Businesses on the Solihull estates get the same specification work and the same Midlands stock as everyone else - M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34 is simply the route it arrives on.
WSUK supplies custom printed tape to businesses in Solihull and across the West Midlands. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle - around 30 minutes from Solihull by road on M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34 - and delivered into B90-B93. 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.
Stock sits centrally in the Golden Triangle rather than in a local yard, which is what makes run quantities of printed and bespoke lines affordable. Solihull is around 30 minutes away via M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34.
Automotive (jlr), aerospace and business services are the sectors we see most around Solihull. The common thread is packs that were specified for a product range that has since changed shape.
Solihull's outbound goods move on M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34, and most of them originate on Cranmore, JLR Lode Lane or Birmingham Business Park. The B90-B93 range is compact enough that a packaging delivery schedule can serve a lot of accounts efficiently, which is part of why we can supply the West Midlands properly from the Midlands rather than needing a yard in every town.
WSUK does not hold packaging in Solihull, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation. Stock sits in the Midlands Golden Triangle, around 30 minutes away via M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34, which is where run quantities of printed and bespoke lines can be held without any individual customer paying for the space. A reorder from Solihull 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.
The local economy runs on Automotive (jlr), aerospace and business services, and each of those has its own packaging failure mode. That is why we specify per SKU group rather than applying one standard across a business: a single protective specification over a mixed range is simultaneously over-specified for the robust lines and inadequate for the fragile ones, which is the most expensive configuration available.
Printed tape is the cheapest route to a branded outer pack, and the reason is structural. A Solihull 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 Solihull bench running both needs both specified rather than one substituted for the other.
If you supply retailers from Solihull, the packaging constraint is external: case dimensions, counts, labelling and pallet configuration are set by the retailer rather than by you, and a case that ignores them generates handling charges rather than damage. That is worth checking before anything else.
M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34.
Around 30 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Automotive (jlr), aerospace and business services.
Covered within the same Solihull delivery round:
The reason to buy centrally is lead time and price together: a full run held in the Midlands means Solihull gets run-quantity pricing without storing a run, and a reorder is a vehicle rather than a production slot.
Solihull 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 Solihull.
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 B90-B93, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Tape in Solihull at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Solihull business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
The stock is already made, so the lead time is a transport question rather than a manufacturing one. Solihull is around 30 minutes from our Lutterworth site. Tell us the responsiveness you need and we will agree the call-off terms around it.
You do not need to know. Describe the product, how it travels from Solihull and what is going wrong now, and specifying it is our job. If you already have a line list, send it and we will tell you what we would change.
Yes. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle, around 30 minutes from Solihull by road on M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34, and delivered into B90-B93 and the surrounding the West Midlands area.
Yes. A printed seal makes interference visible in a way clear tape does not, which is why it is common on higher-value despatches.
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 Solihull. 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.
If you are not sure what to ask for, describe the product and the journey - specifying it is our job, not yours.