For Hull manufacturers, distributors and online retailers: packaging specified properly, bought in bulk, held in Midlands stock and delivered on a schedule you set.
Packaging supply for Hull runs from WSUK's Midlands operation, about 85 miles / 1 hour 40 from our Annesley, Nottingham site. What a business gets is a written specification per SKU group, bulk pricing against it, and a reorder point set on consumption rather than on somebody noticing the shelf is bare.
Everything from the pack bench to the pallet, in commercial quantities: board, bags, tapes, fill, film and strapping. Priced against a line list, delivered into HU1-HU13, invoiced monthly.
Standard lines where they do the job, bespoke where they do not. Either way the specification is written down, so nobody in Hull re-decides the box size every quarter.
Port logistics, renewable energy manufacturing, chemicals and food processing. Each fails differently in transit, so each gets its own specification rather than one house standard spread across a mixed range.
Look at what moves through HU1-HU13 and you find the same thing as everywhere else, concentrated: outer cases bought on price, mailing bags bought on availability, and tape bought by whoever was closest when it ran out. The estates - Priory Park, Sutton Fields and Humber Enterprise Park, Brough - are well served by A63, M62, A1033 and A1079; the packaging buying usually is not.
Supply into Hull runs from WSUK's Midlands operation, about 85 miles / 1 hour 40 from our Annesley, Nottingham site. Holding packaging centrally rather than regionally is what makes the commercial arithmetic work: print plates and cutting forms are spread across a full run, the run sits on racking that already exists, and Hull calls off what it needs. Nobody has to store half a year of board to get a sensible unit price.
The mix around Hull runs to port logistics, renewable energy manufacturing, chemicals and food processing. What those have in common is that the true cost of their packaging is never the price of the box - it is the space it occupies, the time it takes to pack, the band the carrier prices it in, and what gets damaged. A packaging company that only quotes unit price is answering the wrong question.
For most Hull accounts the sensible first step is a review rather than an order. Tell us what you despatch, what you currently buy and roughly what it costs you, and we will come back with a specification and a price against it. That is also the point at which we will tell you if a change is not worth making.
Once a Hull account has its specification written down, the rest follows: the reorder point is set against consumption, the carrier band is known before the pack is built, and a change to a product triggers a change to its packaging rather than being absorbed by somebody adding more tape.
The packaging account stands on its own, but it sits next to warehouse storage, order fulfilment, pick and pack and despatch if a Hull operation ever wants those. Nothing is bundled - the point is that the option is there without changing supplier.
A63, M62, A1033 and A1079.
About 85 miles / 1 hour 40 from our Annesley, Nottingham site.
Port logistics, renewable energy manufacturing, chemicals and food processing.
The Hull estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
Hull benefits from the same thing every WSUK trade account does: packaging specified to the journey as well as the product, bought at commercial quantities, and delivered before the shelf is empty rather than after.
A packaging review is not a sales visit. It looks at materials, box sizes, warehouse space, carriage bands, pack time, damage and waste across your Hull operation together, and reports what it finds - including the lines that are already specified correctly.
From first email to a specified, priced line list.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Hull.
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 HU1-HU13, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Hull businesses, answered plainly.
Standard packaging lines in commercial quantities, bespoke cartons and fitted protection made to the product, printed packaging and tape, and the option to hold the stock centrally and call it off into HU1-HU13.
Trade quantities - by the pallet, bale or box quantity rather than the small packs a cash-and-carry sells. There is no minimum commitment on a Hull account, but the pricing works properly at commercial volumes.
Yes. Cartons, mailers, tape, tissue and inner materials can all carry print. Print area, board and process are specified alongside the format rather than added afterwards, and a Hull account sees a sample first.
Yes - Doncaster, York and Lincoln are all served from the same stock, along with the wider Yorkshire and the Humber area. A single delivery schedule covers a lot of accounts in the region.
Six places at once: materials, the warehouse space the packaging occupies, carriage, pack labour, damage and waste. In most Hull operations the price of the box is the smallest of them, which is why a review looks at all six.
It stays yours. Held in Midlands warehousing against your account, called off into Hull on request, and visible as a stock position rather than disappearing into a general pool.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Hull.
We supply packaging to businesses throughout the UK from Midlands stock. These are the nearest locations with a page of their own – the full list is on the packaging company page.
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.
Give us the SKU groups, the quantities and the carriers you use. We will specify the packaging, price it in commercial quantities and tell you where stockholding would save you money.