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Edit date:2022-09-27
Watercolor (pigment, artistic paint, oil paints) can render the multi-layered connotation and distinctive style of watercolor and ink painting. It is the material of choice for many children to make creative paintings and is an important tool used by many painting enthusiasts to create beautiful art paintings. Aluminum tubes have widely used in many industries for different usage. They are used in watercolors packaging too.
Why do pigment tubes need to be packed in aluminum tubes?
There are many packaging containers in the market: packaging tubes, packaging boxes, packaging bottles, and packaging cans, but we will find that many of the watercolors on the market are packed in squeeze aluminum tubes.
There are six most important factors that make customers choose aluminum tubes instead of fee aluminum laminated tubes (ABL tubes) or plastic tubes.
1. Aluminum tubes can be squeezed, which can squeeze the pigment very cleanly and with zero waste.
2. Aluminum is tough and light, ductile, good at preserving oil paints better.
3. Flexible Aluminum tubes will not have air backfill phenomenon, which better protects the unused pigment from pollution and the children do not squeeze the paint everywhere.
4. The price of aluminum tubes is cheaper than laminated tubes (ABL tubes) and plastic tubes. As stationery supplies, of course, customer hope that the lower the cost, the better, the product itself is not expensive to sell, and in the same quality situation, we’d like to save a point cost on a point.
5. Aluminum tubes have many different caps, standard screw cap, round cap, and octagonal cap, and many stores can hang the paint in a prominent position in the store for better sales.
6. Collapsible Aluminum tube use offset printing which is exactly printed according to the Pantone color number, it can be the same color printed with the color of the pigment inside completely, show exactly which color inside and it is easier to identify and review the product details from description image, especially for younger children. Also, the pigments look high quality when they pack in beautiful soft aluminum tubes. Children like them so much.
7. Aluminum collapsible tubes are green packaging products, for a large number of pigment tubes, using packaging aluminum tubes will better protect the environment and the earth.
What kind of capacity of aluminum tube is more favored by the end-users?
If you have learned to paint, you will have the same feeling. Sometimes there are too many volumes for watercolors, artist paints, and pigments, such as 5ml, 7ml, 10ml, 37ml, 50ml or 100ml.
But you will know bigger volumes like 50g, or 100g which cannot be used out at one time after opening, and will be easily dried up after a period of time, which is very wasteful! If you are a younger child learning to paint, those big volumes of paint can easily be played with by children everywhere, sometimes a classroom is full of paint marks, a bit messy! Therefore, it is more practical to have small aluminum tubes, like 5g, 7g, 10g, etc.!
Firstly, the small tubes are very convenient to carry!
If you want to learn to paint, sometimes you need to go out and paint a scene, and then you need to carry paper, board, brushes, paints and other painting tools, and the whole set of the package is a bit heavy. But if it’s a small aluminum tube packaging, it’s only 5g, 7g or 10g, so not only you can reduce the weight a little bit, but also you can bring a few more different colors according to your preference, which is very convenient. It is really a fine idea.
Secondly, the small tubes are not wasteful and are more environmentally friendly!
The aluminum tubes of pigment in small sticks can be used up easily after opening; and the aluminum tubes have good sealing, which can fully protect the pigment inside, so the pigment will not dry out or deteriorate easily. Therefore, it is environmentally friendly to use up or recycle the pigments at once!
Thirdly, the small pigment tubes are more versatile!
Small aluminum tubes, such as 5g, 7g, 10g, etc., can be sold as a single pigment, or as a set of multi-color, and can also be sold with other painting tools. More choices!
Painting is an artistic activity that can cultivate emotions and stimulate imagination. Therefore, a good pigment for the work, there is a kind of winged feeling! When you are creating your own works, you can respond to the national “green” concept, how perfect! The pigment aluminum tube is more practical to choose the small one!
Of course, some customers also choose the large capacity ones, which are more suitable for professional artists, such as 20ml, 30ml, 37ml, and 150ml. But the demand for these tubes is much smaller than the small capacity ones from our experience.
Our aluminium collapsible tubes can be produced in diameters of 13.5mm, 16mm, 19mm, 22mm, 25mm, 28mm, 30mm, 32mm, 35mm, 38mm, 40mm, with a capacity of 3.5ml to 200ml.
Beauty Sky Packaging is a professional manufacturer of empty aluminum tubes for watercolour, pigment, artist paint, and oil paint in China. Send us your inquiries or questions right now!
