6 Different Types of Tea Packaging Boxes or Materials

Teas are widely consumed all over the world. and there comes many types of tea packaging. In this post, we listed 6 common types of tea packaing, pros and cons included.

Tea gift box packaging is the main way of tea packaging, through a variety of materials packaging materials, tea packaging into gifts, tea packaging can achieve the purpose of improving the brand awareness of tea, increase the added value of the product. And it can promote the sales of tea goods. Tea packaging refers to the packaging of tea leaves according to the needs of customers. Nowadays, tea packaging has become an important part of China’s tea industry. As a special class of goods, tea packaging is different from the packaging of other general commodities due to the limitations of its own and objective conditions. The common methods of packaging tea are as follows six kinds.

Carton packaging

The carton box is made of white board paper, gray board paper, etc. After printing and molding, the carton box packaging prevents easy breakage and has excellent shading performance.

 In order to solve the problem of paper box packaging tea aroma volatilization and from the influence of external odor, generally used polyethylene plastic bags packaging tea and then packed into paper boxes. The disadvantage of paper box packaging is susceptible to moisture, nowadays, paper-plastic composite packaging boxes have been used to overcome the problem of paper boxes susceptible to moisture, which uses the inner layer of plastic film layer or cardboard coated with moisture-proof coating as the packaging material for the production of boxes, both with the function of composite film bag packaging, but also has the protective, rigid and other properties of paper box packaging. If you use plastic bags inside as a small bag, the protection effect is better.

Composite film bag packaging

Plastic composite film has many advantages such as light weight, not easy to break, good heat sealability, suitable price, etc., and is widely used in packaging. There are many kinds of composite films used for tea packaging, such as moisture-proof cellophane/polyethylene/paper/aluminum foil/polyethylene, biaxially oriented polypropylene/aluminum foil/polyethylene, polyethylene/polyvinylidene chloride/polyethylene, etc. The composite films have excellent air resistance, moisture resistance, fragrance preservation, and odor resistance. As most plastic films have 80% to 90% light transmittance, in order to reduce the transmittance, UV inhibition can be added to the packaging material or through printing and coloring to reduce the light transmittance.

In addition, aluminum foil or vacuum aluminized film can be used as the base material of the composite material for light-blocking packaging. Aluminum foil composite packaging bags with metal aluminum pressed, its metal barrier performance composite plastic film practicality is very strong basically to meet the requirements of tea fragrance preservation. Composite film bags packaging in a variety of forms, with three-sided sealing shape, stand-up pouch shape, folding shape, etc.. Packaging because of the composite film bag has good printability, with its sales packaging design, to attract customers, promote tea sales more unique effect.

Metal Can Packaging,Tea Tin Cans, Tea Tin Boxes

Metal can packaging has excellent anti-breakage, moisture-proof and sealing properties, and is a more ideal packaging for tea. Metal cans are generally made of tin-plated thin steel plates, cans are square and cylindrical in shape, and their lids have single-layer lids and double-layer lids of two kinds. From the seal on the points, there are general cans and sealed cans of two kinds. In the packaging technology, the general cans can be sealed into the deoxidizer packaging method to remove the oxygen in the package. Sealed cans are mostly used inflatable, vacuum packaging. Metal cans for tea protection is better than composite film, and the appearance of beautiful, noble, the disadvantage is the high cost of packaging, packaging and high weight ratio of goods, increasing transportation costs. Exquisitely designed metal cans are suitable for the packaging of high-grade tea. Check our most popular tea tin boxes designs.

Paper bag packaging

Also known as bag tea, this is a kind of bag packaging with thin filter paper for the village material, when used with paper bags into the tea set. The purpose of packaging with filter paper bags is mainly to improve the leaching rate, in addition to also making full use of the tea endings of the tea factory. As the bag bubble tea has the advantages of fast brewing, clean and sanitary, standard dosage, can be mixed, easy to drain the slag, easy to carry, etc., to adapt to the needs of modern fast-paced life, in the international market is very popular. Earlier bags of tea generally have a bag line to meet the convenience of multiple steeping, due to consideration of environmental requirements, the bag line of bag tea has been eliminated.

Plastic packaging

Polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride and other plastic molding containers have generous, beautiful, packaging display effect is good, but its sealing performance is poor, in the tea packaging is mostly used as the outer packaging, its packaging inside more composite film plastic bags encapsulated.

But these different types of tea packaging solutions are often joined by each other, as a combo solution for maximum the benefits of each packaging materials.

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