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Lower packaging cost may help products cut price, which contributes to market competitiveness. Below are a few cost-saving tips applicable for custom cylinder cardboard tubes.
First of all, choose from existing molds. This helps save you tooling cost. The amount could be from $300 to upwards of $1000 or even more. If the order size is very small, the tooling cost will add quite a bit to unit packaging cost.
Secondly, make paper tube packaging a little thinner if possible. As a rule of thumb, the thicker the paper tube is, the more expensive it will be. So, under the precondition of ensured packaging needs, try to make the cardboard canister a little bit thinner.
Compared to first use fiberboard (virgin board), recycled post-consumer paperboard is normally a little bit cheaper as the raw material is used. So if packaging protection is your only concern, recycled post-consumer paperboard is a good cost-saving option while offering equivalent protection.
Coating is one of the most common techniques applied to packaging, making retail packages look great and stand out.
Lots of people may be familiar with U.V. coating. However, it is more expensive. To reduce packaging cost a little bit, the alternative aqueous coating (AQ) is the way to go. Aqueous coating (AQ) offers similar glossy and matte finishes as U.V. coating does, not as pronounced and durable though.
Sometimes, customizing paper tubes does NOT necessarily mean elaborate coating and exterior embellishments such as foil stamping, embossing & de-bossing etc. Simple nice sticker labels help the retail package acquire an equivalently impactful and personalized retail presence.
For example, if a brand owner is trying to deliver a natural and organic product image, branded sticker labels applied on plain brown kraft paper tube is already enough. Extra coating, printing and embellishments only add to packaging cost while helping little.
Packaging factory or packaging vendors? This question may sound like a no-brainer. However, it is not always about money. Trading company may be more professional when it comes to service, communication and handling complicated foreign trading affairs.
So, how? Buy from Service Factory.
Nowadays more factories are setting up their own sales team. Manufacturers of this type could be the way to go as they achieve a good balance between pricing, product quality and service.
Last but not least, try to order as many as possible at one time if planning for long term. Bigger MOQ (minimum order quantity) helps reduce unit packaging cost. For every production run, there is inevitable setting-up fee. To clarify, if the order volume is very small, the unit cost will go up quite a bit. On the contrary, if the order size is big enough, the setting-up cost is even negligible.
Above are the 7 tips to share today. Hopefully these tips may give you a hint about how to save cost in custom paper tubes.
As a custom paper tube supplier, we always keep customers’ budgets in mind and offer paper tube packaging solutions at affordable cost.
