Custom Kraft Box Dividers

Card or Corrugated: Picking the Right Weight

Solid kraft card is thin and neat, ideal for small items such as candles, jars of jam, cosmetics or sweets in a gift box. It takes up very little space, so you lose almost nothing from the inside of the box.

Corrugated kraft is thicker and much stiffer. Use it for wine and beer bottles, heavier jars, glassware and anything that will be shipped by courier. The flutes act as cushioning between products and stop glass touching glass. For very heavy items, double-wall corrugated dividers give extra protection.

If you are unsure, send us the product weight and how the box will travel. Retail shelf packs and hand-delivered hampers can use lighter card; courier parcels usually need corrugated. Bottles and heavier jars move to our corrugated dividers for heavy bottles.

Planning Cell Sizes and Layouts

Start with the inside dimensions of the box and the size of each product. The grid is made from strips that run the length and width of the box, with slots cut halfway so they lock together. Each cell needs to be slightly larger than the item it holds, with a little extra if the products are irregular, like handmade candles or hand-labelled jars.

Common layouts include two by two for four items, two by three for six bottles, three by four for twelve jars and single rows for long products such as chocolate bars. You can also mix cell sizes, such as one large cell for a bottle beside several smaller ones for accessories.

The height of the divider usually matches most of the product's height. For tall bottles, a divider covering two thirds of the bottle is enough to stop movement and saves board.

Allow for the thickness of the board itself. Every wall in the grid takes a little space from the box, so a three by four grid in corrugated eats more room than the same layout in thin card. If the box is already fixed, tell us and we will work backwards to the largest cells it can hold. Sending one of each product, or a photo next to a ruler, is often the quickest way to get the cells right first time. Our method for measuring jars for a cell covers lids and labels.

Printing on Dividers

Most dividers are left plain, but a single colour logo or pattern on kraft can lift a gift box. A line of text along the top edge, such as your brand name or a product name above each cell, helps customers find what they ordered in a mixed box.

White ink on kraft gives a soft, stylish result; black or a dark brand colour gives stronger contrast. Keep the print simple, since the strips are narrow and the slots break up any design across them.

Another idea is to print a short note on the outer strip that faces the customer when the box opens, such as a pairing suggestion for a beer selection or the scent name in a candle set. It costs little and turns a purely practical piece of card into part of the presentation. Our print on kraft compared guide shows how one colour sits on brown card.

Where Kraft Dividers Get Used

Drink brands use them in multipacks and subscription boxes. Candle and home fragrance makers use them for gift sets. Food producers put them in hampers, jars of chutney and honey, and cheese selections. Craft and haberdashery sellers use small grids to keep reels, buttons and paints apart. Warehouses use them to organise small parts in storage boxes.

They are also popular with businesses that ship mixed orders. A standard box with a set of interchangeable dividers can hold three bottles one day and six jars the next, so you can keep fewer box sizes in stock. Trade case packs with twelve or more cells are usually made as box partitions for case packs.

Count the Jars Across and Down

A kraft divider is a grid, so the brief is two numbers: how many cells across and how many down. Open your box, measure the inside length, width and depth, then line the products up along each side to see how many fit with a finger's gap between them. Those counts, with the diameter and height of the product, let us draw the strips and the slot spacing. Decide the strip height next, about two thirds of a tall bottle or the full height of a short jar, and whether the grid needs a base pad underneath. Choose plain kraft card for jars and candles or kraft corrugated for bottles over 500 g. Dividers rarely carry print, so the quote is quick, but a logo on the strips is possible; the free proof shows the strips and the slot positions before cutting. A custom quote comes by email within one working day, minimums are low and quoted per job, and dividers are cut in 4–7 working days after approval and shipped flat on free tracked UK mainland delivery. Grids that fold as one piece for retail cartons are on our folding dividers for retail cartons page.