Shoulder & Neck Boxes
Rigid Boxes
Shoulder & Neck Boxes
A lid that sits down onto an inner neck, leaving a fine reveal line.
- Board
- 1200–1800 GSM greyboard
- Closure
- Lift-off lid over an inner neck
- Format
- Assembled, hand-finished
- Made in
- Mumbai · Qingdao
- Free advice on the right specification
- A physical sample before production
- Colour signed off before the run
By industry
Built for your sector.
Shoulder & Neck Boxes for home fragrance & candles
- Materials
- 1500-1800 GSM Heavy Rigid Board, Specialty Art Paper
- Finishes
- Hot Gold/Copper Foil · Velvet Soft-Touch · Raised Spot UV
- Extras
- Shock-Absorbing EVA Foam · Match Striker Cards · Scent Cards
Inside the pack
Add to your pack.
- User manualFitted into the lid or a die-cut pocket, so it is found rather than fished out.
- Butter paperPrinted translucent wrap over the product. It delays the reveal by a second, and that second is what gets filmed.
- EnvelopesFor invitations, certificates and the letter that explains why the product exists.
- RibbonsSatin, grosgrain or woven, printed or foiled. Turns opening into a deliberate act rather than a tear.
- Shredded paperCrinkle-cut fill in kraft, pastel or metallic. Protects, and makes a hamper look full rather than packed.
- FreebiesSamples, stickers, seed cards, novelty items. The unplanned thing that gets photographed.
- Branded packing tapeWater-activated gummed paper, printed. The pack is on brand before the customer has opened it.
- Miniature stickersFoil wafer seals holding the wrap closed. Cheap, and the detail people notice.
- Thank you cardThe only place in the pack where you get to speak in full sentences.
- Silica gelMoisture control for leather, electronics and anything crossing a humid port.
Surface finishes
Finish the surface.
- Metallic printingMetallic inks printed in the same pass as the full-colour artwork, so the sheen carries across a whole image rather than a single element.
- Foil stampingHeat-pressed metal leaf. The finish that reads as expensive across a room, before the pack is touched.
- Raised UVThick, dimensional resin you can feel with a fingertip. Used on logos and pattern work that has to be found by hand.
- Spot UVGloss varnish over selected elements only, so a mark lifts off a matte ground as the box turns in the light.
- Drip UVMatte and gloss cured together into water-bead or sand-grain textures. Reads as tactile before it is touched.
- EmbossRaised relief pushed up through the board. Depth without ink, and it survives handling.
- DebossPressed into the fibre instead. The quietest way to signal quality, and it costs no colour.
- Micro embossingMicroscopic textured pattern, for tactile grip and as an anti-counterfeit mark.
- Specialised laminationSoft-touch, velvet and anti-scratch films. Velvet gives a warm suede drag people notice and cannot name.
- Specialised paper selectionPearlescent, felt, linen and uncoated stocks. The substrate decides how every finish above will behave.
Specification
At a glance.
The neck is set square to a fraction of a millimetre, so the reveal line runs even all the way round.
| Product | Shoulder & Neck Boxes |
|---|---|
| Board | 1200–1800 GSM greyboard |
| Closure | Lift-off lid over an inner neck |
| Format | Assembled, hand-finished |
| Size | Made to your product |
| Printing | Offset, screen and digital, with spot colours |
| Finishes | Foil & metallics · Gloss & raised UV · Lamination & touch · Emboss & deboss |
| Sampling | White sample, then a signed golden sample |
| Quantity | Quoted to your volume |
| Certified | FSC® · Sedex SMETA · Higg · REACH |
Questions
Before you enquire.
It depends far more on the style than on a house rule. Folding cartons and labels are tooled and printed on large sheets, so they get economical as volume rises. Rigid boxes are largely hand-finished, so they start considerably lower. Two things often bring a minimum within reach: sharing one structural platform across a family of SKUs, and running several variants as one print job. Tell us the volume you actually need and we will say plainly whether we are the right supplier for it.
Yes, and we would rather you did. You get an unprinted white sample first, which settles fit, board weight and how the lid or drawer moves. Once that is right, you get a fully printed and finished golden sample with the real artwork, foil and lamination. You sign that one, and it becomes the reference every production run is measured against at every site. Both are couriered to your address, including the US and UK, and nothing goes into production until the golden sample is signed.
Five things get you a real answer: what the product is, its approximate dimensions and weight, the volume you expect in a year, the markets it sells into, and a reference pack you like. A photograph of something similar is usually enough. Artwork is not needed to quote, and if you do not yet know the structure, describe the product and we will propose two or three routes with an indicative cost band for each.
Production and freight are confirmed against live capacity and actual sailing schedules at the point of quotation, so the dates you receive are real rather than indicative. Samples travel by courier. Production ships by sea as standard, with air freight available when a launch date is at risk. We quote FOB, CIF or DDP so your team can compare us like for like with a domestic supplier, and if a date starts to slip you hear it early, not at the port.
