Packaging delivered into Lichfield and WS13-WS14 from our Lutterworth operation - specified for your product, your carriers and the way your orders actually travel.
WSUK supplies packaging stockholding to businesses in Lichfield and across Staffordshire. Stock is held in the Midlands Golden Triangle - around 45 minutes from Lichfield by road on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9) - and delivered into WS13-WS14. The specification work happens first: what the product is, how it travels, and what is going wrong now. One-off runs and standing call-off schedules both work.
Trade quantities of the consumables, plus made-to-size cartons, fitted inserts and printed lines where the product or the brand justifies producing them.
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. Whatever the sector, the three questions are the same: does the pack fit, does it protect, and what is it costing delivered rather than per box.
Lichfield sits on A38, A5, A5127, M6 Toll (T5) and M42 (J9), and that connectivity is what the local trade estates were built around: Trent Valley, Fradley Park and Britannia Enterprise Park. Within WS13-WS14 you will find both pallet-out and parcel-out businesses, frequently on the same estate, which is a useful reminder that packaging specification follows the journey rather than the postcode.
Supply into Lichfield comes out of Midlands stock around 45 minutes away. The point of central holding is lead time rather than distance: a business in Lichfield ordering a printed carton from scratch is waiting on a production slot, whereas one calling off from held stock is waiting on a vehicle. For anything with a plate, a form or a changeover behind it, that is the difference that shows up in your week.
The local economy runs on Distribution, logistics and light manufacturing, and each of those has its own packaging failure mode. That is why we specify per SKU group rather than applying one standard across a business: a single protective specification over a mixed range is simultaneously over-specified for the robust lines and inadequate for the fragile ones, which is the most expensive configuration available.
Stockholding exists because of an awkwardness in how packaging is made. Anything printed or bespoke carries a setup - a plate, a cutting form, a changeover - spread across the run, so a short order is expensive per unit and a long one is cheap. The long run is almost always the better buy, and almost no Lichfield business has the space to put it anywhere.
Stockholding is only straightforward because the warehousing is already there. WSUK holds goods for businesses as its ordinary trade, so packaging held for a Lichfield customer sits in the same operation that picks and despatches - which is also why combining stockholding with fulfilment removes a delivery leg entirely.
Lichfield businesses frequently ask what the cheapest option is. The honest answer is that the cheapest box is rarely the cheapest despatch, because the gap it leaves gets filled with material and charged for by the carrier on every order. Delivered cost is the number worth optimising.
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:
We are straight with Lichfield businesses about what is worth changing and what is not. If a standard line does the job, or a substitution would increase damage, we will say so rather than sell it.
Lichfield firms tend to come to us with a damage problem or a delivered-cost problem. Both are specification problems, and both are easier to fix from held stock around 45 minutes away than from a new production run.
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.
Packaging Stockholding 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 - 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 - 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.
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 off into Lichfield as you need it.
Yes, and that is the neatest version of this. If WSUK handles your fulfilment, the packaging never needs to travel to you at all.
Because packaging is bulky and low value per cubic metre, which makes it the worst possible use of space you are paying for. If that space could hold sellable product instead, storing board in it is an expensive choice.
Packaging Stockholding is one of sixteen packaging services we supply into Lichfield. Each has a page of its own for the town.
We supply packaging stockholding 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.
If you are not sure what to ask for, describe the product and the journey - specifying it is our job, not yours.