§Open-book packaging sourcing

Send us your spec.
We quote it free.

We quote your exact specification through our factory network and show you the factory price and our margin as two separate numbers. You compare it against what you already pay. Thirty years in international procurement, sourcing and freight.

Cost to quote
$0.00
Invoice required
None
Minimum to ask
None
Turnaround
Fast
Foil-stamped card blanks laid out along a green conveyor while operators collate and inspect them, filmed on the floor of a factory in the TruePack network.
On the floorFactories in our network
Request for quotationTPG‑RFQ
01
Package design
Artwork, dieline or drawing
02
Material
Board, film, glass, PET, metal
03
Specification
Dimensions, finish, tolerances
04
Quantity
Per order or annual

Free to quote. No invoice, no P&L, no obligation.

§01The service

Every run here was
already someone's product.

This is not a facility tour. Every job in these clips started as a product a client was already buying somewhere else — same material, same finish, same specification — requoted through our factory network and put back into production at a better price. You are not watching proof that we exist. You are watching the thing we do.

Die-cut labels
Finished and separated
Holographic stock
Specialty finish on the web
Folding cartons
Inspection line
Rotary label press
Running a live job
Rigid boxes
Packed and staged
Iridescent web
Through the rollers

Filmed on the floors of factories in our network — not stock footage, and not ours: TruePack does not own a factory. The clips are labels, specialty print, folding cartons and rigid boxes — the formats we have floor footage for. Pouches, jars, tubes, tins and child-resistant constructions are sourced the same way; send the spec.

Send a spec
Where Packaging Cost Hides

Packaging cost is one line on your P&L. It is four decisions.

Each one is set early, usually once, and then carried forward unexamined — because nothing on your invoice tells you what the alternative would have cost.

Supplier pricing drift

Quotes get set once and carried forward. Material costs, freight lanes and factory capacity all move afterwards — the invoice usually doesn't.

Order quantities set by inertia

Too-large orders tie up cash in slow-moving stock. Too-small orders trigger a unit cost premium. Most MOQs are the supplier's default, never renegotiated.

Freight buried in the unit price

Under CIF the supplier procures your freight and you never see the rate. Reactive air shipments and unconsolidated lanes land in the same line item.

Payment terms

Paying a deposit upfront when the category supports net terms means financing your supplier's operations with your own working capital.

How the gap gets established
1
You send the spec

Your package design, the material, the product specification and the quantity you order.

2
We requote the same spec

The identical specification goes out to factories in our network. Same material, same finish, same quantity.

3
You see both, side by side

Your price and the quotes we got, per SKU. If there is no meaningful gap, that is the answer and we say so.

We don't estimate the gap in advance. The quotes are the evidence.

None of these are visible on an invoice. All four are visible in a quote.

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§02Engagements

The same spec,
quoted somewhere else.

Those runs, written down. Every line below is a real engagement — the same product, same material, same finish, same specification, sourced from a different manufacturer, sampled, approved by the client and moved into production.

01

Printed mylar pouches

Specialty coffee manufacturer

Buying from an incumbent supplier at pricing set years earlier and carried forward unexamined at every reorder.

Requoted the identical specification — same barrier film, same finish, same valve, same run length — across the factory network. Samples approved, production moved.

$0.38$0.29Illus.
400,000 pouches / year
$36,000 / year
25%
Lower unit cost
02
Finished folding cartons stacked in crates on the factory floor

Paper and folding cartons

D2C brand

Cartons and paper components quoted once at launch and never retested against the market.

Requoted the same structural spec and board weight, ran samples, and managed the supplier transition end to end.

$0.64$0.32Illus.
250,000 cartons / year
$80,000 / year
50%
Lower unit cost
03
Die-cut circular pressure-sensitive labels stacked and separated coming off the conveyor

Pressure-sensitive labels

Hemp manufacturer and cosmetics brands

Label pricing bundled into an existing supplier relationship, never benchmarked as a line of its own.

Requoted the same material, finish and die through the network, then handled sampling and the move.

$0.11$0.05Illus.
1,200,000 labels / year
$72,000 / year
55%
Lower unit cost
04
A printed label web running through the rollers of a rotary label press

Embossed labels

Consumer brand

A specialty label construction priced as a one-off, with no comparable quote ever obtained for the same emboss and stock.

Requoted the identical construction against factories tooled for embossing, and matched the finish on sample before any commitment.

$0.18$0.12Illus.
500,000 labels / year
$30,000 / year
33%
Lower unit cost
05

Custom PET tubes and glass jars

Cosmetics brand

Needed primary packaging that did not exist as a stock item from any supplier they had access to.

Designed and developed the components from scratch, sampled to approval, and set up production and delivery through the network.

Designed and tooled from scratch — no incumbent specification to quote against.
Bespoke
Design & develop

The reductions are real; the unit prices are illustrative. Percentages come from the engagements themselves. The per-unit figures show how the comparison works — a client's actual cost base is commercially sensitive and not ours to publish. On a call we will walk you through a comparable engagement in your own category in full.

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Industries We Serve

Built for brands like yours.

Every D2C vertical has different packaging economics. The question worth asking is different in each one.

Die-cut pressure-sensitive labels finished and separated on a conveyor after cutting
Pressure-sensitive labels
Die-cut and separated
Holographic label stock running through the rollers of a printing press
Specialty finishes
Holographic stock on the press
Kraft folding cartons coming off the production line and being packed into a shipping case
Paper and cartons
Off the line and packed
Finished rigid boxes being assembled and packed by hand at a bench
Rigid boxes
Assembled and packed by hand

Beauty & Skincare

Jars, pumps and rigid outer boxes carry the highest spec premium of any D2C category — and the widest quote spread between factories.

Serums, moisturizers, SPF, sets, kits
We source
Jars · premium paper packaging · labels · cartons
💊

Supplements & Wellness

Bottle and pouch MOQs are usually set by the supplier and never revisited, so inventory decisions get made for you.

Capsules, powders, gummies, protein
We source
Bottles · pouches · mylar bags · child-resistant packaging

Food & Beverage

Freight is frequently bundled into the unit price under CIF terms, so the shipping cost never appears as its own number.

Coffee, snacks, sauces, beverages
We source
Pouches · cartons · metal tins · labels
🏠

Home & Lifestyle

Inner packaging is specified for the worst-case shipment and then never revised once real damage data exists.

Candles, cleaning products, décor, textiles
We source
Corrugated · rigid boxes · inserts · labels
🐾

Pet Products

Bag format and box dimensions drive dimensional weight, which carriers bill on regardless of what the product weighs.

Dog food, treats, supplements, toys
We source
Mylar bags · pouches · cartons · stickers
👜

Fashion & Accessories

Unboxing decisions made at a few hundred orders a month rarely get re-costed when volume moves an order of magnitude.

Apparel, jewelry, shoes, accessories
We source
Mailers · tissue · premium paper packaging · stickers

Not listed? Send us the spec and we'll tell you whether we can quote it.

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The Process

From spec to quotes, fast.

No six-month consulting engagement, and no recommendations you then have to go and implement yourself. One benchmark, real quotes, and a decision that is yours to make.

1

Tell us what you buy

A few questions about your packaging spend, ordering cadence and freight setup. Three minutes, and nothing is shared with a supplier.

Free — no obligation
2

We requote your spec

Your current specification goes out to factories in our network. You get their quotes back next to what you pay today, per SKU.

Fast turnaround
3

You decide what happens next

If there is no meaningful gap, we tell you and that's the end of it. If there is, we can manage the transition to the supplier that quoted it — pricing, tooling, samples and first production run.

Your call, either way
Finished corrugated cartons stacked and palletised on the factory floor, packing list laid on top, ready for collection
What step three ends in

Tooling signed off, samples approved against your existing specification, and the first run made and stacked at the factory that quoted it. Filmed on a supplier's floor in our network — TruePack does not own a factory.

§04How we're paid

You always see what we make.

Most sourcing agents and trading companies bury their margin inside the unit price, so you can never separate what you are paying for the product from what you are paying the middleman. TruePack quotes the two separately. You approve both, or neither.

01

Quote

Free
no charge, no commitment

You send the package design, the material, the product specification and the quantity. We quote that exact spec through our factory network.

  • Design or dieline, material, dimensions, quantity — that's it
  • No invoice required and no access to your P&L
  • Priced per SKU so you can compare it to your own number
  • You keep the quotes either way
02

Sample

Free
sampling at our cost

If the numbers are worth acting on, the factory produces samples against your specification and you inspect them before anything is committed.

  • Physical samples to your spec, not a spec sheet
  • Revised until the finish matches
  • No production commitment until you approve the sample
03

Produce

Disclosed
our margin, quoted before you order

Once you approve the sample and the price, we manage production, quality and delivery to where you need it. Our margin is quoted as its own line — you see it and approve it before anything is placed.

  • You see the factory price and our margin as separate numbers
  • Agreed in writing before the order is placed, never after
  • Applies to reorders on the same terms — no surprise re-rate
  • Production, QC, freight and delivery managed end to end
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We quote any format, at any volume worth making. Send the spec and we will come back with a real number — if it is not worth acting on we will say so.

§05Questions

What people ask first.

Still not sure whether your format is one we quote?

Send us the spec
§Free — no commitment

Stop guessing whether
your price is right.

Three minutes to tell us what you buy and how you buy it. We come back with what your current specification costs elsewhere — or with the news that you're already well priced. No cost, no commitment either way.

Free · 3 minutes · No credit card required

A pallet of kraft cartons in a factory dispatch bay, shrink-wrapped, strapped in yellow banding and carrying printed carton labels, standing on a pallet truck ready to leave.
Palletised and strapped
A finished order, staged to ship