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Hand-picked from our vape & e-cigarette range — 6 styles, each built for a different job.
Vape Cartridge Packaging
Glass, metal and threads — a cartridge damages in ways you cannot see.
THC E Cig
A regulated device in a carton that has to satisfy two rulebooks at once.
Disposable Vape Boxes
One device, one carton, a large warning and a short retail life.
Vape Juice Packaging
A bottle, a nicotine declaration and a child-resistant cap — in that order of importance.
THC Vape Boxes
Potency, strain and compliance on a carton the size of a phone.
Vape Pen Packaging
A slim device, a charger and a manual — three things in one narrow tray.
The box is the building.
Inserts are everything else.
Furniture. Bodyguards. Stage crew. The unseen architecture that makes your product feel like it lives somewhere — not like it was just dropped in a box.
Paperboard Inserts
“Engineered paper architecture — folds, locks, and reveals.”
Foam Inserts
“Soft armor that fits like a glove — protection without weight.”
Molded Pulp Inserts
“Custom-shaped cradles for products of any silhouette.”
Velvet & Luxury Inserts
“Touch is the unsung sense. Make every reach into the box feel chosen.”
Bottle & Jar Inserts
“Hold the unholdable. Round things, fragile things, things that mustn't spill.”
Eco Inserts
“Plant-based, plastic-free, planet-positive. Compost-ready protection.”
Flexible Protection Inserts
“The unsung heroes of shipping. Soft cushioning that travels well.”
Marketing & Welcome Inserts
“The story slid in beside the product — printed conversation starters.”
Premium packaging for a premium product.
Vape Specialist Retail Packaging
Soft-touch cartons with foil branding. Display-case packaging that makes the price point legible before the sticker is read.
Precision packaging for a precision product.
Vape and e-cigarette packaging — compliance, structure, and the brand details that matter at point of sale.
Why vape packaging is a brand signal
A compact product. A disproportionate brand opportunity.
Small box. Big impression.
Vape devices and cartridges are small, high-value products. The packaging is often larger than the device itself — which means the box does more brand communication per gram of product than almost any other category.
Retail environment demands
Vape products sit behind glass in specialist retailers, in display cases in convenience stores, and on dedicated shelves in vape shops. The box must read at distance and reward close inspection. These are not contradictory requirements.
Compliance is engineered in
Age restriction statements, country-of-origin marks, ingredient panels, batch codes — every regulatory requirement is mapped into the dieline before design begins. Compliance is the foundation, not a restriction.
Materials for a premium shelf
The surfaces that signal quality.
Board grade
300–450gsm SBS (solid bleached sulphate) for maximum print brightness. Coated art paper laminated to board for high-end finishes. The product is premium — the board must match that position.
Litho offset for runs above 1,000 units — exact Pantone matching, edge-to-edge colour. Digital for shorter runs and new product launches. Full four-colour plus spot colour options.
Finishes
Soft-touch lamination is the most requested finish in this category — the tactile quality signals premium before the box is opened. Spot UV for logo contrast. Hot foil for brand marks on top-tier SKUs.
Every vape packaging format
Device boxes to cartridge cartons.
Device boxes
Rigid two-piece or tuck cartons for starter kits and full devices. Custom foam or card inserts hold the device, charging cable, and accessories in precise positions. Interior print reveals the brand on open.
Cartridge cartons
Compact tuck cartons for individual cartridges. Window die-cut for product preview. Mandatory information panels engineered in. Minimum 500 units per SKU.
Multi-pack retail boxes
Outer retail cartons holding multiple units. Display-ready configuration. Perforated front for retail strip. Branded on all six faces.
Every retail channel covered
Specialist vape to convenience.
Vape specialist retail
Soft-touch premium cartons with foil branding. Display cases reward close inspection — the quality of the finish makes the price point legible before the sticker is read.
Convenience & grocery
Retail-ready tuck cartons with high-visibility print. Bold brand colours that stand out in a backlit display case or on a convenience counter.
Online / DTC
Mailer-safe box dimensions with tamper-evident closure. Interior print for the unboxing moment. Every shipment is a brand impression.
Wholesale & distribution
Outer shipping cartons with branded product cartons inside. Consistent quality at volume — every retailer receives identical presentation.
From compliance brief to retail shelf
The vape packaging supply chain.
01 — Regulatory brief
We document all mandatory panel requirements for your target markets before a dieline is drawn. Compliance areas are fixed first; brand design fills the remaining canvas.
02 — Design & proof
Digital proof for approval showing all mandatory and brand elements in position. Physical pre-production sample recommended for new SKUs.
03 — Print & deliver
Flat-pack to your facility. Reorders use the same dieline and colour match — consistent shelf presence at every restock.
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Questions, answered.
The FDA nicotine addiction warning, covering a mandated proportion of the principal display panels on nicotine-containing products.
State-level requirements sit on top of the federal one, and flavour regulation varies by jurisdiction and affects what packaging may say as well as what may be sold. Age-gating conventions and PACT Act shipping requirements govern the channel rather than the pack, but both shape how the product reaches customers.
Liquid nicotine packaging is federally required to be child-resistant under the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act.
That covers e-liquid bottles specifically. For devices, pods and cartridges, requirements vary by state and product type, and the responsible practice — increasingly the expected one — is CR construction regardless, since the risk profile is comparable. Certification is to the 16 CFR 1700.20 protocol.
In a fitted cradle that immobilises the cartridge completely.
Cartridges are glass tanks with ceramic and metal hardware, and a rattling cartridge arrives cracked and leaking — the category's most common and costliest small failure. Thermoformed or die-cut seats holding the cart by its body, with leak-conscious interiors, are the standard. Kit formats add separation so glass never sits against a battery.
Because counterfeit products in copied packaging are a live problem, and the category has a public-health history behind that concern.
The 2019 EVALI outbreak was traced substantially to illicit THC cartridges cut with vitamin E acetate and sold in counterfeit packaging. Licensed brands responded with QR-verified authenticity codes, serialised units, tamper-evident seals and holographic elements — treating verification as a product feature rather than a branding flourish.
No — lithium batteries bring transport regulations, and the PACT Act restricts shipping of vaping products through several carriers.
Battery-containing units require class marking on outer cases and carrier arrangements that accept them. The PACT Act's extension to electronic nicotine delivery systems changed the channel substantially, requiring adult signature and specialised carriers. Confirm both before promising fulfilment timelines.
Puff count, nicotine strength and, for cannabis products, cannabinoid content — the numbers that drive price-per-unit comparison.
Peg-wall and counter decisions are made comparatively in seconds, so those figures belong at hero size rather than in a specification block. For e-liquids, the mg-per-ml figure matters more than total volume, and salt versus freebase chemistry should be distinguished clearly since strength conventions differ between them.
Different regulatory stacks. Nicotine carries FDA warning and flavour rules; hemp-derived CBD carries claims restrictions and COA expectations.
The engineering is identical — same cartridge seating, same leak and tamper concerns, same battery transport rules. What changes is the compliance face. Products containing both, or brands selling both lines, need the two kept visually distinct so customers do not confuse an inhalable with an ingestible.
Printed vape cartons start at 500 units, with a 15–20 business day production window.
Because compliance requirements change frequently in this category, printed sleeves over plain cartons are a common strategy — a warning-wording update means reprinting a sleeve rather than scrapping carton inventory. Variable-data zones for batch and potency serve the same purpose.
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