Packaging delivered into Corby and NN17-NN18 from our Lutterworth operation - specified for your product, your carriers and the way your orders actually travel.
Packaging Materials in Corby: specified against the product, the carriers and the stack, then supplied from Midlands Golden Triangle stock around 40 minutes away on A43, A6014, A6003 and A14. WSUK also stores, picks, packs and despatches goods, so the packaging can sit with the operation that uses it.
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.
A43, A6014, A6003 and A14 is the delivery route, around 40 minutes from our Lutterworth operation. Because the holding is central, the same stock covers Corby, Wellingborough and Kettering without any of them paying for the space.
Distribution, steel and metals and food processing are the sectors we see most around Corby. The common thread is packs that were specified for a product range that has since changed shape.
Goods leave Corby on A43, A6014, A6003 and A14. The estates at Willowbrook, Earlstrees Industrial Estate and Weldon carry most of that traffic, and the NN17-NN18 area around them holds everything from light manufacturing to pure fulfilment operations. Packaging in Corby is rarely a supply problem - materials are available. It is a specification problem, which is a different thing and costs more.
Supply into Corby comes out of Midlands stock around 40 minutes away. The point of central holding is lead time rather than distance: a business in Corby ordering a printed carton from scratch is waiting on a production slot, whereas one calling off from held stock is waiting on a vehicle. For anything with a plate, a form or a changeover behind it, that is the difference that shows up in your week.
The Corby economy leans on Distribution, steel and metals and food processing. Those sectors despatch very differently from each other, which is why a single house packaging standard rarely survives contact with a mixed range. Specifying by SKU group - what it weighs, how it fails, how it travels - is slower to set up and considerably cheaper to run.
Specifying materials for a Corby business starts from function rather than from a catalogue page. Corrugated carries load and resists crushing; mailers and film cover and contain but protect very little; void fill stops movement without absorbing impact; foam and moulded pulp hold a product in position. Most over-spending comes from asking one material to do a job another does better.
Materials are the layer the rest of the operation consumes. WSUK picks, packs and despatches orders every working day, so the lines specified here are the ones that survive a bench under time pressure - which is a different test from how a material performs in a catalogue photograph or a one-off trial in Corby.
Most Corby enquiries start in one of two places: something keeps arriving damaged, or the packaging bill has crept up without anybody deciding that it should. They are usually the same problem seen from different ends, because a pack that does not hold the product properly tends also to be the pack that needs the most fill.
A43, A6014, A6003 and A14.
Around 40 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, steel and metals and food processing.
Also delivered into these Northamptonshire areas on the same schedule:
For Corby 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.
Corby 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 40 minutes away than from a new production run.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Corby.
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 NN17-NN18, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging Materials in Corby at WSUK, answered plainly.
Supply is in trade quantities rather than retail packs, so there is a practical minimum per line. Tell us what you get through in Corby 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.
You do not need to know. Describe the product, how it travels from Corby 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, and for printed or bespoke lines it is usually the sensible arrangement. You buy the economic run quantity, we hold it in Midlands warehousing, and you call off into Corby as you need it.
No, and it is a deliberate structure rather than a gap. Packaging is held centrally in the Midlands so that run quantities of printed and bespoke lines can be stocked without any single customer paying for the space - and so a reorder from Corby is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
Yes, and it is one of the more common findings. Over-specified board and film cost money on every unit. A packaging review is the structured way to find it.
Polypropylene for general use, vinyl where the seal is under load or in cold storage, paper where a single-material recyclable pack matters. See custom printed tape for the branded options.
Packaging Materials is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Corby. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply packaging materials 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.
If you are not sure what to ask for, describe the product and the journey - specifying it is our job, not yours.