Shelf-ready, and intact
For a merchandise programme the packaging is half the deliverable. Two different jobs, and assuming one includes the other is how orders arrive needing repacking.
Two different jobs, quoted separately. Retail packaging makes a piece shelf-ready — a display box, window box or fitted gift box, with your branding, barcodes and labelling. Transit packaging gets the order there intact — a soft layer over the face, foam corner blocks, foam along every edge so nothing shifts in the carton, and cartons marked for handling.
Retail packaging
What makes a piece sellable on a shelf rather than merely delivered.
Display boxes
Floating display boxes hold a piece between two clear films, and window boxes show it through an opening. Either way the relief is visible without opening anything — and relief is the reason someone picks the piece up.
Gift boxes with fitted inserts
Rigid and hinged boxes with a foam insert cut to the piece, so it sits still inside and presents properly when the lid comes off.
Carry boxes and gift bags
Kraft carry boxes with a handle, and matching gift boxes and bags, for pieces bought to take away or to give.
Your branding, not ours
On a private label order the packaging carries your marks and no reference to us. Supply the artwork and any market-specific labelling requirements with the brief.
Barcodes and labelling
Applied before dispatch where you supply them. Retail codes, origin marking and any market requirements are your specification — tell us at enquiry rather than after production.
Display-ready sets
Where a range ships together, pieces can be packed as a set rather than individually. Useful for a shop taking a themed group rather than single lines.
Retail packaging we have made
Real boxes from real orders — not a catalogue. Size, print and insert are made to the piece.
Transit packing, step by step
One framed piece, packed in order. Packing that suits a flat tile can mark a textured one.
A soft foam sheet goes over the face first; wrapped pieces wait in a stack behind.
Foam corner blocks fitted over the wrap at every corner.
Corner blocks and foam along every edge, so the piece cannot shift inside the carton.
Sealed and marked — fragile, this side up, keep dry, handle with care — with a product label and barcode.
Surface-compatible interlayer
What sits directly against the face has to be compatible with the finish. A relief or 3D textured, printed and sometimes gloss-finished surface is not the same thing as a bare tile.
Cushioning that avoids the relief
Cushioning is laid out so pressure does not bear on raised areas. Packing that would be fine for a flat tile can mark a textured one.
Corner and edge protection
Ceramic fails at corners, not across the face. Corners and edges get the protection because that is where transit damage actually happens.
Movement restrained inside the carton
Pieces held so they cannot shift. A piece that travels loose inside its own box arrives having abraded itself against everything around it.
Case and base matched to the weight
Sized to what is being carried rather than to one standing format. Weight comes from the specification — the figures are on the specifications page.
Cartons marked for handling
Clear marking so the people moving it know what it is. Obvious, and routinely skipped.
There is no single rule such as "panels always travel upright". Both upright racking and flat palletising are legitimate; what matters is that support, load path and packing design match each other, and that a decorated relief surface is never stacked the way a bare tile would be.
Packaging questions
Can you supply retail-ready packaging?
Yes — floating display boxes, window boxes, fitted gift boxes, carry boxes and gift bags have all been produced here. Supply your packaging artwork, any barcodes and market labelling requirements with the brief, and pieces arrive shelf-ready rather than needing repacking at your end.
Is packaging included in the price?
It is quoted as its own line rather than assumed. Retail packaging and transit packing are separate pieces of work and a programme usually needs both — say at enquiry whether pieces must arrive shelf-ready, because it changes the quote rather than being added later.
Can the packaging carry our brand only?
Yes. On a private label order the packaging carries your marks with no reference to us.
How is a framed piece packed for transit?
In the order shown on this page: a soft foam sheet over the face, foam corner blocks at every corner, foam along each edge so the piece cannot move inside the carton, then the carton sealed and marked for handling with a product label.
How is packing decided for an order?
By size, weight, format and route together, rather than by one standing rule. A pallet of framed pieces going by sea and a carton of magnets going by air need different builds. For a first large order we confirm the packing design before it ships and keep photographs of it.
What about export wood packaging rules?
Where a shipment uses wood packaging, compliance is verified against the destination and the actual build. Processed wood packaging can be exempt while a crate on solid-timber bearers is not — so it is checked per shipment rather than claimed as a blanket exemption.
Do you publish a breakage rate?
No. There is no statistic behind a figure we could quote, and inventing a low percentage would be exactly the kind of claim this site avoids. What we can tell you is how pieces are packed and what to do if something arrives damaged.
Needs to arrive shelf-ready? Say so at enquiry.
Retail packaging is quoted as its own line — it changes the number rather than being added afterwards.