Custom Cake Tin Box

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Why metal tins for Cake?

fully customized & Printing

Metal tins can be fully customized to fit production needs, including exact size & height, different lid styles (plug lid/slip lid/press-fit lid/hinged lid/easy-open smooth edge design), internal food-grade coatings, and seasonal or themed designs. This flexibility allows your cake brands(gift cakes/ holiday cakes / limited-edition collections) to align packaging with both product function and marketing strategy

Tins instantly elevate a cake product by high-quality CMYK offset printing/metallic and luxury visual effects/embossing or debossed logos/matte, gloss, or soft-touch finishes

Sustainable and reusable packaging

Tins are 100% recyclable, durable and long-lasting for brands that focus on sustainability

Unlike disposable paper packaging, cake tins are reusable for cookie storage, tea or coffee storage, and home organization that extends your brand visibility long after the cake is consumed

Superior protection for delicate cakes

Cakes are fragile and easily damaged during transport. Cake tins provide:

  • Strong structural support (no crushing)
  • Excellent resistance to moisture, grease, and oil
  • Stable shape for stacking and long-distance shipping (butter cakes, fruit cakes, alcohol-infused cakes, panettone and tall cakes

Round cake tins

Round cake tins are typically used for sponge cakes, butter cakes, fruit cakes and panettone. It is classic and universally accepted, easy to stack and transport, and fits most bakery production lines. Our existing molds cover most sizes from 6” / 7” / 8” / 9” / and we operate in-house mold design and tooling production.

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Square cake tins

Square cake tin box looks modern and premium with high space efficiency in cartons, and strong visual differentiation on shelves. They are great for pound cakes, brownies, and gift cakes.

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Rectangular cake tin box

Rectangular cake tins are good for loaf cakes, sliced cakes, and tea cakes.

They are with these features: easy portion control, suitable for retail shelf display, and efficient stacking for shipping.

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Cake Tin Box Wholesale and Customization

Tinspkg is a custom cake tin packaging manufacturer specializing in food-grade, beautifully printed and fully customized metal tins. With strong mold development, stable mass production, and deep understanding of cake brand needs, we help our clients creat packaging that sells and lasts. We provide OEM & ODM service, including artwork setup, structural optimization, cost control suggestions, etc.

Pantone /CMYK Printing

You can customize tin box and tinplate products’ color according to the Pantone book, as well as create design by CMYK colors. The tinplate’s original color is silver. We can print in any color without limitation, offering full-color printing, solid Pantone/CMYK colors, and metallic Pantone/CMYK colors. You can choose from glossy (shiny) finish, matte finish, or a combination of both to meet your diverse needs.

Tinspkg proceed tinplate sheets offset printing by advanced printing machines, Japan PRIMEX-P453. It helps to realize high-quality and stable printing quality.

Customized Tins Size

Tinspkg have more than 2000 sets of various molds. You can choose our available molds from size and shape to customize your project which shall save your time and mold cost.

We can produce hermetic cans, airtight screw top tin can with one-way degassing valve, decorative coffee cans with latch lid or slip lid. Regular capacity for coffee range from 100g-500g, capacity of tins can be modified to meet different occassion.

We have more than 500 sets of molds for rectangular tins, over 480 sets of molds for round tins, 280 sets of molds for square tins, 30 sets of molds for oval shape tins, 23sets of molds for heart shape tins, 145 sets of molds for irregular shape tins, and 600 sets of molds for other tinplate products such as tin bucket, metal tin sign, tin tray, tin toy etc.

Logo Embossing & Debossing

Dongguan Tinspkg Co.,Ltd helps companies create custom logo or pattern with embossed or debossed effect on tins to make your brand stand out. Embossing adds another level of texture and dimension to the box, giving it a truly luxurious feel. We can make flat embossing, 3D relief, debossing to elevate brand.

3D relief

3D relief adds phycial dimension, allowing custtomers to see and feel the embossed patterns 5-10mm height (logos, intricate designs, or textures on the surface of tinplate. Can be combined with printing designs and finishes for unique branding.

Flat embossing

Also called level embossing that creates a smooth, raised effect on tinplate surfaces without sharp edges or deep contours. It works seeamlessly with printing and coatings. Flat embossing produces a gentle elevation, maintaining a sleek, modern look while adding tactile inerest. Raised height would be 2-3mm generally.

Debossing

Debossing on tinplate to press a design into the tinplate surface, creating a recessed(indented) 3D effect. Unlike embossing, debossing adds subtle depth(2-3mm generally) and sophistication, often used for logos, text or intricate patterns.

Product Shapes

TinsPkg produce spice tins with an extensive array of customization options, including double-lidded spice tins, twist-off lug caps, transparent clear lids, plastic lids, magnetic bases, and more.

Accessories

There are versatile solutions for custom metal tin packaging, including not only printing, embossing, window features but also decorative add-on or accessories like clasp, beaded handle, plastic handle with latch lock, ball handle, metal clip lock etc. These make bespoke tin packaging absolutely adorable for storage and gift giving, perfect for carrying lunches, snacks, small toys, treasures, storing small accessories, makeup and stationery. Check below to find your customization preference

1. Beaded carry handle

Oval tote tin with beaded handle
Handle clasp and hinge
Beaded handle design great for carrying on-the-go items, snacks or toyscustomization preference
Beaded handle color customization
Other shape and size tins can be customized with beaded handle as well

2. Metal latch lock

Tins with an easy-to-use latch lock and an air-tight plastic seal is perfect storage solution for tea, coffee or dry products.
Versatility of reusable container with latch
Latch lock can be customized to match round or square tin container
Latch lock color can be silver or gold to meet your demand

3. Plastic lid with latch lock

Tins with an easy-to-use latch lock and an air-tight plastic seal is perfect storage solution for tea, coffee or Metal latch lock tin with plastic lid comes with an easy-to use latch and an air-tight rubber seal
Plastic lid shape, size and color can be customized to match your brand. It can be clear window lid as well.

4. Tin box with plastic handle and clasp

Tin box with plastic handle and clasp is widely regarded as lunch tin box or carry storage box.
Bespoke plastic handle color and size to match different tin box
Silver metal clasp popular choice

5. Ball handle

Ball handle is a decoration widely applied for round tin containers. It makes tin box lovely and attractive.
Ball handle can be customized into different material metal or plastic.
Ball handle color can be customized as well

6. Metal clip lock

Metal clip lock used for square or rectangular tin box
High quality metal click lock made by stainless steel
Size and thickness customized

Custom Design Printing Quality Control Inspection

We strictly follow custom proof or pantone color on printing process to make sure your brand consistency.

The tinplate material Tinspkg use – All electrolytic tinplate coated steel sheet (including base plate) with SGS reports(REACH, RoHS)

Printing ink -JIANGMEN TOYO INK CO., LTD with EN71-3, PFAS, REACH SVHC REPORTS

The Process of Custom Cake Tin Box

Before the customization of your coffee tin containers with Tinspkg, please kindly provide some essential informations below in order to provide our valuable and effecient feedback for you.

  • Lid types
  • Shape of tin container 
  • Size of tin or Capacity

We shall provide a solution based on above information:

Recommend our similar existing mold for you to choose and customize

Except for #1 solution, we can customize new mold for you as per your special requirement

If this is your first time to customize metal tin packaging and no much experience on size or shapes, please contact our professional team and we shall provide you one-stop and workable solutions

Based on existing available mold, for custom project, we shall provide below suggestion and solutions:

  1. we would provide die line of tin box to customer in AI or PDF format. Client’s designer finish artwork and put them into die line and shared to us.
  2. We shall double check the artwork if words , pattern are correctly positioned.
  3. After that, we would check with client to confirm the printing effect -if need white base or partial metallic , full metallic printing, any spot color, glossy or matte finish request and suggestions
  4. Before proof, we can provide 3D mock up with artwork for quick check and approval

Above is based on existing available mold. If you’d like to customize a new mold, we shall provide below suggestions and solutions:

  1. Making 3D mock up as per size specification or your product information and structure details for confirmation
  2. Making 3D mock up with client’s artwork for you to have a clear presentation
  3. After above approval, we would proceed plastic proof. Gerenerally it takes 3-7days to complete
  4. Once plastic proof ready , we shall ship to you. And you can test size and check the structure
  5. If plastic proof confirmed, we would proceed mold customization. It would takes about 15-25days which mainly depends on the size and structure of tin box

The raw materials used for custom tinplate cans are usually tinplate, sandy tinplate, galvanized iron. Tin plate and sandy tin plate are with tin layer that is non-toxic and tasteless, with a bright surface. They are meeting food grade, eco-friendly and recyclable requirements which are perfect for food and liquid storage.

A tin layer on the surface of tinplate cans, which can effectively prevent corrosion and protect the quality of food.

Good quality tinplate materials play an important role on the following printing and production process.

  • Tinplate material: premium tinplate, high purity aluminum plate
  • Tin plate thickness: 0.21, 0.23mm(regular), 0.25mm, 0.28mm, 0.3mm
  • Aluminum plate thickness: 0.28mm(regular)

To make custom printed tin product samples take 7-12days generally, and we need to proceed custom tin plate printing by offset printing method first then stamping into shapes and assembly. After sample ready, we would provide pictures from different side for you to check. Then ship out to your company by express shipping and shipping time one week.

If you have any special request for custom sample, we would check all possibilities to meet your demand. In addition, Tinspkg can promise the same quality standard for both sample and bulk cargo.

After sample approval and order placed, we shall proceed mass production as per following procedures:

  1. Firstly Print tinplate sheet with customer’s printing artwork and take the proof for color check
  2. Cutting tinplate into pieces
  3. Fix, modify and test mold
  4. Shaping by stamping machines and assemble

After custom tin sample approval and place order, we shall proceed printing tinplate for order.

Printing tinplate sheet MOQ1500 pieces( tinplate sheet size varies but basically around 960*1080mm).

For small quantity orders, we need to set up different orders together on the same template to print in order to cut down client’s cost

Most tin can supplier use two-color printing machines and unable for finish CMYK process at same time which may cause some color difference and tin plate material loss. Tinspkg use Fuji 4-color printing marchines and one line we can finish all CMYK colors to make sure printing quality.

After color printing process finished, there is an essential step- coating that is greatly helpful for ink adhesion and visual quality. Good quality printing attract more attention for your brand.

Tinplate can be coated differently as per drawings; partly or completely; matte or glossy

Before printed tinplate sheets cutting, QC person need to check materials surface correct.

Cutting process, we need to cut tinplate into correct size and without scratches to make sure the following production go smoothly

Shearing machines cut large-sized tinplate sheets into small sizes. A tin box is constructed by tinplate lid, tinplate body or tinplate bottom. If there are some errors in the size of tin sheet, it would affect tin can size and artwork position and lid tightness etc. Therefore, cutting correctly is the basis of tin can production.

The thickness of metal tin plate should be less than 0.3mm cutted by shearing machine, or it would affect cutting quality and cause shearing machine damage. Tin plate would have irregular burrs that would affect production as well.

Tinspkg use a fully automatic shearing machine to complet this process and an engineer keep an eye on the shearing machine status.

One tin box completed requests many different processing molds. Therefore, fixing and modify each stamping machines with every mold and test is very important. These make sure good quality tin box with correct size, embossing accurateness, proper tightness, screw lid works, no scratches and no quality issues.

Quality represents everything of the company. To find a reliable manufacturer, you should know something about tin production quality control.

From the beginning of tinplate printing to cutting and mass production, every step we have rich experienced staff to check and control.

Quality Control

Procedure: step by step quality assessment High-Quality Raw Materials Material check: Tinspkg have been purchasing and sourcing tin plate or aluminum material from our reliable and trusted suppliers(Pacific Tinplate, Maanshan…
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We must focus on and avoid below main quality issues happened during production:

Corret assembly and packing is the last but important process.

Regarding to assembly job with accessories, there are two conditions:

  1. Accessories purchased and assembled by Tinspkg
  2. Accessories supplied by clients and assembled by Tinspkg

we have strict packing process manual to show every details how and how many accessories filled into tin box and in which direction displayed in tins,etc.

Furthermore, packing is greatly vital as it would affect cargo transportation safety and affect freight much. International shipping cost is very high and we need to consider and help for client.

What is cake tin box?

A cake tin box is a food-grade metal tin container with a lid, used as outer packaging for cakes after baking. It is commonly used by bakeries and cake brands for gift cakes, premium cakes, and seasonal cakes. It is made for packaging not baking, usually paired with paper baking molds or trays and focus on protection and presentation.  

What is cake tin box made of?

Cake tin box is made of 0.23-0.28 mm thickness tinplate (depending on size and load) with custom decorative printing and food-grade coating for dry cakes packaging. Cake tin box can be designed with different lid structures(slip lid, plug-in lid, hinged lid, lever-lock lid) to make your brand special.

Read More: Is It Safe To Store Food In Tin Containers?

Why you should use cake tin box?

Cake tin box is not just about packaging, it is a brand, protection, and value decision.

  • Cake tins are rigid and impact-resistant which helps to prevent crushing and deformation
  • Tin boxes provide better moisture and oxygen barriers, reduce exposure to air and humidity and help to preserve aroma, texture and flavor
  • Cake tins help brands to justify higher retail pricing by quality and gift-worthiness
  • Cake tins are aligned with sustainability and low-waste trends that appeals strongly to eco-conscious consumers
  • Cake tins are safe for direct or indirect food contact(with liners). Food-grade tinplate with food-safe internal coatings comply with FDA / EU food-contact standards
  • Cake tins can be customizable for brand and cake needs (size and shape, lid type, printing, finishes, embossing, inserts & liners)

How do you use cake tin box?

Custom cake tin box is not only the packaging but also a marketing tool for your brands. Your packaging becomes a long-term advertisement, higher perceived value, perfect for gifting and seasonal promotions. In addition, reusable tins increase brand recall.

  1. Choose the correct size and shapes (round, square, rectangular, oval, other unique shapes) for your cakes
  2. Get the proper lid type, choosing stackable lids to save space, slip lid for easy open, hinged lid(never worry lid loosing)
  3. Design tins printing which meets your brand story in these popular occasions (Christmas & New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Corporate gifts

How to reuse your empty cake tin box?

High quality cake tin box can be reused and it is a big value for both brands and consumers. It extends the life of the packaging and keeps your brand visible for years.

Cake tins are ideal for dry foods storage(cookies & biscuits, homemade snacks, candy & chocolates, tea, coffee, sugar, nuts & dried fruits once cleaned.

Compared to plastic bags or open trays, empty cake tins are harder for kids to accidentally break which is great for small toys (LEGO, puzzle pieces) and crayons, markers storage and organization.

It can be reused as kitchen, office & desk organization as well.

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Frequently asked questions


Customization & production

Yes, we can print your any logo and design in full color on tins. We proceed tinplate sheet printing with your logos or designs before tin box forming process. When you send us your artwork, our designer would put it into our diecut line(template) for your approval to check pattern, logo, text position and size.

Definitely yes. We would set up new embossing or debossing tooling according to your design. This tooling cost shall depend on the effect and size. Generally 3D relief cost is higher than flat embossing or debossing but not much. Generally patterns like person, animal or flower would require 3D relief to achieve more realistic and vivid effect.
Custom printed logo or pattern can be done with embossed or debossed effect.
Embossing or debossing tooling is one-time cost. You can keep to use it on your next repeated orders.

Tinspkg have a range of spice tins from rectangular shape, square shape, round shape to mini size tin, pocket-size tin, mediume size tin to large size tin.

Mini size tins we would like to recommend our slide lid spice tins which is for short or medium term storage. You can fill in sea salt, chili powder, herbs and more.

Round spice tin, you can use it in your house kitchen, garden BBQ or camping occasion. Round window spice tin is easy to pick up what you want; round spice tin can with shaker can help you to control spice volume easily.

Tinspkg have own mold research and development department. You can share your idea and we can realize it no matter shaker top, airtight screw top, window lid or slip lid. Tinplate packaging customization is limitless. You can think it, we can make it.

Yes, we can make window tins not only for round spice tin but also others; square window spice tin, rectangular window spice tin, oval shaped spice tin etc.

The window can be assembled on top lid as well as on body of tin can.

Yes we have Pantone color book to strictly follow and match. Tinspkg have a full set of Pantone books both in matte finish, glossy finish and metallic effect.

Yes, we have lower MOQ3000 piece for one shape or we call one mold, and we accept mixing designs only need to keep each design 1500pcs. For example, if you’d like to make a round spice tin can, you shall order MOQ3000 pieces and among of them you can split into 2SKU.

Yes all of our metal tin packaging are meeting FDA standard and can pass EN71(CE), California

“Proposition 65, ASTM and other main tests.

Material

Yes, they are BPA-free food container.

Yes all of our tins comply with FDA, EU, or LFGB food contact standards.

We can provide raw material tinplate test report, printing ink test report as well as finished cargo test report

Yes, all of tinplate is with equal 2.8g/m² tin coating on both sides. In addition, there shall be a protection of printing ink and coating on tinplate to prevent rusting.

Yes we can provide updated tinplate and printing ink food grade certification and test reports that are dated in 2024.

Ordering & Delivery

Our tins MOQ generally 3000pcs including spice tins. We would set up printing template and get all smaller orders together printed in order to save clients cost as small orders quantity is not enough to be printed on single template which generally request 1500 tin plate sheets and a piece of tin plate is about 1080x960mm size.

No setup fee or mold fee for custom orders. Tinspkg have over 2000 set of molds for you to choose including shapes and sizes. If you need to set up your unique mold for brand, there is a customized mold charge.

Yes you can order our stock sample to check size and structure of tins for free; only need to pay for freight.

If you need sample with your design printed, it would take 7-10days. We shall proceed tin plate printing firstly before forming.

The main factors on custom tin box price are quantity, size, printing and structure. For example, 2 oz screw top tins, it costs USD0.14-USD0.5 per piece.

Yes we offer price according to your quantities. All of our tins are wholesale price and 20% competitive lower than market.

For printing customization bulk orders,our production time will be around 30 days.

For silver/black/gold/white color orders without any other graphics, our production time will be around 15-20 days.

For stock tins,7-10days to ship out.

transportation and export

Yes we can ship internationally including North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Asia, Oceania.

Yes we can provide different shipping services including DDP, EXW, FOB, CIF, DAP.

We generally ship by sea, for some urgent orders we would ship by air or express shipping.

Sea shipping is the cheapest option and good for bulk delivery.

Air or express shipping is recommended for sample or small batch delivery

Cost depends on quantity and shipping method you choose. It varies day by day and we shall help you to check and quote when everything confirmed.

Yes sure. If your freight forwarder price and service is good, we definitely suggest to use your own shipping company. If you have no long-term freight forwarder partner, we can provide our one-stop service as well.

After-sales and service

We usually prepare some extra free spares during delivery to replace the damaged tins. We use high quality cardboard cartons to make sure safe shipping or ship cargo on pallets.

Yes we can help you to make design and share templates.

When you send your design with our template, please make sure and convert the text in document to outlines, making it ready for use. And don’t forget to embed the PNG bitmap in the document enable the link. Design format: AI, PDF, PSD format above 300dpi.

We can sign NDAs for confidental projects. We only produce the authorized brand.

Yes, for repeated order no extra fee. For new design order, if you need to make proof, then there is cost which depends on your artwork.

Yes we store molds and have over 2000 molds available for you to use and customize.

We keep printing tinplate and tin box as color reference and size for repeat orders.  

Company

We are a professional tin box company with more than 11 years of experience, we have a high reputation in China tin box industry . We have our own factories to make sure our product with competitive price and high quality. The most important thing is that we have a professional team to provide you more professional service.

We have over 3000+tin boxes molds and not all of them listed on our website.You could please send your specific inquiry to our professional sales team.They would get you back within 24 hours.

Generally 30% deposit, balance before delivery for EXW term.

30% deposit, balance against B/L copy for FOB Shenzhen term.

30% deposit, balance before delivery for DDU or DDP term.

We generally ship by Sea from Shenzhen port and load in container. Furthermore, we can ship by air from Shenzhen and Guangzhou airport.

Price depends on quantity.Considering the Labor cost we would like to suggest client to place order quantity above 5K pcs, better 10k pcs or more to get a competitive quotation.

Welcome to visit our factory.Currently we have 298 stamping machines, 8 auto production lines,6 cutting machines.

Yes all of our metal tin packaging are meeting FDA standard and can pass EN71(CE), California

“Proposition 65, ASTM and other main tests.