a distinctive drinks industry, spanning distilleries in the Brecon Beacons and newer gin and whisky producers across the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transit while preserving their shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing delivering much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Cosmetics and personal care
Cosmetics and skincare companies need cartons that safeguard delicate glass packaging and compacts while presenting an appealing appearance on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range feel worthy of its higher price point.
Internet commerce and subscription brands
Packaging designed for retail shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres matters, yet, subscription brands encounter a distinct challenge.
Because the same customer opens an almost identical box monthly, maintaining a consistent finish is as important as the initial design.
Packaging designed to match your product’s exact dimensions holds items securely in transit, reducing damage claims and returns from ecommerce orders.
Inside, a fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely during transport, as the print greets the eye the moment the box opens.
For a subscription-based brand that places repeat orders monthly, keeping consistent box dimensions preserves predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming increasingly important as volumes surpass several hundred units.
Shipping to Port Tennant from our Scotland plant
Everything is produced at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Port Tennant.
Following proof approval, most orders reach a Port Tennant address within two to three weeks, matching our packaging delivery schedule 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 produces boxes using its own presses.
Before full production begins, you get a proof and, where the format requires it, a physical sample, as reorders keep the same artwork, making expansion remarkably simple.
Employing one box company for packaging throughout your whole product range makes everything straightforward.
It all passes through a single invoice and one point of contact, sparing you the frustration of chasing multiple suppliers quoting different prices for separate weeks.
Earth-friendly packaging as usual practice
Each box we produce is 100% recyclable as its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper come from FSC and PEFC certified sources, while audits trace every sheet through the supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
Throughout our processes, we are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill as neither is readily recyclable, while both present disposal challenges once a parcel has been opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection replaces them.
No minimum order for Port Tennant enterprises
Throughout the wider industry, custom packaging frequently requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to finance stock and storage before knowing if a product will sell.
No minimum order is required.
Smaller businesses can begin with a single sample, place a small trial run, or proceed with full production once demand is proven, while unit pricing scales across each quantity in between.
Prior to production starts, you will always receive a written quotation. The high quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are exactly the same as those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a larger order, request a printed sample to evaluate the print, colour and how comfortably it fits in your hand.
Ways to order bespoke packaging
Share your brief! Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then inform us the product, quantity and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging that fits your product, arrange the print layout, and then provide you with a proof for checking.
Request a physical sample if the format calls for one. Approve it once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Port Tennant address, generally within two to three weeks.
Tailored packaging Port Tennant Frequently Asked Questions
Do you deliver custom packaging to Port Tennant?
Yes. All items are made in Irvine, with standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of Port Tennant and throughout Wales. We make no additional charge for distance from the factory.
What represents the smallest packaging requirement at Port Tennant?
There is no minimum order. We can manufacture one box or thousands in whatever format, with quantity-based pricing confirmed in a written quotation before manufacture starts.
Which packaging features can I personalise?
Each format permits changes to size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring the packaging meets your brief precisely. Branded packaging can additionally be printed on both the interior and outside.
Could you give examples of your parcel products before I submit an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to exactly reproduce a production run, allowing you to verify that its colours meet your brief and that the board feels suitable prior to approving a bulk order.
Is the wrapping able to be recycled and compostable?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless they are necessary for food safety, and biodegradable protective materials are available where the format allows.
Is it possible to someone submit the same layout at a later time?
Yes, repeat orders 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.
Enquire about a free quotation from the Custom Pack Studio team today
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
There is no minimum order requirement, design support forms part of every project, and every item of custom packaging produced here is developed around your product instead of a standard template.
Send your query and we will issue a written quote.
