Packaging Materials for businesses across Slough and Berkshire - specified against what you actually despatch, then delivered on a schedule that does not run you dry.
Packaging Materials for Slough is supplied out of the Golden Triangle on M4 (J5-J7), M25 (J15), A4 and A355 - About 90 miles / 1 hour 40 from the city - so run-quantity stock is already made when you call it off. Specification comes first; Berkshire firms in Air-freight support, data centres, FMCG, pharmaceuticals and food are the ones that tend to need it most.
Standard lines where they do the job and bespoke or printed lines where they earn it. Either way the specification is written down, so nobody re-decides the box size every quarter.
About 90 miles / 1 hour 40 by road from Lutterworth, in on M4 (J5-J7), M25 (J15), A4 and A355. Reorder points are agreed against your real consumption so the materials turn up before the shelf is empty rather than after somebody notices.
Air-freight support, data centres, FMCG, pharmaceuticals and food. Each fails differently, so each needs its own specification - which is why we work per SKU group rather than applying one house standard across a mixed range.
Industrial Slough is organised around M4 (J5-J7), M25 (J15), A4 and A355. Poyle and Langley Business Centre take a large share of the town's outbound volume, with Bath Road corridor and the smaller units across SL1-SL3 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.
Packaging for Slough is held at our Lutterworth site, About 90 miles / 1 hour 40 by road. Some suppliers would call that remote; in practice it is the arrangement that lets a Slough business buy at a run-quantity price without surrendering a corner of its own unit to several months of corrugated. The call-off comes in on M4 (J5-J7), M25 (J15), A4 and A355 when it is needed.
With Air-freight support, data centres, FMCG, pharmaceuticals and food prominent around Slough, the packaging questions in the area are not uniform. A manufacturer worries about stack load and whether a machined surface will corrode in storage; an online retailer worries about carrier size bands and whether the product moves inside the box. Both are solvable and neither is solved by buying more cushioning.
Materials are held centrally and delivered into Slough and the surrounding SL1-SL3 districts, which matters more for consumables than for anything else: tape, film and void fill are consumed continuously and running out stops a pack bench. Where consumption is predictable we would rather hold the stock and resupply against it than have you reorder in a hurry.
Fewer material lines or more? A short list buys better, stores more simply and is harder to get wrong at the bench; a longer one fits each job more precisely. The resolution is usually to shorten the list of outers and keep the range of protective materials, because the outers are where volume and carrier cost sit for a Slough despatch.
If you are in Slough and not sure where to start, the first things worth looking at are the box sizes against your real product dimensions, and whether your packs sit just above a carrier size band. Those two checks need a tape measure and your carrier's published thresholds, and between them they account for a surprising proportion of avoidable packaging cost.
M4 (J5-J7), M25 (J15), A4 and A355.
About 90 miles / 1 hour 40 from our Lutterworth site.
Air-freight support, data centres, FMCG, pharmaceuticals and food.
The Slough estates and nearby places we supply alongside the city itself:
Slough 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.
For Slough 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.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Slough.
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 SL1-SL3, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging Materials in Slough at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle, About 90 miles / 1 hour 40 from Slough by road on M4 (J5-J7), M25 (J15), A4 and A355, and delivered into SL1-SL3 and the surrounding Berkshire area.
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 Slough businesses now do both and need both answered.
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 Slough is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
Yes - Uxbridge, Windsor and Maidenhead are all served from the same stock, along with the wider Berkshire area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
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.
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.
Packaging Materials is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Slough. 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.
Whether it is a one-off run or a standing schedule into SL1-SL3, tell us the requirement and we will quote against a specification rather than a guess.