Protective Packaging for businesses across Lichfield and Staffordshire - specified against what you actually despatch, then delivered on a schedule that does not run you dry.
Protective Packaging for Lichfield is supplied out of the Golden Triangle on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9) - around 45 minutes from the city - so run-quantity stock is already made when you call it off. Specification comes first; Staffordshire firms in Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing are the ones that tend to need it most.
Cartons and mailers in the sizes your product needs, one tape rather than three, void fill and foam matched to how the goods actually fail, and pallet consumables - specified as a set rather than bought line by line.
One-off runs and standing call-off schedules both work into WS13-WS14. The run is produced once, held around 45 minutes from Lichfield, and drawn down as you need it.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing. 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.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9) is the reason Lichfield works as a despatch location, and Britannia Enterprise Park, Trent Valley and Fradley Park are where that shows up on the ground. Across WS13-WS14 there is a dense mix of manufacturing, distribution and online retail, and the packaging requirement varies more by how the goods travel than by what the business sells - a parcel operation and a pallet operation need different answers even in the same unit.
Packaging for Lichfield is held at our Lutterworth site, around 45 minutes by road. Some suppliers would call that remote; in practice it is the arrangement that lets a Lichfield 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 A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9) when it is needed.
Lichfield's trade mix - Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing - shapes what packaging the area gets through. Different sectors fail differently: manufactured and engineered goods are usually a load and corrosion problem, retail and online stock is usually a movement and carrier-band problem, and food and consumer goods sit somewhere between the two. Specifying from the sector rather than from a catalogue is most of the work.
Damaged returns are the most useful evidence a Lichfield business can send us, and photographs of them are nearly as good. Where the product broke, which face of the carton is crushed and whether the fill has migrated to one end all point at the failure mode. A specification written from that evidence tends to use less material than the one it replaces, not more.
The most useful things a Lichfield business can send us are damaged items and photographs of them as they arrived, with the packaging still around them where possible. Which face is crushed, where the fill has migrated and how the product broke are what identify the failure. A damage rate on its own tells us there is a problem but not what it is.
The question we ask a Lichfield business first is not what you currently buy but what you despatch - product dimensions, weight, how it travels, and what has gone wrong. From there the specification follows. Starting from the existing line list tends to reproduce whatever decisions were made years ago.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
Around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing.
The Lichfield estates and nearby places we supply alongside the city itself:
Lichfield 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 45 minutes away than from a new production run.
The Golden Triangle base around 45 minutes from Lichfield is where the national road network converges, which is what makes UK-wide packaging supply from one stock holding practical rather than aspirational.
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.
Protective Packaging in Lichfield at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes - Cannock, Burton upon Trent and Tamworth are all served from the same stock, along with the wider Staffordshire area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
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 Lichfield is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
The stock is already made, so the lead time is a transport question rather than a manufacturing one. Lichfield is around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth site. Tell us the responsiveness you need and we will agree the call-off terms around it.
Only to the delivery, not to the service. Britannia Enterprise Park, Trent Valley, Fradley Park and the rest of WS13-WS14 are all within the same delivery pattern, and the specification work is identical wherever the unit is.
Not necessarily. Correct protection frequently means fewer components rather than thicker ones, and a damaged delivery costs the product, both carriage legs, the replacement and often the customer - so the comparison is rarely close.
Damaged returns, photographs of how items arrive, and a sense of where in the journey it happens. That evidence tells us the cause; a damage percentage on its own does not.
Protective Packaging is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Lichfield. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply protective packaging 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.
One form, and we will come back with a specification and a price for WS13-WS14 delivery.