Boxes and other packaging? (food grade)

[Smifffy]

http://www.colorpak.co.nz

http://www.colorpak.co.nz/brandpack

http://www.colorpak.co.nz/food-beverage

Oz company bought out NZ company factory in Penrose.

[AllanB]

Yum, thouse look very eatable.

Yup - packaging needs attention......

I used to get pretty boxes from a company here in CHCH as one offs for special project presentations. Stuffed if I can remember their name. Expensive for one offs.

What volume would you need as a starter as the larger printing companies will accomondate but the more you want the lower the unit price. They should also point you in the direction of premade low volume sales.

[blue rider]

Yum, thouse look very eatable.

Yup - packaging needs attention......

I used to get pretty boxes from a company here in CHCH as one offs for special project presentations. Stuffed if I can remember their name. Expensive for one offs.

What volume would you need as a starter as the larger printing companies will accomondate but the more you want the lower the unit price. They should also point you in the direction of premade low volume sales.

They are very eatable, and the box made me cry....it really did.

i want different sizes at a couple hundreds each in the beginning and eventually decide on 1 or two formats that are selling the best.

so I am thinking


1. - 5 columns each three chocolates - window lid/closed lid

23 cm long / 12.5 cm wide and 3.5 cm high


2. - 5 columns / each 4 chocolates - window lid/closed lid

23 cm long / 16 cm wide and 3.5 cm high


3. - single box for 6 chocolates - window lid/closed lid

4 cm wide / 24 cm long and 3.5 cm high

with foldable dividers between the compartments (correct term?)

I am happy to fold the boxes myself, but I don't want to have to order 2000 units of each, and I also would prefer having to deal with someone who is a native english speaker.

Years ago I worked for a chocolate Manufacturer and the box order arrived just before easter, and the boxes were faulty, all 50.000 of them....Yei! T'was great fun trying to fold the boxes.

[blue rider]

http://www.colorpak.co.nz

http://www.colorpak.co.nz/brandpack

http://www.colorpak.co.nz/food-beverage

Oz company bought out NZ company factory in Penrose.

i am to small for these guys.
really what I need is a small to medium sized company that is able to handle food grade packaging.

[Murray]

You could try some chocolate makers and ask them

Perhaps, houseofchocolate, waikatovalleychoclate or even ask nyco

[blue rider]

You could try some chocolate makers and ask them

Perhaps, houseofchocolate, waikatovalleychoclate or even ask nyco

i have asked quite a few people including ResoTech (supplier of Pastry and chocolate making goods - French)..but considering that NZ is a very small market with only a limited number of makers and buyers etc...no one is willing to part with their contacts unless they are making some sort of cut. (there is some bad blood out there with companies screwing each other over) - or are large enough to order their packaging in large quantities. Nyco would be one of those players.

No really what I was looking for is something that obviously does not exist any more. A New Zealand Company able to produce packaging for SME's. It would have been nice to produce "made in NZ" as much as possible.

I will like the others have to order overseas.

[BAD DAD]

Hey BR there is a food innovation company recently opened in Manukau, it's called Te Ipu Kai: The Food Bowl. They specialise in helping people get their food products to market. I don't have any contacts there but visited an open day recently. I bet a nice fat choccy that someone there can put you in contact with a packaging guru or something.

[blue rider]

Hey BR.......... I bet a nice fat choccy that someone there can put you in contact with a packaging guru or something.

Mhhhh...yes I might take a box of Whiskey/Honey (and others) there and see if I get lucky!

thanks.

[Milts]

Any of these seem like they would do the job?

http://www.boxkraft.co.nz/about-boxkraft.html

http://www.pakworld.co.nz/pages/inno...solutions.html

http://www.foodinc.co.nz/services-pr...agingSolutions

If you wanted to go pricier, you could always ask some of the 'artsy'/design/craft people (of which there are many, locally) if they would be interested in doing a run or two... http://www.littleink.co.nz/about-us

Hope you do find a local supplier!

[blue rider]

Any of these seem like they would do the job?

http://www.boxkraft.co.nz/about-boxkraft.html

http://www.pakworld.co.nz/pages/inno...solutions.html

http://www.foodinc.co.nz/services-pr...agingSolutions

If you wanted to go pricier, you could always ask some of the 'artsy'/design/craft people (of which there are many, locally) if they would be interested in doing a run or two... http://www.littleink.co.nz/about-us

Hope you do find a local supplier!

the littleink.co.nz link seems good...a but pricey but they have at least two box types that would suit. Again I am afraid that my little onewomen/family business is not large enough for the other companies. (will give it a try anyways.)

to have the box designed i guess is no problem but the having it produced?

thanks

[Milts]

the littleink.co.nz link seems good...a but pricey but they have at least two box types that would suit. Again I am afraid that my little onewomen/family business is not large enough for the other companies. (will give it a try anyways.)

to have the box designed i guess is no problem but the having it produced?

thanks

Yeah a one person business must make it hard for things like this, because you aren't going to get those economies of scale...

One of those websites did say the accept orders of any size including down to one unit - but they may or may not have the type of box you're after. Good luck regardless.

[unstuck]

I used to work for a company in glenfield called Paramount printing and packaging, I think they moved to albany. We used to do a few smaller jobs for locals making boxes and stuff, but the cost of setting up the die cutting boards and the like would put most people off. If you could get your own die boards made up, you may be able to take it to a printers and then they could run it through their press and give you some sort of discount. Just had a quick Google and it looks like Paramount may of closed down.

[Quasi]

Ring the guys at Schoc Chocolate in Greytown and ask where they source theirs. They use all sorts. shpaes, sizes of fancy card and plastic boxes for their yummy choc's

[Berries]

What about that other classic NZ firm, Tetra Pakipaki?

[Smifffy]

What size runs are you talking about?

Perhaps you could get some card stock printed at a low volume printer and then hand cut and glue the blanks into boxes?

Maybe laminate glossy photog paper onto something...

All much more labour intensive.