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What is the Key Market Trends of Glass Packaging

MC Glass Bottle Products Company is your leading glass bottle manufacturer in China producing cusom glass bottles in a sustainable and trendy way. Wine, beer, oil liquor, rum and other spirits are stored in bottles for a reason.

The Glass packaging is considered as one of the most trusted forms of packaging for health, taste, and environmental safety. Glass packaging, which is considered premium, maintains the freshness and safety of the product. This can ensure its continuous usage, worldwide, across a range of end-user industries, despite the heavy competition from plastic packaging. Glass is considered “GRAS” or “generally recognized as safe” by the US Food and Drug Administration. It’s also 100% recyclable and can be reused endlessly with no loss in quality or purity.

When it comes to storing liquids, the best option is a glass bottle.  bottle will not contaminate the taste and let the liquid retain and maintain its flavor.

Plastics and metals can change the taste of their contents. In fact, this is just one of the reasons why people choose to use glass bottles instead of alternatives to plastic and metal bottles. When you are thinking to store water, glass bottles have many advantages over plastic.

Glass is free of contaminants

Most of us have had the unpleasant experience of drinking from plastic or metal bottles and trying something other than water. Sometimes it is as harmless as the peculiar smell of a bowl of water. However, the presence of harmful chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) can be dangerous for human consumption. Glass containers will not filter chemicals or absorb residual odors or flavors from other beverages.

Glass is easy to clean

Glass bottles are easy to keep clean and don’t lose transparency like plastic when washed or injected with fruit and vanilla mixes. They can be sterilized at high temperatures in the dishwasher without worrying about melting or degrading. This process eliminates possible toxins while maintaining the structure and integrity of the glass bottle.

Glass maintains proper temperature

When you have a set temperature, whether hot or cold, glass bottles are more effective at keeping liquids at a constant temperature than plastics. Glass can be used for liquids other than water without absorbing strange flavors, odors, or colors. This means that you can use a glass carafe for hot tea in the morning and the same water bottle for refreshing, refreshing water in the afternoon.

Glass is more environment-friendly

Most plastic bottles end up in landfills or water sources. Even recycled plastic materials don’t always go through the entire recycling process, further complicating plastics’ ability to become sustainable materials. Of the 30 plastics available, only 7 are generally accepted for recycling. On the other hand, all glass is recyclable and the only criterion for classifying glass is its color.

Most glass manufacturing uses post-consumer recycled glass, crushed, melted, and made into new products. Glass bottles are sustainable and can be recycled over and over again. They are made from a single sustainable material and can be recycled without losing their purity or quality. They can be made from new bottles or turned into raw materials. You can make a lot of things with recycled glass. They can be used for landscaping, flooring, countertops, and paving, to name a few.

What is Covid-19 Impact of Glass Packaging Industry

Glass packaging was considered an essential industry by most countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry is witnessing increased demand from the food & beverage and pharmaceutical sectors. There has been increased demand for glass packaging from food and beverage sector as well as the pharmaceutical sector as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to greater demand for medicine bottles, food jars and beverage bottles (source: Modor Intelligence).

Key Market Trends

The most Industries Severed Area is Beverage

Glass is one of the most preferred packaging materials for consumers who are concerned about their health and the environment. It is made from all-natural sustainable raw materials. Glass packaging preserves the product’s taste or flavor and maintains the integrity or healthiness of food and beverages.

For liquor packaging, traditional vodka, rum, whiskey companies expended the flavor, and the market share grows year by year. Some high level or premium vodka distillery are more likely to use innovative technologies for embossing, shaping, and adding artistic finishes to glass bottles. As a result, the final glass packaging is more desirable among end-users. Here is an example. The shape of glass bottle is traditional Oslo style, and the surface is frosted. Then using silk screen printing technology to display the customer’s the branding, capacity, ingredients, producer’s information, and the bar code. In that way, it is a designed customized glass bottle, which can attract the specific buyers.

frosted liquor bottle with corks

The global dairy industry has been witnessing a shift from plastic to glass bottles. Driven by consumer demand for environmentally friendly milk Diary companies such as MILK & MORE, and Parker Dairies have found a substantial increase in the demand for glass bottles as consumers are willing to pay a little extra for the service rather than the plastic, in their efforts to help the environment. Some organic milk producers are willing to package their milk in a custom designed glass bottle to show the priority quality of milk itself. Here is an example. The green color shows the milk is from natural, represents growth and renewal.

 

1L square milk bottle with printing

Greater Demand for Health and Beauty bottles like Soap Bottles

The most popular glass bottle packaging liquid soap is Boston round glass bottle with dispensers. That set bottle can be put in home, bathroom, office and anywhere else. People think home is the haven. So, the glass bottle should be beautiful, functional and sustainable.  Made from high quality glass and stainless steel, the liquid dispensers follow both form and function to add an elegant contemporary touch to any space. The pumps are multi-functional and can be used for most types of liquids, including but not limited to soaps, dish detergent, lotions, essential oils, mouthwash, sauces, and more. Each pump comes equipped with an extra-long tube to ensure that every drop has been used and nothing is wasted. The stainless-steel tips are designed to not only look good but also to ensure that there is no unwashed dripping when dispensing liquids. All the accessory is BPA free.

boston round bottle for liquid soap with trigger

Eco-conscious brands focusing on natural and clean beauty were among the first to turn to more sustainable packaging solutions. It has also become a keyway for independent, emerging luxury brands to make a statement about their mission and values. Now, the trend is beginning to expand to mainstream brands and luxury brands. they want sustainable, beautiful and functional packaging.

Growing Demand for Medicine Glass Bottles

The global pharmaceutical packaging demand surpassed revenues worth U.S. $75 billion in 2018. According to a new research intelligence outlook of Future Market Insights (FMI), the pharmaceutical packaging market is set to demonstrate healthy year-on-year growth in 2019, by more than 5%. Bottles, with the current share of over a third of market value, are expected to remain highly sought-after pharmaceutical product type. The report also highlighted that packer bottles continue to represent higher sought-after pharmaceutical product type.

amber tablet jars

To find more beautiful glass packaging solution, please source China glass bottle manufacturers. Our clients come from around the world including marketing served such as food and beverage, health and beauty, and pharmaceutical industrial. We service customers of all levels. Some clients are end user of distillery, coffee bar, juice bar and food drink restaurants and other customer purchasing volume quantities having filling line of craft beer, high-end Olive oils and liquor/spirits. We also serve medicine packaging industry providing quality consistency pill and tablet amber or frosted glass jars.