The three locks
Button slider: a button on the face has to be held down while you push the tray out. Let go and it locks again.
Metal slider: a pair of tabs sit in recesses in the sleeve. You squeeze the sides to lift them clear, then slide. Nothing to press, and nothing that can be pressed by accident in a bag.
Click and lock: a latch hidden under a sliding plate. Move the plate, then the tray. It is the flattest of the three.
Why sliders suit flat products
Because the pack can be genuinely thin. There is no lid to swing and no closure sitting on top, so the whole thing is the height of what is inside it plus the metal.
That is why pre-roll multipacks and cartridge packs end up as sliders. A flat pack ships better, stacks better on a shelf and fits in a pocket.
Which one to pick
Button slider if the pack will be opened one-handed a lot. It is the quickest.
Metal slider if it lives in a bag or a pocket, because there is no button to catch on anything. It is also the widest size range we hold.
Click and lock if thinness is the whole point of the pack.
The tray is the design opportunity
The tray is what a customer sees first, and it is the part most brands forget to think about. A moulded channel that holds five pre-rolls apart reads completely differently to five loose ones.
Inserts drop into the tray and are specified separately, so you can change what goes inside without retooling the tin.
Hold one before
you specify it.
Tell us what you're packing and we'll send the formats that suit it.