Tinplate can
Square Metal Tin Can & Bucket, 250ml to 25L
Rectangular tinplate cans and square buckets from 250 ml to 25 litres, with a wide-opening head for clean pouring and flat faces for full-height artwork.
Fifteen sizes across two orders of magnitude, on one body style. The size changes; the shelf presence does not.
| Capacity range | 50 ml to 6 litres, fifteen sizes |
|---|---|
| Material | Tin-plated steel |
| Wall thickness | 0.20 to 0.25 mm depending on size |
| Body style | Straight-sided, lever lid or screw cap |
| Internal lacquer | Gold or clear, for acid and solvent resistance |
| Decoration | Four-colour offset lithographic printing, full surface |
| Dangerous goods capability | UN-rated builds available |
| Lead time | Approximately one month for a standard production run; samples in 7–15 days. Confirmed against your specification at quotation. |
These depend on your order, your market or the certificate that covers your run, so we quote them rather than publish one figure that would be wrong for most buyers. Ask and you get the number for your specification.
Before you order: Internal lacquer is specified against the contents. Gold, clear and bare tinplate are not interchangeable, and the wrong choice usually shows up as contamination or corrosion after the product has shipped.
15 sizes, with the container quantities a distributor needs to cost a shipment. Loading figures are unpalletised.
| Item photo | Size | Ø × Height | Wall | Per 20GP | Per 40HQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 50 ml | 54 × 45 mm | 0.20 mm | 175,000 | 432,000 |
| 100 ml | 54 × 60 mm | 0.20 mm | 138,000 | 345,000 |
| 200 ml | 76 × 75 mm | 0.20 mm | 49,000 | 119,000 |
| 250 ml | 83 × 60 mm | 0.21 mm | 70,000 | 155,200 |
| 500 ml | 80 × 120 mm | 0.21 mm | 34,000 | 74,000 |
| 1 L | 108 × 130 mm | 0.22 mm | 18,000 | 39,000 |
| 1.5 L | 108 × 150 mm | 0.22 mm | 13,000 | 28,000 |
| 2 L-1 | 130 × 172 mm | 0.23 mm | 9,000 | 19,800 |
| 2 L-2 | 162 × 110 mm | 0.23 mm | 7,100 | 15,000 |
| 2.5 L | 130 × 210 mm | 0.23 mm | 8,000 | 17,000 |
| 3 L | 162 × 167 mm | 0.23 mm | 6,500 | 15,500 |
| 3.5 L | 167 × 167 × 170 mm | 0.25 mm | 5,300 | 11,000 |
| 4 L | 167 × 167 × 197 mm | 0.25 mm | 4,800 | 12,000 |
| 5 L | 176 × 176 × 235 mm | 0.25 mm | 3,200 | 8,600 |
| 6 L | 176 × 176 × 260 mm | 0.25 mm | 3,150 | 8,750 |
Figures are the factory’s published catalogue values, transcribed as printed. Confirm against the drawing issued with your order — wall thickness and closure are specified against the contents, so the build for your product may differ from the standard shown.
A 250 ml sample tin and a 5 litre trade tin in the same proportion and the same print treatment. A product family that steps up in size without looking like three different suppliers.
Gold lacquer for acidic and aggressive contents, clear where the tinplate finish is part of the look, bare where neither applies. Getting this wrong fails months into shelf life, not on day one.
A lever lid takes a screwdriver to open and a palm to reseal, which is the closure a decorator or a workshop actually wants on a part-used tin.
Offset lithography onto flat sheet before forming gives a full-surface, photographic-quality image. There is no in-mould label edge and no shrink sleeve seam.
The body is pressed from cold-rolled steel to the pattern, seam-welded, then finished as set out in the specification above: internal coating, galvanising or powder coat according to what the can carries. Pressing runs across our Vietnam and China plants under one specification managed from Singapore, so the drawing and closure stay identical whichever plant fills the order.
Every can is checked before it leaves the plant:
The regimes that apply to this type of container in each market we ship to, with the detail behind each one a click away. This is what the market asks for; what this particular design already holds is in the specification above.
Orientation for specification, not legal advice, and not a statement that this design holds a given approval. Requirements turn on the exact design, contents and destination, and they change. Tell us the market at enquiry and we confirm what applies to your specification, what we hold and what we would need to obtain.
Fifteen, from 50 ml to 6 litres, on one body style. A sample tin and a trade tin therefore share the same proportion and the same print treatment, so a product family steps up in size without looking like three suppliers.
Often not. For UN 1263 paint in packing group II the limited quantity value is 5 litres per inner packaging in an outer not exceeding 30 kg gross. Inside that relief no UN approved packaging is required. Fill the same tin to six litres and the relief is lost.
Usually on the box, not the tin. Below about five litres a tin travels as an inner packaging inside a fibreboard shipper, and the pair is tested together as a combination packaging with the mark on the 4G outer.
Chemistry, not colour. Gold suits acidic and aggressive contents, clear is used where the tinplate finish is part of the look, and bare tinplate where neither applies. Getting it wrong fails months into shelf life rather than on day one.
It takes a screwdriver to open and a palm to reseal, which is the closure a decorator or a workshop actually wants on a part-used tin. A screw cap suits a pouring product. Both are available on this body.
For this format, yes. Lithography onto flat sheet before forming gives a full-surface, photographic-quality image with no in-mould label edge and no shrink sleeve seam. It is the reason tins still win the shelf in decorative coatings.
Yes, UN-rated builds are available. Approval is per design type and depends on the contents and packing group, so tell us what goes in it and we come back with the code the design certifies under.
Yes. The food-contact article on a lacquered tin is the internal coating, so the Declaration of Compliance names 1935/2004 in Europe or 21 CFR 175.300 in the US. A declaration written against the steel answers nothing.
0.20 to 0.25 mm depending on size, which is thin by design: a small tin is carried and shelved rather than palletised full. What matters more at this gauge is the coating and the seam than the millimetres.
Quoted against your specification, since print, lacquer and closure all move it. Production is approximately one month, with samples in 7 to 15 days.
Rectangular tinplate cans and square buckets from 250 ml to 25 litres, with a wide-opening head for clean pouring and flat faces for full-height artwork.
Specialty tinplate cans from 60 ml to 1 litre with an integrated dauber or brush in the cap, plus round cone-top cans for controlled pouring.
Tell us your destination market, target volumes and whether you need private labelling.