Why pick custom packaging
A conventional box leaves space around the product, making it rattle in transit until foam or paper is added to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with a label affixed to its side may be convenient, but it is intended for no specific audience.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand instead of covering it.
We manufacture custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout Ravenhill and the valleys beyond, with orders varying from one sample to a full pallet delivered straight to your warehouse door.
We impose no minimum order on anything we make, so you avoid stock and storage costs until a product demonstrates that it sells.
Share your packaging specifications, and we will tailor our recommendation precisely to the product in question.
What bespoke packaging entails
Custom packaging begins with a box specifically designed for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish exactly reflect what it contains.
You choose the measurements, enabling a custom-sized box to keep the product firmly without movement caused by surplus space in a standard size.
Every aspect, including the construction, board weight, printing and finish, is adapted to the contents and the way they are transported.
Printing a logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, providing a less ambitious project than completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for one run, allowing you to create packaging that fits precisely without any compromise.
Packaging solutions we provide for Ravenhill companies
We produce a full range of packaging boxes in custom sizes, printed in full colour with your artwork.
Choosing the appropriate box style and packaging depends on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging experts will take you through the available options.
Retail cartons and labelled packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons remain a familiar retail packaging choice for lightweight products, such as cosmetics and supplements, featuring flaps that fold tidily into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a stronger form of lock box, made from cardboard with a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from forcing the bottom out.
Posting and online retail boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product across 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 variants of these custom printed boxes provide additional depth, giving bulkier items room to sit securely without shifting.
Keepsake boxes, rigid boxes and roofed 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 featuring folding carry handles are ideal for food presents and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may specify SBS board, that is, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination can enhance further the finish.
Develop aid for your Ravenhill brand
Each order includes packaging design support, regardless of how far your artwork has advanced.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists prepare print-ready files and verify that colours remain accurate on board, as packaging requires higher resolution than an image on a website.
You do not need previous design experience to create packaging that fits your brand. Starting with nothing more than a logo, our team develops the structure and creates professionally designed, print-ready artwork with you, clarifying every technical decision when it arises.
Our online tool enables you to personalise a box and preview its look on screen before printing, while Pantone colour matching maintains consistency whenever you make a repeat order.
When your packaging needs English and Welsh text, our team manages this as a routine artwork request, just as we would manage any other language or colour amendment.
Custom packaging for the Ravenhill’s industries
Cuisine and drink
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef each hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while packaging in contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, irrespective of which side of the border it is made on.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, ensuring our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions reviewed by retailers before stocking products onto their shelves.
Drinks and distilleries
Over the last twenty years, Wales has developed a thriving drinks industry, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and more recent gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes have to survive transit and look smart on the shelf too! Finishes including foil stamping and embossing create much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty treatments and cosmetic items
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts while presenting well on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes provide premium ranges the presence to support a higher price point.
E-commerce and recurring brands
Retail ready and display packaging plays its part when products are placed on shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, yet subscription brands face an entirely different challenge.
The same customer opens a nearly identical box each month, which makes a consistent finish just as important as the initial design.
Efficient online retail packaging, made to correspond to your product packaging exactly, keeps goods protected during transit and reduces damage claims and returns.
A tailored insert or printed tissue secures the product during transit, whilst ensuring the print remains immediately visible when the box opens.
As a subscription brand reorders monthly, maintaining uniform box dimensions makes pallet capacity and warehouse racking easy to anticipate, an increasingly important consideration once volumes exceed several hundred units.
Bringing to Ravenhill from our Scottish facility
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to companies in Ravenhill included by default.
After proof approval, deliveries to a Ravenhill address typically arrive within two to three weeks, matching the timetable for all our packaging throughout 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 on its own presses.
You’ll check a proof and, when the format requires it, a physical sample before full production starts. Reorders use the same artwork, so scaling up never means beginning from scratch!
Using a single box company for packaging throughout your whole product range keeps the process simple.
You have a single invoice and a single dedicated point of contact, rather than pursuing multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for a different week.
Sustainable packaging as usual practice
Each box we produce is 100% recyclable because its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper are procured from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet traceable via an audited chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes, as neither material is readily recyclable and both cause disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection is utilised in their place.
Zero minimum order for Ravenhill companies
Across much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to finance stock and storage prior to establishing whether a product will sell.
There’s no minimum order requirement at all!
Smaller businesses may place an order for one sample, a limited run for testing, or a complete production run once demand has been established, with the per unit price adjusting at each quantity across this range.
Before production begins, you will always receive a written quotation, whereas the high-quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty remain identical to those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to committing to a greater quantity, get a printed sample and assess the print, colour and how it sits in your hand.
Ways to order personalised packaging
Provide your brief by calling 01294 314 919 or accessing the online design tool. Tell us the product, required quantity, and approximately how 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 requires one, then give approval once you are happy with its colour and construction.
Production and delivery: Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Ravenhill address, typically within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Ravenhill FAQ
Do you offer bespoke packaging despatch to Ravenhill?
Yes. We manufacture all items in Irvine and offer standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of Ravenhill and Wales, without an additional charge simply because of the distance from our factory.
What is the minimum amount required for packaging through Ravenhill?
There is no minimum order is required. You can request one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing adjusted according to quantity in a written quotation issued before production begins.
Which packaging features can I customise?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be tailored for each format, ensuring the designed packaging fulfils your brief precisely. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the inside and exterior.
Would you supply packaging product examples in advance of we make an order?
Yes. Your sample arrives printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, allowing you to check that the colours meet your brief and the board feels suitable before authorising a larger order.
Is the packaging suitable for recycling and biodegradable?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety makes them necessary, and biodegradable protective materials are available where the format permits.
Can one place the same graphic at a later time?
Certainly! Reorders utilise the original artwork file, which means you can increase an order or repeat the order for a new season without redesigning the packaging from scratch.
Receive a free quote from Custom Pack Studio today.
Contact us on 01294 314 919 or at contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
No minimum order is required, each project comes with design support, and each piece of custom packaging made here begins with your product, rather than a template.
Send your query and we will send a written quotation.
