Serving Solihull, Birmingham and Coventry with packaging that fits the product, survives the journey and keeps arriving - supplied from Golden Triangle stock.
WSUK's sustainable packaging reaches Solihull from our Lutterworth site, around 30 minutes 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.
One-off runs and standing call-off schedules both work into B90-B93. The run is produced once, held around 30 minutes from Solihull, and drawn down as you need it.
Automotive (jlr), aerospace and business services. The requirement ranges from a few pallets a week to several hundred parcels a day, which is a wide spread of need inside one postcode area.
The estates around Solihull - Cranmore, JLR Lode Lane, Birmingham Business Park - developed around access to M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34, and the B90-B93 postcodes still reflect that. What has changed is the order profile. Far more of Solihull's outbound volume now leaves as single parcels rather than pallets, and the packaging most businesses hold was specified for the old shape of that traffic.
WSUK supplies Solihull from the Golden Triangle rather than from a yard in the West Midlands, 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 around 30 minutes away and called off on M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34, it occupies racking that is already working for a dozen other accounts.
The sectors concentrated around Solihull - Automotive (jlr), aerospace and business services - 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 largest sustainability gain available to most Solihull businesses is not a material swap, it is using less packaging. Right-sizing removes board, removes the void fill that existed only to occupy the gap, and removes volume from every vehicle that carries it. A recyclable material in an oversized box is a worse outcome than a smaller box in a conventional one, and it usually costs more.
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 Solihull businesses the largest reduction available is in the second of those, and it shows up before any material changes hands.
If you are in Solihull 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.
M42 (J4–J6), M40, A45 and A34.
Around 30 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Automotive (jlr), aerospace and business services.
Estates, districts and neighbouring towns covered by the same Solihull delivery pattern:
Solihull 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 Solihull 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 Solihull.
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 B90-B93, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Sustainable Packaging in Solihull at WSUK, answered plainly.
Yes. WSUK provides storage, fulfilment, pick and pack, parcel despatch, transport and returns, so a Solihull business can have the packaging sit with the operation that uses it.
Yes - Birmingham, Coventry and Warwick are all served from the same stock, along with the wider the West Midlands area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
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, 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 Solihull as you need it.
For closed loops, yes - returnable cases with cut foam inserts work well for service exchange, demonstration stock and repair cycles. See foam packaging.
Some substitutions do. Right-sizing generally costs less, because it removes material and volumetric carriage at the same time. The honest answer is that it depends which change you make, which is why the review comes first.
Sustainable Packaging is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Solihull. 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.
Send us your current line list or a photograph of a typical pack from your Solihull operation, and we will tell you what we would change.