The Kettering trade estates get through a lot of board. We specify what yours should be, then supply it from Midlands stock on A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19).
WSUK provides custom printed tape across Kettering, Corby and Wellingborough. Materials are specified to your product, held at our Lutterworth site around 35 minutes from Kettering, and delivered into NN14-NN16 on a schedule agreed against your real consumption. Bespoke and printed lines are sampled before any production run.
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.
around 35 minutes by road from Lutterworth, in on A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19). Reorder points are agreed against your real consumption so the materials turn up before the shelf is empty rather than after somebody notices.
Distribution, food processing and manufacturing. 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.
A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19) is the reason Kettering works as a despatch location, and Telford Way Industrial Estate, Pytchley Lodge and Kettering Business Park are where that shows up on the ground. Across NN14-NN16 there is a dense mix of manufacturing, distribution and online retail, and the packaging requirement varies more by how the goods travel than by what the business sells - a parcel operation and a pallet operation need different answers even in the same unit.
Kettering is served from Midlands stock around 35 minutes up the road. It is worth being plain about why: a local packaging store would either be too small to hold run quantities or too expensive to justify. Central holding solves both, and A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19) makes the delivery leg short and predictable.
Kettering's trade mix - Distribution, food processing and manufacturing - shapes what packaging the area gets through. Different sectors fail differently: manufactured and engineered goods are usually a load and corrosion problem, retail and online stock is usually a movement and carrier-band problem, and food and consumer goods sit somewhere between the two. Specifying from the sector rather than from a catalogue is most of the work.
Tape is also a sealing specification, not only a branding one, and the two decisions interact. A heavy case block-stacked on a pallet out of NN14-NN16 needs an adhesive and a backing that will hold through a warm warehouse and a cold trailer; a light parcel needs neither. Printed tape ordered purely on appearance is how cartons arrive open.
Printed tape needs the artwork, the number of colours, the width and whether it will be applied by hand or by a case sealer. That last point is the one most often left out and it matters: a machine roll and a hand roll are different products, and a Kettering bench running both needs both specified rather than one substituted for the other.
The question we ask a Kettering business first is not what you currently buy but what you despatch - product dimensions, weight, how it travels, and what has gone wrong. From there the specification follows. Starting from the existing line list tends to reproduce whatever decisions were made years ago.
A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19).
Around 35 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, food processing and manufacturing.
Estates, districts and neighbouring towns covered by the same Kettering delivery pattern:
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 Tape in Kettering at WSUK, answered plainly.
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 Kettering as you need it.
Yes - Corby, Wellingborough and Market Harborough are all served from the same stock, along with the wider Northamptonshire area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
Yes. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle, around 35 minutes from Kettering by road on A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19), and delivered into NN14-NN16 and the surrounding Northamptonshire area.
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, and it is one of the better uses of the space. A handler and a customer both look at the seal, so wording there gets read.
It will if it is specified for it. Width, core diameter and roll length all have to match the machine - tell us the make and model and we will specify rolls that run.
Custom Printed Tape is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Kettering. 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.
Fifty-nine pages: 58 product ranges across six material families, each with its specification table, plus the postal, retail, industrial, bespoke and sustainable sections and how an enquiry is specified and quoted.
One form, and we will come back with a specification and a price for NN14-NN16 delivery.