Real Projects
Every candle tin case in the library — 52 production runs in total, 24 to a page, each one carrying the mould it was made from. Round bodies dominate the pool because wax pours and burns evenly in a cylinder, so capacity is the useful column here rather than shape.
Coated for the Pour
As candle tin manufacturers, a candle build is a heat problem before it is a printing problem. Four things are settled before one of these goes back on the line.
Hot wax goes straight into the body with no glass insert, but the lining has to be rated for it. Tell us the pour temperature and we confirm the coating against that figure — the candle tin moulds already exist, so this is a coating decision, not a tooling one.
A lift-off lid suits a candle that is lit at home; a screw or candle tin with pour spout format suits one that travels. Both run on the same tooling, and the choice is made before the print layout because it changes the lid panel.
Candle tins carry mandatory warning text, and it has to be legible at the size the tin is. The artwork is laid out around that panel from the start rather than squeezed around it at proof stage — the most common cause of a candle tin going back for a second proof.
A metal candle tins run has to stay cool enough to handle while the wax is lit. Wall gauge is set against the wax volume and the burn time rather than against a standard, which is why two small candle tins of the same capacity can be specified differently.
Wax-Safe by Construction
A candle tin container holds molten wax at 60–80°C, and that is a very different problem from keeping biscuits fresh. Three things decide whether it is safe and whether the scent survives, and on every case above all three were fixed before printing started.
Applications
A aromatherapy tin is bought in four recognisable patterns, and the one thing they all share is heat: the coating, the lid and the warning panel are all decided by pour temperature. A round candle tin, a square candle tin and a long slim candle tin all appear above, and each one burns and seals differently.
Scented aromatherapy tin ranges in one, two or three wick formats, where the lid has to keep the fragrance in through months of shelf life.
Small-format travel candle tin builds with a lid that survives a suitcase, usually round with a single wick and a full-wrap print.
Christmas and seasonal festive candle tin runs where the print carries the occasion and the tin is part of the gift rather than just a vessel.
Homeware brand candle tin container programmes where a consistent body across a scent range matters more than a new shape each season.
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-DGXYTH-00007 | Tin | 60ml | 2 | View case |
| TIN_DGLK_00001 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGGM-00003 | Round Tin | 261ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGGM-00007 | Round Tin | 79ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGGM-00005 | Round Tin | 149ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGGM-00006 | Round Tin | 432ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGGM-00004 | Round Tin | 218ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGGM-00010 | Round Tin | 302ml | 1 | View case |
Material: food-grade tinplate, internal lacquer where the fill needs one. candle 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
A candle tin sits on display for weeks and is handled hot, so the artwork has to hold up to both.
A candle tin container gets picked up, wiped and left in sunlight. The print sits under a protective varnish and the base carries a mandatory warning panel, so the artwork is laid out around that copy from the start rather than squeezed around it later.
On an aromatherapy tin the lid is the face the customer sees most, so full-wrap print, a printed inner lid or an embossed logo all earn their place. The lid die already exists on every mould in the register.
Buying Guide
Four decisions turn one of the cases on this page into your order. On candles, three of them are about heat and one is about the label.
It decides the coating, and the coating decides what can be printed inside. candle tin wholesale suppliers who skip this step end up re-sampling; naming it in the first email is the cheapest thing you can do.
Fill volume and burn time both follow from the wax weight, so a candle tin container is sized from grams rather than from a litre figure. Send us the wax weight and the wick count and the body follows.
Some briefs want the lid off, some want it as a base, and candle tins with lids wholesale orders usually want it to double as a heat shield. That is a lid-blank decision and it has to be made before tooling.
A custom printed candle tin carries the brand and the mandatory copy on the same surface. Sending both at the same time is what keeps the layout right first time instead of at the second proof.
Related Ranges
Candle 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 candle 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.
