Why Make Handle Boxes? Types, Uses, and Design Ideas for Handle Boxes
A handle box is, quite literally, a box with a handle built into its structure. These boxes are often used for bakery and café takeout packaging, in select shops filled with accessories from various indie brands, and for packaging glass bottles such as jam, oil, wine, and liquor—making them a box type that doesn’t require a separate shopping bag or envelope...
A handle box is, quite literally, a box with a handle built into its structure.
These boxes are often used for bakery and café takeout packaging, in select shops filled with accessories from various indie brands, and for packaging glass bottles such as jam, oil, wine, and liquor. In this post, we’ll take a look at handle boxes— a box type that doesn’t require a separate shopping bag or envelope.
First, let’s explore the different types of handle boxes, the products they’re used for, and design ideas that can help your handle box stand out.
Types of Handle Boxes
Bag-style folded handle box:
This type has a form similar to a paper bag, rather than a cube-shaped box, with a handle attached to a packaging structure that tapers toward the top. It is often used for folding apparel such as T-shirts, baked goods, or cosmetics.
Paper handle box
This is a stable handle box with handles fixed on both sides. It is often used for packaging slice cakes or takeaway food such as fried chicken.
Packative handle boxes are often used for packaging flat desserts such as tarts and financiers, as well as small items like soap, diffusers, solid air fresheners, and candles.
The side flaps are secured over the handle, creating a sturdy structure.
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String handle box
Instead of adding a built-in handle to the box structure, this type uses punched holes with a cord threaded through them. The choice of cord can create very different moods and styles.
Corrugated handle box
These boxes are often used for heavier products that are frequently given as gifts, such as juice sets, herbal medicine sets, and cooking oil sets. Because they are made of corrugated board and are highly durable, they are also commonly used for shipping.
Wine and glass bottle packaging
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It’s ideal for packaging premium glass bottles and is also easy to hand over as a gift.
Why not try designing a handle box that can be used in so many different styles?!
Uses of Handle Boxes
Handle boxes are used for a wide variety of purposes.
They are mainly used for 1. dessert packaging 2. small object packaging 3. gifts and return gifts.
The most common use of handle boxes - dessert packaging:
Slice cakes, mini cakes, and whole cakes, tarts
Korean rice cakes such as songpyeon and baekseolgi
Baked goods such as muffins, financiers, macarons, doughnuts, and cookies
An alternative to plastic bags - packaging for small objects:
Candles, diffusers, solid air fresheners
Soap, hand wash, hand cream, and more
Scarves, towels, handkerchiefs, scrub pads
As a substitute for shopping bags - gifts and return gifts:
Coffee and Dutch coffee, juice
Wine
Cooking oils such as sesame oil, olive oil, and avocado oil
Jam and handmade fruit syrup
Herbal medicine
Handle Box Design
Designed by. Insight Design
This is a beer packaging handle box for Oast House Brewery. It captures the rustic feel of country ale with a red accent color. If you’re heading out for a picnic or camping trip, this kind of takeout-style handle box can make you feel, through the packaging itself, like you’re bringing a beer along for the ride.
You can also see that it is made of sturdy corrugated board to support the weight of the liquid inside.
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This is a handle box for a brand that sells traditional Croatian bakeries! By adding handles to boxes of all sizes, they created a bakery packaging solution that doesn’t need plastic bags, and by incorporating the shape of traditional bread into the handle design and logo, they expressed the bakery’s identity.
This is an apéritif kit from France! It brings together a set of finger foods to enjoy with aperitifs in one package, so you can easily enjoy snacks without any extra preparation. Just unbox the handle box stacked like a tower with three bottles, and you can have a good time anywhere! It also has a window cut into the box so you can see what’s inside the glass bottles right away.
Packative handle boxes
Packative offers ready-to-order rectangular handle boxes through its service, and if you need a different type of handle box, you can request one through an inquiry! You can even choose the size and paper you want. If you select Naturepack in the paper options, you can create an eco-friendly package.
If you’re considering producing a corrugated handle box or another type of handle box, Packative can help with production. So if you’re thinking about making a handle box, don’t hesitate to contact Packative!