Unlike paper box, mylar bag, plastic box with 7-15 days’ production time, tin box needs 25-35 days for mass production because there are various processes for producing tin box like printing, cutting tinplate, stretching, assembling, cleaning and packaging. Except for mass production, making tin samples need extra 10-12 days if customers need this process. And sea shipping needs at least 20-25 days. It’s nearly two to two and half months from making to receive tin box, so it’s necessary to have a plan to purchase tin box in advance to ensure tin box in hands in time. Usually, the production time will be delayed if there are some holidays. The listed holiday is as below for reference.
CNY holiday (Jan 11th to 31st): this is huge holiday in China that affects production deeply. The mass production could be finished and shipped before CNY if the order is confirmed before Dec 1st because of closer CNY with less workers. And the workers are less also after CNY on Feb, March, April that the production capacity is not fully and it will extend the production timeline. Just like placing a order in Dec, Jan, or Fed, the production time needs around 40-45 days because of no more workers.
Tomb-sweeping Day (April): it will be delayed one day.
Labor Day (May): it will be delayed two days.
Dragon Boat Festival (June): it will be delayed one day.
Middle-autumn Festival (Sept): it will be delayed one day.
National Day (Oct): this is the second big festival that the production will be delayed 4 days. If tin box is finished on National Day, the shipping will be delayed 7 days because logistic agent has the service after October 7th.
The exquisite appearance with the hard tinplate material attracts more customer in the market, but the printing tin box with longer production time needs to be stocked in advance to ensure the promotion in time. If it’s child resistant tin box, the timeline will be longer (around two days) because the child proof mechanism should be advised on right position.
Post time: Nov-22-2022
