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Wholesale Folding Cartons from China<\/h1>\n

A folding carton is the box a customer opens first: single wall board, die cut, printed, folded flat and shipped that way. Cosmetics, supplements, electronics accessories and food brands all run on it, which is why the category moves in thousands of pieces and the price per box lives or dies on the board specification.<\/p>\n

\"Folding<\/p>\n

Three failures repeat in this category. The board arrives lighter than the sample, and the box crushes on a retail shelf. The colour drifts between the first run and the reorder, because the factory matched the second run to a new proof instead of the approved one. Or the die line was never tested with a real product inside, and the fit is wrong on ten thousand finished boxes.<\/p>\n

All three are preventable before the run starts, and none of them show up in a quotation. This page sets out what to fix on the specification, and the wider cluster context sits in our wholesale packaging overview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What a folding carton specification decides<\/h2>\n

The board is the first decision. Greyboard lined with white, folding boxboard and kraft board each behave differently on the folding and gluing line. Weight is quoted in grams per square metre, and a box specified at 350 gsm that arrives at 300 gsm loses stiffness in exactly the place a shopper notices: the lid.<\/p>\n

Print comes next. Offset printing on sheet, then coating, then die cutting, then folding and gluing are four separate steps, and each one has a tolerance. Food and supplement brands add a food contact layer or a grease resistant treatment, and that requirement must be named in the contract rather than assumed, because the same carton structure can be produced with or without it.<\/p>\n

Specifications and minimum order<\/h2>\n

Board prices, ink and the factory booking book all move from month to month, so we do not print figures here; they would be stale by the time you read them. What holds still is the list of things to fix before a run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Specification<\/th>\nWhat to confirm before you order<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Board type<\/td>\nFolding boxboard, greyboard lined white or kraft, named on the PO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Board weight<\/td>\nGrams per square metre, with the tolerance the factory will hold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Print<\/td>\nNumber of colours, inside print or outside only, and the colour standard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Finish<\/td>\nMatte or gloss lamination, spot UV, hot foil or none<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Die line<\/td>\nA structural sample folded with your actual product inside<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Food contact<\/td>\nStated requirement with the relevant test, not an assumption<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pedido m\u00ednimo<\/td>\nCarton runs are governed by make ready on the press, so factories quote in the thousands; confirm the figure against your exact die line<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Our minimum order is 1 piece, so you can start with a single unit and scale up once the sample is approved. For production the factory minimum follows the die line and the print run, and we confirm that figure against your specification before you commit. Our sourcing service<\/a> covers the factory screening and the sample coordination described below.<\/p>\n

Where the cost actually moves<\/h2>\n

Board weight is the largest lever, because the material is the majority of the cost of a simple carton. The number of print colours sits second: each additional pass costs make ready time, and a design that reads well in two colours prices far below the same design in six. Finishes are the visible splurge, and hot foil is the one buyers most regret when they see it per thousand pieces.<\/p>\n

Quantity changes the shape of the quote as well. Below a certain run size the factory prices the make ready, not the boxes, which is why small runs feel expensive per piece. If your volume sits in that zone, a stock die line with your print on it is the standard way to cut the entry price, and our design service<\/a> can rework artwork to fit a stock structure without losing the shelf look.<\/p>\n

What belongs in the purchase order<\/h2>\n