The Lichfield trade estates get through a lot of board. We specify what yours should be, then supply it from Midlands stock on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
For businesses in Lichfield, sustainable packaging from WSUK means a specified line list rather than a catalogue order. Stock is held centrally in the Midlands, around 45 minutes from Lichfield, and delivered into WS13-WS14. Where print or bespoke tooling is involved, the run is produced once and called off as needed.
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.
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. 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 Lichfield is organised around A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9). Fradley Park and Trent Valley take a large share of the town's outbound volume, with Britannia Enterprise Park and the smaller units across WS13-WS14 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 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.
The sectors concentrated around Lichfield - Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing - 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.
Kerbside reality is the test worth applying, because a material is only recycled if the customer can actually recycle it. A single-material pack goes into household collection; a pack combining board, film and a plastic window has to be separated first and frequently is not. Designing a Lichfield pack to be one material is more effective than labelling a mixed one.
The honest starting point is measurement rather than substitution: what you currently use, how much of it, and what proportion of each pack is empty space. For most Lichfield businesses the largest reduction available is in the second of those, and it shows up before any material changes hands.
If you are in Lichfield 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.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
Around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing.
Lichfield and the surrounding trade areas we serve:
Lichfield 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 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.
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.
Sustainable Packaging in Lichfield at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes - distance is not the constraint, evidence is. Send us damaged returns or photographs of how items arrive and we can specify against the actual cause rather than adding protection and hoping.
That is what a packaging review is for, and we will not quote you a percentage before looking. It examines materials, storage, transport, labour, damage and waste together and sets the findings out in writing.
Yes - Tamworth, Cannock and Burton upon Trent 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.
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.
Not if it is done by fitting rather than by thinning. Removing void and holding the product still typically reduces damage. Removing protection without replacing the function increases it, and that distinction is the whole job.
Worth reviewing alongside the pack itself - over-ordering, too many near-identical sizes and material that goes straight in the bin at the receiving end all show up in a packaging review.
Sustainable Packaging is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Lichfield. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply sustainable 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.
Whether it is a one-off run or a standing schedule into WS13-WS14, tell us the requirement and we will quote against a specification rather than a guess.