Real Projects
Every mooncake tin case in the library — 32 production runs in total, 24 to a page, each one carrying the mould it was made from. This is the most seasonal pool on the site, so the shape on each card is a faster way in than scrolling by capacity.
Quoted Against the Festival
As mooncake tin manufacturers, a Mid-Autumn build is scheduled backwards from the festival rather than forwards from the artwork — the tray, the lacquer and the packing line are all booked against that week. Four things get settled before one goes back on the line.
Mooncake sizes are not standard, and a loose tray is the most common fault on a mid-autumn mooncake tin. These mooncake tin moulds are re-run with an insert cut to your actual piece — four, six or eight to a layer — so nothing shifts between the factory and the gift box.
Mooncake filling is oily, and oil wicks through an unlined body into the outer carton within days. The liner is specified for fat contact and proofed on the sample, which is what keeps a mooncake tin with lid clean on the outside for the whole gifting window.
Mid-Autumn volume moves in stacked cartons on a compressed schedule. The lid seats under compression and the body is gauged for the stack, so a mooncake tin box arrives square instead of arriving dented.
A mid-autumn tin box has one delivery date and no second chance, so the run is planned from that date backwards — artwork locked first, then printing, then packing. Capacity is reserved on the line rather than promised in an email.
Grease-Tight by Construction
A mooncake is oily, and oil travels. Whether a mooncake packaging tin keeps the outer carton clean is decided by three things, and on every case above all three were fixed before printing started.
Applications
A mooncake packaging tin is bought in four recognisable patterns, and they divide on one question: how many pieces and how wide each one is. A round mooncake tin, a square mooncake tin and a long slim mooncake tin all appear above, and each one carries a different tray.
The core season — a mid-autumn tin box in four-, six- or eight-piece format, usually square with a full-wrap print and a matching sleeve or outer carton.
Company-ordered corporate mooncake tin runs with a debossed or gilded logo, where the tin is the gift and the contents are almost secondary.
Large hospitality mooncake packaging tin programmes where case-pack, barcode placement and a firm delivery date matter more than a new shape.
Designs built for the second life — a plain reusable mooncake tin with a neutral interior that gets kept for storage long after the festival.
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-DGXYC-00090 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGXYC-00130 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGYX-00103 | Square Tin | 2662ml | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGXYC-00076 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGXYC-00075 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGXYC-00214 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGXYC-00098 | Round Tin | — | 1 | View case |
| TIN-DGXYTH-00008 | Square Tin | — | 1 | View case |
Material: food-grade tinplate, internal lacquer where the fill needs one. mooncake 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
Mid-autumn artwork is bought in a narrow window and kept long afterwards, which changes what the design has to do.
A mid-autumn tin box programme has to clear artwork approval early, because the retail window does not move. We hold the mould, proof within 48 hours and print in up to 8 colours, so a layout can change late without re-cutting anything.
Most mooncake packaging tin runs are kept and reused once the cakes are gone. A neutral interior, a lid that still seats after a year and artwork that reads as decor rather than as a season are what make that reuse work.
Buying Guide
Four decisions turn one of the cases on this page into your order. On mooncake, the first one is the piece count rather than the size.
The insert on a mooncake tin box is cut to the piece diameter, not to a standard. Give us the count and the dimensions up front, or the tray arrives loose and the pieces move in transit.
Lotus paste, nuts and yolk all behave differently against an internal coating, and an oily filling is what turns an unlined body into a stained outer carton. Say the filling and the lacquer gets specified for it.
A mooncake packaging tin sold as the gift gets the finish, the sleeve and the carry handle. One sold as a refill gets the tray and the seal. Which it is sets both the budget and the packing line.
Every mid-autumn mooncake tin in the library has the same delivery week. Send us the date and we work backwards from it — that is the only way a seasonal run lands on time.
Related Ranges
Mooncake 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 mooncake 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.
