Embossment and debossment is a very important element of tin box packaging design. It commonly used in food tin packaging design, whisky tin packaging design, cosmetics tin packaging design etc. Embossing and debossing supplies a luxurious, delicate look to your packaging. It adds extra value to your product and increase the desirability of your product.

Advantages of Custom Engraving on Tin Box

The development of tin box packaging is very fast in the past century. Not only has it become an important packaging method in the traditional food, tea, spirits and gift industries, but over the past ten years, tin boxes have gradually penetrated into fields such as medicine and health care products, cosmetics, jewelry, watches, and electronic products. Continuously expanding, it has occupied a place in the packaging of high-value-added products in the high-end industry.

Compared with paper, glass, and plastic packaging, tin box packaging has higher plasticity and performance. Compared with plastic bag packaging, products in tin packaging make people feel more integrated and classy. The surface effect of the paper box is stamping or printing, while tin box can be embossed and debossed, which has a more three-dimensional effect. Glass packaging has an very obvious display advantages, but tin packaging is not fragile and it has a very high recyclable rate. One of the reasons for the popularity of tin packaging is its unique printing effect, the aesthetics and expressiveness displayed by surface embossment and debossment. This article briefly talks about the embossing and debossing process of tin box.

The tinplate box relies on the combination of male and female molds to stamp the tin sheet into shape. The earliest tin boxes were ordinary box with flat surface. Later, people found that adding embossing molds can make the tin sheet into a concave-convex effect, and it can be better express the design. This makes the tin box more popular, it can be said that the emergence of embossment technology has given tinplate boxes a new lease of life.

Classification of Tin Box Engraving

The engraving on tin box packaging is mainly divided into three types: flat engraving and relief engraving (also called 3D engraving) and micro engraving. Flat engraving means that the protruding parts are flat with one level of height. It’s commonly used for logo and text engraving. While the height of the relief is more irregular. There will be multiple levels of height which is three-dimensional, making the pattern more three-dimensional and more vivid. As for micro engraving, it’s been used more and more in premium tin packaging for spirits and cosmetics industry. The embossed unit is more tiny and more delicate which requires higher embossment equipment and technology.

The engraving effect of tin box can be selected as embossment or debossment. The embossing process is a common technology in the surface processing. Its primary purpose is to focus on the partial performance of the overall design and highlight the important parts of the design.

Production of Tin box Engraving

The embossing mold is also composed of one set of male and female molds. Generally, simple patterns and characters can be completed within a day, while complex embossing takes several days or even more than a week. After the embossing mold steel is completed, it also needs to be heat-treated to increase its hardness. From material preparation to completion, it generally take 7-10 days.

Nowadays, as development of technology, the embossing processing equipment can provide a more precise processing. The size of the embossing content determines the difficulty of processing. For general character embossing, the height of embossing for the thin charater should not be too high, it is recommended to be between 0.2-0.4mm; for embossing for the bold character, the height can be 0.6mm; It may be possible to go higher depending the size of the charater.

Why Use Engraving?

In general, the combination of embossment makes tin box design more three-dimensional, tactile, and visually more attractive. Nowadays, custom premium embossing design is used more and more for tin box packaging and becomes a very important element of tin box packaging design. Embossing and debossing supplies a luxurious, delicate look to your packaging. It adds extra value to your product and increase the desirability of your product.

Let’s develop and explore tin packaging together.