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Buying guides, specification advice and manufacturing insight for distributors and resellers selling corrugated packaging.
Bulk packaging supplies for 3PLs: specifying for the bench, not the brief
A 3PL feels every packaging decision twice, in labour and in floor space. Where the seconds go, how many sizes to hold, and why dim weight decides the range.
Brand Flex reviewed: the plates behind every printed box
The third thing that decides how a printed box looks, after the ink and the board. What a flexo plate is, what it controls, and why it is a retained asset.
Crosland Cutters reviewed: the tooling behind every die-cut box
The forme is where a CAD drawing becomes a physical tool. What goes into one, what rule height and point thickness decide, and why tooling sets the lead time.
Jencol Engineering reviewed: the machine shop that keeps the line running
The only supplier we buy from whose work never reaches a box. On single-pass production, obsolete spares, and why a machine shop five miles away is an asset.
Running a repeat packaging programme: specifications, call-offs and lead times
What to lock in a repeat corrugated programme, how call-offs and forecasts work, and the drift that turns a stable line into a complaint two years later.
Tamper-evident packaging without extra labels: closures that do the job
What tamper evidence actually means, why a security label is the weakest version of it, and the closures that show interference without a second operation.
Wholesale cardboard boxes: stocking a range that actually sells through
How to build a wholesale corrugated range that turns over: which sizes earn space, where stock ties up cash, and when to stop stocking and start specifying.
Packaging EPR for distributors: who reports what, and where corrugated sits
The thresholds that make a business obligated, which activity catches a distributor, what corrugated costs per tonne, and why that is not the same as per pack.
Wine shipping boxes: dividers, fitments and packs that survive the courier
How multi-bottle wine shippers are specified: divider design, base protection, board grade, the drop that actually breaks glass, and testing before you commit.
Pantone on kraft: getting brand colours right on corrugated
Why a Pantone reference never looks the same on brown board, which colours survive the substrate, and how to sign off a match that repeats on the next run.
Water-based flexo inks: what we print with and why it matters
The inks we print corrugated with come from Antonine, a UK manufacturer. What water-based flexo ink is, why it recycles, and what else the range can do.
The carbon-negative hot melt holding our boxes together
Technomelt Supra ECO, the Henkel adhesive we buy through Interlock: 81% renewable content, a negative cradle-to-gate footprint, and what that really means.
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