Benefits of Metalizing for Perfume Bottle Manufacturing

Perfumes have been one of the favorite cosmetics for people irrespective of their age, sex, etc.  We have always been happy to improve and enhance our scent and beauty with perfumes that deliver a wide variety of fragrances.

With more and more brands mushrooming in the perfume industry day by day, perfume packaging has also become a significant factor to increase business.  In terms of perfume bottle material, glass has been the choice for a majority of the manufacturers.  With the well-shaped curves and a high reflection power, glass perfume bottles have been considered of highly luxurious standards. 

Custom decoration on glass perfume bottle is a cost efficient way to make your perfume packaging stand out in a competitive market.  Among various decoration techniques, metallization is one of the most popular surface treatments that are chosen by top brands.

To better understand the uniqueness of perfume bottle metalizing, this blog post will discuss the process of perfume bottle metalizing, the different types of finishes available, and the great benefits of this kind of customized perfume bottle.  Let’s get started!

Metalizing is also called UV coating, it is a process of plating a thin layer of metal or alloy on the glass bottle’s surface, so as to play a protective role, improves wear resistance, conductivity, reflection, corrosion resistance and enhance beauty.

Interestingly, custom perfume bottles can be metalized with materials like gold, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, to give the bottle’s surface an iridescence or a more creative coating effect.

The process of custom perfume bottle metalizing involves heating up and evaporating metals in an air-free chamber until they condense on a rotating glass bottle surface. Once the process has finished, a protective topcoat is applied. It lengthens the glass bottles’ life expectancy since it has been sealed from water contact or corrosion due to air exposure.