For Kettering manufacturers, distributors and online retailers: packaging specified properly, bought in bulk, held in Midlands stock and delivered on a schedule you set.
WSUK supplies Kettering businesses with commercial packaging: standard lines in trade quantities, bespoke cartons made to the product, printed packaging carrying your brand, and stockholding so reorders are deliveries rather than lead times. Delivered into NN14-NN16, around 35 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
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 NN14-NN16, invoiced monthly.
Where a standard box is costing more in fill, carriage and damage than a bespoke one would cost outright, we say so - and make it to size. Print goes on at the same time, so the outer earns its keep.
Storage, packaging, fulfilment, pick and pack, despatch and returns from the same business. For a Kettering account that means the people specifying the box are the people packing into it.
The trade estates serving Kettering - Telford Way Industrial Estate, Pytchley Lodge and Kettering Business Park - are built for distribution, with A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19) on the doorstep. What they are not built for is storing six months of printed board, which is why so many NN14-NN16 businesses order short, uneconomic runs and pay for the privilege on every reorder.
Stock sits around 35 minutes from our Lutterworth site, which puts Kettering comfortably inside a normal delivery schedule on A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19). More useful than the drive time is what central holding allows - bulk pricing, call-off, and the ability to change a specification between runs without writing off a warehouse full of the old one.
The mix around Kettering runs to distribution, food processing and manufacturing. 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 Kettering 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.
Consistency is worth more to a Kettering account than the last five per cent on a unit price. An agreed specification per SKU group means the same pack every time, which is what makes damage rates comparable month to month and makes a carrier conversation possible at all.
The packaging account stands on its own, but it sits next to warehouse storage, order fulfilment, pick and pack and despatch if a Kettering operation ever wants those. Nothing is bundled - the point is that the option is there without changing supplier.
A14, A43, A6 and M1 (J19).
Around 35 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Distribution, food processing and manufacturing.
The Kettering estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
Six things make the difference for a Kettering trade account, and only one of them is the unit price.
We will review what a Kettering business currently buys at no cost and with no obligation. What comes back is a written specification per SKU group, a price against it, and an honest note on anything that is not worth changing.
How a Kettering trade account actually starts.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Kettering.
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 NN14-NN16, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Kettering businesses, answered plainly.
A supplier. WSUK provides the materials and the specification; if a Kettering business also wants the packing done, that is our fulfilment and pick and pack service and it is bought separately.
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 Kettering account, but the pricing works properly at commercial volumes.
Sometimes. A product that does not fit a stock box pays for the gap on every despatch, so a made-to-size carton can cost less delivered than a standard box plus fill plus a volumetric surcharge. Where that is not true, we say so.
NN14-NN16 and the wider Midlands Golden Triangle area, including Daventry, Crick and Rugby. Supply is UK-wide from one Midlands stock position, so coverage is not limited to the Midlands.
Yes, and the useful question is how they are being damaged rather than how much protection to add. Send photographs of damaged returns from Kettering; they are the most informative thing you can give us.
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 it off into Kettering as you need it.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Kettering.
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.
Open a trade account, price a single line, or have your existing Kettering packaging reviewed - the form takes two minutes and a specified quote usually comes back the same working day.