WH Skinner’s UK based corrugated cardboard manufacturing services at a glance

We offer the following cardboard design and manufacturing services to our clients and to other design and print companies within the industry. Sustainable materials and sustainable manufacturing – all in our UK based premises here in Maidstone, Kent.

Manufacturing Services

Foam Board Cutting

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Large Format Printing Company

WH-Skinner Zund Cutting Creasing Routing

Custom Cutting

Foamex Cutting

Die Cutting

Cardboard Cutting

Printing Cardboard

Wide Format Printing

Digital Cutting Services

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Concept Design

• 2D and 3D visuals
• Creative approach to design and material selection
• A finished, practical, workable design within your budget

CAD & Cardboard Engineering

• Qualified design team with decades of experience
• Industry leading software for speed and efficiency
• Quick in-house sampling facility

Art Working & Graphic Design

• All artwork submitted is fully checked and proofed prior to printing
• Graphic design and artwork placement

Digital Printing

•  Great quality finish, long lasting colours
•  Suitable full-colour artworks, including white ink and varnish
•  Fast turn-around times
•  Cost effective for short to medium print runs
•  Print direct to board

Screen Printing

•  Excellent quality finish, lasting colours
•  Ideal for one and two colour artworks
•  Cost effective for medium to long print runs
•  Print direct to board

Lithographic Printing

•  Excellent quality finish
•  Suitable for one, two or full-colour artworks
•  Cost effective for long print runs
•  Print direct to board or laminate printed paper to board

Flexographic Printing

•  Packing quality finish
•  Suitable for one and two colour artworks
•  Cost effective for long print runs
•  Print direct to board

Digital / CNC cutting, Creasing,
V-Cutting, Routing

   •  Accurate, computer controlled registration to artwork
•  Suitable for short to medium production runs
•  Cuts corrugated cardboard, structural honeycomb board, solid board, plastics and even metals

Platen & Die Cutting

• Suitable for medium to long production run
• Cuts corrugated cardboard, solid board, and some plastics

Slot Cutting & Cardboard Box Conversion

• Ideal for packing boxes and cartons
• Suitable for longer production runs
• Cuts corrugated cardboard

Bespoke Presentation Box with Plastic Handle and Inserts

Varnishing

• Gloss varnish or matt varnish
• Spot varnish to highlight a particular area of artwork
• Flood varnish

Laminating

• Lamination of board to board
• Lamination of decorative materials to board

Glueing

•  Machine glueing
•  Manual glueing
•  Application of double sided tape

Finishing & Assembling

• Finishing including fixing embellishments, glueing, applying double sided tape
• Assembly of boxes and point of sale
• Packing of boxes and point of sale

Fulfilment

• Packing your products into presentation boxes, boxes with inserts
• Packing your products into retail boxes
• Packaging your products into pallet shippers and other retail displays

Delivery

• Individual / grouped shipping to various delivery addresses
• Outer cartons for shipping boxes and point of sale displays
• Dedicated transport including pallet and parcel carriers

Installation

• On site installation on site of exhibition stands and temporary displays

WH Skinner cardboard
display fulfilment services.

After receiving delivery, have you thought about what happens next?
You can choose what you need from the following list:

Art Working Services

Qualified and experienced artworkers (human, not bots!) will check your artwork pre- and post- production as standard to ensure the print result will be what you expect. However, our team can also position your graphics, text, branding and assist in making your artwork print-ready.

Space Saving Palletisation

Boxes, packaging and displays which we produce are shipped to you flat on a pallet as standard. It makes storage and transportation easier, safer, more environmentally friendly and economical. It’s one of the huge advantages of using corrugated cardboard!

Assembly Guides

We always do our best to make assembly as simple and quick as possible for you and your team. However, sometimes some designs do call for multiple parts and several assembly steps. Depending on your requirements, we’ll discuss the best assembly guide for your needs.

Assembly Services

If you’d rather spend your time and skills on something else, we can assemble or part assemble anything we produce. Just talk to us about your requirements and we’ll be happy to provide you with a quotation.

Outer Carton Production

Ensure you’re prepared for the next step in the logistics process of your items. We can produce outer cartons of all shapes and sizes to perfectly fit and help protect boxes and displays while in the pallet or courier network.

Complete Fulfillment Services

Packing your products into boxes and displays, packing boxes and displays into outers, including assembly instruction leaflets, labelling and collating boxes, delivering direct to multiple addresses – it’s all in a day’s work for our flexible team. Discuss your requirements with us today.

Environmental Awareness has been at the heart of our company ethos from the very beginning.

As part of the paper packaging industry, which has had an excellent reputation for recycling and fantastic environmental credentials for decades, WH Skinner has always strived to do even more. Read on to learn more about how we can help you with packaging that won’t cost the Earth.

Sustainable Production Facilities, Environmentally Friendly Logistics

• Advanced software minimises the amount of waste and off cuts from every job
• All of our cardboard waste is always recycled
• Our solar PV panels provide over 70% of our electricity
• All light fittings are low-energy units
• All heating is provided by our zero carbon biomass system using only fuel from sustainable sources
• Our bespoke packaging means less waste and packing material used by customers
• Everything is designed and produced on site
• Transportation emissions are kept to a minimum as cardboard is light weight and our products are • usually delivered flat-packed

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FSC® Certified

WH Skinner is pleased to offer FSC® certified bespoke certified packaging and point of sale materials upon request. Please notify us prior to quoting if you require FSC® certified products

Our chain of custody code is NC-COC-026801.
Our license number is C134890

The FSC (Forest Stewardship Council^®) runs a responsible forest certification system.
FSC certification supports good forest management where the health and safety of forest workers is secured and where precious forest wildlife is well looked after. For more information visit

FSC® Council Website

Corrugated Cardboard Recycling and Landfill Prevention

Customers and consumers are now demanding action on your part to ensure your products are safely packaged in sustainable materials. Corrugated cardboard has excellent environmental credentials, from manufacturing through to use and eventual disposal. The manufacturing process of corrugated cardboard has a lower environmental impact – with `up to 60% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions versus other materials. Corrugated cardboard has the best recycling rate of all packaging materials – it’s recyclability is widely known about – meaning that over 80% of corrugated cardboard is recycled back into the system. We have several fact sheets which are produced by official industry bodies available for your information: