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Packaging That Protects the Flavour You Worked On

Chocolate absorbs odours from whatever surrounds it, blooms when the temperature moves and picks up the smell of a solvent-based ink through a thin liner within days. That makes packaging a food safety and flavour question long before it is a design one. We supply chocolatiers and confectioners with boxes, inserts and wrappers that use the right barrier for the product, in quantities a small workshop can actually order, and we design the structure so the pieces still sit where you placed them after a courier has been careless.

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Chocolates displayed in a confectioner's window

Chocolate shop counter filled with pralines

About us

Started by a Packaging Technologist and a Chocolatier's Daughter

The company was founded by a food packaging technologist and someone who grew up in her family's chocolate workshop watching them fight with suppliers every Christmas. The complaints were always the same: minimum orders of ten thousand when the workshop needed eight hundred, printers who had never heard of odour migration, boxes that arrived four days after the deadline for the seasonal rush, and inserts that fitted a praline of a slightly different diameter.

So the business was built for producers who make between a few hundred and a few hundred thousand pieces a year. Minimums are low, structural design is done in-house with physical prototypes rather than renderings, and every material is chosen with the product in mind: the fat content, whether there is alcohol or fresh cream involved, how long it must keep and whether it will be posted in July. We hold the technical documentation for every material we sell, and we are asked for it more often each year.

We also keep a large range of stock designs, because not everybody needs bespoke packaging and a small workshop with a good product frequently needs a clean, well-made box available next week rather than a six-week development project. Those stock lines can be foiled, printed or simply banded with a printed sleeve, which is how most of our customers begin before they grow into their own tooling.

Advantages

What Chocolatiers Tell Us Matters

Six things that separate packaging that works from packaging that merely looks good.

Barriers Matched to the Product

Chocolate takes up odours and loses aroma through the wrong material, and a high-fat filling will grease through an unlined board within a week. We select liners, laminates and coatings for the actual product — grease resistance, moisture barrier, odour barrier, and whether it must survive a freezer or a warm delivery van — and provide the technical data. Getting this wrong is the most expensive mistake in confectionery packaging, and it is invisible until the customer complains about taste.

Low Minimums, Real Choice

Custom printed boxes start at two hundred and fifty rather than ten thousand, which lets a small workshop have proper packaging instead of a stock box with a sticker on it. Digital printing carries the short runs and litho takes over when volume justifies it, with the same files and colours, so growth does not mean starting the artwork again. Seasonal variants and limited editions become possible, which is where a great deal of small-producer revenue actually comes from.

Inserts That Fit Your Pieces

Every chocolatier's pralines are a slightly different size, and a generic insert either grips them so tightly the decoration is damaged or lets them slide into one another in transit. We measure your actual pieces, cut prototype inserts, send them to you to fill and shake, and adjust before tooling. Card, moulded pulp and clear alternatives are all available, and we will tell you honestly when a plain corrugated divider is the sensible answer.

Built for the Seasonal Peak

Confectionery lives or dies on a handful of weeks in the year, and packaging arriving late in the first week of December is a catastrophe rather than an inconvenience. We plan seasonal orders months ahead with agreed delivery dates, hold stock for staged call-off so a small workshop is not storing pallets, and keep reprint capacity deliberately free in the peak weeks for the customer who has sold out early and needs another thousand boxes.

Recyclable Where It Genuinely Is

Plenty of packaging described as recyclable is a laminate that no facility will separate. We work with mono-material board, water-based coatings and papers that carry a real barrier without a plastic film, and we say plainly when a product's shelf life requires a material that cannot be recycled cleanly. Customers who want to make a claim on their box receive the documentation to support it, because unsupported claims are now a regulatory risk as well as an ethical one.

Prototypes You Can Hold

No structural design is signed off from a screen. We cut physical samples on a plotter, in the intended board, and send them so you can fill them with real chocolates, close them one-handed at a counter, put them in a bag and post one to yourself. Problems that never appear in a rendering — a lid that needs two hands, a box that will not stack, a window that fogs — all become obvious in about four minutes.

Squares of dark chocolate arranged in a row

Services

What We Supply

Stock boxes, custom printed packaging, inserts and trays, wrappers and films, structural design, and shipping and retail solutions.

Stock Boxes and Ballotins

A permanent range of ballotins, truffle boxes, bar sleeves, window boxes, trays and rigid gift boxes in food-safe board, held in stock and dispatched within two days in quantities from fifty. They can be left plain, foil blocked, printed with a simple design or wrapped in a printed sleeve, which is how most new workshops present themselves properly without committing to bespoke tooling before they know what sells.

Custom Printed Packaging

Fully bespoke boxes printed digitally from two hundred and fifty units or litho for larger runs, with foiling, embossing, spot varnish, soft-touch and uncoated finishes, in structures designed for your product rather than adapted from a catalogue. Artwork is checked before printing, colours are proofed on the actual board, and every file is archived so a reorder in two years matches the first run exactly.

Inserts, Trays and Dividers

Cavity inserts cut and formed to your exact pieces in card, moulded pulp, coated board or clear material, plus corrugated dividers for larger assortments and trays for bars and tablets. Prototypes are sent for filling before tooling is cut, and we keep the tooling so a repeat order needs no development. Inserts can be designed to present the assortment in a specific order for a printed guide.

Wrappers, Films and Labels

Bar wrappers in foil-backed paper and metallised films, flow-wrap reels for automated lines, twist wrap for individual pieces, printed tissue, greaseproof sheets, and label stock that survives refrigeration without curling at the corners. Barrier properties are stated for each and matched to your shelf life, and we will run a compatibility test with your product before you commit to a reel quantity.

Structural and Graphic Design

In-house structural design producing cutting formes for boxes that assemble quickly by hand, close reliably and stack for shipping, with physical prototypes at every stage. We also take on graphic design for producers who have no designer, and equally happily receive finished artwork from those who do — including the technical layout, legal information, barcodes and allergen text that a brand designer frequently forgets.

Shipping and Retail Solutions

Outer cartons designed around your gift boxes so nothing shifts in transit, insulated liners and coolant packs for summer dispatch, and postal boxes that survive a letter carrier's day. For retail, counter display units, shelf-ready cases, bags, ribbons and seasonal presentation pieces, all designed to work with the primary packaging rather than assembled from unrelated suppliers at the last minute before a fair.

Contacts

Samples, Quotations and Seasonal Planning

Tell us the piece size, how many go in a box, the shelf life and how it will reach the customer, and we will send stock samples and a quotation. Sample boxes are free and we would much rather you filled one before ordering a thousand.

Seasonal work should be discussed by late summer; December capacity is committed well before anyone would like it to be.

Office & store28 Rue des Tanneurs, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Phone+32 2 512 76 43

Emailbonbonnierepapier@live.com

HoursMonday–Friday 08:30–17:30, samples dispatched daily