Packaging delivered into Lichfield and WS13-WS14 from our Lutterworth operation - specified for your product, your carriers and the way your orders actually travel.
If you need packaging for fulfilment in Lichfield, the useful starting point is what you despatch rather than what you currently buy. WSUK specifies the materials, supplies them from Midlands stock around 45 minutes from Lichfield on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), and can hold the stock so a reorder is a delivery. Staffordshire businesses are served throughout.
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.
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. Lichfield is around 45 minutes away via A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
Distribution, logistics and light 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.
Look at where Lichfield's trade estates sit and the logic is immediately obvious: Britannia Enterprise Park, Trent Valley and Fradley Park are all within a few minutes of A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9). The WS13-WS14 postcodes cover both the older industrial stock and the newer distribution units, and both ends of that market have a packaging problem - usually the same one, which is that nobody has sat down and specified it.
WSUK does not hold packaging in Lichfield, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation. Stock sits in the Midlands Golden Triangle, around 45 minutes away via A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), which is where run quantities of printed and bespoke lines can be held without any individual customer paying for the space. A reorder from Lichfield 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.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing are the sectors that dominate Lichfield, 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.
Pack bench presentation decides throughput more than material choice does. Where the cartons sit, whether the tape is to hand, whether the void fill is at the right height and how many components a packer has to reach for are seconds multiplied by every order a Lichfield operation despatches. Removing one component from a pack sequence is often worth more than any unit price negotiation.
Ladder depth is the central trade-off and it is usually got wrong in the generous direction. Each extra size fits orders more closely and cuts carriage, and also adds a pick face, stock, and a decision the packer has to make correctly under pressure. A Lichfield operation running too deep a ladder loses at the bench what it gained on carriage.
For Lichfield 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.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
Around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing.
Delivered across Lichfield and the places around it:
For Lichfield 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.
Lichfield businesses use us because the specification work is done before anything is quoted, and because the stock is already made when they reorder. around 45 minutes from the Golden Triangle on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9) is a short, predictable delivery leg.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Lichfield.
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 WS13-WS14, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging for Fulfilment in Lichfield at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes, and they need different specifications. Online orders are about carrier size bands and network handling; manufactured goods are about stack load, restraint and corrosion. Plenty of Lichfield businesses now do both and need both answered.
Supply is in trade quantities rather than retail packs, so there is a practical minimum per line. Tell us what you get through in Lichfield 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. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle, around 45 minutes from Lichfield by road on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), and delivered into WS13-WS14 and the surrounding Staffordshire area.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Lichfield business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
Packaging supplies is the materials. This is the specification of how a packing operation should work - ladder depth, bench presentation, written standards per SKU group and supply continuity. Most operations need both.
Pick and pack is WSUK doing the picking and packing for you. This is the packaging specification for a packing operation, whether that operation is ours, yours or a third party's.
Packaging for Fulfilment is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Lichfield. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply packaging for fulfilment 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.
Tell us what you despatch from Lichfield and what you currently use, and we will specify it and come back with a quote.