What are mint tins made of

Mint containers are a famous and convenient method to pack your mints and carry your favorite breath freshener. Various sizes, shapes and portable containers are designed pack mints and keep it fresh and easily accessible. But have you ever wondered what mint containers are made of? Let’s check the material typically to know the advantages of these mint containers.

Mint containers are usually made of tinplate or aluminum and tin being the most common materials. These metal materials were chosen because it’s durable, printing customizable and able to protect the mints from moisture and air, ensuring they stay fresh for longer. Using metal materials also provide a fashion and attractive appearance that is a popular choice for personal use or promotional version.

Aluminum container is a nice choice for mints packaging because it’s the corrosion-resistant and recyclable material with lightweight that is environmentally friendly choice for packing mints. But the higher MOQ for printing, structure limit, soft material is their disadvantages.

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Tin or tinplate is general material used in making mints containers. Tin has been applied in packaging production for centuries due to its malleability and corrosion resistance, It’s an ideal material that could protect mints from moisture and air. The lower MOQ for customized printing, various tin structures, lower unit cost, hard material are the exclusive advantages. The colorful and lower cost is also 100% sustainable material as it could be recycled and reused. Many famous brands apply tin box for their mints packaging like Atoids tin, Flintts tin… For Atoids tin, it’s applied regular classical rectangular tin with different size from small 2.36”, middle 3.15” and large 3.95 inches tin. Most customers like hot slide tin with metal dispense for their mints packaging that the famous tin size is 3.55” length, 2.36” width, 0.35 inches height for their 15g mints. Few customers use standup tin case 1.57 inches length, 0.82” width, 2.36” height for chewing gum or mints that compact mouth could protect mints well and open conveniently.

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In addition to metal material, some mint brands are made of plastic like plastic mylar bag or plastic box or paper box. Comparing metal material, plastic or paper mint containers will be the lightest and cheapest. However, plastic and paper material containers couldn’t provide heat proof that mints will go bad easily and soft material couldn’t keep mints well. By the way, plastic or paper containers couldn’t be moisture and air proof after opening it once as tin box.

When it comes to peppermint container, there are many options. From different material like tin box, aluminum, plastic, paper box, different shape like rectangular, round, square or irregular shape, different size for various mints capacity, it depends on the market position that high-end brands will choose tin or aluminum mints containers. Low-end market will choose plastic or paper box as their mints packaging.

All in all, mints containers are usually made of tinplate because of the cost-effective cost, durability material, lower MOQ printing, various tin structure, lower customizable mold cost. If you want to build a new or high-end mints brand, mints tin box or tin case packaging is a premium option.


Post time: May-24-2024