Lincoln 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.
Lincoln businesses use WSUK as their packaging supplier for one reason: the specification is written by an operator that packs and despatches goods every working day. Commercial supplies, bespoke packaging and branded print, delivered into LN1-LN6.
Cartons, mailers, tape, void fill, film, strapping and pallet consumables, bought by the pallet or box quantity rather than in the small packs a cash-and-carry sells. One account, one invoice, one delivery schedule.
Standard lines where they do the job, bespoke where they do not. Either way the specification is written down, so nobody in Lincoln re-decides the box size every quarter.
Run-quantity pricing without run-quantity storage. The print run is produced once, held on racking that already exists about 45 miles / 1 hour from our Annesley, Nottingham site, and drawn into Lincoln as you need it.
In LN1-LN6 the packaging question is rarely about the box on its own. It is about how much warehouse space the packaging occupies, how long the pack takes at the bench, which carrier band the finished parcel lands in, and how often something arrives broken. Teal Park, Allenby Road Industrial Estate and Whisby Road and the rest of the Lincoln estates all have the same four problems in different proportions.
Everything is supplied from the Golden Triangle, about 45 miles / 1 hour from our Annesley, Nottingham site. For a Lincoln business that converts into two practical things: commercial quantities without commercial storage, and a reorder that is a vehicle movement rather than a production slot.
Local industry around Lincoln is weighted towards agri-food and agri-tech, power engineering, defence and higher education. We quote all of them from the same stock position but not from the same specification, because a pack that survives a pallet network is not automatically a pack that survives a parcel network.
The quickest way to get a useful answer for a Lincoln operation is to send what you already buy. A line list is ideal; photographs of a packed order and of anything that has arrived broken are nearly as good. We would rather specify against real despatches than against a description of them.
Once a Lincoln account has its specification written down, the rest follows: the reorder point is set against consumption, the carrier band is known before the pack is built, and a change to a product triggers a change to its packaging rather than being absorbed by somebody adding more tape.
Some Lincoln 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.
A46, A15, A57 and the A1.
About 45 miles / 1 hour from our Annesley, Nottingham site.
Agri-food and agri-tech, power engineering, defence and higher education.
The Lincoln estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
Six things make the difference for a Lincoln trade account, and only one of them is the unit price.
We will review what a Lincoln business currently buys at no cost and with no obligation. What comes back is a written specification per SKU group, a price against it, and an honest note on anything that is not worth changing.
How a Lincoln trade account actually starts.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Lincoln.
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 LN1-LN6, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Lincoln businesses, answered plainly.
Standard packaging lines in commercial quantities, bespoke cartons and fitted protection made to the product, printed packaging and tape, and the option to hold the stock centrally and call it off into LN1-LN6.
Yes, and most Lincoln accounts do. Agreed lines, agreed quantities and an agreed delivery frequency, with the reorder point set against your consumption rather than against somebody noticing the shelf is empty.
Yes, and that is easier when we hold the stock. A Lincoln account that calls off from a central holding can change board grade, size or print at the next run without writing off a warehouse full of the old version.
Yes. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle, about 45 miles / 1 hour from our Annesley, Nottingham site, and delivered into LN1-LN6 and the surrounding East Midlands area on A46, A15, A57 and the A1.
Six places at once: materials, the warehouse space the packaging occupies, carriage, pack labour, damage and waste. In most Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln.
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.