The Wellingborough-based firm said the service, which has launched in the past few weeks, is part of its commitment to better serve its UK customer base.

As well as the standard cut and crease sizes, the business will offer a wide range of specials such as tear strips, hand hold, easy tear, perforating rule and laser crease.

The range is available in both metre strips and coils and in both anti-clockwise and clockwise. The firm will also stock a range of rotary rule in a variety of sizes.

The product range offered by C&T Channel is manufactured by GNU, a high quality steel rule producer based in Germany that supplies many die-makers and end-users throughout Europe and beyond.

C&T Channel Matrix technical sales manager for the UK and Europe Howard Mead, who joined the business last year, said: “A key player went out of the market around 18 months ago and there seemed to be a hole in supply in the UK, so we wanted to try and fill that gap.

“We’ve had a good take-up so far, we’ve had a couple of nice accounts come our way and we’re finding it bolts onto our existing business really well so people who are buying our core products also add this to their orders.”

He added: “We’re quite competitive, we offer a high quality product for what we think is a very reasonable price for the market. We’re also stocking a wide variety of the product and have got about £25,000 worth of initial stock.

“We’ve told our customers that we’re quite happy to get product in and if they want to reorder it we’ll keep it on the shelf for them as well.”

C&T Matrix sells and distributes its products to more than 80 countries worldwide. It offers several brands of creasing matrices including XTC, Pink, Kiss, Corrugate and Jazz.

Earlier this year the business announced the launches of both a new type of durable counter material for long-run packaging and a new type of creasing matrix for carton manufacturing.