A packaging company working with Reading manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and distributors - commercial supplies, bespoke formats and printed packaging, delivered into RG1-RG31 on a trade account.
As a packaging company serving Reading, WSUK specifies packaging against the product and the journey, supplies it in bulk, and holds it centrally so RG1-RG31 businesses call it off instead of storing a full print run themselves.
The lines a working business gets through - outer cases, mailing bags, sealing tape, protective materials, stretch film - supplied in the quantities that make the unit price sensible, on a single Reading trade account.
Corrugated cartons made to internal dimensions, fitted inserts, cut foam, and branded print on boxes, mailers and tape. Produced once at a run quantity, held by us, and called off into Reading.
Hold your own stock or let us hold it. For printed and bespoke lines the second is usually the sensible arrangement: Reading buys the economic run quantity and never finds a pallet of board in the way.
Packaging in Reading tends to be bought locally and in small quantities, which is the most expensive way to do it. The estates around Reading International Business Park, Green Park and Basingstoke Road corridor sit on M4 (J10-J12), A33, A329(M) and A4, so there is no logistical reason for a Reading business to be paying cash-and-carry prices for materials it gets through by the pallet.
Everything is supplied from the Golden Triangle, about 95 miles / 1 hour 45 from our Lutterworth site. For a Reading 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.
With technology and telecoms, professional services, logistics and retail prominent around Reading, the packaging questions in the area are not uniform. A manufacturer worries about stack load and whether a machined surface will corrode in store; an online retailer worries about carrier size bands and whether the product moves inside the box. Both are solvable, and neither is solved by adding more cushioning.
Before anything is quoted into Reading we want to know what you pack, how it leaves the building and what is currently going wrong. Those three answers decide the specification. Everything after that - bulk pricing, call-off, print - is arithmetic.
Writing the specification down is the single change that does most for a Reading operation. Once each SKU group has an agreed box, an agreed protection standard and an agreed fill, packs become consistent, damage becomes measurable, and nobody at the bench has to make a judgement call on every order.
A Reading account can start with supply only and add stockholding later, or go straight to having us hold and use the packaging as part of a fulfilment operation. What does not change is who specified the pack, which is why the two work well together.
M4 (J10-J12), A33, A329(M) and A4.
About 95 miles / 1 hour 45 from our Lutterworth site.
Technology and telecoms, professional services, logistics and retail.
The Reading estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
What a Reading business is really buying is not board - it is a specification, a price that holds, and a delivery schedule. The materials are the easy part.
Send us what you buy now - a line list, an invoice, or just photographs of the packaging store. We will price it line for line, mark the places where a different specification does the same job for less, and tell you plainly where it does not. No percentage is quoted before we have looked.
Four steps from a line list to a standing schedule.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Reading.
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 RG1-RG31, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Reading businesses, answered plainly.
Quantity and specification. Buying locally in small packs costs more per unit and leaves nobody accountable for whether the packaging is right. A trade account fixes the first and a written specification fixes the second.
No. A Reading packaging account has no minimum term and no minimum commitment. Scheduled supply is an arrangement for your convenience, not a tie-in.
Lead time depends on the format and the print process, and we quote it with the price rather than after. For Reading accounts that reorder printed lines regularly, holding the run with us removes the lead time from the reorder entirely.
Yes. Multi-site delivery against one account and one specification is common - the specification stays the same wherever it is used, which is usually the reason businesses consolidate in the first place.
No. Reviewing what a Reading business currently buys costs nothing and carries no obligation, and you keep the written findings whether or not anything is ordered.
Yes - that is pick and pack, and it is a separate service. The advantage for a Reading account is that the people packing the orders are the people who wrote the packaging specification.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Reading.
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.
A line list and a short description of how goods leave Reading is all we need to quote. If you would rather start with a review of what you buy now, say so and we will do that instead.