Packaging delivered into Leicester and LE1-LE19 from our Lutterworth operation - specified for your product, your carriers and the way your orders actually travel.
WSUK supplies custom printed tape to businesses in Leicester and across Leicestershire. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle - around 30 minutes from Leicester by road on M1 (J21–J21A), M69, A46, A6 and A47 - and delivered into LE1-LE19. 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.
A specified line list: boxes, mailers, sealing tape, protective materials, film and strapping, in trade quantities, repeating on a schedule set against what you really get through.
M1 (J21–J21A), M69, A46, A6 and A47 is the delivery route, around 30 minutes from our Lutterworth operation. Because the holding is central, the same stock covers Leicester, Hinckley and Lutterworth without any of them paying for the space.
Distribution, textiles and apparel and food manufacturing. 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.
The road pattern around Leicester - M1 (J21–J21A), M69, A46, A6 and A47 - is what put the industrial estates where they are. Grove Park and Optimus Point are the names that come up most, with Braunstone alongside them, and the whole LE1-LE19 range is within an easy delivery radius of each other. For a packaging supplier that matters in a dull but useful way: one vehicle into Leicester can cover a lot of accounts.
Supply into Leicester comes out of Midlands stock around 30 minutes away. The point of central holding is lead time rather than distance: a business in Leicester ordering a printed carton from scratch is waiting on a production slot, whereas one calling off from held stock is waiting on a vehicle. For anything with a plate, a form or a changeover behind it, that is the difference that shows up in your week.
Distribution, textiles and apparel and food manufacturing are the sectors that dominate Leicester, which means the area's packaging spend is split between pallet-out and parcel-out operations. Those need different specifications - board grade and strapping on one side, carrier bands and inner restraint on the other - and businesses that have grown from one into the other frequently still hold the packaging for the old model.
Printed tape is the cheapest route to a branded outer pack, and the reason is structural. A Leicester 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.
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 Leicester bench running both needs both specified rather than one substituted for the other.
For Leicester operations running a peak season, packaging planning matters more than it looks. Reorder points set on a normal run rate will run dry in November, and print or bespoke lines cannot be conjured at short notice - which is the main argument for building stock ahead and calling it off.
M1 (J21–J21A), M69, A46, A6 and A47.
Around 30 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, textiles and apparel and food manufacturing.
Delivered across Leicester and the places around it:
For Leicester 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.
Leicester 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 30 minutes away than from a new production run.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Leicester.
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 LE1-LE19, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Tape in Leicester 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 Leicester 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. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Leicester 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 Leicester is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
Yes - Hinckley, Lutterworth and Market Harborough are all served from the same stock, along with the wider Leicestershire area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
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 Leicester. 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.