For Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth runs from WSUK's Midlands operation, about 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from our Lutterworth 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.
Most Portsmouth accounts settle into a standing schedule: agreed lines, agreed quantities, agreed delivery frequency. Reordering stops being a job somebody has to remember.
Made-to-size cartons, fitted inserts, profiled foam, printed tape and printed mailers. Specified alongside the format rather than bolted on afterwards, with a physical sample before any production run.
Storage, packaging, fulfilment, pick and pack, despatch and returns from the same business. For a Portsmouth account that means the people specifying the box are the people packing into it.
In PO1-PO6 the packaging question is rarely about the box on its own. It is about how much warehouse space the packaging occupies, how long the pack takes at the bench, which carrier band the finished parcel lands in, and how often something arrives broken. Airport Service Road, Voyager Park and Farlington and the rest of the Portsmouth estates all have the same four problems in different proportions.
Our holding is in the Midlands Golden Triangle rather than in Portsmouth itself, about 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from our Lutterworth site. That is the arrangement that turns a printed-packaging order from a storage problem into a delivery schedule, and it is available to any Portsmouth account that wants it.
The mix around Portsmouth runs to naval and defence, marine engineering, ferry freight and retail. 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.
A Portsmouth enquiry does not need a brief. What you pack, roughly how many, how it travels and what has been failing is enough to specify against, and if the honest answer is that your current packaging is already right, that is what you will get back.
Once a Portsmouth 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.
Packaging is also where WSUK's other services join up. The same Portsmouth account can hold stock with us, have orders picked, packed and despatched from our benches, and never take the packaging onto its own premises at all. That is a choice, not a condition - plenty of Portsmouth accounts buy packaging and nothing else.
M27, M275, A3(M) and A27.
About 145 miles / 2 hours 35 from our Lutterworth site.
Naval and defence, marine engineering, ferry freight and retail.
The Portsmouth estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
The argument for consolidating Portsmouth packaging with one supplier is mostly arithmetic: fewer orders, better quantities, one invoice, and a specification that somebody is accountable for.
We will review what a Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth trade account actually starts.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Portsmouth.
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 PO1-PO6, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Portsmouth businesses, answered plainly.
A supplier. WSUK provides the materials and the specification; if a Portsmouth business also wants the packing done, that is our fulfilment and pick and pack service and it is bought separately.
Yes. Portsmouth businesses buy on a trade account with one invoice covering every line - board, bags, tape, fill, film, strapping and pallet consumables - rather than reconciling four suppliers.
Yes, and that is easier when we hold the stock. A Portsmouth account that calls off from a central holding can change board grade, size or print at the next run without writing off a warehouse full of the old version.
PO1-PO6 and the wider London and the South East area, including Southampton, Brighton and Guildford. 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 Portsmouth; 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 Portsmouth as you need it.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Portsmouth.
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.
Tell us what you pack and what you currently buy. We will come back with a specification, a trade price and - on anything bespoke or printed - a physical sample before a single unit is produced.