Reasons select custom packaging
A regular box provides space around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until foam or paper is introduced to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with a sticker affixed is the straightforward choice, but it has not been designed specifically for anyone.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging around your product, making sure the box, print and finish support your brand instead of covering it.
We manufacture bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses across Whitesands and the surrounding valleys, with order quantities ranging from one sample to a pallet load delivered straight to a warehouse door.
We impose no minimum order for anything we make, so you avoid stock and storage costs until a product demonstrates that it sells.
Share your packaging requirements, and we will adapt the recommendation to the product itself.
What custom packaging means
Custom packaging begins with a box specifically designed for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish exactly reflect what it contains.
Choose the dimensions, allowing a custom-sized box to secure the product securely without avoidable movement caused by a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are individually designed too to suit the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo on a stock box produces personalised packaging, representing a more modest undertaking than a fully customisable design.
With tailored packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be altered, even for a single unit, allowing you to create custom packaging that fits exactly.
Packaging formats we produce for Whitesands businesses
We manufacture a comprehensive range of packaging boxes, each produced to custom dimensions and printed in full colour with your artwork.
Choosing the suitable box style and packaging format is based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists can guide you through the available options.
Shop cartons and custom branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons remain a retail packaging standard, ideal for lighter products including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold in at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier type of lock box, constructed from cardboard with a base that snaps flat when opened, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and internet retail boxes
A custom-made mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network and turns delivery into part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside rather than exclusively across the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are available as well with gussets, creating extra depth so bulkier items can rest securely without moving.
Gift containers, sturdy cartons and roofed containers
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes along with other branded boxes give purchases made as gifts with the presentation customers expect, without them needing to wrap anything on their own.
Gable boxes, including a fold up carry handle, are suitable for food gifts and hampers.
For premium 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.
Develop support for your Whitesands brand
Each order includes packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has advanced.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists create print ready files and confirm that colours reproduce accurately on board, because packaging needs greater resolution than a website image.
Prior design experience is not required to create packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can begin with no more than a logo, developing the structure and expertly designed, ready to print artwork with you, while explaining each technical decision clearly as it arises.
Our online tool enables you to personalise a box and review its appearance on screen before printing, while Pantone colour matching ensures that repeat orders remain consistent.
When your packaging needs English and Welsh text, our staff handles this as a routine artwork request, just as we would handle any other language or colour amendment.
Personalised packaging for Whitesands’s own industries
Food and refreshments
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, whilst all packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact requirements, regardless of which side of the border it is manufactured.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level verifies that food packaging is manufactured within controlled, traceable processes, satisfying the checks retailers undertake prior to approving products for listing.
Drinks and distillation establishments
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a authentic drinks scene, from distilleries in Brecon Beacons to newer gin and whisky producers farther north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transportation while maintaining their visual appeal on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing providing much of the impact required for limited releases and seasonal gift sets.
Cosmetics and makeup products
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts whilst presenting well on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes pair with premium ranges designed to support a higher price point.
Internet commerce and recurring brands
Packaging intended for retail display is important when a product is located in a shop or marketplace fulfilment centre, but subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
As the same customer unpacks an almost identical box every month, preserving a consistent finish is just as important as the initial design.
Accurately sized e commerce packaging keeps products safely in transit, helping to prevent damage, lower claims and minimise returns.
Inside, a fitted insert or printed tissue keeps the product securely during transit, while the print greets the eye as soon as the box opens.
Subscription-based brands that reorder each month can maintain pallet space and warehouse racking uniform by retaining one box size. This becomes increasingly important when order volumes exceed several hundred units.
Sending to Whitesands from our Scottish atelier
Everything is produced at our Irvine site, with UK delivery to businesses in Whitesands included as standard.
The majority of orders arrive at a Whitesands address within two to three weeks following proof approval, keeping to the same schedule as our packaging across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a well-established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its experienced 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 begins, while reorders keep the original artwork, ensuring larger quantities require no new preparation.
Using one box company for packaging across your entire product range preserves simplicity.
Have one invoice and one point of contact, instead of pursuing multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for another week.
Renewable packaging as common practice
Each box we make is 100% recyclable since its board is recyclable.
Our board and paper are sourced from FSC and PEFC certified sources, whilst an audited supply chain traces every sheet back to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing 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 permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is used in its place.
No minimum minimum order size for Whitesands firms
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to finance stock and storage before establishing whether a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement.
Small businesses can choose a one sample, a short trial run, or a full 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 starts, while the high quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are identical to those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Before ordering in volume, request a printed sample to check the print, colour and fit in your hand.
How to order bespoke parcel materials
Share your brief! Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity and roughly how 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.
Request a physical sample when the format requires one. Approve it once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery: Your order is printed and completed in Irvine, then delivered to your Whitesands address, usually within two to three weeks.
Tailored packaging Whitesands Enquiries
Do you supply tailored packaging to Whitesands?
Certainly. We manufacture each item in Irvine, with standard delivery available throughout the UK, including all of Whitesands and Wales, without an extra charge for greater distance from the factory.
What’s the least amount for packaging at Whitesands?
No minimum order! Choose a single box or several thousand in any format, with pricing calculated according to quantity in a written quote before production begins.
What packaging elements can I modify?
Each format allows adjustments to size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring the packaging matches your brief exactly. Branded packaging can additionally be printed on both the inside and exterior.
Could one see demonstrations of your parcel products before confirming an order?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to production standards, allowing you to confirm that the colours meet your brief and the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Will the packaging become recyclable as well as does it break down naturally?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates that prevent recycling except when food safety demands them, while biodegradable protective materials are utilised whenever the format permits.
Can one make the same design order later?
Yes, reorders are produced from the same artwork file, so increasing an order or placing it again for a new season does not require the packaging to be redesigned from the beginning.
Get a complimentary price estimate from Custom Pack Studio immediately.
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, sharing your product, packaging requirements and preferred quantities.
There is no minimum order, every project includes design support, and every piece of custom packaging made here starts with your product, never a template.
Send your enquiry, and we will respond with a written quote.
