Serving Luton, Bedford and Milton Keynes with packaging that fits the product, survives the journey and keeps arriving - supplied from Golden Triangle stock.
WSUK's packaging materials reaches Luton from our Lutterworth site, About 65 miles / 1 hour 15 by road. What arrives is a specified set of materials rather than whatever was nearest the right size - and it keeps arriving, because the reorder point is set against your consumption rather than a guess.
The materials, specified against your SKUs - including the recommendation to drop the sizes that nearly fit and the second tape that is doing the first tape's job.
Deliveries into Luton come out of held Midlands stock About 65 miles / 1 hour 15 away. Lead time is a transport question rather than a manufacturing one, which matters most on anything with a print plate or a cutting form behind it.
Aviation, automotive and van production, logistics and electronics. Manufactured goods are usually a load and corrosion problem; online and retail stock is usually a movement and carrier-band problem. Both are specification work.
Industrial Luton is organised around M1 (J10-J11), A505, A6 and A1081. Dallow Road and Butterfield Technology Park take a large share of the town's outbound volume, with Capability Green and the smaller units across LU1-LU4 making up the rest. The businesses there range from single-shift operations despatching a few pallets a week to ecommerce sellers putting out several hundred parcels a day - which is a very wide range of packaging requirement in a small area.
WSUK supplies Luton from the Golden Triangle rather than from a yard in Bedfordshire, and the reason is storage economics. Packaging is bulky and low in value per cubic metre - precisely the wrong thing to be holding in expensive local space. Held centrally About 65 miles / 1 hour 15 away and called off on M1 (J10-J11), A505, A6 and A1081, it occupies racking that is already working for a dozen other accounts.
The sectors concentrated around Luton - Aviation, automotive and van production, logistics and electronics - produce a wide spread of packaging requirement within a small geography. What they have in common is that very few of them have measured their packs against their carriers' size and weight bands, which is usually the cheapest correction available anywhere in a packaging spend.
The useful exercise for most Luton operations is not finding a cheaper box, it is shortening the line list. Businesses accumulate materials - a size ordered for a product discontinued two years ago, two tapes because nobody cancelled the first, three void fills for the same job. Fewer lines, better chosen, usually buys better and leaves less stock sitting in LU1-LU4.
The useful starting point is your current material list with consumption against each line, because that is what shows which materials are doing real work and which are habits. For a Luton operation we would rather see twelve months of usage than a tidy specification, since the usage is what tells us where the money actually goes.
For Luton businesses that have grown from pallets into parcels, or the other way round, the packaging usually has not kept up. A parcel network handles goods far more roughly and far less predictably than a pallet journey, so the same product genuinely needs a different pack in each case.
M1 (J10-J11), A505, A6 and A1081.
About 65 miles / 1 hour 15 from our Lutterworth site.
Aviation, automotive and van production, logistics and electronics.
Estates, districts and neighbouring towns covered by the same Luton delivery pattern:
Luton benefits from the same thing every WSUK packaging account does: materials specified to the journey as well as the product, held centrally, and delivered before the shelf is empty rather than after.
We are straight with Luton businesses about what is worth changing and what is not. If a standard line does the job, or a substitution would increase damage, we will say so rather than sell it.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Luton.
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 LU1-LU4, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging Materials in Luton 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 Luton businesses now do both and need both answered.
Only to the delivery, not to the service. Dallow Road, Capability Green, Butterfield Technology Park and the rest of LU1-LU4 are all within the same delivery pattern, and the specification work is identical wherever the unit is.
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 Luton as you need it.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Luton business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
In most applications yes, and in some it is better because it does not migrate as readily. Where it is not adequate we will say so rather than let a substitution cause damage - see sustainable packaging.
This page explains what each material is for and how to choose. Packaging supplies is the service that supplies them to you in trade quantities. If you already know what you want, go straight there.
Packaging Materials is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Luton. 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.
Send us your current line list or a photograph of a typical pack from your Luton operation, and we will tell you what we would change.