cloubay
Gift Packaging Co.
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cloubay
Gift Packaging Co.
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Cloubay has been pressing, cutting and hand-finishing gift bags in Dongguan since 2009. We are 180 people, six offset presses and one deeply held opinion: the person who quotes your job should be the person who can walk onto the floor and look at it.
How we got here
For the first four years Cloubay did nothing but hand-finishing — threading ribbon, setting eyelets, folding tops — for three larger printers in Guangdong. It is unglamorous work, and it taught us exactly where bags fail: never the print, almost always the handle and the glue.
When we bought our first offset press in 2013 we built the whole operation backwards from that knowledge. Reinforced handle patches are standard on every line rather than an upcharge. Glue flaps are 8mm wider than the industry norm. Our AQL check pulls on handles rather than just looking at them.
Today about seventy per cent of our volume is repeat business from brands who found us because a previous supplier missed a Christmas date.
Quality control
You should never find out about a problem from the person unpacking the carton.
First sheet off the press is measured against the approved proof with a spectrophotometer. Photographs are sent to you the same day, before the run continues.
A QC lead pulls bags at fixed intervals through die-cutting and gluing. Registration, fold accuracy and glue coverage are logged on a physical sheet that ships with the goods.
Sampled bags are loaded to twice their rated weight and carried 20 metres. It is a crude test and it catches almost everything that matters.
A statistically drawn sample is inspected against a written spec before cartons are sealed. Third-party inspection — SGS, BV, Intertek — can be booked on request.
We keep three bags from every production run for two years, so a colour dispute on a reorder can be settled against a physical reference rather than a memory.
Remake at our cost, air-freighted, no argument. It has happened four times since 2019 and we would rather tell you that than pretend it never does.
Sustainability, without the poster
A lot of packaging marketing is written to survive a procurement questionnaire. Here is the plain version.
Milestones
Founded as a hand-finishing workshop in Wanjiang, Dongguan, with eleven staff and no printing capability whatsoever.
First four-colour offset press installed. First direct export order — 6,000 kraft bags to a homeware chain in the Netherlands.
ISO 9001 and FSC Chain of Custody certified. Foil stamping and embossing brought in-house.
BSCI social audit completed. Second production hall opened, taking the floor to 11,000 m².
Manchester sample depot opened so European clients stop paying air freight on one bag.
Rooftop solar commissioned. Aqueous coating becomes the factory default in place of gloss lamination.
New Jersey depot opened for North American call-off programmes. 180 staff, 40+ export markets.
Free structural advice, a costed quote within 24 hours, and a physical sample in your hands in about a week. No design fees, no tooling charge on standard dies.