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.
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.
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.
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.
#Format / verticalSame specificationResult
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.