Businesses on the Basingstoke estates get the same specification work and the same Midlands stock as everyone else - M3 (J6-J7), A33, A339 and A30 is simply the route it arrives on.
WSUK supplies custom printed tape to businesses in Basingstoke and across Hampshire. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle - About 110 miles / 2 hours from Basingstoke by road on M3 (J6-J7), A33, A339 and A30 - and delivered into RG22-RG29. The specification work happens first: what the product is, how it travels, and what is going wrong now. One-off runs and standing call-off schedules both work.
Everything a despatch bench gets through in a week, on one account: board, mailers, tape, fill, film, strapping and edge protection, delivered together rather than from four suppliers.
Held at our Lutterworth site, About 110 miles / 2 hours from Basingstoke on M3 (J6-J7), A33, A339 and A30. The stock is already made, so a reorder is a delivery rather than a production slot - which is the difference that shows up in your week.
Distribution, pharmaceuticals, publishing logistics and technology. Whatever the sector, the three questions are the same: does the pack fit, does it protect, and what is it costing delivered rather than per box.
Look at where Basingstoke's trade estates sit and the logic is immediately obvious: Daneshill, Chineham Business Park and Viables are all within a few minutes of M3 (J6-J7), A33, A339 and A30. The RG22-RG29 postcodes cover both the older industrial stock and the newer distribution units, and both ends of that market have a packaging problem - usually the same one, which is that nobody has sat down and specified it.
WSUK does not hold packaging in Basingstoke, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation. Stock sits in the Midlands Golden Triangle, About 110 miles / 2 hours away via M3 (J6-J7), A33, A339 and A30, which is where run quantities of printed and bespoke lines can be held without any individual customer paying for the space. A reorder from Basingstoke is a delivery from existing stock rather than a production lead time, and that difference matters far more day to day than how near the warehouse is.
Distribution, pharmaceuticals, publishing logistics and technology dominate the Basingstoke area, and with them come the two most common local packaging problems. The first is a box ladder that grew rather than being designed, so there are nine sizes and each order needs a decision. The second is protection chosen by the person packing rather than by specification, which makes damage rates unpredictable.
Printed tape is the cheapest route to a branded outer pack, and the reason is structural. A Basingstoke business despatching in six carton sizes needs six printed cartons to brand its outers, each with its own print setup and its own stockholding. The same business needs one printed tape, which brands all six. Nothing else in packaging gives that leverage.
More colours or more coverage? Each additional colour is another plate and another pass, and a reversed-out design that floods the background uses considerably more ink than the same design printed dark on tan. A simple one-colour print across a Basingstoke business's whole despatch volume usually does more for recognition than an elaborate print it orders half as often.
Most Basingstoke enquiries start in one of two places: something keeps arriving damaged, or the packaging bill has crept up without anybody deciding that it should. They are usually the same problem seen from different ends, because a pack that does not hold the product properly tends also to be the pack that needs the most fill.
M3 (J6-J7), A33, A339 and A30.
About 110 miles / 2 hours from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, pharmaceuticals, publishing logistics and technology.
Also delivered into these Hampshire areas on the same schedule:
For Basingstoke the practical advantages are consolidation, specification and continuity - one account instead of four, materials chosen against the product, and a reorder point set against what you actually use.
Basingstoke 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 About 110 miles / 2 hours away than from a new production run.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Basingstoke.
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 RG22-RG29, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Tape in Basingstoke at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Basingstoke business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
That is what a packaging review is for, and we will not quote you a percentage before looking. It examines materials, storage, transport, labour, damage and waste together and sets the findings out in writing.
Yes - Reading, Andover and Winchester are all served from the same stock, along with the wider Hampshire area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
Supply is in trade quantities rather than retail packs, so there is a practical minimum per line. Tell us what you get through in Basingstoke 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.
Yes - see packaging stockholding. A tape run is a compact thing to hold, so call-off works well.
Yes, because there is a print setup. Tape has a long shelf life and a roll seals a lot of cartons, so the minimum is usually less of an obstacle than people expect.
Custom Printed Tape is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Basingstoke. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply custom printed tape 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.
If you are not sure what to ask for, describe the product and the journey - specifying it is our job, not yours.