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Make over your packaging into something new. Choose from a variety of materials and customization options to create boxes that are specific to your brand.
UV Coating
UV coating gives packaging high-gloss shine. It’s cured with ultraviolet light, adding a premium finish that makes colors pop and surfaces more resistant.
Aqueous Coating
Aqueous coating is water-based and eco-friendly. It offers a smooth, quick-drying protective layer. It helps resist smudges and fingerprints with a subtle gloss or matte touch.
Spot Gloss UV
Spot Gloss UV adds a striking contrast by highlighting specific design elements with a glossy finish. It gives packaging a rich, tactile experience that instantly feels upscale.
Soft Touch Coating
Soft Touch Coating adds a velvety, almost suede-like feel to packaging. It is perfect for luxury products or brands aiming to achieve a better look for their boxes.
Varnish
Varnish is a clear coating applied to protect and to improve box surfaces. Available in matte, gloss, or satin finishes. It shields your packaging from moisture and fading.
Lamination
Lamination involves applying a plastic film over your packaging for extra strength. Choose a gloss or matte one to match your style. It protects your design on the box.
Anti-scratch Lamination
Anti-scratch lamination adds a protective film that keeps your packaging looking sharp. It’s resistant to scuffs and scratches, making it ideal for high-end boxes that need to stay flawless through handling.
Soft Touch / Silk Lamination
This lamination gives packaging a silky-smooth texture that feels as good as it looks. It adds a luxurious vibe while also offering extra protection against wear, making it a favorite for premium brands.
Offset Print
Offset printing delivers sharp, high-quality results using metal plates and ink transfer. It offering consistent colors, smooth gradients, and crisp details on the custom boxes.
Digital Printing
Digital printing is a fast, flexible option. It prints directly from the file. No requirement of printing plates. It is ideal for short runs and personalization.
UV Printing
UV printing cures ink instantly with ultraviolet light, producing vibrant, durable prints. It works on various surfaces and resists smudging or fading. This option is a top choice for premium packaging with bold designs.
Water-based Ink
Water-based ink is eco-friendly option and a combination of water and pigments. It produces soft, natural-looking prints while minimizing harsh chemicals, making it a sustainable option.
Soy / Vegetable Ink
Soy-based ink is plant-derived and biodegradable option. It offers rich, vibrant colors with a lower environmental impact. It’s an earth friendly choice without compromising on print quality.
Oil Base Ink
Oil-based ink offers deep saturation and durability, especially for offset printing. It’s a traditional option that is ideal for prints that need to last on the custom packaging.
Pantone Ink
Pantone ink uses standardized color matching to ensure absolute color consistency. It delivers precise hues every time, so your packaging always matches your logo or custom palette perfectly.
Pantone Metallic Ink
Pantone metallic ink adds a shimmering, reflective finish that instantly upgrades your design. These are available in a range of metallic shades that are great for custom packaging.
Hot Foil Stamping
Hot foil stamping uses heat and pressure to press metallic foil onto your packaging. It creates a shiny finish, so it’s perfect for logos or accents that need to appear luxurious.
Cold Foil Printing
Cold foil printing applies metallic foil without heat, using UV-curable adhesive. It’s fast and flexible, offering vibrant foil effects in-line during printing. It is a form of relief printing.
Blind Embossing
Blind embossing raises the surface without any ink or foil, creating a clean, textured design. It adds a subtle, elegant dimension. It is a type of relief printing.
Blind Debossing
Blind debossing presses a design into the material without using ink or foil. It gives a recessed effect. And it adds a refined feel to minimalist packaging.
Registered Embossing
Another form of relief printing. Registered embossing combines embossing with print or foil for perfect alignment. It adds texture and depth to printed elements like logos or text.
Combination Embossing
Combination embossing pairs foil stamping with embossing in one step. The result is a rich, multi-dimensional effect that gives your packaging a bold, tactile luxury finish.
Window Patching
Window patching adds a clear plastic window to your packaging, giving customers a sneak peek inside. It’s great for showcasing products to build trust and to establish your brand’s value.
SBS C1S
Solid Bleached Sulfate with Coated One Side (C1S) offers a smooth, printable surface on the front and a natural white back. It gives a sharp print quality with a clean look.
SBS C2S
SBS C2S is coated on both sides, delivering excellent print results inside and out. With its bright white finish and sturdy structure, it’s perfect for premium boxes.
CCNB
Clay Coated News Back (CCNB) is made from recycled material with a white clay-coated front and a dull gray back. It’s cost-effective and best for everyday packaging.
CCNB with FR
CCNB with FR (Food-Grade Resistant) adds a layer of food-safe resistance to standard CCNB. It’s a smart choice for takeout packaging and food products with a protective finish.
Natural Brown Kraft
Natural brown kraft paperboard has an earthy, organic look with a strong, raw finish. It’s 100% recyclable and gives a natural feel that communicates authenticity and sustainability.
White Kraft
White kraft paperboard has the strength of brown kraft but with a clean, bright white surface. It’s a versatile option for printing, giving a crisp and fresh appearance.
Black Kraft
Black kraft paperboard brings bold, deep tones to your packaging with a sleek, modern vibe. It’s naturally durable and stylish, perfect for luxury products looking for minimal, high-impact presentation.
Uncoated Unbleached Kraft
This kraft board is raw, rustic, unbleached, and uncoated for a completely natural look. It’s ideal for brands that are looking for packaging that is strong, simple, and earthfriendly.
Clay Coated Kraft Back
Clay Coated Kraft Back (CCKB) offers a white, printable front with a kraft brown back. It balances good print quality with a strong and eco-friendly backside.
Clay Natural Kraft
Clay Natural Kraft features a clay-coated printable side with a natural kraft reverse. It combines excellent printability with an organic aesthetic, delivering both performance and earthy character in one eco-smart option.
Metallic
Metallic paperboard has a shiny, reflective surface that adds an instant wow factor. Available in gold, silver, and more, it brings bold flair to packaging that demands attention.
Holographic
Holographic paperboard sparkles with shifting rainbow effects, perfect for futuristic packaging. It changes colors as it moves, making products look vibrant, high-energy, and impossible to ignore.
Textured
Textured paperboard adds a tactile dimension with linen, leather, or custom-feel surfaces. It makes packaging more memorable, giving it an upscale, premium character that is different from standard finishes.
Natural Kraft Board
Natural kraft board has a strong, earthy look with its brown, unbleached surface. It’s eco-friendly and durable. These are perfect sustainable packaging with a raw, organic texture.
Oyster White Board
Oyster white board offers a slightly grayish-white tone on one side with a natural back. It’s more refined than brown kraft but still cost-effective. It provides soft-toned finish.
Kemi White Board
Kemi white board has a high-brightness coated surface with a natural kraft back. It’s tear-resistant and prints beautifully, making it a solid pick for high-quality packaging.
Bleached White Board
Bleached white board is fully white inside and out, giving packaging a premium look. It gives the luxury touch to products with light colors that need a pure, crisp canvas.
Single Face
Single face board has one flat liner and one fluted layer. It’s flexible and lightweight, great for wrapping or cushioning products that need protection during transportation.
Single Wall
Single wall consists of one layer of fluting between two liners. It’s the most common type for standard boxes, offering good strength and protection for shipping or retail packaging.
Double Wall
Double wall has two layers of fluting and three liners. It’s tougher and more durable, making it perfect for heavier items that need extra cushioning and stacking strength.
Triple Wall
Triple wall includes three layers of fluting with four liners. They are super strong and built for heavy-duty use. It’s like the tank of corrugated boards to hold products.
A-Flute
A-flute is thick and cushy with great stacking strength. It’s often used for fragile or delicate items where protection matters most because of its excellent shock absorption.
B-Flute
B-flute is thinner and denser, offering a smooth surface that prints well. It’s commonly used for retail packaging, folding cartons, or displays that need strength.
C-Flute
C-flute balances strength and cushioning, making it the most widely used flute for shipping boxes. It handles pressure well and offers good protection for a range of products.
E-Flute
E-flute is slim and sleek, perfect for custom-printed retail boxes. It offers decent strength with a smooth surface for high-quality graphics, ideal for displaying goods without adding bulk.
F-Flute
F-flute is ultra-thin and ideal for small boxes or fine, detailed printing. It gives a premium feel while staying lightweight. These are for specialty packaging and small retails.
Grey Chipboard
Grey chipboard is a dense, recycled paperboard with a raw, gray finish. It’s perfect for rigid boxes, book covers, or inserts where structure matters more than appearance.
Duplex Chipboard
Duplex chipboard has a grey back and a smooth white front, allowing for better printing while keeping costs low. It is made from recycled paper pulp for printing.
Metallized cardboard is a premium-grade packaging material. You can think of it as cardboard with the shimmer of a metallic foil layer. These boxes are known for their rigidity and high visual appearance, which you can see on the outside of the boxes. It’s widely used in industries where presentation and protection go hand in hand.
For instance, you have seen the boxes of some cosmetic creams and toothpaste close up. They are customized metalized boxes.
Metallized cardboard offers a unique set of advantages. As the metalized effect on lamination sheets attached to cardboard makes it more eye-catching custom packaging. Here are some options:
High-End Reflection and Shininess: The reflective metallic surface gives your packaging boxes a luxurious shine that attracts many people’s attention.
Rigid and Protective: Only a shiny appearance alone is not enough. So these boxes, just like traditional cardboard, offer an excellent, strong structure.
Print-Ready Surface that Changes the Ordinary Look of the Box: Supports foil stamping, spot UV, and high-definition graphics with brilliant clarity.
Moisture and Wear Resistant: These boxes come with a laminated coating that helps to exclude moisture and resists unnecessary scratches.
We understand that you expect great packaging for your products. So to accommodate all your needs, we are here. At UPacked, you can get extensive customization options to tailor metallized cardboard packaging exactly to your vision in mind:
UPacked offers packaging materials of various cardboard thicknesses and metallic finishes, including gold, silver, rose gold, and holographic. You can easily choose whatever suits you best.
High-end offset, UV, and digital printing for rich color reproduction and detailed graphics.
You can have options like lamination, gloss, matte, or soft-touch coatings to form unique holographic boxes and gold foil boxes.
Add magnetic closures, windows, foam inserts, or embossing for a more tailored experience.
UPacked has all standard formats or fully customizable dimensions to suit your product perfectly.
You can access ready-to-use designs and free 3D mockups to preview your design before production.
Rigid boxes with a shiny metallic finish can come in various styles, like folding cartons, sleeve packaging, or tuck boxes, all made using metallized cardboard.
UPacked is the leading manufacturer and supplier of metallized cardboard boxes with full customization. You can easily order as much quantity as you want. And what a good thing that we offer competitive wholesale pricing, quality assurance, and fast turnaround times, making us a reliable partner for scalable luxury packaging solutions. You can easily rely on us for the fulfillment of the cardboard metallized boxes.
We make sure that when you place your order, you will get the custom metallized cardboard boxes on time, with the style of boxes of your choice. You can track your order easily by connecting with us. Our in-house designer team will help you design the boxes exactly according to your needs. Moreover, if you need the samples, please connect with the team, and they will guide you further.
At UPacked, our metallized cardboard packaging is crafted to impress, inside and out. With top-tier materials, precision manufacturing, and full customization, we help you make your name in the most competitive markets. So what are you waiting for? Connect and get your custom metallized boxes in cardboard today.
Got a question? Take a look at our FAQs about the custom packaging process.
Yes, we have a minimum order requirement, which varies depending on the box type and customization level. Connect to get a quote now.
Design approval to final delivery typically takes 6-8 business days, depending on the complexity and quantity. Reach out to us and get information from us.
Yes, the more you order, the more you save. We offer tiered pricing for large-volume orders. Connect to get more information.
Setup fees may apply for intricate designs or special tooling, but we’ll inform you beforehand. Connect to get more information.
Yes, you can use our online quote form or contact our team for a quick and accurate pricing estimate. Connect to get more information.