Custom Cake Tin Box
Tinspkg provide one stop and bespoke tinplate packaging solutions for food cake (sponge cake, butter cake, fruit cake, and panettone brands ) since 2013. All cake tins are meeting compliance with FDA, LFGB, REACH / EN standards. Tinspkg have more than 3,000 mold available to use and customize for cake brands, bakeries and food companies worldwide. As a professional custom cake tins manufacturer, we operate in-house mold design and tooling production, allowing us to deliver precise sizes, faster lead times, and stable quality for cake tin packaging.
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
Cake tin container types
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.
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:
- 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.
- We shall double check the artwork if words , pattern are correctly positioned.
- 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
- 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:
- Making 3D mock up as per size specification or your product information and structure details for confirmation
- Making 3D mock up with client’s artwork for you to have a clear presentation
- After above approval, we would proceed plastic proof. Gerenerally it takes 3-7days to complete
- Once plastic proof ready , we shall ship to you. And you can test size and check the structure
- 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:
- Firstly Print tinplate sheet with customer’s printing artwork and take the proof for color check
- Cutting tinplate into pieces
- Fix, modify and test mold
- 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
We must focus on and avoid below main quality issues happened during production:
Scratch 
Deformation 
Dirty Mark 
Embossing Deviation 
Poor Painting 
Rust
Corret assembly and packing is the last but important process.
Regarding to assembly job with accessories, there are two conditions:
- Accessories purchased and assembled by Tinspkg
- 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.
popular Cake Tin Box Bulk
As a professional custom metal cake tin packaging manufacturer, we specialize in designing and producing high-quality tin boxes for cakes, pastries, and baked gifts. From concept to mass production, we provide a one-stop packaging solution tailored to your brand.
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.
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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.
- Choose the correct size and shapes (round, square, rectangular, oval, other unique shapes) for your cakes
- Get the proper lid type, choosing stackable lids to save space, slip lid for easy open, hinged lid(never worry lid loosing)
- 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.
Tin Container Solutions To Your Industry
TINSPKG is a one-stop custom metal tin product supplier. We have produced thousands of types of tin container in different colors and capacities. We can provide customers with the best price and quality tin container.
- Area: 6000 Square Meters
- R&D engineers: 3 Staffs
- Tin Molds: 3000+ Sets
- Production Worker: 60+ Staffs
- QC Team: 7 Staffs
- Production Capacity: 2,000,000 PCS Per Month
- Machines：
- 110 Stamping Machines
- 5 Automatic Cutting Machines
- 6 Automatic Production Line
- 3 Packing Line
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