custom tins: The Ultimate Guide
Tins packaging has a wide range of applications in the food, beverage, cosmetic, gift, pharmaceutical and daily goods industries.
Tins packaging can play a decisive role when you and your competitors’ products are being compared by potential customers.
So custom tins is a very important thing, even more important than your product itself.
Pitfalls To Avoid When Custom Tins
Before we discuss how to customize the perfect tin cans, we need to understand the problems that tin cans can have. The following are defects that tins box products are prone to, and these are defects that are often found in low-end manufacturers.
These problems can negatively affect your sales and brand. So finding a trustworthy tins packaging manufacturer will be of great benefit to your business.
Rusty
Structural Disintegration
Breakage
Paint loss
Paint loss
Whitening of Curved Surfaces
Engraving Misalignment
Edge Rusting
What The Perfect Tin Cans Should Look Like
- The right size and shape for your product
- Impressive art design
- Robust construction
- Perfect printing technology
We Provide All Optines For Custom Tins
As an advanced tin cans factory, finetins can provide 100% customization for your tins packaging.
Square Tin Can
Round Tin Box
Rectangular Tin
Heart Shaped Tin Can
Ball Tins
Egg Tin Can
OIval Tin Box
Pentagram Shape Box
Book Shaped Tin Can
flower shape can box
Irregular shape tin cans
Galvanized Iron
Tinplate
Tinplate Frosted
Metalic with Matt Finish
Explosive finish
rubber finish
transparent finish
gold finish
metalic with transparent finish
solid color with matt finish
wrinkle finish
Printed LOGO
Embossed LOGO
Gravure LOGO
Tins with no hinge connect
Tins with iron hinge
Tins with hinge
Tins with metal hinge
Tins with window hinge
Slide lid Tin Cans
Tins with zipper hinge
Square Tin Can
Round Tin Box
Rectangular Tin
Heart Shaped Tin Can
Ball Tins
Egg Tin Can
OIval Tin Box
Pentagram Shape Box
Book Shaped Tin Can
flower shape can box
Irregular shape tin cans
Galvanized Iron
Tinplate
Tinplate Frosted
Metalic with Matt Finish
Explosive finish
rubber finish
transparent finish
gold finish
metalic with transparent finish
solid color with matt finish
wrinkle finish
Printed LOGO
Embossed LOGO
Gravure LOGO
Tins with no hinge connect
Tins with iron hinge
Tins with hinge
Tins with metal hinge
Tins with window hinge
Slide lid Tin Cans
Tins with zipper hinge
Custom Tin Cans For Your Business
We have provided tin cans packaging customization services for over 30 industries. Check out packaging case studies for the industries you are interested in and you will be inspired.
Why Choose Finetins
Why 3000+ brands choose us for custom tins? What can we bring to our customers?
Reduce procurement costs
Working with Finetins, there is no middleman. This will reduce your purchasing costs by at least 20%.
We’re frequently sourcing quality materials at competitive prices so our customers can get quality packaging for les
Fast delivery
- Finetins saves proofing time by producing renderings for our customers.
- Strong production capacity can easily solve large orders.
- A first-class level of workmanship does not result in rework.
Superior Quality
Finetins workers all have more than 5 years of experience in production. Production team leaders have more than 10 years of experience in the industry. We also use top-notch production equipment to ensure that the quality of our tin cans is top-notch.
One-Stop Solution
20+ years of industry experience will help you solve all your challenges regarding tins packaging.
- Tins packaging design
- Free Samples
- Production Management
- Hassle-Free Logistics
Things you should know
The Process of Custom Tins
Knowing the tin cans production process will help you get the perfect tin cans packaging. From now on you will become an expert in the field of tin cans.
01. Provide your Tin Packaging Requirements
Before you ask Finetins to customize the packaging of your product, please prepare the information of your requirements information in advance so that we can help you solve the problem more efficiently. The necessary information we must learn as follows:
- Categories of tins packaging
- Size and shape of the product
- Quantityof purchase
- Delivery time
- Nationality
- Print documents (AI, PDF or PSD)
If you are lack of experiences in custom tins packaging and know nothing about how to determine the size and shape of your packaging, please contact our professional support team in time, We will provide you with the perfect solution to custom tins packaging:
- Packaging design that attracts potential customers to buy
- Safe and environmental friendly packaging materials.
- Reasonable and sturdy structural design.
- Extremely low packing cost
02. Make the effect drawing for your tin cans.
When killing time waiting for samples and revising them repeatedly, you may notice your competitors have put the products on the market before you take actions. What does it happen?
Perhaps you have delayed customizing tin cans for your products for too long. Usually it takes you and your supplier two or even three months to make and revise the samples before you determine the tins packaging production. Dissatisfaction with the sample makes you waste time and money waiting for the sample production for many times.
In order to minimize your time cost, Finetins will make packaging effect drawings for you on the basis of your customized needs. The effect drawing is vividly described with the size of the product, the R angle of the box, the size of the winding line and various specific processes. In addition, the effect drawing make you detect the possible irrationality of product packaging more quickly and more directly. Then, you can try to correct the product packaging.
After communicating to revise the effect drawing, we will provide you with the first version of the plastic sample. And, the plastic samples will be made in full accordance with the design draft. You can try out your own products with plastic samples. After the suitable structure of the model is finally determined, we will make the metal mold of tin cans, which will help you avoid making errors and save the cost in the mold making.
03. Make and revise a sample
It usually takes 7 to 10 days for Finetins to make a sample. After the sample is completed, we will provide customers with photos of the sample from all angles as soon as possible. If everything is OK, we will send the sample to the customer by international express.
If the customer has advice on revising the sample, we will revise it repeatedly before the customer’s complete satisfaction. We can promise that the finished goods are of the same high quality as the determined samples.
After the sample is determined, we will customize the production mold according to the structural size.
04. Raw materials for manufacturing tin cans
The first step in making tin cans is to buy raw materials. High-quality raw materials are the basis for ensuring the high quality of products.
The raw materials used for custom tin cans are usually galvanized iron, tinplate smooth iron or tinplate ground iron. All raw materials meet the requirements of environmental protection and food grade, so you can rest assured if you plan to do food packaging.
The use of tin-plated tinplate can effectively prevent cans from rusting. The first-grade tinplate has good malleability, which can avoid the problem of whitening the edge of tin box.
Finetins will only buy raw materials from suppliers of reliable quality.
We can get a discount of 10% below the average market price from a large number of purchases every year. It is one of the reasons why our products sell with the low price.
05. Printing Tins
Four factors that affect the perfect printing on Tin cans are as follows:
- Advanced printing equipment.
- Perfect technological process.
- Environment-friendly inks adopted.
- Experienced printing engineers.
06. Split shear material
The shearing machine cuts the large-size metal plates into small sizes. Different sizes are suitable for different parts of tin cans, such as tin lid, tin body and tin bottom. If there are some errors in the size of the sheet metal, there will be no strong structure after the formation of tin cans. So, it is the foundation on which tin cans has a solid structure.
It is not suitable for the edge of the cut sheet metal to have irregular burrs, which will also affect the quality of the most kinds of products. Finetins uses a fully automatic shearing machine to finish the process, and every tin sheet cut will be inspected by the engineers.
07. Stamping forming
Stamping is essential in making tin cans, and it is the most important step in which the errors should be avoided. If this step goes wrong, it will cause greater economic losses. In addition, it will increase the delivery cycle greatly as well. So when you visit a tin cans factory, be sure to focus on the production process.
After the Tin cans manufacturer installs the mould on the punch, the metal plate is stamped by the corresponding punch and formed into different parts of the iron can.
- Stretch cans: two metal plates of different sizes are stamped separately to make into a can cover and a can body.
- Three-piece tin cans: after stamping three metal plates of different sizes, you will have a can cover, a can body and a can bottom. The bottom of the tank and the can body are integrated through a special machine.
08. Quality control
After the custom tin cans is molded, it is necessary to finish the final quality control. And, the defective product will be determined if the following problems are detected:
The paint worn out.
Potholes.
Printing scratches.
Concave pointson the surface.
Printing chromatic aberration.
Actually, it is not terrible to find defective products. What is terrible is that the defective products fail to be picked out. So it’s important to develop an experienced QC team.
09. Packing
There are many advantages and disadvantages in searching for tin box factory in China to customize tin cans. The greatest disadvantage is that in order to save freight, you have to adopt maritime transportation in delivering tin cans to your home country, which usually takes 20-40 days.
Therefore, if the packaging of tin cans is not strict enough, there may be some quality problems with your tin cans. Usually, there are four quality problems due to poor packaging:
- Rustiness
- Concave points on the surface
- Printing scratches
- The flattened Tin cans
So the strict packing is shown in the picture below. Each tin cans is packed in an OPP bag and a separate space can be seen in the five-story carton. If necessary, put a cushion airbag in the carton.
10. Transport and shipment
Since the COVID-19 epidemic spread globally, the cost of international transportation has been high. The rise in transportation costs doesn’t lead to a shorter receiving time. In addition, it increases the time you have to wait for tin packaging.
When you are worried about the transportation of goods, you can consult finetins in time. Maybe our freight forwarders can safely deliver the goods to your company at a more favorable price and faster efficiency.
Kerry Lu
I'm Kerry, the CEO of Finetins. I run a company with over 60 people, we produce, sell and export tin packaging. I spent over 20 years in tins packaging industry. We can provide you one-stop service of tin packaging purchase, including design, produce, export tin products to your place. If any questions, freely to reach me,I'll try my best to give you advice and solution.
FAQ For Custom Tin Cans
If you have any further questions, please contact us.
Our minimum order quantity is 5000 pieces for one style. The higher the quantity you purchase, the better the price you will receive.
Yes. Just tell us your ideas and we will help to carry out your ideas into perfect tin cans. It does not matter if you do not have someone to complete files. Send us high resolution images, your Logo and text and tell us how you would like to arrange them. We will send you finished files for confirmation.
A food grade lacquer is coated on the inside of the tin to prevent corrosion and interaction of the tin with the food product and thus make it suitable for food storage.
If you just need a blank sample to check the design and quality, we will provide you sample for free, as long as you afford the express freight.
Generally,it will take 30 days after receiving your advance payment. The specific delivery time depend on the items and the quantity of your order.