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Candle Boxes with Insert built to your specification — your dimensions, your board, your print.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing and how it ships. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Glass needs the cavity to hold it without a hard edge bearing on the rim. A soft or folded edge does this.
Candle Boxes with Insert are die-cut from board or routed from foam to hold each item in a fixed position, so nothing shifts between the packing bench and the customer.
Candle Boxes with Insert hold a candle vessel held in a fitted cavity so it cannot move against the box. That is the starting point for the specification, because glass needs the cavity to hold it without a hard edge bearing on the rim. A soft or folded edge does this.
In service they are used for candle brands shipping direct where breakage and chipping are both real costs.
Shelf presence is decided at arm's length, not close up. Contrast, the front panel hierarchy and how the pack sits next to competitors matter more than a finish that only reads in the hand.
If candle boxes with insert will be faced on a shelf, tell us the facing orientation so the strongest panel is the one the customer sees.
Where a product needs to be held still, a fitted insert cut to its profile does more for damage rates than a heavier outer board. It usually costs less too, because you can drop a grade on the outer.
Die-cut board cavity with a folded or lined edge where it contacts the glass.
The options we would consider for this format are below; glass needs the cavity to hold it without a hard edge bearing on the rim. A soft or folded edge does this.
The vessel chips at the rim from contact with the cavity edge in transit.
Glass needs the cavity to hold it without a hard edge bearing on the rim. A soft or folded edge does this.
Cavity to the vessel, outer built around it — the cavity sets the dimensions.
Send the contents rather than a box size. A tight cavity is specified to stop movement, and bare board against glass is what chips the rim.
A printed insert reads well here, since candles are frequently gifted and the box is opened by a recipient.
The finishes below are quoted line by line. Each is an additional pass, so dropping one is a real saving rather than a rounding difference.
Foil, soft-touch and deboss all read differently in person than on a screen, so we recommend a printed prototype rather than a digital proof alone for anything finish-led.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
Send the product dimensions, the quantity and your deadline. What comes back is a board grade, a structure, a print method, a lead time and a written price — not a number on its own.
A dieline template follows, then a proof. For finish-led work we usually recommend a physical prototype at this point, because foil and soft-touch do not read accurately on screen.
Reference
| Product | Candle Boxes with Insert |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Candle Packaging |
| Construction | Packaging insert |
| Material | Corrugated, chipboard, moulded pulp or foam |
| Tolerance | 1 mm – 2 mm around each cavity |
| Assembly | Drop-in, no adhesive required |
| Materials | E-flute corrugated, Chipboard, Moulded pulp, EVA foam |
| Printing | Flexography, Digital press, Unprinted natural |
| Finishes | Unprinted kraft, Flood colour, Matte lamination, Fabric wrap |
| Minimum order | Minimum order is 100 units on any format, and unit cost falls sharply as the quantity rises. |
| Lead time | 3 to 5 business days after artwork approval |
| Shipping | Across the US, UK, Canada and Australia |
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Cavity to the vessel, outer built around it — the cavity sets the dimensions.
The vessel chips at the rim from contact with the cavity edge in transit.
Specified for candle brands shipping direct where breakage and chipping are both real costs.
Glass needs the cavity to hold it without a hard edge bearing on the rim. A soft or folded edge does this.
This format sits in our custom candle packaging range, alongside 11 other made-to-order formats.
Answers
Specification, minimums and lead times for candle boxes with insert.
Rarely without compromise. A box built to present is not built to survive a carrier network alone. A presentation box inside a plain protective outer usually costs less overall than one box trying to do both.
Only if boxes are arriving crushed. If they arrive intact with damaged contents, the product is moving inside and a heavier outer changes nothing. A fitted insert solves that case, usually at lower cost.
Yes, and for candle boxes with insert we prefer to specify both together. A cavity that holds the contents still often lets us drop a grade on the outer, so the pair can cost less than an over-specified box alone.
At the widest point, which is frequently not the base, and including the cap or pump. Send us the actual container if you can — a measurement from a drawing misses flex and applied label thickness, and both decide whether candle boxes with insert close cleanly.
More than most brands allow for. Ingredient copy and any warnings compete directly with the design, and adding them late usually forces a reflow. We block the area on the dieline before you commit design time.
Board is cheapest and suits light or regular shapes. Foam holds irregular and fragile items better and absorbs shock. Moulded pulp sits between them and is the more recyclable of the cushioning options. Send the item and we will recommend.
Yes. We can send a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure, or a printed prototype for colour and finish. Sample costs are normally credited against the production order. On candle boxes with insert the thing to check is whether the contents still sit tight once the pack is closed, because movement inside is what causes damage rather than the board grade.
Send the current specification or a physical sample and we will quote to match it rather than proposing an alternative you would then have to re-approve internally. Send the physical box rather than a photograph. Wrap stock, corner finish and interior lining are what make a rigid box feel the way it does, and none of them photograph.
All 50 US states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, on the same timeline everywhere: 3 to 5 business days of production after artwork approval, then 5 to 7 business days in transit. Every run is made to order and shipped directly to your address rather than pulled from stock, so you receive current production rather than whatever has been sitting in a warehouse. Freight is costed separately by weight, volume and destination. Assembled and finished packs are worth protecting in transit with a plain outer carton, which we will quote alongside if you are shipping direct to customers.
Every run is cut to your dimensions — there are no stock sizes here. Send the product measurements rather than a box size and we will build the packaging insert around them, then send a dieline template you can design onto.
We issue a dieline template sized to your product, prepress checks your artwork against it, and a proof comes back for sign-off. Nothing runs until you approve that proof, and packaging inserts then take 3 to 5 business days.
Yes. Once a first run is approved we hold the board, structure, dimensions, print method and finishes against your account, so a reorder references the same specification exactly rather than being re-derived. That includes the ink formulation, which is what keeps a brand colour consistent between runs rather than drifting a shade each time.
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Send the dimensions, the quantity and how it ships. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.