The glass bottle is a long-time favorite for storing, preserving and dispensing a wide range of liquids and solids. It’s an ideal packaging option for beverages, foods and other products because it is both attractive and durable, preserving the integrity of the contents inside. Glass is also an environmentally friendly packaging option, with recycled glass making up 80% of the world’s production. Here at MJS Packaging, we offer a wide selection of glass bottles to choose from, including premium bottle options that can be customized with your company’s logo and information. We have a wide selection of colors, capacities and neck finishes to suit any product, brand or occasion.
Before a glass container is made, it must undergo a rigorous inspection. Multiple high-resolution cameras in machines that can scan up to 800 containers a minute watch for defects, including holes or cracks in the wall of the bottle. In addition, Visy Glass experts manually and visually inspect random samples to ensure quality.
Once the glass passes inspection, it’s ready to be formed into bottles and jars. The glass manufacturing process begins with quartz sand, soda and lime, with 5% oxides added to improve the physical and chemical properties of the final product. Glass containers are usually made from soda-lime glass, which is an inexpensive choice, but other types of glass are available.
A glass bottle is shaped using one of two processes, either by press and blow or by the blow-molded process. The former involves cutting a gob of molten glass with a blade that is perfectly timed so the resulting slice of glass has the perfect weight to be fed into a machine that will shape it. Pressure from the machine creates the neck finish and basic glass bottle shape, which is known as a parison. The parison is then transferred to a final mold that gives the container its specific shape, and the final glass bottle is made by releasing the pressure from the mold.
Glass bottles are a popular choice for both consumers and businesses. They are an eco-friendly packaging solution because they can be reused over and over again, preserving the original quality of the contents and protecting them from external factors like sunlight and oxygen. The glass itself is nonporous, which helps prevent odors and germs from sticking to the bottle. In addition, most glass bottles are BPA-free, which is important because many plastics can leach potentially harmful chemicals into their contents.
Glass is a safe alternative to plastic because it’s 100 percent recyclable and can be recycled indefinitely without losing its quality. Currently, 80 percent of the world’s recycled glass is used to make new bottles and jars. It’s an efficient, cost-effective and eco-friendly packaging option for the food and beverage industry.