How to Choose the Best Container for Your cannabis

Cannabis also known as marijuana and weed. Cannabis plants have been grown since at least the 3rd millennium BCE and there is evidence of it being smoked for its psychoactive effects around 500 BCE in the Pamire Mountains. In the U.S., the recreational use of cannabis is legalized in 24 states, 3 territories, and the District of Columbia, though the drug remains federally illegal.

Cannabis consumption includes smoking (joints, pre-rolls, blunts, hookahs), vaporizing, edibles, cannabis tea, tincture of cannabis and capsules. Cannabis have various mental and physical effects. Therefore, safety packaging is essential and important to keep children away from any potential contact of cannabis-related products. In the blog, we would learn tin packaging and what kind of role it plays in cannabis market.

Why is so important to store cannabis in correct way?

State law requires that all cannabis goods are sold in child-resistant packaging. Cannabis packaging should have compliance and safety features to reduce the risk of children and pets accessing potentially harmful substances. A cannabis container with child resistant safety lock closing mechanism to ensures your products stay safe from children while remaining easy for adults to use. In addition, they can be airtight to keep contents fresh and the smell contained.

There are versatile child-resistant packaging:

  • Child resistant tins: Eco-friendly, FDA food-grade, child-resistant and fully customizable, ideal for pre rolls, edibles and more
  • Child resistant glass jars and tube: Airtight, FDA food-grade and Child-resistant, idea for flower, pre roll.
  • Child resistant bags: Fully Customizable, child-resistant, idea for flower, small multi-dose edibles, infused products and more
  • Child resistant aluminum pre roll tubes: not airtight, non-reusable

What is a cannabis tin box

Cannabis tin box is a kind of packaging for cannabis related products which should have child-resistant features. Secure your products with airtight CR tins. Eco-friendly, child-resistant, and customizable, these containers are ideal for pre rolls, edibles, and more. Enhance your brand with multi-purpose, reusable CR tins, complete with custom-branded wax paper and molded insert trays.

Cannabis Tin Containers

Tinspkg offer customized cannabis tin box which is made of premium tinplate with custom offset printing and foodgrade coating. We are specilizing in producing tins in versatile shapes and sizes that are applicable for pre-rolls, concentrates, gummies, vape pens and flower.
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Types of cannabis tin box

There are versatile tin boxes that could keep cannabis products safe and airtight. Tin box is premium quality, functional and aesthetic packaging. To help reduce your company’s packaging footprint by environmentally friendly and recyclable packaging options, tin box is a good choice.

Push-button tin

smart single or two-button closure ensures its contents safe from Children. You could choose metal or plastic button lock. It generally is installed on rectangular or square tins. They are ideal for prerolls, cannabis or hemp infused gummies, vape device, cartridge and more

Push-and-Turn Tins with plastic CR closure

External box is made by tin and inside is plastic bottle. Plastic bottle meets food grade standard. To open it people need to press and twist at the same time. They are ideal for edibles, gummies and more.

Metal tin with special functional decoration to realize CR closure. Squeeze bumps on both sides of base, then slide lid off. They are ideal for prerolls, THC hard mints, gummies and more.

Push-and-Turn Tins

Full Metal tin CR closure is made by 3-piece of metal tin. Fully recyclable, child resistant (CR), for dry and semi-dry highly concentrated or enriched products, such as food supplements or hemp-derived products.

Why Tin Cans are the Best Packaging for cannabis?

Tin-coated steel packaging is airtight, customizable, eco-friendly, child-resistant and affordable packaging solutions that balance product safety and environmental respect.

Freshness

Airtight closure maintains the freshness and potency of your product.Cannabis tins can keep marijuana products fresh and keep the flavor. Cannabis is sensitive to air and humility. Cannabis tin box with tight fitting lid could keep away from air.

Highly Customization

Tin packaging is fully customizable from color to finish, printing, embossing, debossing and inserts. Custom tooling is available for brands looking to develop a completely new package or adjust one of current offerings. Child-resistant cap ensures your packaging is ASTM Compliant. Food-grade coating and ink make CR tin jar safe for edibles.

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Affordable Price

  • Cannabis tin packaging is relatively cost-efficient packaging.
  • CR tins – plastic free, light weight, sleek design, reusable, versatile shapes and sizes, customizable
  • CR glass – heavy weight (shipping cost high), fragile, mostly in round shapes
  • CR bag – cheaper with limited application (not applicable for cannabis pre rolls )

Sustainability

Reusing the same storage container also keeps plastic wrappings, cardboard containers, and other packaging materials out of the landfill. Metal cans can be recycled again and again without losing their quality. This is really good for the environment because it means metal tin cans play an important role in the circular economy. When we recycle metal cans, it helps reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are produced when new cans are made. In fact, recycling metal cans can reduce these emissions by up to 60%. This reduction has a positive impact on climate change.

Easy to Use

Tin box with lid is easy to open and close but never worry cannabis fall off. If you want to use the same tin container for other items, just need a dry towel to clean. They also look much better and tidy when store pills, pins or other small items.

What is a cannabis tin box made of

A cannabis tin box is made of thin metal and this metal is tin-coated steel. The tin coating stopped the contents from rusting the steel. It is applicable for distribution or storage of goods. 

Cannabis tin cans are usually constructed of seamless lid and seamless bottom. Cannabis tins with different type of locking mechanism to make sure child-resistant function. It’s printed by offset printing method then able to be full printed for any color, logo, patterns on the surface including top lid, side and the bottom; and support embossing or debossing customization as well. 

Firstly get tinplate with custom artwork printed, then cutting the large tinplate into pieces and punching each part and assembly. These cannabis tin cans are not applicable for any liquid directly filling in as it may leak or get rusted over time.

6 things to consider when choosing tin box for cannabis

Cannabis products

Different cannabis products would require different tin case box.

Gummy: you can choose hinged lid rectangular or square tins, screw top round CR tins, sliding lid CR tins. Most of them are in pocket size, easy carry and airtight.

Pre rolls or vape: choose rectangular hinged lid or slide lid tin case

Flowers: choose deep round screw top tin

Durability and Maintenance

Tins have better durability than other materials., such as tin can provide strong protection for your prerolls. High-quality tins wouldn’t have any dents, scratches, or damage during the process of production and delivery. A perfect tin can perform well to make sure cannabis long shelf time and appealing. Choose premium tinplate and 0.23mm-0.28 thickness material. That would make sure your tin can durable, food grade and recyclable.

Sealing Mechanisms

Child-resistant packaging is designed with safety features to reduce the risk of children and pets accessing potentially harmful substances. It typically includes locking mechanisms such as push-and-turn caps, or Child resistant button that require specific actions or tools to open, providing an additional layer for protection and preventing accidental ingestion or exposure to dangerous contents.

Recyclable child resistant food grade tins are widely applied for dry and semi-dry highly concentrated or enriched products such as food supplements or hemp-derived products ( THC, CBD related products like pre rolls, CBD gummy, Vape, Cigarette and more ) .

Child resistant safety lock closing mechanism to ensures your products stay safe from children while remaining easy for adults to use. In addition, they can be airtight to keep contents fresh and the smell contained.

Logo, text, pattern printing by offset printing

A nice printing shall help your brand stand out from so many brands. You can customize lots of colors printing, metallic printing and by different finish like glossy, matte, soft touch.

Price

The quantity and lock mechanism are the key factors on price.

Child resistant tins MOQ generally 5000pcs per size and you can split into 3SKU printings at most.

Sliding tin with lock mechanism is the cheapest option relatively.

CR Square or rectagnular tin request to install plastic or metal CR push button that would add extra labor cost.

Round metal CR tin without plastic request 3 layer lid structure to realize child proof function that would cost more tin material and increase production difficulty.

Compared with other child resistant packaging, CR tins are relatively cheap but more eco-friendly, recyclable and reusable.

Environmental friendly

All of our metal tins are fully recyclable. And metal tins are an intelligent and eco-friendly packaging choice for the planet. In addition, they are easily to reuse or refill instead of being thrown away and polluting the earth.

Can cannabis tin cans be recycled and reused?

Comparing with polybag, paper box, tin cans are durable, full customization acceptable, affordable, lightweight, eco-friendly & recyclable, as well as reusable. You can choose plastic free cannabis tins which is 100% made of tinplate without any plastic including lock mechanism. These cannabis tins can be reused as pill box or small items storage box.

Conclusion

Tin box is definitely a good partner for cannabis packaging as it is food grade, customizable, affordable, eco-friendly and recyclable. Tin box packaging is great to keep your cannabis product safe away from children and animals, and make your brand stand out with supporting full customization.

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