Specialist packaging since 1995

Bespoke luxury packaging, made in short runs.

Rope and silk handle carrier bags, rigid boxes and finishing for hotels, boutiques and high-end retail. Designed in-house, manufactured at quantities most suppliers will not touch.

Luxury rope-handle carrier bags in lilac, cream and plum on a pale lilac backdrop

31+ years

Making specialist retail packaging

From 250 units

Short runs as standard, not as a favour

In-house studio

Design and manufacture under one roof

4 markets

Ireland, UK, Europe and the US

A designer assembling a lilac paper bag prototype among swatches and dielines

New: in-house design studio

Now we design the packaging we manufacture.

Most of our clients arrive with a logo and an instinct, not a dieline. The studio takes it from there — structure, artwork, colour and finish, developed alongside the people who will actually produce it.

Nothing gets specified that cannot be built, and nothing gets built that has not been held in your hands first.

Inside the studio

The detail

Where a bag is judged: the handle, the edge, the foil.

Macro detail of a grosgrain ribbon handle through a reinforced eyelet

Handles

Rope knotted internally or set through reinforced eyelets. Ribbon dye-matched from a physical lab dip.

Gold hot foil and blind embossing on textured uncoated paper

Foil & emboss

Hot foil for brilliance, blind deboss for restraint. Both judged on the actual stock, never on a screen.

Flat lay of paper swatches, cotton rope and ribbon spools

Materials

FSC, recycled, uncoated, textured. Every substrate changes the colour printed on it.

“The first sample was closer to our interiors than anything we had been sent in two years of trying.”

Retail manager, five-star Dublin hotel

Tell us what goes in the bag.

Send the brief — or the vaguest version of it — and we will come back with a specification, a cost and an honest lead time.

Or speak to us directly

info@apad.ie01 450 3896

Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm (IST)