Why select prefer tailor-made packaging
A standard box leaves space around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until someone packs the spaces with foam or paper to hold it in place.
Selecting off-the-shelf packaging with a sticker on the side may be easy, but it belongs to no one in particular.
Custom Pack Studio designs bespoke packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish suit your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses throughout Tongwynlais and the surrounding valleys, with orders varying from a single 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 equation until you know that a product sells.
Provide your packaging specifications, and we will tailor our recommendation specifically to the product concerned.
What tailor-made packaging implies
Custom packaging begins with a box designed specifically for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish precisely reflect its contents.
By choosing the dimensions, you make sure that a custom sized box secures the product securely, rather than allowing it to rattle within the unnecessary space of a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed to match what is packed and how it is transported.
Printing a logo onto a stock box amounts to personalised packaging, a less extensive undertaking than fully customisable design.
Customised packaging places each panel, fold and finish in your hands, even for one piece, enabling you to create a bespoke solution that fits perfectly, without compromise.
Packing formats we manufacture for Tongwynlais organisations
We manufacture a comprehensive range of packaging boxes, each made to custom dimensions and printed in full colour using your artwork.
Choosing the most suitable box style and packaging format depends on your products and their handling requirements, which our packaging experts will explain clearly.
Commercial containers and logo packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging staple, intended for lighter products including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a kind of lock box, offering a sturdier cardboard design with a base that snaps flat when opened, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Mailer and ecommerce boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards 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 just its outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide additional depth, giving bulkier items room to rest securely without shifting.
Keepsake boxes, sturdy boxes and gable-top boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded packaging give gifts with the presentation customers anticipate, without them having to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, complete with a handle that folds upwards, make an excellent choice for food gifts and hampers.
For high-end ranges, we may select SBS board (solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard) over standard carton stock, while finishes such as foil and soft touch lamination enhance the outcome.
Build guidance for your Tongwynlais brand
Each order includes packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists create print ready files and verify that colours reproduce accurately on board, because packaging needs greater resolution than a web image.
You do not need prior design experience to create packaging that represents your brand. Our team can start with just a logo, establish the structure and produce expertly designed artwork prepared for print working with you, explaining each technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool enables you to personalise a box and preview its look on screen prior to printing, while Pantone colour matching maintains consistency each time you make a repeat order.
If packaging is needed 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.
Custom packaging for Tongwynlais’s enterprises
Food and potations
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef each hold Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas packaging that contacts meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, irrespective of which side of the border it is made on.
We have BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, ensuring our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers review before welcoming products onto their shelves.
Refreshments and spirit-making sites
During the last two decades, Wales has developed a genuine drinks scene, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and more recent gin and whisky producers throughout the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while retaining shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing providing much of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Cosmetics and aesthetics of the Tongwynlais
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons which protect fragile glass and compacts while presenting well on the shelf.
We produce 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 membership brands
Retail ready and display packaging are significant when products are placed in shops or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands face a different challenge.
The same customer opens a nearly identical box every month, making a consistent finish just as important as the initial design.
Efficient online retail packaging, produced to correspond to your product packaging exactly, keeps goods secure during transit and minimises damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product shifting in transit, while keeping the print visible once the box opens.
For a subscription-based brand that places repeat orders each month, maintaining identical box dimensions helps maintain pallet space and warehouse racking predictable, an increasingly significant consideration as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Distributing Tongwynlais right from our Scottish manufacturing facility
Everything is produced at our Irvine site, with UK delivery to businesses in Tongwynlais provided as standard.
Most orders arrive at a Tongwynlais address within two to three weeks after proof approval, keeping to the same schedule as our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a long-established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its experienced team produces the boxes with its own presses.
You receive a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts. Repeat orders use the same artwork, making it possible to scale up without restarting the process again.
Using one box company for packaging throughout your whole range of products keeps everything simple.
Enjoy one invoice and a single point of contact, rather than seeking out multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for another week.
Earth-friendly packaging as expected
Each box we make is 100% recyclable as the board itself enables that recyclability.
We source our board and paper from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet traced through an audited chain of custody to responsibly managed forests.
We’re cutting down on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes as neither is easily recycled, while both create disposal headaches after a parcel has been opened.
When the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection takes their place instead.
Zero minimum purchase for Tongwynlais firms
Throughout the wider industry, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to fund stock and storage before knowing whether a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement at all.
Small businesses can choose a one sample, a brief trial run, or a complete production run after demand is demonstrated, with per-unit pricing scaling across each quantity in between.
You will consistently receive a written quote before production begins, while the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are identical to those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Before committing to a larger quantity, obtain a printed sample and assess the print, colour and how it fits in your hand.
How do you place a custom packing order
Send your brief! Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity and approximately how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging design suited to your product, arrange the print layout, and provide a proof for you to review.
Request a physical sample if the format needs one, then sign off once you are content with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, subsequently delivered to your Tongwynlais address, usually within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging Tongwynlais Frequently Asked Questions
Can you supply bespoke packaging to Tongwynlais?
Yes. We manufacture all items in Irvine and offer standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of Tongwynlais and Wales, without an additional charge simply because of the distance from our factory.
What the minimum order required for packaging from Tongwynlais?
No minimum order applies. 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 sections of the packaging can be customised?
Each format allows you complete freedom to alter the size, structure, board weight, print and finish, making sure the resulting packaging matches your brief exactly. Your branded packaging order can also be printed on the inside as well as the exterior.
May I see samples of your packing products before buying?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to exactly the same standard as a production run, allowing you to verify that the colours match your brief and that the board has the right feel before authorising a bulk order.
Is the packaging able to be recycled and can it be biodegradable?
Every packaging box is completely recyclable. We exclude plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are offered when the format permits.
May one place the very same Tongwynlais design order later on?
Certainly, reorders rely on the original artwork file, enabling you to increase an order or prepare for another season without having to redesign the packaging.
Seek a complimentary estimate from the Custom Pack Studio team today.
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, sharing your product, packaging requirements and preferred quantities.
There is no minimum order requirement, design support is included in every project, and each item of custom packaging made here is developed around your product instead of a conventional template.
Submit your enquiry, and we will respond with a written quote.
