The Status of Glass Bottles in Food Packaging

Glass bottle is a traditional beverage packaging container in China, and glass is also a packaging material with a long history. Despite the influx of many packaging materials into the market, glass containers still occupy an important position in beverage packaging, which is inseparable from their packaging characteristics that cannot be replaced by other packaging materials.

The main characteristics of glass packaging containers are: non-toxic, odorless; Transparent, beautiful, good barrier, airtight, rich and widespread in raw materials, low price, and reusable for multiple times. Moreover, it has the advantages of heat resistance, pressure resistance, and cleaning resistance, which can not only sterilize at high temperatures, but also store at low temperatures. Due to its many advantages, it has become the preferred packaging material for many beverages such as beer, fruit tea, and jujube juice. 71% of beer in the world is filled in glass beer bottles, and China is also the country with the highest proportion of glass beer bottles in the world, accounting for 55% of the global glass beer bottles, which have exceeded 50 billion annually. As the mainstream packaging of beer packaging, glass beer bottles, after a century of vicissitudes in beer packaging, are still favored by the beer industry due to its stable material structure, pollution-free, low price, and other advantages, “When companies want packaging to have a beautiful appearance and give a cool touch, glass bottles are the preferred packaging.”.