Minimum order is 1,000 boxes and the major markets are the UK, Germany and France. The company has a 300-worker factory in Guangzhou, on the mainland, turning out 200,000 gift, jewellery and watch boxes a month. Universal Metal Plastic Trading Ltd concentrates on boxes for jewellery and watches. It offers boxes that resemble a traditional round chocolate box decorated with red snakeskin-style covering and a neat red ribbon. Another is fashioned like a small antique wooden box, hinged, and has a metal button clasp.
Materials are plastic, leatherette, pigpell and flock.
Minimum order is 100 dozen items per design and delivery takes 35 days. The company has a 1,500-worker factory in Guangdong, on the mainland, turning out about three million boxes a month for markets worldwide. One company offers tins made of Promica, a material developed by British Steel. The kind of treatment we give is to varnish the sheet to protect against rust. We produce around 500,000 tins a month and market all over the world.