Custom Printed Packaging for businesses across Kettering and Northamptonshire - specified against what you actually despatch, then delivered on a schedule that does not run you dry.
For businesses in Kettering, custom printed packaging from WSUK means a specified line list rather than a catalogue order. Stock is held centrally in the Midlands, around 35 minutes from Kettering, and delivered into NN14-NN16. Where print or bespoke tooling is involved, the run is produced once and called off as needed.
The materials, specified against your SKUs - including the recommendation to drop the sizes that nearly fit and the second tape that is doing the first tape's job.
One-off runs and standing call-off schedules both work into NN14-NN16. The run is produced once, held around 35 minutes from Kettering, and drawn down as you need it.
Distribution, food processing and manufacturing. Each fails differently, so each needs its own specification - which is why we work per SKU group rather than applying one house standard across a mixed range.
If you draw a map of Kettering's industrial land it follows A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19) closely, which is why Kettering Business Park, Telford Way Industrial Estate and Pytchley Lodge ended up where they did. NN14-NN16 covers it all. The businesses despatching from there have the same three packaging questions as everyone else - does it fit, does it protect, and what is it costing delivered - and very few have answers.
Packaging for Kettering is held at our Lutterworth site, around 35 minutes by road. Some suppliers would call that remote; in practice it is the arrangement that lets a Kettering 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 A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19) when it is needed.
Around Kettering the trade is largely Distribution, food processing and manufacturing. For packaging purposes the useful distinction is not the sector but the journey: anything going through a parcel network is handled more roughly and more unpredictably than anything going on a pallet, and the same product needs a different pack in each case. Plenty of Kettering businesses now do both.
Printed packaging for a Kettering 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.
To quote printed packaging we need the artwork, the component you want printed, the number of colours and the run quantity - and it helps to know which of those is fixed. For a Kettering business whose quantity is fixed we can design the print to suit it; where the design is fixed, the quantity is what moves the price.
We would rather start a Kettering enquiry with a short conversation about the product than a price list. Packaging quoted without specification is just a price for something that may not be the right thing, and that is how businesses end up with a cupboard full of near-fits.
A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19).
Around 35 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, food processing and manufacturing.
Kettering and the surrounding trade areas we serve:
Kettering firms tend to come to us with a damage problem or a delivered-cost problem. Both are specification problems, and both are easier to fix from held stock around 35 minutes away than from a new production run.
The Golden Triangle base around 35 minutes from Kettering 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 Kettering.
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 NN14-NN16, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Packaging in Kettering at WSUK, answered plainly.
Supply is in trade quantities rather than retail packs, so there is a practical minimum per line. Tell us what you get through in Kettering and we will tell you what shape an order should take - we would rather not sell you a pallet of something you use twice a year.
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 Kettering is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
Yes - distance is not the constraint, evidence is. Send us damaged returns or photographs of how items arrive and we can specify against the actual cause rather than adding protection and hoping.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Kettering business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
From one colour up to full colour, depending on the material, the process and the quantity. We specify the colour count against the board rather than accepting artwork that the surface cannot reproduce.
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 Kettering. 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 NN14-NN16 delivery.