Custom Printed Tape for businesses across Corby and Northamptonshire - specified against what you actually despatch, then delivered on a schedule that does not run you dry.
For businesses in Corby, custom printed tape from WSUK means a specified line list rather than a catalogue order. Stock is held centrally in the Midlands, around 40 minutes from Corby, and delivered into NN17-NN18. Where print or bespoke tooling is involved, the run is produced once and called off as needed.
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.
Deliveries into Corby come out of held Midlands stock around 40 minutes away. Lead time is a transport question rather than a manufacturing one, which matters most on anything with a print plate or a cutting form behind it.
Distribution, steel and metals and food processing. 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.
If you draw a map of Corby's industrial land it follows A43, A6014, A6003 and A14 closely, which is why Earlstrees Industrial Estate, Weldon and Willowbrook ended up where they did. NN17-NN18 covers it all. The businesses despatching from there have the same three packaging questions as everyone else - does it fit, does it protect, and what is it costing delivered - and very few have answers.
From our Lutterworth site it is around 40 minutes to Corby on A43, A6014, A6003 and A14. That is the whole supply chain for packaging into Northamptonshire, and its chief virtue is that the stock is already made. When a line runs low in Corby, the question is when a vehicle is coming rather than when a machine is free - which is the difference between a replenishment and a stopped pack bench.
Corby's trade mix - Distribution, steel and metals and food processing - 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.
Tape is also a sealing specification, not only a branding one, and the two decisions interact. A heavy case block-stacked on a pallet out of NN17-NN18 needs an adhesive and a backing that will hold through a warm warehouse and a cold trailer; a light parcel needs neither. Printed tape ordered purely on appearance is how cartons arrive open.
More colours or more coverage? Each additional colour is another plate and another pass, and a reversed-out design that floods the background uses considerably more ink than the same design printed dark on tan. A simple one-colour print across a Corby business's whole despatch volume usually does more for recognition than an elaborate print it orders half as often.
Plenty of Corby businesses are paying for storage of their own packaging without thinking of it that way. Board is bulky and low in value per cubic metre, so a corner of a unit given over to it is usually the most expensive square metre in the building.
A43, A6014, A6003 and A14.
Around 40 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, steel and metals and food processing.
Corby and the surrounding trade areas we serve:
Corby 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 40 minutes away than from a new production run.
The Golden Triangle base around 40 minutes from Corby 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 Corby.
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 NN17-NN18, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Custom Printed Tape in Corby at WSUK, answered plainly.
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 Corby as you need it.
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.
Only to the delivery, not to the service. Earlstrees Industrial Estate, Weldon, Willowbrook and the rest of NN17-NN18 are all within the same delivery pattern, and the specification work is identical wherever the unit is.
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 Corby is a delivery rather than a production lead time.
One to three colours is typical and covers most brand marks. Tell us the artwork and we will confirm what reproduces cleanly at tape width.
Yes, because there is a print setup. Tape has a long shelf life and a roll seals a lot of cartons, so the minimum is usually less of an obstacle than people expect.
Custom Printed Tape is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Corby. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply custom printed tape 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.
One form, and we will come back with a specification and a price for NN17-NN18 delivery.