Custom packaging, made in China · shipping worldwide
We make rigid gift boxes, canvas totes and paper bags to order, from 100 pieces. Every quote is itemised line by line rather than a single lump sum. Structural design, artwork and quality control sit with our own team in Shenzhen, and you get photo and video proof at every production milestone.
Product range
Three lines where specification, finishing and margin all work — plus the rest of the range we produce every week.
Heavyweight greyboard wrapped in your printed paper, hidden magnets, satin ribbon pull. Foil, embossing, soft-touch lamination and custom inserts are quoted as separate line items, so you can see exactly what each finish adds to the unit cost.
10–12oz heavyweight canvas with reinforced handles, bar-tacked at the stress points. Screen print, DTG or embroidery. This is the reusable bag buyers keep, photograph and reorder every season — which is why fabric weight, not logo size, drives the price.
Grease-resistant, direct-contact-safe board for bakeries, chocolatiers and meal-kit brands. We supply the material declarations and migration test documents your destination market asks for before the first run, not after.
New line
An advent drawer box and a Ramadan calendar cabinet are not a festive re-dress of a box we already run — a twenty-four or thirty drawer array is a structure of its own, so it sits on no indicative band and is quoted per project. Ramadan also moves about eleven days earlier every Gregorian year, so the artwork gets rebuilt each season.
A rigid case holding a grid of small drawers, one for each day of Advent. Foiled or printed numerals, and ribbon, finger-hole or ring pulls. The grid does the work — drawer count and cavity decide the whole cost.
Two doors close over the drawer block, so the product on a shelf reads as one premium box and the array becomes the reveal. Concealed magnets or a ribbon tie, with the door interiors printed.
An arched top over thirty drawers, with the crescent and star as gold foil linework. Thirty is the safe count: the month runs twenty-nine or thirty days, so one build covers both.
The rectangular version: thirty drawers, a lantern and crescent frieze in gold foil, and none of the sheet waste a shaped panel costs. Cartons specified to tile a standard pallet footprint.
Full range
Everything we produce, with the indicative range and the entry order quantity for each. If your product does not obviously match one of them, send it anyway — most of what we make started as a brief that did not fit a category.
Magnetic, lid & base, drawer and book-style shells with wrapped corners and hidden magnets. The unboxing flagship, and the structure most often specified for corporate gifting.
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Printed board boxes that ship flat: a triangular die-cut-handle carrier priced on the sheet rather than on labour, and a lidded box with a rope handle and a printable inner panel.
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10–12oz heavyweight canvas, cotton, jute, felt and non-woven carriers with reinforced handles bar-tacked at the stress points. Fabric weight, not logo size, drives the price.
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Kraft through to laminated carriers with rope, ribbon or die-cut handles and load-tested bases. The cheapest premium-looking carrier, and the easiest line to reorder.
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Grease-resistant, direct-contact-safe board for bakeries, chocolatiers and meal kits, supplied with the material declarations and migration documents your market asks for.
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Flat-packed self-locking mailers, subscription boxes and RSC shippers, printed inside and out. Low freight volume is what keeps the landed cost predictable.
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Ramadan, Eid and Christmas programmes where the calendar decides everything. One festive artwork across formats, with the order window set by your freight lane rather than by us.
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Recycled, plastic-free and compostable options across cartons, mailers and totes that still hold up in transit. Ask for the current certificate for the exact material you specify.
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Company at a glance
Written to be quoted as it stands — by a buyer forwarding it internally, or by a search engine answering a question about us.
CW Packing is a China-based custom packaging partner that runs structural design, 3D mockups, artwork checking and on-press quality control in-house, with production on dedicated partner lines in Shenzhen and Dongguan, Guangdong. The published range covers eight categories: rigid gift boxes, folding gift boxes, canvas and tote bags, luxury paper gift bags, food-grade packaging, corrugated mailers, holiday packaging and eco packaging. Minimum order is 100 pieces for rigid boxes, 300 for mailers and 500 for everything else, and indicative ex-works pricing runs from $0.05 to $6.37 per piece at the quantities shown.
No factory ownership, no floor area, no headcount and no founding year. The presses your order runs on belong to partner factories we work with directly and visit during your production, and we would rather say so than publish numbers we cannot stand behind. Certificates work the same way: the scope depends on the exact board, coating or fabric, so ask for the current certificate for the material in your specification and that is the one we will send.
Industries
Category pages answer “what do you make”. These answer the earlier question “have you packed my product before” — and they carry the specifications that only matter in that one industry.
The box, the insert that holds the piece, and the bag it leaves in. Insert weight and cavity count decide the cost far more than the shell does.
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A candle pack is a weight problem before it is a design problem. The retail box and the shipper that protects the glass are quoted separately, and usually bought together.
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A unit carton for the shelf, a rigid set for gifting and PR, a subscription box for repeat drops and a carrier for the counter. Print colours move the price more than the board does.
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Direct-to-customer packaging is decided in a spreadsheet: what the empty box costs, what space it takes before it is filled, and whether it can be closed again.
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A bottle box is a weight problem wearing a design problem's clothes. Filled weight and shoulder diameter decide the structure; height decides almost nothing.
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The carrier is the only piece that walks out of the shop, gets used for years and is chosen to be seen with. A return trip is a specification, not an exception.
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Almost every order is three orders wearing one brief: something for everyone, for clients, and for a short list. A name on every box is a cost structure, not a design.
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Two things make this season different: the date moves about 11 days earlier every year, and the classic contents are food — dates release oil, so the board is chosen for what goes inside.
See the Ramadan page →
Fragrance is the one category designed outwards from the contents: a heavy glass bottle needs its neck supported, and whether the cap ships fitted decides the box height.
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Indicative ex-works ranges compiled from published factory price schedules, September 2026, at the entry quantity shown. Planning figures, not a quotation.
Price transparency
Most suppliers answer a price question with ‘it depends’. It does depend — on size, board, finishing, insert, quantity and Incoterm. So here are the ranges those variables actually land in, and the spec each range assumes.
| Product | MOQ | Indicative ex-works price | Assumed specification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magnetic rigid gift box | 100 pcs | $1.50 – 2.30 @500 pcs | 25×20×8cm, soft-touch lamination + foil logo |
| Lid & base rigid box | 100 pcs | $1.20 – 1.80 @500 pcs | Same spec as above; roughly 25–30% below magnetic |
| Sliding drawer box | 100 pcs | $0.80 – 1.80 @1,000 pcs | Ribbon drawer, insert included; complex structures higher |
| Corrugated mailer box | 300 pcs | $0.42 – 0.68 @1,000 pcs | E-flute, 22×16×8cm, printed inside and out; $0.22–0.35 at 5,000+ |
| Food-grade box | 500 pcs | $0.48 – 0.68 @1,000 pcs | Tuck-top patisserie box, grease-resistant; $0.12–0.18 at 10,000+ |
| Canvas / cotton tote bag | 500 pcs | $0.40 – 1.20 standard | Fabric weight dominates: heavy 12oz runs $2.84–6.37 |
| Luxury paper gift bag | 300 pcs | $0.10 – 0.73 | Kraft through to laminated; rope and ribbon handles quoted on spec |
| Folding carton | 500 pcs | $0.05 – 0.65 | 300–400gsm SBS, straight or reverse tuck, full-bleed offset |
| Non-woven bag | 500 pcs | $0.05 – 0.10 at 5,000+ | Budget promotional carrier; laminated and full-colour versions cost more |
Prices exclude freight, duties and tooling where tooling applies. Where a finish or insert is quoted separately, it appears as its own line on your quotation.
Buying markets
Four regions behave very differently. Knowing which one you are selling into changes the board, the MOQ and the production calendar.
D2C beauty, skincare and fragrance brands. Q4 is the peak — production slots usually fill from August. FSC-certified and recycled board options, right-sized mailers to cut dimension weight.
Fragrance, dates, chocolate and jewellery gifting. Ramadan and Eid drive a second annual peak, so artwork should be locked 4–6 months ahead. Gold foil, velvet and Arabic-ready layouts.
Volume-led retail and food programmes where landed cost decides the spec. Flat-packed structures, local-language pack copy and consolidated sea freight.
Small-batch artisan brands — coffee, candles, pet and wellness. Lower MOQs, faster reorders and shorter runs for seasonal drops.
The direct advantage
Design-tool platforms are genuinely convenient, and they price for that convenience. Past a few hundred pieces, the gap between a bundled platform price and an itemised factory price is the part worth understanding.
How it works
If you have never ordered custom packaging before, here is exactly what happens after you press send.
Two minutes on the form. No design files needed to start.
A written, itemised quote plus a 3D render of your packaging.
Touch it before you commit to a run.
You see the run being made, not just a tracking number.
Finishing options
Every finishing technique changes both what your packaging looks like and what it costs. These are the three that move the needle most; spot UV, aqueous coating, textured paper wrapping and linen or leatherette wraps are quoted the same way, as separate lines.
Metallic foil applied under heat and pressure, leaving a mirror-finish mark with a slight impression you can feel. Gold, silver, rose gold and holographic foils are standard; custom Pantone-matched foils are available.
A velvet-matte surface with deep colour saturation and no glare. Pair it with spot UV or foil for a two-texture contrast that reads as expensive in photographs.
Raise or recess your mark into the board with a custom die, then seat the product in velvet, satin, EVA foam or a folded paper tray. Inserts are cut to your product, not to a template.
Inserts
A box is only half the job. The insert decides whether the product sits still in transit and whether the reveal lands.
Send a photo of your product next to a ruler and we will propose the insert layout with the mockup.
How we work
CW Packing is a China-based custom packaging partner. We run your project through our own structural design, artwork and quality-control team, with production on dedicated partner lines in Shenzhen and Dongguan.
Our commitments
A portfolio tells you nothing about how a supplier behaves when something goes wrong. These four commitments apply to every order, and each one is something you can hold us to.
01
Board or fabric, printing, each individual finish, the insert, packing and freight are priced as separate lines. When you cut a finish, you see exactly what that saves.
02
No bulk run starts from a render. You approve a physical pre-production sample first, and its cost is credited against your production order.
03
Photo and video updates every two days through production — plate, print, die-cut, assembly, packed carton. You watch your run being made, not a tracking number.
04
Folding cartons and non-woven bags are price wars and we will tell you so. If a cheaper structure does the same job for your market, that is what we will quote first.
FAQ
Short, specific answers — including the ones that are inconvenient for a supplier to give.
Packaging intelligence
Everything we know about specifying custom packaging, written for people who have to sign off the invoice.
Cost guide
Line-by-line pricing for rigid boxes, mailers, food-grade boxes, totes and paper bags, plus what each finish actually adds.
MOQ guide
Why 100, 300, 500 and 1,000 pcs behave differently, what setup costs are one-off, and how to size a first run you will not get stuck with.
Comparison
A side-by-side on cost, unboxing effect, freight volume and best-fit product categories.
Fabric guide
gsm, ounces, cotton versus canvas, and which print method survives real use.
Buying
The three things worth verifying before a deposit, the answers you can check, and the red flags worth acting on.
Prepress
What a dieline is, the files we need, and the five artwork errors that cause a reprint.
Logistics
Why a light box can be billed as heavy, and what actually crushes a carton in transit.
Get a free quote
Tell us the product, the quantity and the destination. You will get an itemised factory-direct price, a recommended structure and a 3D mockup — no design files needed to start.
Free quote
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