Tea tin boxes and wooden tea boxes have been welcomed by well-known American tea brands this year. Luzianne, a leader in the tea drinking industry in the South of the United States, is also one of the most famous southern tea brands. More than 300,000 teas were ordered from August to September this year. Tea tin box packaging. Founded in 1906 and headquartered in Alabama, Red Diamond also ordered more than 200,000 storage tanks including metal boxes and wooden boxes. Metal tea tin boxes and wooden tea leaves are widely welcomed, which is a recognition of this product. Therefore, their advantages and functionality are very important. The difference between the two is analyzed below.

The characteristics of tea tin box

     1. The packaging decoration color printing effect of the tea tin box itself, covering power and gloss are very good, and good covering power can prevent the tea from being directly exposed to light and affecting the quality. In addition to causing food deterioration reactions, light can also cause changes in food quality and grade. The tea leaves are more prone to deterioration when exposed to light (especially green tea). The good covering performance of the tea tin box makes the tea leaves the highest preservation rate, and preserves the tea juice and color, taste and aroma.

     2. For some bulk black tea, green tea, and Pu'er tea, there is no inner film bag for packaging, so moisture-proof and odor-proof are problems that must be solved, and this function can be realized in a metal box. Metal box packaging container The barrier to air and other volatile gases can better protect the tea, which is also the best feature of the tea tin box. Of course, when we choose, we also try to choose a tea tin box with a double lid or an inner cover structure, so as to effectively ensure the tightness of the tea tin box.

     3. The tea tin box is made of food-grade tin-plated iron. The tin-plated layer inside has a reducing effect. The tin will interact with the oxygen remaining in the container during filling to reduce the chance of oxidation of the tea ingredients. The reducing effect of tin also prolongs the shelf life of tea.

Features of wooden tea box

Wooden tea boxes pay attention to the first requirement of material health and environmental protection. Tea packaging boxes are widely used. Wooden packaging boxes have rich craftsmanship and novel shapes.

      In the United States and the United Kingdom, there has always been a habit of drinking tea, and the containers for holding tea are different. The earliest tea boxes were earthenware pots, and later wooden tea boxes began to appear. At that time, wooden tea boxes were made for holding tea for a long time, and they were generally used as special utensils in the homes of nobles.

     Nowadays, the wooden tea box is lined with silk and the wooden embryo is attached. The wooden box body is carved, painted, painted, etc. In addition to these processes, the processing of the wooden tea box also includes the wooden embryo. The treatment of oil, matte, color oil, and face oil. If it is a matte paint effect, no polishing is required, and a bright paint effect requires multiple polishing treatments. The logo of the wooden tea box will be silk-screened, bronzed, It is made by engraving, embossing, pasting metal characters, and pasting metal plates.

    1. Tea is a dry product that is easily damp and damp, and the original aroma of the tea is very volatile. When the tea is not stored properly under the action of moisture, temperature and humidity, light, oxygen and other factors, it will cause adverse biochemical reactions, resulting in The quality of tea has deteriorated. The use of wooden tea packaging boxes is a little worse than metal tea tin boxes in terms of sealing performance, and wooden tea boxes are not resistant to high temperature and waterproof, so metal tea tin boxes have a better protective effect on tea.

    2. Wooden tea packaging is a tea packaging product made from wood as the main raw material, and is made of non-toxic and environmentally friendly materials, which can ensure the purity of the tea. The wooden tea packaging adopts lacquer and color technology, the overall surface is smooth and the color is sufficient, and the color is not easily corroded by rain, and can be stored for a short time.

   3. The tea packaging box is made of a wooden box, which has a lot of flexibility and preservation. It can preserve the tea for a long time without changing the taste, and even expand the original taste of the tea to make consumers love it.

Compared with the printing of wooden tea boxes, what are the characteristics of the tea tin box printing process?

     The printing of the tea tin box takes the offset printing process as an example to illustrate the characteristics of the tea tin box printing process. Although iron box printing and paper-wood tea box printing, from the selection and processing of original manuscripts, color separation and plate making, printing and printing, to the completion of the printed matter, the overall process has many similarities, but because of the iron tea There are many differences between the box board and the wooden tea in various aspects (such as printability, surface hardness of the substrate, etc.). Compared with the wooden tea, the characteristics of the iron box printing process are mainly manifested in the following aspects.

(1) The printing material is a variety of tin box sheets with large differences in performance from wood

  The printing process should take the basic characteristics of the iron box printing material as the three most important research objects of the printing process, such as the selection of printing equipment, the matching of various printing auxiliary materials, the processing of pre-press graphic information, plate making and other processes, which should be adapted The requirements of the iron box board on them. At present, the commonly used iron box plates can be divided into three types: hard, neutral and soft according to their hardness (such as chrome-plated steel sheets are hard, ordinary thin steel sheets are neutral, and aluminum and aluminum alloy sheets are soft). Therefore, during the printing process, the cylinder pressure should be adjusted and the lining material selected according to the hardness of the substrate. Generally speaking, it is better to choose soft lining for rigid iron box plates, and it is better to choose neutral lining for neutral and soft iron box plates.

(2) The quality of the paint for the printed matter of the tea tin box

 Tea tin box printing products generally need to undergo various post-processes to be processed into various tea tin box packaging containers. Among them, tea tin box printing plays a key role in the beautification and decoration of the tin box packaging container. To make the graphics printed on the iron box board bright and eye-catching after making salty packaging containers, it is inseparable from the special effect of paint. The effect of the coating is manifested in two aspects: one is to increase the adhesion between the iron box and the ink layer; the other is to protect the ink layer, and at the same time increase the brightness of the pattern, and it is not in the process of making cans. Discoloration and no paint peeling.

(3) Use special inks with special properties

From the requirements of the ink drying method in the printing process, the biggest difference between the surface of the iron box board and the wooden box is that the surface of the iron box board is smooth and has no absorption capacity, while the wooden box is porous and the ink can penetrate. Therefore, the drying of tea tin box printing ink mainly includes two methods: oxidized conjunctival drying and volatile drying. At the same time, the iron box board is generally made into iron box packaging container packaging products after printing, especially packaging food (such as food cans, beverages, etc.). Therefore, according to the different products inside, the printing ink of the tea tin box is generally required to be resistant to high temperature, retort, non-lacquer, non-fading, non-toxic, friction-resistant, water-resistant, and grease-resistant.

(4) The printing operation is different from the offset printing operation of general wooden sheets

 When the printing machine is manufactured, the feeding table should be carefully considered. For tea tin box plates of different thicknesses, different qualities, and different materials, the best blowing force and suction force of the nozzle should be considered, and the blowing should be adjusted at any time during the printing process. The air volume of the nozzle and the suction nozzle to achieve the best feeding state. At the same time, a horseshoe-shaped magnet is added to the feed to overcome the adsorption force between the iron box plates, and in conjunction with the blowing force of the blowing nozzle, the iron box plates can be conveyed smoothly and uninterruptedly. When adjusting the pressure of the roller, in addition to considering the thickness of the iron box plate, the transfer status of the dots should also be considered (the pressure is too small, the dots of the printed matter are imaginary, the pressure is too large, and the dots are seriously deformed and the graphics are distorted)

(5) During the entire tea tin box printing process, always place the finished product in the center

   Tea tin box printing products are generally intermediate products. The ultimate goal of tin box printing is to obtain a finished packaging container that meets the requirements, and the printing effect is finally displayed on the finished product. Therefore, all links in the printing process should be centered on the finished product.

  Protective function of tea packaging box:

   The main function of the tea tin box and the wooden tea box is to protect the tea leaves from external obstacles and impacts, such as shock, vibration, heavy pressure during storage and transportation, and high temperature and humidity or exposure to chemical substances. Deterioration, deformation, or complete loss of the use value of the product due to it.

Sales functions of tea packaging boxes:

    Regardless of whether the tea tin box or the wooden tea box, after varying degrees of beautification, its trademarks, patterns, and text descriptions all serve to convey sales information. Good packaging can make consumers clear at a glance, accurately convey the product name, brand, composition, performance, use and use (food) method, and use advertising means to increase the power of customers and stimulate consumers' desire to buy, thereby starting To the goal of purchasing goods, instructing consumption, and expanding sales.

Convenience function of tea packaging box

Tea packaging boxes should have the following functions in all important links of production, circulation and consumption:

1. It is convenient for the circulation of goods, so that the loading and unloading is labor-saving and the stacking is firm;

2. It is convenient to display and sell, it is conducive to the display and display of shelves and windows, and it is conducive to sorting preservation, dismantling and selling separately;

3. It is convenient for the sale of goods, and provides convenience for the identification, selection, classification, grading, in-stock inspection, and out-of-warehouse replacement of the products in the sales process;

4. It is easy to produce and adapt to process operation;

5. It is convenient for consumers to carry and use, so that buyers can save effort, easy to open, and the amount is appropriate, convenient to retain, and safe to use.

  Conclusion: Compared with the wooden tea box, the tea tin box has its unique advantages: on the one hand, metal printing can use a variety of new inks and advanced printing technology for batch printing. The wooden box is difficult to print in batches, and the printing efficiency is low. The printed surface of the tea tin box has good gloss and is more beautiful; on the other hand, at the same price, the tin box is more upscale than the wooden box, which is suitable for popular gifts package. More importantly, the iron box has the characteristics of good compatibility, good extensibility, convenient processing, easy modeling, beautiful printing, and suitable for storage. The wooden tea box does not have the extension performance. The box type is relatively single and the processing cost is high.