Custom Vape Cartridge
Packaging Manufacturer
Boxes, tubes, tins, clamshells, and mylar bags for 510-thread and proprietary vape cartridges — hardware-protecting cavities, tamper-evident seals, and full-color printing that makes your brand impossible to counterfeit. Factory-direct from Guangzhou, DDP to your US or Canada warehouse.
510-Thread & Custom Fit · MOQ 500 · 10–20 Day Production
Vape Cartridge Packaging Formats
Six formats engineered around the specific dimensions and fragility of vape hardware — from the high-volume standard box to the premium unboxing experience that justifies a top-shelf price point.
Die Cut Vape Cartridge Box
SBS paperboard box with a formed cavity insert that holds the cart upright, thread-up, with no movement. The cart doesn't shift during shipping, so it arrives with the mouthpiece intact and the oil level where it should be. Full-color CMYK exterior, window die cut to show hardware through the front panel, and a compliance text zone pre-mapped for your state. The format that covers 80% of the vape retail market.
Child-Resistant Tin Box
Tinplate box with a custom foam or EVA insert that suspends the cart in position. Recyclable and reusable — customers keep the tin, which means your brand stays in their space after the product is finished. CR lid with ASTM D3475 certification. Offset printing directly on the lid and body surfaces in up to 10 colors. The premium alternative to cardboard for top-shelf positioning.
Clamshell Blister Packaging
Thermoformed clear PET blister bonded to a printed card backer. The cart is fully visible from the front — no need to open anything to see the hardware, the oil color, and the fill level. CR snap-lock hinge on two sides. The format borrowed from pharmaceutical and electronics retail that gives cannabis vapes the same shelf credibility. Printed card handles all compliance text and strain branding.
Pop Top Vape Tube
Slim-profile PP tube with a CR side-squeeze pop cap, precision-molded to fit the body of a 510-thread or custom cart. The cart drops in thread-first, cap seals the mouthpiece end — nothing touches the ceramic coil. Pantone-matched body color with silk-screen logo printing. The most compact vape packaging format, and the lightest for e-commerce shipping where dimensional weight pricing matters.
Vape Mylar Bag
Heat-sealed multi-layer foil pouch for single or multi-cart packaging. The oil aroma is fully contained — important for carts with high-terpene profiles that off-gas through poorly sealed packaging. CR zipper option for formats the customer opens and reseals. The right choice for e-commerce-first brands or markets where individual cart labeling is required and the bag carries the full compliance panel.
Luxury Rigid Vape Box
Thick-wall rigid board wrapped in art paper, with a magnetic closure or ribbon pull and a custom EVA insert that cradles the cart. Gold foil stamp, soft-touch matte lamination, debossed logo. The box that changes what a customer is willing to pay for the cart inside it. Used by premium single-strain brands and limited-edition collections where the packaging cost is part of the product margin calculation, not an expense.
Vape Cartridges Are Fragile Hardware. Their Packaging Has One Job.
Protect the thread. Protect the coil. Protect the oil level. Everything else — branding, compliance, shelf appeal — builds on top of that foundation.
Cavity Inserts That Hold the Cart Still
A vape cart that shifts inside its box during shipping arrives with a loose thread, a cracked mouthpiece, or an oil level that's migrated to one side. Our formed paperboard, EVA foam, and thermoformed plastic inserts hold each cart in a fixed position — thread orientation, mouthpiece clearance, and body angle all spec'd to your hardware dimensions. The cart arrives the way it left the filling line.
Tamper-Evident Seals — Because Vape Counterfeiting Is Real
The vape market has a counterfeiting problem that no other cannabis format has at the same scale. Tamper-evident shrink bands, holographic labels, breakaway closure tabs, and QR-linked batch verification make your packaging physically difficult to replicate and instantly identifiable as authentic. We build these features into the packaging structure, not as an afterthought add-on. Your dispensary partners notice. Your customers notice. Counterfeiters notice most.
Window Panels — Let the Hardware Sell Itself
Customers buying premium carts want to see the hardware before they buy. A window die cut with clear PET film lets the cart body, oil color, and fill level be visible from the front of the box without opening anything. Budtenders use the window to show customers without removing product from display. It reduces handling, reduces returns, and increases perceived quality — all from one structural decision.
Compliance Zones Pre-Mapped, Print Hard to Copy
Vape packaging compliance in California, Colorado, and Canada requires specific warning symbols, THC content declarations, and child-safety text at regulated minimum sizes. Our design team maps these zones into your dieline before you finalize artwork — so the box is audit-ready at production, not revised after a regulator flags it. Full-color CMYK with Pantone spot matching, UV spot varnish, foil stamping, and soft-touch lamination all add visual complexity that counterfeiters can't easily replicate on a cheap printer.
Why Vape Brands Source Their Packaging from Hemployd
The vape market moves fast. Brands that win are the ones who can get new packaging in 10–20 days, not 60.
CR Docs Ship with Every Order
ASTM D3475 certification ships standard with every CR-closure packaging order. Your compliance team has what they need before the product hits the shelf — not when a regulator asks for it.
Cavities Spec'd to Your Hardware
Send us your cart dimensions and we engineer the insert cavity to match — standard 510-thread or proprietary hardware. No rattling, no shifting, no thread damage in transit.
10–20 Day Production
Faster than most US-based packaging suppliers. Stock insert formats ship in 10 days. Custom cavities and specialty finishes take 15–20. 3D mockup in 24 hours, physical sample in 5–7 days.
DDP to US & Canada
Export, customs duties, and last-mile delivery handled. FSC and SGS documentation included. Your boxes arrive at your warehouse cleared and ready to assemble — zero customs surprises.
Vape Cartridge Packaging Specifications
All formats custom-sized to your cart hardware. Standard 510-thread cavities are available off-the-shelf — custom proprietary hardware cavities take 5–7 extra days for tooling.
| Format | Hardware Fit | Material | Insert Type | CR Certified | Branding Options | MOQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Die Cut Box | 510-thread / Custom | SBS 300–350gsm / Kraft | Paperboard cavity / EVA foam | Optional CR closure | CMYK + Pantone · Foil · Matte · Window | 500 pcs |
| CR Tin Box | 510-thread / Custom insert | Tinplate 0.23mm | EVA foam / custom shaped | Yes — ASTM D3475 | Offset / Screen · up to 10 colors | 500 pcs |
| Clamshell Blister | 510-thread / Custom cavity | PET thermoform + SBS card | Formed PET cavity | Yes — CR snap hinge | Card: CMYK + Pantone | 1,000 pcs |
| Pop Top Tube | 510-thread standard | BPA-free PP / Custom color | Molded body cavity | Yes — side-squeeze CR | Silk screen / Pantone body | 1,000 pcs |
| Mylar Bag | Single or multi-cart | PET+Foil+PE / Kraft | None / heat-sealed | Optional CR zipper | CMYK up to 10 colors | 1,000 pcs |
| Rigid Luxury Box | 510-thread / Custom | Rigid Board + Art Paper | EVA / Blister / Foam cavity | Optional CR insert | Foil · Emboss · Soft-touch · Deboss | 500 pcs |
Anti-Counterfeit Features Available on Every Format
The vape market has a documented counterfeiting problem. We offer tamper-evident shrink bands, holographic security labels, QR-linked batch verification, UV-reactive inks visible under blacklight, and serialized pack codes that can be scanned and authenticated. These features can be added to any packaging format and are priced per-unit — ask for a quote that includes your preferred anti-counterfeit combination.
Ask about anti-counterfeit options →From Hardware Dimensions to Delivered Boxes — 5 Steps
Send us the cart. We build the cavity that fits it. Everything else follows.
Share Hardware Specs
Send us your cart dimensions — thread type, body diameter, length, mouthpiece style. We spec the insert cavity to hold it correctly in position. Standard 510-thread available off-the-shelf.
Send Artwork
Upload your brand design and compliance information. We build compliance label zones — THC declaration, warning symbols, batch number placement — for your target state or province.
3D Proof & Sample
Digital 3D mockup in 24 hours. Physical sample in 5–7 days — drop your cart in the insert, check the fit, confirm the closure and print. Sign off and production starts immediately.
Production & QC
Full production under ISO 9001 QC. Inserts checked for cavity dimensions, closures tested for CR function, print verified against approved color proof. ASTM docs prepared.
DDP to Your Door
Export, customs duties, and last-mile handled. FSC and ASTM documentation included in the shipment. You receive and start assembly. Done.
Complete Vape & Cannabis Packaging
The Cart Box Is One Part of Your Lineup
Custom Die Cut Boxes
Full-range die cut box manufacturing for cannabis products — concentrates, flower, edibles, and vape — FSC board, compliance zones pre-mapped, from 500 units.
Explore →Child Resistant Packaging
The full CR line — independently tested to ASTM D3475, PPPA, and ISO 8317 — covering vape, flower, concentrate, and edibles formats. Docs ready for every state audit.
Explore →Concentrate Containers
Custom concentrate jars and outer packaging for wax, shatter, live resin, and rosin — tamper-evident, smell-barrier, and available with matching die cut outer boxes.
Explore →What Vape Brands Say After the First Production Run
Four brands. Four different vape packaging problems. All of them solved before the second order.
"Zero damaged carts after switching to the formed insert."
We were getting about 3% damaged cart returns — loose threads, cracked mouthpieces — with our old flat-tray box. Hemployd's formed paperboard cavity holds each 510-thread cart in fixed position. First shipment with the new boxes had zero hardware damage reported. That 3% was eating our margin every quarter.
— J.M., Operations Manager · Denver, CO
"The window panel cut our dispensary returns by half."
Dispensary partners were opening boxes to show customers the hardware, then returning anything that got handled. We switched to Hemployd's window box — clear PET panel front, cart fully visible. Budtenders show without touching. Our return rate on the SoCal accounts dropped roughly 50% the first month. That's just a structural fix, nothing else changed.
— T.R., Operations Director · Los Angeles, CA
"The CR tin let us raise the price $12 per unit."
We moved our reserve single-strain line from a standard box to Hemployd's custom CR tin with a foam insert. Raised the retail price $12 — customers didn't blink. A few of them asked where they could buy the tin separately. The perceived value of the packaging carried the price increase without any change to the product inside.
— A.K., Brand Founder · Grand Rapids, MI
"ASTM docs and tamper seal cleared Health Canada in one review."
Health Canada's vape packaging requirements include tamper-evident features and CR certification documentation. Hemployd built the shrink-band tamper seal into the box structure, included the ASTM D3475 report with the first shipment, and provided the anti-counterfeit holographic label spec sheet our regulatory team requested. Cleared the review in a single submission — first time we'd done that without at least one revision cycle.
— S.L., Compliance Director · Vancouver, BC
Vape Cartridge Packaging Questions
What buyers ask before their first vape packaging order. Email us if yours isn't here — same-day reply.
Can you make the insert fit my specific cart hardware — not just standard 510-thread?
What tamper-evident and anti-counterfeit options are available?
Which format works best for e-commerce shipping versus retail display?
Do your vape boxes meet child-resistant requirements for California and Canada?
What is the MOQ and how long does production take?
Can I get the box and the cart's compliance labels from you in the same order?
Ready to Order Custom Vape Cartridge Packaging?
Send us your cart hardware dimensions, packaging format preference, and quantity. We'll spec the cavity, map your compliance zones, and have a sample on its way — usually within one business day of your inquiry.
Email Us
info@hemployd.com
Call Us
210-915-0457
Factory
Room 1203, No 37 Huanshi West Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China