Luxury Chocolate Packaging.

It's chipboard wrapped in printed or specialty paper, with a separate lid and base. The wrap is glued over the board, so colour and texture come from the paper itself rather than ink on carton stock.

That wrapped construction is what separates a chocolatier's box from a folding carton. It holds its shape when stacked and has a weight in the hand that a carton can't match.

For volume we use thermoformed cavity trays, and for plastic-free builds a folded board grid. Standard cavity counts are 4, 9, 16 and 24 pieces, and each cell is sized so nothing rolls or touches its neighbour.

Soft ganache needs room to lift out without being squeezed, so we leave a little clearance at the cell wall. Glassine cups go in each cell as a barrier between the chocolate and the tray.

Foil on a deep colour is the chocolatier standard, usually gold or copper on brown, navy or black. Soft-touch lamination on the lid adds a tactile finish, and embossing gives the logo some depth.

Spot UV over matte works for graphic patterns. A ribbon closure completes the gift, and specialty stocks can give a single-origin or limited release its own texture.

Size starts from the piece count and the cavity layout. A common assortment box is about 7 × 7 × 1.5 in, and a bar box around 6 × 3 × 0.5 in.

We measure the inside of the base, then allow for the wrap thickness and the tray walls. Send us the dimensions of your largest piece and the count you want, and we'll size the tray first and the box around it.

Yes, keep one base structure and change the wrap paper or a printed sleeve for each release. Valentine's, holiday and harvest editions then share the same tray and board, which keeps tooling costs down.

Regular customers recognise the box and still notice each edition. A foil colour change or a different ribbon is often enough to mark a limited run without redrawing anything.

Our minimum for this packaging is 500 boxes. That applies to the rigid wrapped builds as well as the folding carton versions.

For a boutique chocolatier that often means one core assortment box in the first run, with seasonal wraps added later at the same quantity. Runs scale to 100,000 when a line moves into wider distribution.

Allow 7 to 10 business days for production once the proof is approved, or 5 to 7 on rush. A sample box takes 5 to 7 business days and is worth ordering, because tray fit on real pieces is hard to judge from a drawing.

We credit the rigid sample fee against your box order. For warm-month shipping, ask about insulated mailer kits to go with the box.

The board and paper wrap are recyclable, and we offer recycled board for the base structure. A folded board grid in place of a plastic tray keeps the whole box in the paper stream.

Soft-touch and gloss lamination add a thin film layer, so leave the lamination off if you want an all-paper box. Foil stamping uses very little material and is generally accepted with paper.