Packaging supplied into WS13-WS14 and the surrounding Staffordshire trade estates, specified to the product and delivered from our Midlands stock.
Foam Packaging for Lichfield businesses is supplied from WSUK's Golden Triangle operation rather than from a local depot - which is the point, because it means run-quantity stock and no production lead time on a reorder. Lichfield is around 45 minutes away on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), and WS13-WS14 addresses are served as a matter of routine.
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.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9) is the delivery route, around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth operation. Because the holding is central, the same stock covers Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Tamworth without any of them paying for the space.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing are the sectors we see most around Lichfield. The common thread is packs that were specified for a product range that has since changed shape.
Goods leave Lichfield on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9). The estates at Trent Valley, Fradley Park and Britannia Enterprise Park carry most of that traffic, and the WS13-WS14 area around them holds everything from light manufacturing to pure fulfilment operations. Packaging in Lichfield is rarely a supply problem - materials are available. It is a specification problem, which is a different thing and costs more.
Our supply point for Lichfield is Lutterworth, around 45 minutes away. Holding packaging there rather than locally is what keeps both the unit price and the responsiveness sensible: a full run is produced and held, and Lichfield takes delivery of what it needs on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9). You get the price of a big order and the convenience of a small one.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing are the sectors that dominate Lichfield, which means the area's packaging spend is split between pallet-out and parcel-out operations. Those need different specifications - board grade and strapping on one side, carrier bands and inner restraint on the other - and businesses that have grown from one into the other frequently still hold the packaging for the old model.
Foam is the right answer for a Lichfield business when a product needs to be held in a fixed position and insulated from impact - something heavy with a fragile projection, an instrument that must not move inside its case, a set of parts that would otherwise abrade against each other. It is the wrong answer when the real problem is a box that is simply too big.
Foam against void fill is a genuine trade-off rather than an upgrade. Loose fill is cheaper per pack, stores more compactly and is quicker to buy; a cut insert costs more per pack, takes space in Lichfield and is faster at the bench because the product drops into a pocket. Volume and damage history decide which is right, and for low volumes fill often wins.
Most Lichfield enquiries start in one of two places: something keeps arriving damaged, or the packaging bill has crept up without anybody deciding that it should. They are usually the same problem seen from different ends, because a pack that does not hold the product properly tends also to be the pack that needs the most fill.
A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9).
Around 45 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing.
Delivered across Lichfield and the places around it:
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.
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.
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.
Foam Packaging in Lichfield at WSUK, answered plainly.
Only to the delivery, not to the service. Trent Valley, Fradley Park, Britannia Enterprise Park and the rest of WS13-WS14 are all within the same delivery pattern, and the specification work is identical wherever the unit is.
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 - Burton upon Trent, Tamworth and Cannock 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 - that is the main use. The cavity is profiled to the product so it is held on every axis, with lift-out detail so it still comes out easily.
Yes - cut foam in a rigid case is the standard approach for service exchange, demonstration stock and repair loops, where the same pack travels repeatedly.
Foam Packaging is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Lichfield. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply foam 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 Lichfield - quantities, product, how it travels - and you will get a specified quote back rather than a price list.