Lancaster businesses get the same thing from WSUK that every trade account does - packaging chosen for the product and the journey, bought at run quantities, and reordered before the shelf is empty.
WSUK is a UK packaging company with stock about 140 miles / 2 hours 30 from our Bilston, Wolverhampton site of Lancaster. B2B customers - manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, distributors - get specified line lists, trade-quantity pricing, bespoke and printed options, and scheduled delivery into LA1-LA6.
Most Lancaster accounts settle into a standing schedule: agreed lines, agreed quantities, agreed delivery frequency. Reordering stops being a job somebody has to remember.
Where a standard box is costing more in fill, carriage and damage than a bespoke one would cost outright, we say so - and make it to size. Print goes on at the same time, so the outer earns its keep.
University research, food processing, healthcare and tourism. Each fails differently in transit, so each gets its own specification rather than one house standard spread across a mixed range.
Lancaster businesses despatching into the parcel network and onto pallets both start from the same place: LA1-LA6 premises, M6 (J33-J35), A6, A683 and A588, and a packaging store that grew by accretion. Caton Road, Heysham and Scotforth all have operations where nobody can say exactly which SKU goes in which box, because it was never written down.
We hold stock in the Midlands rather than in Lancaster, which sounds like a disadvantage and is not. It means a Lancaster account can commit to an economic run of printed cartons, have it produced once, and take delivery of a pallet at a time. The alternative - repeated short runs - costs more every single time.
The mix around Lancaster runs to university research, food processing, healthcare and tourism. What those have in common is that the true cost of their packaging is never the price of the box - it is the space it occupies, the time it takes to pack, the band the carrier prices it in, and what gets damaged. A packaging company that only quotes unit price is answering the wrong question.
For most Lancaster accounts the sensible first step is a review rather than an order. Tell us what you despatch, what you currently buy and roughly what it costs you, and we will come back with a specification and a price against it. That is also the point at which we will tell you if a change is not worth making.
Consistency is worth more to a Lancaster account than the last five per cent on a unit price. An agreed specification per SKU group means the same pack every time, which is what makes damage rates comparable month to month and makes a carrier conversation possible at all.
Some Lancaster accounts take delivery of everything; some have us hold the printed lines and deliver the rest; some use our warehouse and pack benches and never see the packaging at all. All three are standard arrangements, and you can move between them without renegotiating anything.
M6 (J33-J35), A6, A683 and A588.
About 140 miles / 2 hours 30 from our Bilston, Wolverhampton site.
University research, food processing, healthcare and tourism.
The Lancaster estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
The argument for consolidating Lancaster packaging with one supplier is mostly arithmetic: fewer orders, better quantities, one invoice, and a specification that somebody is accountable for.
Bring us the Lancaster line list and we will go through it properly - what each line is for, whether it is the right material, whether the size is right, and what it is costing once carriage, labour and damage are counted. You keep the findings whether or not you buy anything.
No brief needed - four steps is the whole process.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Lancaster.
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 LA1-LA6, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Lancaster businesses, answered plainly.
A supplier. WSUK provides the materials and the specification; if a Lancaster business also wants the packing done, that is our fulfilment and pick and pack service and it is bought separately.
Yes. Lancaster businesses buy on a trade account with one invoice covering every line - board, bags, tape, fill, film, strapping and pallet consumables - rather than reconciling four suppliers.
Yes. Cartons, mailers, tape, tissue and inner materials can all carry print. Print area, board and process are specified alongside the format rather than added afterwards, and a Lancaster account sees a sample first.
LA1-LA6 and the wider North West area, including Preston, Blackpool and Blackburn. Supply is UK-wide from one Midlands stock position, so coverage is not limited to the Midlands.
Six places at once: materials, the warehouse space the packaging occupies, carriage, pack labour, damage and waste. In most Lancaster operations the price of the box is the smallest of them, which is why a review looks at all six.
It stays yours. Held in Midlands warehousing against your account, called off into Lancaster on request, and visible as a stock position rather than disappearing into a general pool.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Lancaster.
We supply packaging to businesses throughout the UK from Midlands stock. These are the nearest locations with a page of their own – the full list is on the packaging company page.
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.
Tell us what you pack and what you currently buy. We will come back with a specification, a trade price and - on anything bespoke or printed - a physical sample before a single unit is produced.