Specialty Tins
Specialty Tins
Create Innovative Promotional Packaging that Reinforces Your Brand
Customise gift or holiday specialty tin designs to fit your product requirements. With high-quality printing and testing capabilities, Sonoco’s locally manufactured specialty packaging attracts consumer attention in retail spaces with bespoke shapes, sizes and finishes and ensures product quality on the shelf.
Customise Your Packaging with Sonoco’s Hot Stamping Effects
Elevate your packaging assortments with unique designs consumers want to collect. Sonoco creates custom-made specialty tins for gift assortments and retail spaces in a variety of shapes and designs.
Incorporate special effects in your design without impacting recyclability. Using a hot-printing plate to apply the Holo Steel technique, we apply a holographic foil to apply mesmerising effects on round, oval, square, rectangular, octagonal and other tin shapes.
Enhance Your Brand Appeal with Custom Finishes
Attract consumers with variety of aerosol packaging finishes. With high-quality printing and a range of effects, Sonoco offers matte, embossed, glow in the dark and other unique finish options.
- Velvet Effect
- Marbles
- Aquadrops
- Stella
- Reptile
- Reflex
- Space
Velvet Effect
Marbles
Aquadrops
Stella
Reptile
Reflex
Space
Elevate Wines and Spirits with Sonoco’s Specialty Tins
Stand out as the luxury wine or spirit brand with Sonoco specialty tins. Creating a lasting attachment to your product, Sonoco’s variety of wine and spirit specialty packaging offer high-end finishes, including textured and coloured coatings and inks or hot-stamped holographic effects.
Ensure retailers are selling your product. With the ability to print a different QR code on every single product, Sonoco specialty tins:
- Prevent product counterfeiting.
- Enable easy tracking of where each product is produced, sold, etc.
- Showcase product emissions.
- Engage consumers with an interactive feature.
- Link each tin to content teams, distributors or consumers need.
Stand Out with Sonoco’s Printing and Testing Capabilities
Increase the value of your packaging with an eye-catching design. Offering a variety of shapes and prints, Sonoco provides in-house design studio 3d visual and 3D print and metal prototyping.
- Trends analysis that anticipates future needs and mutually beneficial developments.
- 3D visual and 3D print and metal prototyping.
- Digital proof and colour-control technology that confirm colour matching and consistency between sites.
- Pilot lines for testing small customer runs.
- Pack testing for ensuring product preservation.
- Analytical chemistry to assess how metal, coating and product interact.
- Microbiologic analysis to test supplier quality and resolve claims.
Transition from plastic and increase Recyclability of your packaging with Horizon™ Overcap
Decrease CO2 emissions by 56% vs. standard the Sonoco Horizon™ Overcap. This innovative ultra-shallow metal lid makes your solution infinitely recyclable from top to bottom, aligning with Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) 2030 targets and local regulations across Europe.
Reduce weight and eliminate plastic for a wide range of sizes. Designed to preserve products, Sonoco’s metal overcap reduces weight from 15 to 5.8 grams and meets products requirements without yellowing or deforming over time.
With the ability to print and emboss personalised designs on the overcap, Sonoco’s ensures fast, high-quality production tailored to your brand’s identity.
Local Manufacturing. Global Expertise.
Remain agile by relying on Sonoco’s local manufacturing. With production located in the UK and France, Sonoco promotional tins support the local economy and contribute to local metal packaging employment, knowledge, skills and craftsmanship in European communities.
- Manufacturing Near You
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Newcastle, England
Printing Plant
New York Way, Newcastle upon Tyne NE27 0QF -
Mansfield, England
Production Plant
Crown Farm Way, Forest Town, Mansfield, NG19 0FT -
Carlisle, England
Production Plant
James Street, Carlisle, CA2 5AY -
Châtillon, France
Production Plant
Avenue Noël Navoizat, 21400, Châtillion sur Seine -
Wantage, England
Research and Development
Markets
- Biscuits & Confectionary
- Coffee & Tea
- Dry Beverages
- Fragrance & Cosmetics
- Nuts & Trail Mix
- Pet Treats
- Popcorn
- Sugar & Spices
- Wine & Spirits
Markets
Biscuits & Confectionary
Coffee & Tea
Dry Beverages
Fragrance & Cosmetics
Nuts & Trail Mix
Pet Treats
Popcorn
Sugar & Spices
Wine & Spirits
Remain Agile While Innovating with Sonoco
Connect with our Sonoco team to learn more about our capacity to innovate and customise promotional packaging with high-quality printing capabilities, shape varieties and testing—all within our local manufacturing facilities.
Our Services
Design and Innovation
Create the perfect packaging for your product. Using a proven innovation process, Sonoco’s in-house design teams assist you throughout the design process—from refining packaging ideas to launching products.
Double Seam Monitoring
Reduce spoilage and enhance food safety with Sonoco’s integrated double seaming monitoring system. This online system monitors the seaming process in real time, providing instant feedback and identifying potential seam defects.
Daily Technical Support
Receive support when you need it. Sonoco’s highly skilled technical experts are on hand to support your daily business activities, providing:
- Troubleshooting analysis.
- Emergency visits.
- Equipment repairs.
- Spare part deliveries.
- Machine change-over.
- Target setting.
- Seaming and capping evaluations.
Machine and Spare Parts Services
Improve your maintenance budget with Sonoco. We sell spare capping and seaming equipment parts, offering seamer and capper audits, routine visits, line validation, overhauls and service level agreements.
Ensure optimal efficiency. Sonoco sells capping equipment, dud detectors and dryers and advises on new line layouts and instalments.
Training
Maintain the highest standards with an experienced packaging partner. Sonoco customises technical training to meet your needs and properly equip line operators, technical team and quality department users.
Support your team with training on can and cap making. With handy pocket guides, wallcharts and other training resources, Sonoco supports your teams with best-practice advice and machinery technical training.
Lab Support
Maximise your business by using Sonoco’s extensive technical support. Our lab and technical experts support you throughout the entire process, offering:
- Shelf-life recommendations and food contact support.
- Process and thermal processing assistance.
- Palletization and can-handling audits.
- Root cause analysis.
- Trial and new product development support.