How to Choose Packaging Box Size? Customize Packaging Boxes for Your Industry?

In product packaging design, box size is often a crucial factor influencing brand image, shipping safety, and user experience. Choosing the right box not only protects the product but also demonstrates the brand’s professionalism and care during display and transportation. So, how should different industries choose and customize the right box size?

Why is the packaging box size important?

1. Protecting product safety
   Undersized boxes can cause product deformation during transportation, while oversized boxes can increase vibration during transportation, leading to damage.
2. Reducing shipping costs
   A reasonable size can reduce unnecessary space waste and save logistics costs.
3. Enhancing brand image
   The right size paired with a beautiful design allows customers to immediately perceive the brand’s meticulousness and professionalism.

How to measure and determine box size?

Before customizing a box, you need to understand the following key dimensions:

• Inner dimensions: Accurately measure the length, width, and height of the product, generally leaving 2-5mm of cushioning space.
• External Dimensions: Consider the thickness of the packaging material and any additional protective features (such as inner trays and cushioning).
• Packing Dimensions: For bulk shipments, consider the overall volume and layout of multiple boxes within the outer box.

Packaging Size Selection Guide for Different Industries

1. Food and Bakery Industry

• Characteristics: Products are often fragile or easily crushed, such as cakes, bread, and desserts.
• Size Recommendations: Allow ample cushioning space, typically 1-2cm larger than the product itself, and use an inner tray or food-grade protective bag.
• Example: A 6-inch cake box typically measures 25cm × 25cm × 15cm.

2. Gifts and High-End Products

• Characteristics: Prioritize appearance and the unboxing experience.
• Size Recommendations: Follow the product’s shape, leaving precise, fixed space. Lining materials such as velvet and EVA are used inside the box to ensure a secure and premium look.
• Example: Jewelry boxes are typically made to fit the product’s dimensions, with a tolerance of no more than 0.5cm.

3. Cosmetics and Daily Chemicals

• Characteristics: Individual products are of high value and require both transport protection and display considerations.
• Size Recommendations: The outer box and inner tray must fit snugly to prevent sway during transport and provide ample space for product placement.
• Example: The outer box for a glass cream bottle can be 1-1.5cm larger than the bottle’s diameter, with an additional 2cm in height.

4. Electronics and Fragile Items

• Characteristics: Shock and drop resistance are required.
• Size Recommendations: The outer box should be constructed with multiple layers of cushioning material, with an additional 3-5cm added to the outer dimensions depending on the thickness of the protective layer.
• Example: The outer dimensions of a small electronic device are typically approximately 4cm larger than the product.

Advantages of Custom Packaging

• Variable Size Availability: Effectively fit product sizes, without the risks of oversize or undersize.
• Enhance Branding: Printing with your company name, colours, and designs makes the packaging an extension of your brand.
• Wide Material Availability: Paper, Paper Plastic, PET, PVC, etc., to cater to different product needs.
• Improved Functionality: Moisture-proof, shock-proof, and dust-proof can be added.

Choosing a Professional Packing Box Maker Counts

In tailoring packaging boxes, securing a manufacturer with an extensive history and strong production capacity can contribute to your greater peace of mind, from design to delivery.

Yisheng Packaging is a wholesale custom packaging box manufacturer, offering wholesale packages in the form of paper and plastic boxes, cake boxes, gift boxes, food packaging, bakery packaging, and paper bags, suitable for numerous industries such as food, baking, gifts, and cosmetics. With an advanced production line, advanced printing equipment, and flexible MOQs, we can provide top-grade, eye-catching custom packaging services, whether for small trial production or large-scale production.

If you require the most suitable packaging box size and customization options, please contact Yisheng to make your product packaging more competitive.