Products · new stock
Sometimes the right box has never been used.
- Lead time
- 2 – 7 weeks
- Minimum run
- 250 – 500 units
- Recycled content
- Maximum permitted
Specify a new box
Send the spec, the certification you must meet and the annual volume. We will also tell you if used plus a liner would satisfy it.
Answer first
Four situations where new genuinely wins.
- Direct food contact without a liner. If unpackaged product touches board, buy new to a food-grade specification. No used box, however clean, carries the traceability.
- Printed retail or customer-facing packaging. Graphics, brand colour and a consistent face require a converting plant, not a grading bench.
- Certain export and regulated shipments. Where a certificate, a marking or a phytosanitary requirement attaches to the container itself.
- Tooled shapes. Non-standard die-cuts, integrated dividers or purpose-designed geometry that simply does not exist in the used market.
Outside those four, used stock in the right grade does the same job for roughly half the money and a tiny fraction of the environmental cost. That is not a sales position, it is the whole reason we get out of bed.
What we source
New stock, honestly priced.
| Product | Typical spec | Lead time | Minimum | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New 5-wall gaylord | 48 × 40 × 36, 1,300 psi Mullen | 2 – 4 weeks | 250 units | Highest recycled content the mill permits |
| New 4-wall gaylord | 48 × 40 × 36, 1,100 psi | 2 – 4 weeks | 250 units | Lighter, cheaper, fewer reuse cycles |
| Food-grade gaylord | Certified board, documented furnish | 3 – 5 weeks | 500 units | Certification supplied with delivery |
| New octabin set | Body, base, cap, triple wall | 3 – 5 weeks | 200 sets | Bases and caps also sold separately |
| Printed carton | Single or double wall, 1 – 4 colour | 4 – 7 weeks | 500 units | Tooling amortised across the first run |
| Custom die-cut | To drawing | 4 – 7 weeks | Quoted | Often better answered by our own cutting table |
Questions
New versus used, answered.
Why does a reuse company sell new boxes at all?
Can I get recycled content in new boxes?
What is the lead time on new boxes?
Is a liner enough to make a used box food-safe?
Specification
What to send us, and what it changes.
New board is made to order, so the specification decides the price, the lead time and the minimum. These are the nine inputs a converting plant needs.
- Inside dimensions
- New boxes are quoted on inside dimensions — what has to fit. Tell us the product, not the box, and we will convert.
- Board grade
- Mullen burst or edge crush, with a value. If you do not have one, tell us the load and stack height and we will specify it.
- Construction
- Single, double, triple, 4-wall or 5-wall. Drives both price and how many reuse cycles it will support later.
- Style
- Regular slotted, half-slotted, sleeve-and-base, octabin set, tray. Non-standard styles carry tooling.
- Number of colours and coverage. One colour on a small area is inexpensive; full coverage is a different product entirely.
- Recycled content
- We specify maximum permitted by default and tell you the cap where a certification limits it.
- Certification
- Food grade, export marking, any scheme-specific requirement. This is usually what forces new in the first place.
- Annual volume
- Changes the price more than anything else, because tooling and setup amortise across the run.
- Delivery pattern
- One drop or scheduled releases. Storage of new stock is a real cost and scheduled releases usually beat bulk buying.
Before you commit
Four questions that frequently send people back to used stock.
We ask these on every new-box enquiry. About half the time the answers make new board unnecessary.
- 01
Does unpackaged product touch the board?
If no, the contact requirement that drove you to new stock probably does not apply. A certified liner plus a graded 2A box handles a very large share of food and ingredient work.
- 02
Is the print functional or decorative?
A shipping mark, a lot code or a handling symbol can be applied with a label or a stencil on used stock. Full brand print genuinely needs a converting plant.
- 03
Is the shape actually non-standard?
Many 'custom' requirements turn out to be a standard footprint with an internal divider. Our cutting table makes those from reclaimed board at half the price of tooled new.
- 04
How many trips will it make?
If the container makes one journey and is discarded, new board is the most expensive way possible to do that. A used 4A does the same single trip for a quarter of the cost.
Cost structure
Where the money goes in a new box.
| Component | Share | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Containerboard | 48 – 55% | Moves with the fibre market and the mill's energy costs |
| Converting and assembly | 18 – 24% | Cutting, scoring, joining, bundling |
| Setup and tooling amortisation | 6 – 14% | Falls sharply with run length; dominant on short runs |
| Freight from plant | 8 – 12% | New boxes usually ship assembled, which is space-inefficient |
| 0 – 15% | Zero for plain; significant for multi-colour coverage | |
| Margin | Varies | We quote ours transparently and you are welcome to ask what it is |
Send the specification, not the assumption.
Half the customers who ask us for new boxes leave with used stock and a liner, at a third of the price. The other half genuinely needed new, and we sourced it.