How to Choose the Best Container for Your Tea

Packaging is essential for maintaining tea’s flavor and quality by preventing exposure to humidity, light, temperature fluctuations, and external odors that accelerate fragrance loss and compromise freshness. Effective sealing preserves the tea’s natural aroma and integrity over time.

Indeed, correct packaging not only protect your tea’s flavors but also show your brand identity well. Join us to see how tin can packaging help to avoid above problem for your tea storage and help your brand stand out on the shelf.

Why is so important to store the tea in correct way?

The key factors which affect tea flavor are Air (Oxidation), humidity, light, odor. Store your tea in a perfect container that helps avoid air, humidity, light and odor or improper storage would destroy your tea flavor and aroma.

A good tea container would not only protect your tea but also a good decoration for your coffee table in house. All tea tin container with lid, you can put your tea bag directly in and fill in loose-leaf tea directly in container because all our tea tin containers meet food grade standards, no hazardous substances.

Why is tea tin can much more popular than any other packaging materials like polybag, glass jar or ceramic jar?

  • Polybag: low value, non eco-friendly, hard to display in kitchen
  • Glass jar: heavy, fragile, less customization, expensive
  • Ceramic: heavy, fragile, expensive, less customization
  • Tin Can: Lightweight, airtight, Protection from light, durability, food grade, full customizable, recyclable

What is a tea can

Tea can is a storage container for tea. When first introduced to Europe from Asia, tea was extremely expensive and keep under lock and key. The containers used were expensive and decorative, to fit in with the rest of a drawing-room or other reception room. 

The earliest examples that came to Europe were Chinese porcelain, and similar in shape to the ginger-jar. They had Chinese-style lids or stooppers and were most frequently blue and white. Cans are storage containers for tea. When first introduced to Europe from Asia, tea was extremely expensive and kept under lock and key. The containers used were expensive and decorative to fit in with the rest of a drawing room or other reception room. 

Today tea is a daily drinks and affordable for most of people, you can find versatile tea cans in the market that are made of different materials. Metal tin can is one of the most popular packaging for tea bag, loose leaf tea and herb tea. Let’s check more about it.

Types of tea tin cans

There are versatile tin cans can keep tea flavor. These tin cans with different types to make sure tin can airtight and well display. Let’s check the main types and their function

Screw top tin container

These convenient twist-off lids allow you to securely close the metal cans with just a simple twist of your wrist. And we can put a seal in the lid to keep airtight. Open the container and fill in tea bag, loose leaf, herb tea or matcha powder, close the screw top to keep away humidity and odor. It’s easy to get the tea out by one hand.

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square tin can

Tea tin container can be any shape and any printing. You can choose the exclusive square tin can with double layer lid which is elegant looking. This double layer lid could keep your tea flavor and good presentation on the shelf.

You can design your printing on whole surface and make embossing not only on top lid but also side of tin can. For embossing or debossing, it can be logo or pattern or text any other. Let your imagination on tea tin can to promote your brand here.

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Sealed tea can

Tin can with proper tightness lid can preserve your most kinds of tea like tea bag, loose leaf tea, fruit tea, matcha tea. Lid neither too tight nor too loose, you can take it on the way in your bag without worrying tea coming out. You can choose tea tin can with two lids or double layer lid type that all can meet your demand. The internal lid with small pull tab makes your tea more adorable and premium.

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Why Tin Cans are the Best Packaging for Tea?

The best tea deserves the best container. Tin can offers the most sustainable and durable tea packaging on the market. Tin can are the best option for tea wholesalers and distributor, tea and coffee store, tea brand owner who have request to get their tea in an attractive and adorable container at the same time protect its’ flavor. Here are the benefits:

Freshness

Tea tin can with lid can keep the tea bags, scented tea or loose leaf tea fresh and keep the favor. Most tea bags and loose leaf tea starts to lose its favor after 4 months if it is not preserved in an airtight wood, glass, or tin container. Among these containers, tin can is the most popular choice.

Highly Customization

Metal tin-plate is a wonderful material for packaging as it can be printed with different colors, patterns and finish. In addition, tin can be produced in different shapes no matter it’s regular shape like cylinder, square or other bespoke shapes and various sizes from tiny, small, medium to large volume. Tea is our important daily drink and enjoy great popularity.

Many large drink and food companies release their tea brand with high identity packed by tin container. Nice printing and adorable design of tea tin can attract consumers’ focus on the shelf. They have vintage and modern styles. Tea tin cans can be fully custom-printed and embossed. Tea with premium tin can is always a great gift for friends and families.

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Affordable Price

Tea tin can is relatively cost-efficient packaging. You can easily find stock tea tin can and do some minor customization like label, logo printing. One the other side, you can make full customization at lower minimum quantity 2000 pieces and reasonable price.

Sustainability

Reusing the same storage container also keeps plastic wrappings, cardboard containers, and other packaging materials out of the landfill. Many tea ships will also offer discounts if you bring in your own tea tin can for a refill of your favorite loose leaves. In addition, some tea lovers would like to keep the empty tea tin can and reuse as a storage container for small items or kitchen box.

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

With tea tins and containers, you can easily label and identify different teas. In the busy morning or sleepy afternoon, you can save time to get the right one from your basket full of tea bags. Since tea tin containers are sleek, simple, and can be stacked, they also look much better and tidy when stored on the counter.

What is a tea tin can made of

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

Tea tin cans are usually constructed of three-piece and they have rims on top and bottom. Tea tin containers have covers removable by hand without a tool. They can be printed on the surface including top lid, the body of tin can 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 stamping each part and assembly. These tea tin cans are not applicable for liquid directly filling in as it may leak or get rusted over time.

6 things to consider when choosing tin cans for tea

Shape and Size

Considering the volume of tea you want to pack, whether tea bag, loose leaf, herb tea or matcha powder. To choose a tin that has enough volume without too much empty space. The size should be suitable for storage, transport and retail display. We can provide small sizes that are convenient for travel, as well as large tins for store storage.

If you are choosing a tea tin can for tea bag, we would like to recommend square tin can as it is easily to share and store.

If you are choose a tea tin can for herb tea, we would recommend rectangular tin can as the volume is large and can be as a gift for friends and families.

Durability and Maintenance

Tins have better durability than other materials., such as tin can provide strong protection for your tea. 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 tea is fresh and flavored.

Choose premium tinplate and 0.23mm thickness material or above. That would make sure your tin can durable, food grade and recyclable.

Learn More: Tin vs Aluminum Packaging-Which is Better?

Sealing Mechanisms

A good tea tin can should be airtight that can keep your tea fresh and smell proof. You can choose double layer lid or tin can with latch both of them are airtight tins. Window lid tin containers are perfect for scented tea and people can easily see the products inside. Tea tin can with latch cover helps block out light and air to keep loose leaf tea, coffee, or spices fresh longer.

Logo, pattern 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.

CMYK Offset Printing

Spot Color Printing

Glossy Finished

Matte Finished

Metallic Printing

Cost

The size, structure and printing of tea tin can are the key factors on price. Considering budget, choose the simple square or round tea tin cans. For high budget, choose some unique and precious tins.

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.

Where to buy tea tins

China is one of the world’s largest tea consumer and growers. Here more than thousands of tea packaging manufactures. And among of them metal tin packaging is the most popular tea packaging. They supply versatile kinds of tea tin packaging and support full customization no matter small order or large orders.

You can easily to buy nice tea cans on Amazon or Esty becuase it’s cheaper and easy. If you are company, wholesaler or like to customize as a gift,

TWG tea

TWG Tea has crafted eye-catching designs for our Tea Tins, a combination of design and functionality, enabling tea lovers to store their loose leaf teas, and that they proudly display at home, keeping it away from light, air, and humidity. Available in various sizes and colours to perfectly fit your needs.

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It’s important to store your tea away from sunlight, heat, and moisture in well-sealed packages or in air-tight containers. While tea does have an approximate two year shelf life, please rotate your teas and order in smaller quantities to maintain the optimum freshness.

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And Tinspkg support your tea brand packaging customization, you can customize your tea packaging by PMS color or Pantone color printing with matte or glossy finish surface, inside of can be gold or silver; with logo or pattern embossed or debossed at competitive price and high quality standard.

Can Tea cans be recycled and reused?

Comparing with paper box or glass jar, tin cans are durable, scratch-resistant, easy clean and lightweight. Therefore, high quality tea tin can is able to be recycled or reused for versatile purpose.

After your finished your tea, you can keep the beautiful and food grade tin can as a storage box. You can refill the can with new teas, spice or as a sewing, pins storage container. It would be helpful to keep your small items tidy and clean. When tins are dirty, just use a towel to clean. Don’t use water to wash in order to avoid any rust.

Conclusion

Tea is a generous drink. Different types of tea are also reich in a substance called l-theanine, an amino acid that studies have lined with feelings of calm and well-being. To keep your tea flavor, metal tin can is obviously a better choice due to above advantages. You can enjoy a nice cup of tea and at the same time do a little help to the earth environment protection by choosing the tea packed by eco-friendly tins.

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