The Exeter trade estates get through a lot of board. We specify what yours should be, then supply it from Midlands stock on M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376.
For businesses in Exeter, custom printed packaging from WSUK means a specified line list rather than a catalogue order. Stock is held centrally in the Midlands, About 175 miles / 3 hours from Exeter, and delivered into EX1-EX6. Where print or bespoke tooling is involved, the run is produced once and called off as needed.
Standard lines where they do the job and bespoke or printed lines where they earn it. Either way the specification is written down, so nobody re-decides the box size every quarter.
About 175 miles / 3 hours by road from Bilston, Wolverhampton, in on M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376. Reorder points are agreed against your real consumption so the materials turn up before the shelf is empty rather than after somebody notices.
Regional distribution, agri-food, science and research, and tourism retail. Manufactured goods are usually a load and corrosion problem; online and retail stock is usually a movement and carrier-band problem. Both are specification work.
The estates around Exeter - Skypark, Sowton Industrial Estate, Exeter Business Park - developed around access to M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376, and the EX1-EX6 postcodes still reflect that. What has changed is the order profile. Far more of Exeter's outbound volume now leaves as single parcels rather than pallets, and the packaging most businesses hold was specified for the old shape of that traffic.
Packaging for Exeter is held at our Bilston, Wolverhampton site, About 175 miles / 3 hours by road. Some suppliers would call that remote; in practice it is the arrangement that lets a Exeter business buy at a run-quantity price without surrendering a corner of its own unit to several months of corrugated. The call-off comes in on M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376 when it is needed.
The sectors concentrated around Exeter - Regional distribution, agri-food, science and research, and tourism retail - produce a wide spread of packaging requirement within a small geography. What they have in common is that very few of them have measured their packs against their carriers' size and weight bands, which is usually the cheapest correction available anywhere in a packaging spend.
Printed packaging for a Exeter business can mean several different things, and they do not cost the same. Flexographic print directly onto corrugated handles one to three colours and bold shapes economically. Litho-laminated board carries photographic quality at a higher price. Printed mailers, tissue, inner wrap, labels and tape all brand a pack without touching the carton itself.
The real choice is not whether to print but what to print on. Printing every carton size means a setup and a stockholding commitment for each; printing one component - tape, an inner wrap, a label, tissue - brands every despatch from Exeter for one setup. The second is usually the better first step, and it leaves the option of printing the carton later.
If you are in Exeter and not sure where to start, the first things worth looking at are the box sizes against your real product dimensions, and whether your packs sit just above a carrier size band. Those two checks need a tape measure and your carrier's published thresholds, and between them they account for a surprising proportion of avoidable packaging cost.
M5 (J29-J31), A30, A38 and A376.
About 175 miles / 3 hours from our Bilston, Wolverhampton site.
Regional distribution, agri-food, science and research, and tourism retail.
Exeter and the surrounding trade areas we serve:
What Exeter gets is a packaging supplier that also packs orders for a living, so the specification is written from the pack bench outward rather than from a catalogue inward.
The Golden Triangle base About 175 miles / 3 hours from Exeter is where the national road network converges, which is what makes UK-wide packaging supply from one stock holding practical rather than aspirational.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Exeter.
Materials and sizes chosen for the product and the journey.
Priced against the specification, with a physical sample on anything bespoke or printed.
Delivered into EX1-EX6, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Packaging in Exeter at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Exeter business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
No, and it is a deliberate structure rather than a gap. Packaging is held centrally in the Midlands so that run quantities of printed and bespoke lines can be stocked without any single customer paying for the space - and so a reorder from Exeter is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
The stock is already made, so the lead time is a transport question rather than a manufacturing one. Exeter is About 175 miles / 3 hours from our Bilston, Wolverhampton site. Tell us the responsiveness you need and we will agree the call-off terms around it.
Yes, and for printed or bespoke lines it is usually the sensible arrangement. You buy the economic run quantity, we hold it in Midlands warehousing, and you call off into Exeter as you need it.
Yes. Artwork is checked against the specification and a proof approved before anything is printed in quantity.
Yes, and we would recommend specifying both at once. Many marketplaces expect plain outers, so holding a branded and a plain line against the same product is normal.
Custom Printed Packaging is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Exeter. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply custom printed packaging throughout the UK from Midlands stock. These are the nearest locations with a page of their own - the full list is on the packaging services hub.
One form, and we will come back with a specification and a price for EX1-EX6 delivery.