Advantages of select bespoke packaging
A standard box creates space around the product, making it rattle in transit until foam or paper is added to stop movement.
Conventional packaging with a label applied to its side might be convenient, yet it is intended for no specific audience.
Custom Pack Studio designs bespoke packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish complement your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies across Smithfield and the surrounding valleys, with orders varying from one sample to a pallet load delivered straight to a warehouse door.
We require no minimum order, so stock and storage costs remain out of the picture until you know that a product sells.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we’ll tailor the recommendation to suit the product perfectly.
What tailored packaging signifies
Bespoke packaging is designed around your product from the start, with its size and print adapted to the item you are packing.
You decide the dimensions, allowing a made-to-measure box to cradle the product securely rather than allowing it rattle through the empty space of a generic size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed to match the packed contents and how it travels.
Printing a logo onto a stock box produces personalised packaging, needing less work than a fully customisable design.
With 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 formats we produce for Smithfield companies
We manufacture a comprehensive range of packaging boxes, each produced to bespoke dimensions and printed in full colour using your artwork.
Selecting the right box style and packaging is based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging experts will take you through the options available.
Store cartons and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a conventional retail packaging format for less heavy products, such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck into place at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier kind of lock box, formed from cardboard and having a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Postal and internet shop cartons
A custom-made mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing inside and out rather than only across the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide additional depth, allowing bulkier items room to sit securely without moving.
Keepsake boxes, solid boxes and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes provide products bought as presents the polished presentation customers expect, without customers needing to wrap them.
Gable boxes with folding carry handles suit food gifts as well as hampers.
For premium ranges, we may specify SBS board, that is, solid bleached sulphate, a light-coloured, food-safe paperboard, instead of standard carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination can enhance further the finish.
Develop assistance for your Smithfield enterprise
Every order comes with packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
Have a logo and brand guidelines? Our design experts produce print ready files, checking that colours stay accurate on board because packaging requires higher resolution than a website image.
You need no design experience to create packaging that suits your brand. Beginning with no more than a logo, our team creates the structure and creates expertly designed, print-ready artwork alongside you, explaining every technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool lets you personalise a box and preview its look and feel on screen before printing. We also provide Pantone colour matching, keeping each repeat order uniform.
If you need packaging printed in both English and Welsh, our team considers it a standard artwork requirement, in the same way as any other language or colour change.
Bespoke packaging for Smithfield’s businesses
Cuisine and refreshments
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef have Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas all food packaging that is in contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, wherever it is manufactured on either side of the border.
We have BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, meaning our food packaging is manufactured in controlled and traceable conditions that retailers verify before listing products.
Drinks and alcohol producers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a genuine drinks scene, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and newer gin and whisky producers across the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit and look smart on the shelf too! Finishes including foil stamping and embossing deliver much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Personal care items and beauty products
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that safeguard delicate glass and compacts while looking good on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes are suited to premium ranges requiring a higher price point to be justified.
E-commerce and membership categories
Packaging designed for retail display matters when a product sits in a store or marketplace fulfilment centre, yet subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
Every month, the same customer opens a nearly identical box, rendering a consistent finish just as important as the initial design.
Packaging created to match your product’s precise dimensions keeps items secure in transit, reducing damage claims and returns from ecommerce orders.
A tailored insert or printed tissue secures the product during transit, while ensuring the print remains visible straight away when the box opens.
For a subscription brand making repeat orders monthly, maintaining consistent box dimensions makes pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an ever more significant consideration as volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Delivering to Smithfield from our Scottish atelier
All items are produced at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to businesses in Smithfield supplied as standard.
Once proof approval is obtained, most orders reach at a Smithfield address within two to three weeks, on the same timetable as the rest of our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio forms part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its established staff makes the boxes on its own presses.
You approve a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production begins, while reorders retain the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Using a single box company for packaging across your whole product range simplifies the process.
Everything flows through a single invoice and a single point of contact, saving you from the frustration of pursuing several suppliers quoting varying prices for different weeks.
Environmentally friendly packaging as standard
Each box we produce is 100% recyclable because the board itself makes possible that recyclability.
Our board and paper are obtained from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, where every sheet tracked via an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes because neither is easily recyclable, and both create disposal issues once a parcel is opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is employed instead of them.
No minimum purchase for Smithfield businesses.
Throughout 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.
We require no minimum order whatsoever.
Small businesses may place an order for a single sample, a limited run for testing, or a full production run once demand has been established, with the price per unit adjusting at each quantity across this range.
You receive a written quotation before production starts, while the high-quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are the same as those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Before ordering in bulk, request a printed sample to assess the print, colour and fit in your hand.
How do you make a bespoke packaging order
Send your brief by ringing 01294 314 919 or via the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity, and approximately the way it is sold.
Packaging design and proofing. We develop the packaging design suited to your product, arrange the print layout, and provide 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 Smithfield address, usually within two to three weeks.
Bespoke packaging Smithfield FAQ
Can you supply tailored packaging to Smithfield?
Yes. We manufacture every product in Irvine, then deliver throughout the UK as part of our standard service, reaching each corner of Smithfield and all of Wales without applying a separate fee because the destination lies further from our factory.
What exactly is is the minimum packing level for Smithfield?
No minimum order applies. You can order a single box or several thousand in whatever format, with pricing scaled to quantity in a written quotation issued before production starts.
Which packaging elements can I customise?
Each format allows adjustments to size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring the packaging matches your brief precisely. Branded packaging can also be printed on both the interior and outside.
Could you give samples of your packing items before I place an order?
Yes. Your sample arrives printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, enabling you to check that the colours are in line with your brief and the board feels suitable before approving a larger order.
Is the packaging suitable for recycling and can it be compostable?
All boxes are 100% recyclable. We avoid plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety requires them. Biodegradable protective materials are available where the format allows.
Can I order again the same style in the future?
Absolutely! Repeat orders 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 estimate from Custom Package Studio straight away.
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, sharing your product, packaging requirements and preferred quantities.
There is no minimum order, design guidance is provided with every project, and each item of custom packaging produced here is developed around your product instead of a standard template.
Send your enquiry to us today, and we’ll respond to you with a written quote!
