Custom Folding Carton Sourcing
Independent sourcing partner. This band lists the fields two factories must share before a wholesale reply can be compared. Published contacts in site configuration are empty, so no street, phone roster, social handle or office pin is invented. Follow-up uses the work email entered on the form after the brief is readable.
- Format
- Named board (SBS, CCNB or another grade), paperboard caliper in pt, and carton style: straight-tuck, reverse-tuck or crash-lock. Record length by width by depth in mm and the intended fill. A window-film patch, foil or hanger hole is a construction change, not a decoration note on the same blank.
- Artwork
- Die line status as a production file or only as a photo, color count, and whether offset lithography or digital print is acceptable. Name the proof path: digital proof, plotter blank or press proof. A proof that passed on office paper does not replace a press proof on the named board face.
- Quantity
- Pieces or cartons per artwork. A mixed carton count without an artwork split is not a unit. Cutting dies, plates, freight and document packets stay as exclusions unless you want them inside the goods line.
- Destination
- US state or postal code, requested delivery date, and any pack-out or dock limit such as pallet height or inner-pack count. Machine-erect versus hand-erect belongs here next to the style, because a crash-lock blank will not run on a straight-tuck former.
Food-contact or migration testing files, when requested, must name the board and ink lot. Those papers are supplier evidence, not a badge for this desk. ISO ICS 55.020 observed on 2026-09-20 is used here only as unit language. Third-party quote coordinators show a brief-first path; that observation is not a factory book, a reply clock or a discount percentage.
High SKU counts with frequent artwork changes often keep plates off a digital print path. Long, stable SKUs usually keep spot-color control on an offset-plus-aqueous quote. This page does not pick a house process. Write the path you will accept, or ask each plant to price both with plates itemized. High-end, mid-range, budget or undecided describes proof depth and document support. Those labels are buying notes, not audited factory grades, and no existing quotation is required to submit.
If a window film is specified, ask the factory for oxygen transmission rate and water vapor transmission rate on that film file rather than treating the paperboard body as a barrier claim. Post-consumer recycled content is accepted only with a mill-tied sheet. This desk does not file FDA or customs approvals and does not publish a savings percentage.
Send the procurement requirement
The same backend fields as the compact inquiry dialog are used here. The dialog is a short modal. This page carries the specification list above and a single stacked form, so the two layouts stay distinct.
Write product format and intended contents; size in mm; board grade and paperboard caliper; carton style; die line status; print process and color count; finish such as aqueous, foil or window patch; quantity by artwork in pieces or cartons; destination state or postal code; requested window; and required product documents. Optional target budget should name currency and whether the figure is per unit or for the whole order. Drawings can be described after the first reply; the form has no upload field.
Handling starts after the written brief is received. This desk does not advertise a service-level hour. If a style arrives without paperboard caliper, comparison waits until board, die line and destination sit on the same line.