Real Projects
Every candy tin case in the library — 164 production runs in total, 24 to a page, each one carrying the mould it was made from. Most of the pool sits in the small end of the range, because a sweet tin is usually a pocket or counter format rather than a bulk one.
Sealed Against Sugar
As candy tin manufacturers, the four things we settle before a sweet run goes back on the line are all about the barrier rather than the artwork, because sugar will find any weakness in it.
Boiled sweets and mints pick up a metallic note from bare steel, so the liner is specified against the product. That decision is locked before the print, since it limits which inks can go on the inside of a candy tin.
Sugar is hygroscopic and turns sticky or gritty once moisture gets in. The lid on these candy tin moulds seats under compression rather than resting on top, which is the whole difference between a container and a box.
Lift-off, hinged and slide lids all run on the same tooling, and the choice follows the channel — a counter jar wants a lift-off, a pocket tin wants a slide. A candy tin with lid in a hinged format costs more per unit and saves a lid on the line.
A filled sweet tin is heavy for its size, so wall gauge and case-pack are set together. A candy snack tin going into a display carton is specced differently from one going into a hamper.
Airtight by Construction
Sugar is hygroscopic — it pulls moisture out of the air and goes sticky or gritty. Whether a candy tin packaging run actually holds its seal is decided by three things, and on every case above all three were fixed before printing started.
Applications
A candy tin packaging run is bought in four recognisable patterns, and the one that matters most is moisture: what the sweet is decides the coating and the lid long before it decides the artwork. A round candy tin, a square candy tin and a long slim candy tin all appear above, and each one seals and packs differently.
Small-format mint tin and pocket sweet builds, where a hinged or slide lid that survives being opened in a pocket matters more than capacity.
Hard candy sold by weight or in gifting formats, where an airtight seal stops the product clumping during distribution.
Christmas, Halloween and Easter candy tin packaging runs — usually a round or square body with a full-wrap seasonal print and an insert tray.
Event and brand giveaway promotional candy tin runs, short and fast, where a stock mould keeps the unit price sensible inside a campaign window.
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_WZHJ_00005 | Special Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00004 | Special Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN_WZHJ_00003 | Special 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 |
Material: food-grade tinplate, internal lacquer where the fill needs one. candy 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
Confectionery artwork has to work at arm’s length, on a shelf, next to a dozen competitors. Two print decisions do most of that work.
Sweets and mints are sold on colour, and a candy tin packaging run gets a protective varnish over the print. We proof the artwork under that same varnish, so the reds and oranges you approved are the reds and oranges that ship.
A die-cut window over a candy storage tin body shows the product without lifting the lid, and embossing on a small lid 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 sweets, two of them are about moisture and one is about weight.
Not every product needs a full curl seal — a candy tin packaging run for wrapped sweets is a different spec from one for loose mints. Saying which up front decides the lid and the lacquer, and it is the cheapest thing to get right.
Sweets pack by weight and settle differently by shape, so a candy storage tin quoted in litres is guesswork. Send us the net weight and the piece count and we size the body from that.
A tin meant to be kept as a candy storage tin afterwards needs a neutral interior and a lid that still seats after a year. That is a different build from a seasonal tin, and it changes the coating rather than the print.
A christmas candy tin has a fixed shelf date and a short selling window, so the schedule runs backwards from it. Everything else — shape, print, pack — is chosen from what can actually land by then.
Related Ranges
Candy 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 candy 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.
