Rigid boxes · Folding cartons · Perfume, cosmetics, fashion
Contract packaging under your brand, never ours — the way we've done it since 2003. Manufactured in Istanbul for EU and UK brands. Minimum order: 1,000 boxes.
Packaging we've produced has reached shelves for
Names shown are trademarks of their respective owners, referenced to describe packaging supply relationships.
Twelve sectors where a rigid box or folding carton has to do more than hold the product — it has to sell it on the shelf.
Five stages, the same five every time. Nothing hidden behind a "contact us for details."
You send specs or request a sample kit. A project engineer in Istanbul replies within 1 working hour.
A white dummy in 3 days. A printed production sample in 7–10 days. Your quotation moves in parallel.
Once you approve the sample, the job goes on press. 4 weeks for orders up to 5,000 units.
Incoming board, first-off approval, in-run colour, foil adhesion, dimension — checked and logged before it ships.
Typically 3–4 days by road to the EU and UK, depending on route and customs slot. EU shipments travel with A.TR documentation where applicable.
These are the three constructions we run most. Hover any one — or tap it on a touch screen — to see its die-line, the cutting and creasing template the sheet is cut from.
The classic two-piece presentation box. Greyboard core, wrapped by hand or machine. What most fragrance sets ship in.
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Hinged lid, hidden magnets, foam or moulded insert. The construction buyers reach for when the unboxing is part of the product.
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Litho-laminated or direct-printed folding board, shipped flat. Where volume rises and the unit cost has to come down.
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You are probably also quoting a factory in the Far East and a converter in Western Europe. Here is where each of us actually wins — including where we don't.
| Far East factory | Western EU converter | MOTIF | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production + transit, up to 5,000 units | 8–12 weeks by sea, plus production | 2–4 weeks | ~4–5 weeks: 4 weeks production, then 3–4 days road freight |
| EU / UK import treatment | Duty + customs clearance | None | A.TR documentation for the EU; UK tariff confirmed per product code |
| Minimum order | Typically 1,000–3,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Unit price at 2,000 | Lowest | Highest | Between the two |
| Fixing a fault mid-run | Next container | Same week | Same week — 3 days by truck |
| Who answers your email | Sales agent, +6h time zone | Account manager | Your project engineer, Istanbul (UTC+3) |
If the only thing that matters is unit price at high volume, a Far East factory will beat us and we'll say so on the call.
We win when the run is small, the finish is demanding, or the date is fixed.
Nothing here sits behind a quote form. If a constraint rules us out, you should find that out in the next thirty seconds rather than in week three.
We don't publish client names without written permission, and most of our contracts don't allow it. So we show the work and the problem instead. Named references are available on a call, with the client's consent.
Niche fragrance · France
The brand wanted gold foil inside a 1.2 mm deboss — our maximum on greyboard. The first trials cracked the foil at the shoulder. We changed the board lay-up and re-cut the brass die at a shallower shoulder angle.
Colour cosmetics · United Kingdom
Six components, one tray, failing the drop test at 1.2 m. We moved from cut EVA to a moulded pulp insert with a 0.4 mm interference fit, and the set passed at 1.5 m.
Skincare · Netherlands
The retailer required certified board mid-contract. We re-profiled the ink build for an uncoated FSC stock so the shade matched the existing carton within ΔE 1.8 — no relaunch needed.
Türkiye and the EU have been in a Customs Union since 1995, and industrial goods — packaging included — move on preferential terms, evidenced by an A.TR movement certificate issued with every EU shipment. UK-bound orders are assessed separately, against the applicable tariff and origin rules for the product code.
That is not a claim about our quality. It's documentation your freight forwarder or customs broker can verify before you place an order.
Request a sample kitRoad freight, full or groupage. Air freight available for pre-launch quantities. Sea freight from the Far East, for comparison, runs 30–45 days port to port before clearance.
Certificate numbers, issue dates and full scans for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and FSC Chain of Custody — on the quality page, so you check the status yourself rather than take our word for it.
Quality management system. Issued by Ekol Belgelendirme.
Certificate no. 9101939095Environmental management. Issued by Ekol Belgelendirme.
Certificate no. 9101939097Issued by SGS. Covers FSC 100%, Mix and Recycled board across our packaging lines.
Certificate SGSCH-COC-010827Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies from 12 Aug 2026. We supply substance-restriction declarations and the traceability data you need as the legal producer.
Read the full page →MOTIF is the export brand of MOTİF Ambalaj Ticaret Ltd. Şti., which has been producing rigid boxes and folding cartons in Istanbul since 2003, under other companies' names.
We built the brand in 2026 because contract manufacturing has no shop window — for two decades our work reached buyers with someone else's logo on it. The registry details are public and independently verifiable.
Read the full story →Rigid board is a tactile product. Photographs of it are worth very little. We'll ship a kit to your office.
Kits ship within 2 working days.
Delivery: 3–4 days to the EU and UK.
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