Comparison of Mooncake Boxes Made of Different Materials

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals which symbolize reunion, people often gather together to enjoy the moon, flowers, drink tea and eat moon cakes. The three to five months before the Mid-Autumn Festival are the most busy time for mooncake merchants. It will take several months to order raw materials, make mooncakes, select and customize mooncake packaging boxes, etc.

Mooncake boxes have many different materials like paper box, plastic box, wood box and tin box. What are the differences between them? Color Can will answer the question for you.

Paper box

The paper box is cheap, but the disadvantage is that the material is soft, which can not prevent the moon cake from being squeezed and deformed during transportation, it is not moisture-proof, and it is easy to be damaged after wet water;

Plastic box

The price of plastic box is cheap, light weight is convenient to carry, but the impact of plastic material is severe and easy to crack, it looks a little cheap and not high-end enough;

Wooden box

Wooden box gives people the feeling of the most high-grade, it also has enough hardness, can protect the moon cake from squeezed deformation, but the disadvantage is that the price of wooden box is high, the weight is heavy, if there is no good pest treatment, the follow-up may also appear the problem of moth;

Tin box

The price of tin box is between paper box and wooden box, the enough hardness can protect the moon cakes from being squeezed, plus exquisite printing can give a high-grade feeling, and the sealing of tin box is higher than other materials, can be insect proof, moisture proof, dust proof and corrosion prevention.