Real Projects
Every biscuit tin case in the library — 82 production runs in total, 24 to a page, each one carrying the mould it was made from. Square and rectangular bodies dominate the pool because a biscuit assortment has to lie flat, so shape is the column to read before size.
Built Around the Tray
As biscuit tin manufacturers, a biscuit build is specified from the tray outwards rather than from the artwork inwards. Four things get settled before a run goes back on the line.
Biscuits go soft long before they go stale, so the seal comes first. The lid on these biscuit tin moulds seats under compression and the body carries an internal lacquer, which together are what make a biscuit tin can rather than a decorative box.
A biscuit tin is almost always a tray job: a corrugated or PET insert cut to the biscuit count keeps the assortment from rattling itself into crumbs. The tray is drawn against the finished footprint, so it is specified with the tin and not after it.
A large square biscuit tin with lid and a large rectangular biscuit tin hold similar volumes but pack into a case very differently. Side length is set against both the retail facing and the export carton, which is why footprint moves the landed cost more than height.
A biscuit tin with handle turns the tin into something carried and kept, which is the usual brief for the UK, Australian and New Zealand markets. Both the handle and a hinged lid run on existing tooling.
Crumb-Tight by Construction
A biscuit goes soft long before it goes stale, and butter or cocoa picks up a metallic note from bare steel. Three things decide whether a biscuit tin packaging run survives both, and on every case above all three were fixed before printing started.
Applications
A biscuit tin packaging run is bought in four recognisable patterns, and every one of them is a moisture problem first and a printing job second. A round biscuit tin, a square biscuit tin and a long slim biscuit tin all appear above, and each one takes a different tray.
Own-brand and contract bakery runs where a biscuit tin packaging line has to hold its seal through retail distribution and still stack on a shelf.
Christmas, hamper and corporate builds — usually a gift biscuit tin or christmas biscuit tin with an insert tray, a sleeve and a full-wrap festive print.
Supermarket own-brand programmes where print accuracy, barcode placement and case-pack configuration matter more than novelty shape.
Hotel, airline and client-gift runs, usually a small square or round body with a window lid and a print sized to one portion.
Mould Register
Every size below comes from a live mould record rather than a typical figure. Any of them can be sampled before you commit to a bespoke die.
| Mould Ref. | Shape | Capacity | Cases | View case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TIN-SZCS-00037 | Book Box | 2416.8ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00010 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00009 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00008 | Special Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00007 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00006 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00002 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00001 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
Material: food-grade tinplate, internal lacquer where the fill needs one. biscuit tin MOQ 1,000 pcs per design, pre-production sample 7 days, new mould tooling adds 20–25 days. FOB Ningbo / Shanghai / Shenzhen.
Design Reference
Biscuit artwork has to survive a shelf, a journey and a second life as a storage tin — and it has to look like it was made for the product.
A biscuit tin is bought on impulse and often given as a gift, so the artwork carries the value without texture to help it. Full-wrap CMYK offset litho in up to 8 colours prints straight onto the tinplate, and every biscuit tin box proof is run on the real substrate rather than on paper.
A die-cut window over a biscuit tin packaging body shows the product without lifting the lid, and embossing turns a plain round tin into a shelf object. Both are cut into the existing die rather than added as a second operation.
Buying Guide
Four decisions turn one of the cases on this page into your order. On biscuits, the first two are about moisture and breakage.
A biscuit tin packaging spec follows the product: a coated or filled biscuit needs a better barrier than a dry one, and a fragile one needs a tighter tray. That decides the lid and the lacquer before it decides the volume.
Assortments are sold by count and packed by layer, so a biscuit tin sized in litres ends up with either a gap or a crushed top layer. Send us the count and the biscuit dimensions and the tray is drawn from those.
Empty nested bodies cut freight and warehouse cost substantially, but the tray has to be packed separately. For biscuit tins wholesale programmes going straight onto a filling line, nesting is usually the decision that pays.
Those three markets have the longest biscuit-tin tradition and the strictest expectations about the lid and the finish. biscuit tins australia and biscuit tins nz runs are also declared differently for food contact, so naming the market early avoids a second filing.
Related Ranges
Biscuit Tins share a production line with the rest of the tinplate range. The categories below all have live case galleries, so the same construction and the same mould register carry across.
FAQs
The questions that come up most often when buyers spec a biscuit tin.
Send your artwork or just a rough sketch and we will come back with shape options, an indicative price and a lead time — usually within one working day. WhatsApp and email both work.
