Custom Boxes for Birmingham Makers and Manufacturers

Custom boxes for Birmingham businesses are made to order and delivered to your address in the city. Nothing is chosen from a stock size chart: you give the internal dimensions, the board, the print coverage and the finish, and the job is quoted against that specification. Kraft, cardboard, rigid, die cut, mailer, window, hang tab and display formats are printed in full colour, with matt or gloss lamination, foiling and embossing quoted per job. Free design support is available if the dieline has not been drawn yet, and a digital proof is approved before production starts. Quotes, artwork and proofs are handled by the Uxbridge team and the finished run is delivered to Birmingham.

Small, high value work from the Jewellery Quarter

The Jewellery Quarter around Vyse Street, Warstone Lane and Hockley is still a working manufacturing district, and the assay office that hallmarks precious metal sits in the same few streets. Packing a ring, a pendant or a pair of cufflinks is a presentation problem rather than a volume one. The item is small and valuable, so most of the brief goes into a snug insert, a clean opening action and printing that matches the maker's own mark. Small rigid boxes, sleeve and tray sets, pillow boxes and window boxes all suit that shape of product, with foiling or embossing on the lid and printed swing tags from the labels, stickers and tags range.

Board that survives the metal trades

The other half of the city's making economy is light manufacturing: fasteners, fittings, tools, castings and vehicle components produced across Birmingham and the wider Black Country. Those parts are heavy for their size and often sharp edged, so the board specification and the insert matter more than the print coverage. Hardware and tools packaging, hang tab cartons that hang on a merchant's display strip, die cut inserts that stop a part rattling, and clear panel space for part numbers and barcodes are the usual answers to that brief. Automotive and hardware formats cover the same ground for vehicle components.

Two very different deliveries in one city

A Birmingham drop is not one problem. Jewellery Quarter workshops are frequently on the upper floors of Georgian and Victorian buildings with narrow frontages, controlled parking and no loading bay, so a pallet is the wrong unit and a hand delivery is the right one. An industrial unit off the M6 or on a distribution park at the edge of the city is a straightforward pallet drop. The Clean Air Zone covering the centre inside the Middleway ring road also affects which vehicle a carrier is willing to send in. Say which of the two your address looks like when you enquire.

How a Birmingham order runs

Send the specification, get a quote against it, approve the digital proof, then take delivery in Birmingham. Free design support covers the dieline and the artwork layout if you need it, and recyclable and eco material options can be specified where that matters to your buyers. Costs, delivery and turnaround are confirmed on your quote rather than published as a list, because a foiled rigid jewellery box and a plain hang tab carton are not the same production job.

Briefing a Birmingham job

• Size and weight: the item measured in millimetres, and how heavy it is if it is metal.
• Insert: whether the piece needs holding still inside the box.
• Finish and panels: lamination, foiling or embossing, plus any hang tab or barcode panel.
• Address type: a Jewellery Quarter workshop or a pallet drop on an industrial estate.