How come pick tailor-made packaging
A conventional box leaves empty space around the product, enabling it to move noisily during transit until foam or paper is placed to prevent movement.
Standard packaging bearing an attached sticker is the easiest choice, but it is not designed for anyone in particular.
At Custom Pack Studio, custom-made packaging is shaped around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We make bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout West Cross and the surrounding valleys, with orders spanning a single sample to a complete pallet delivered straight to a warehouse door.
We have no minimum order requirement for anything we make, enabling you to avoid storage and stock costs until a product’s sales potential is established.
Provide your packaging specifications, and we will tailor our recommendation specifically to the product in question.
What bespoke packaging entails
Custom packaging designs the box around your product from the beginning, so its size and printing reflect exactly what you are packing.
Select the measurements, enabling a custom-sized box to hold the product firmly without unnecessary movement created by a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed as well, carefully matched to what is being packed and how it travels.
Printing a logo onto a stock box produces personalised packaging, constituting a more modest undertaking than a fully customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for a single run, allowing you to create packaging that fits precisely without compromise.
Package options we produce for West Cross organisations
We produce a broad range of packaging boxes, each produced to custom dimensions and printed in full colour using your artwork.
Choosing the right box style and packaging format depends on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists can walk you through the available options.
Retail cartons and labelled packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons continue to be a standard for retail packaging, well suited for lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold in at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier kind of lock box, constructed from cardboard with a base that snaps flat when opened, meaning that heavier products cannot force the bottom out.
Mailer and e-commerce boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product across the courier network while making delivery part of the brand experience and enhancing visibility, with printing inside and outside rather than solely on the outer face.
Gusseted variants of these custom printed boxes create additional depth, giving bulkier items space to rest securely.
Gift boxes, solid boxes and roof-shaped boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded packaging give presents with the presentation customers expect, without requiring them to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes featuring folding carry handles are well suited to food gifts and hampers.
For premium ranges, we may specify SBS board, meaning, solid bleached sulphate, a light-coloured, safe for food contact paperboard, rather than standard carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination can enhance further the finish.
Build aid for your West Cross identity
Every order includes packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has advanced.
Have a logo and brand guidelines? Our design experts create print ready files, verifying that colours remain accurate on board because packaging requires greater resolution than a website image.
You do not need prior design experience to create packaging that represents your brand. Our team can start with a logo alone, establish the structure and produce professionally designed artwork prepared for print working with you, explaining each technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool lets you personalise a box and view its appearance before printing. Pantone colour matching maintains each repeat order consistent.
Need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our staff handles it as a routine artwork requirement, just like any other language or colour change.
Custom packaging for West Cross’s sectors
Cuisine and refreshments
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef hold 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, which means our food packaging is manufactured in carefully controlled, traceable conditions that retailers assess before listing a product.
Drinks and distilleries
Over the past twenty years, Wales has established a distinctive drinks industry, encompassing distilleries in the Brecon Beacons and newer gin and whisky producers across the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transit while retaining their visual appeal on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing delivering much of the impact needed for limited releases and seasonal gift sets.
Cosmetics and aesthetics
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that protect fragile glass and compacts whilst presenting well on shelves.
We produce cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whilst rigid boxes complement a premium range that needs to support a higher price point.
Online shopping and subscription brands
Packaging intended for retail display matters when a product sits in a store or marketplace fulfilment centre, yet subscription brands face an entirely different challenge.
Every month, the same customer revisits an almost identical box, rendering a reliable finish just as important as the initial design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, precisely tailored to your product packaging, secures items in transit while cutting damage claims and returns.
Inside, a fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely during transit, as the print greets the eye as soon as the box opens.
For a subscription brand that places repeat orders each month, maintaining consistent box dimensions maintains predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming increasingly important as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Dispatching to West Cross from our Scottish workroom
Everything is produced at our Irvine site, with UK delivery to companies in West Cross included by default.
After proof approval, the majority of orders arrive at a West Cross address within two to three weeks, in line with our packaging delivery schedule throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is owned by KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, which means an established team makes the boxes with its own presses.
You sign off on a proof and, where needed by the format, a physical sample before full production starts, while reorders keep the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Using a single box company for packaging across your entire product range makes the process straightforward.
Enjoy one invoice and one point of contact, rather than pursuing multiple suppliers, each offering a different price for another week.
Renewable packaging as default
Every box we manufacture 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.
We are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes, as neither material is easy to recycle and both create disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection replaces them instead.
Zero minimum buy for West Cross 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!
Small businesses can opt for a single sample, a short trial run, or a complete production run after demand is proven, with per-unit pricing scaling across each quantity in between.
Before production begins, 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 supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a large order, request a physical sample to assess its printing, colour and how it fits in your hand.
Methods to submit a tailored packaging order
Send us your brief. Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity and the way it is sold.
Design and proof. We create packaging that fits your product, prepare the print layout, and then send you a proof for checking.
Ask for a tangible sample where the format requires one, then give approval once you are satisfied with its colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, subsequently delivered to your West Cross address, generally within two to three weeks.
Tailored packaging West Cross Customer Questions
Can you send tailored packaging to West Cross?
Yes. We manufacture all items in Irvine and offer standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of West Cross and Wales, without an extra charge simply because of the distance from our factory.
What is the minimum order to place packaging with West Cross?
There’s no minimum order requirement. You can order one box or several thousand in whatever format, with pricing based on quantity and confirmed in writing before production begins.
What elements of the packaging can I tailor?
Each format can be tailored regarding size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring your packaging meets the brief perfectly. Want to make an impact? Your branded packaging order can feature printing both inside and outside.
Is it possible to I obtain demonstrations of your packaging products before buying?
Certainly. The sample is printed and finished to precisely the same standard as a production run, enabling you to confirm that the colours meet your brief and that the board has the correct feel before authorising a bulk order.
Is the packaging able to be recycled and compostable?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We do not employ plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety makes them required, while biodegradable protective materials are offered where the format permits.
Is it possible to one apply the same artwork once more?
Yes, repeat orders continue using the same artwork file, which means you can increase quantities or prepare packaging for a new season without reworking everything from scratch.
Get a without charge quote from Custom Pack Studio right away
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
Order precisely what you need, with no minimum quantity! Every project includes design support, and all custom packaging made here is designed around your product instead of relying on a template.
Send your enquiry to us today, and we’ll get back to you with a written quotation!
