Packaging for Portsmouth firms that is chosen for the journey as well as the product - and resupplied before the shelf is empty rather than after.
WSUK supplies sustainable packaging into Portsmouth and the Hampshire trade estates - Airport Service Road, Voyager Park and Farlington among them. Stock sits in the Golden Triangle, About 145 miles / 2 hours 35 away via M27, M275, A3(M) and A27. We specify first, quote against the specification, and supply on repeat rather than on request.
Everything a despatch bench gets through in a week, on one account: board, mailers, tape, fill, film, strapping and edge protection, delivered together rather than from four suppliers.
Held at our Lutterworth site, About 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from Portsmouth on M27, M275, A3(M) and A27. The stock is already made, so a reorder is a delivery rather than a production slot - which is the difference that shows up in your week.
Naval and defence, marine engineering, ferry freight and retail. Plenty of Portsmouth businesses now despatch both pallets and parcels, and those need genuinely different packaging even for the same product.
Portsmouth's outbound goods move on M27, M275, A3(M) and A27, and most of them originate on Airport Service Road, Voyager Park or Farlington. The PO1-PO6 range is compact enough that a packaging delivery schedule can serve a lot of accounts efficiently, which is part of why we can supply Hampshire properly from the Midlands rather than needing a yard in every town.
The journey is About 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from Lutterworth to Portsmouth, on M27, M275, A3(M) and A27. What matters about it is not the mileage but what sits at the other end: enough held stock that a reorder is a delivery, and enough volume across all accounts that run quantities of printed and bespoke lines are practical for businesses that could never justify them alone.
The local economy runs on Naval and defence, marine engineering, ferry freight and retail, and each of those has its own packaging failure mode. That is why we specify per SKU group rather than applying one standard across a business: a single protective specification over a mixed range is simultaneously over-specified for the robust lines and inadequate for the fragile ones, which is the most expensive configuration available.
Where material does change, the practical options are recyclable corrugated, paper void fill and paper honeycomb wrap, paper and gummed paper tape, moulded pulp inserts and plastic-free mailers. Most substitute directly. Some do not: paper fill is bulkier to store at a Portsmouth site than air cushion, and paper tape wants a different application method, so the bench has to be part of the decision.
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 Portsmouth businesses the largest reduction available is in the second of those, and it shows up before any material changes hands.
If you supply retailers from Portsmouth, the packaging constraint is external: case dimensions, counts, labelling and pallet configuration are set by the retailer rather than by you, and a case that ignores them generates handling charges rather than damage. That is worth checking before anything else.
M27, M275, A3(M) and A27.
About 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from our Lutterworth site.
Naval and defence, marine engineering, ferry freight and retail.
Also delivered into these Hampshire areas on the same schedule:
We are straight with Portsmouth 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.
Portsmouth 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.
Specification first, then a quote against it.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Portsmouth.
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 PO1-PO6, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Sustainable Packaging in Portsmouth at WSUK, answered plainly.
You do not need to know. Describe the product, how it travels from Portsmouth 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.
Supply is in trade quantities rather than retail packs, so there is a practical minimum per line. Tell us what you get through in Portsmouth 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.
The stock is already made, so the lead time is a transport question rather than a manufacturing one. Portsmouth is About 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from our Lutterworth site. Tell us the responsiveness you need and we will agree the call-off terms around 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 Portsmouth is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
No, and anyone who says it always is has not tested it. Paper is better in many applications and worse in some - if a substitution increases damage, the replacement despatch outweighs the material saving. We test rather than assume.
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.
Sustainable Packaging is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Portsmouth. 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.
Fifty-nine pages: 58 product ranges across six material families, each with its specification table, plus the postal, retail, industrial, bespoke and sustainable sections and how an enquiry is specified and quoted.
Tell us the requirement for Portsmouth - quantities, product, how it travels - and you will get a specified quote back rather than a price list.