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"Earlstrees gave us the floor space we simply couldn't find further south, and the A43 down to the A14 keeps our Felixstowe containers moving. For big-box volume, Corby has been a genuinely smart call."
Kitting and light assembly for Corby businesses — components counted, kits built to your bill of materials and barcoded as one sellable SKU, 40 minutes from DIRFT.
WSUK assembles kits, multipacks and retail displays for Corby brands — six components in, one sellable barcoded SKU out, which turns a six-line pick into one. From £0.45 per unit for simple builds. A43, A6014, A6003 and A14 on the doorstep; we also cover Kettering and Market Harborough.
Assembly done before the orders arrive is cheap. Assembly done during a rush is what makes a peak fall over.
Parts received, counted against your bill of materials and held as components, so you always know how many finished kits you can actually build.
Kits assembled to a written spec and barcoded as one finished SKU — which is what lets a complex product be picked as a single line.
Counter units, shelf-ready packs and promotional displays built, filled and wrapped ready to ship into a retail account.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per unit built. Long-term contract rates tier down on repeat builds where the work instruction is already established.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Multipacks, banded sets and two-to-three component kits.
Multi-component kits, sub-assemblies and light assembly.
Counter units, floor displays and shelf-ready packs.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Corby's story is one of reinvention. The furnaces that once made it a steel town have largely cooled, but the appetite for heavy industry left behind a legacy of large sites, robust infrastructure and a workforce used to shift-based operations. Today the NN17 and NN18 districts are among the East Midlands' densest warehousing clusters, feeding out onto the A43 towards the A14 in one direction and Northampton in the other. The Rugby and DIRFT core lies about forty minutes away.
Earlstrees is the estate that most defines the town's modern trade - a sprawling industrial and distribution area that has drawn national retailers and 3PLs to Corby's edge. Weldon and Willowbrook extend the footprint, and between them they host steel and metals processing alongside food production and the big-box distribution that increasingly dominates. Rockingham, with its motor speedway heritage and adjoining development land, sits just to the town's north, adding to the sense of a place built at scale.
What Corby lacks in direct motorway frontage it makes up for through the A14, the crucial east-west freight artery reached via the A43. That corridor links the port of Felixstowe to the M1 and M6, and Corby sits neatly on the approach. Kettering, Market Harborough and Wellingborough all lie within a short drive, so a base here serves the northern Northamptonshire warehousing belt while keeping the wider triangle and the east-coast ports within comfortable reach.
The useful thing about doing kitting in the same building as your stock is timing. Components arriving from suppliers or through the ports reach Corby's nearest WSUK bench quickly, get built ahead of the campaign date, and are pickable as a single line the moment orders start.
A43, A6014, A6003 and A14.
~40 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Distribution, steel and metals and food processing.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on A43, A6014, A6003 and A14 — around 40 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Kettering, Market Harborough and Wellingborough.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Corby, plus the questions every kitting & assembly client asks.
It does. The old steelworks left large, well-serviced sites and a workforce accustomed to industrial shift work. Steel and metals processing continues alongside food production and distribution, giving Corby an unusually deep industrial character for its size.
Earlstrees Industrial Estate is the obvious starting point - it's the largest and most established, home to national retailers and 3PLs. Weldon and Willowbrook add further capacity nearby, so there's genuine choice for large-footprint warehousing.
Via the A43, which runs down to the A14 within a short drive. The A14 is the main east-west corridor linking Felixstowe to the M1 and M6, so Corby sits well for both east-coast port traffic and cross-country trunking.
Yes. The DIRFT and Rugby core is around forty minutes away, and the A43/A14 combination gives quick onward access to the M1 and M6. Corby works as an eastern anchor of the triangle's warehousing belt.
Kettering is very close, with Market Harborough, Wellingborough and the Rockingham area all a short hop away. That covers the northern Northamptonshire and southern Leicestershire distribution belt comfortably from an NN17 or NN18 base.
Multipacks and banded sets, gift and starter kits, sub-assemblies, promotional packs, and retail display or POS units built and filled to the retailer’s spec. Simple assembly from £0.45 per unit; complex builds quoted once we have seen the spec.
A written work instruction agreed with you, a first-off sample approved before the run starts, and a QC check per batch. Components are counted against your bill of materials at goods-in, so shortages surface before the build rather than during it.
Yes — the kit becomes its own SKU with its own barcode and stock figure, which is what turns a six-component product into a single pick line when the orders arrive.
Yes, and it is worth planning. Tell us the launch date and the build is finished beforehand, so a spike in Corby orders clears the same day instead of backing up behind assembly work.
Yes. De-kitting returns components to stock as individual SKUs, which usually beats discounting a seasonal set. Component storage is from £4.50 per pallet per week.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| First-off sample approved before any run | Yes | Rarely |
| Finished kits barcoded as one SKU | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum build | Yes | Rarely |
| Component-level stock visibility | Yes | Rarely |
| De-kitting back to components available | Yes | Rarely |
We provide kitting and assembly across Corby, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Kettering, Market Harborough and Wellingborough and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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