As designers and suppliers of glass bottles for beverages (wines, beers, soft drinks and spirits) and food items, we understand the importance of packaging meeting industry standards. The ease of meeting strict quality standards is one of the main reasons why many of our customers choose glass packaging for their products.
In this article, we’ll share how glass bottles meet industry standards and insights into our quality process.
What Standards Should Glass Bottles Adhere With?
The UK government has a set of packaging regulations that all glass bottles must meet. The purpose of this is to balance both safety and sustainability, so suppliers who don’t meet the criteria will find themselves without places to sell their products.
Alongside the UK government regulations, below are some other standards that glass bottles used for good and beverage packaging must adhere to:
- ISO 719: Hydrolytic resistance of glass.
- ISO 7459: Resistance to internal pressure.
- BS EN 14634: 2010
- BS EN ISO 12821: 2015
- BS EN 14635: 2010
- BS EN 14854: 2005
- BS EN 14798: 2005
- BS EN 14887: 200
Key Features in Glass Bottles That Ensure Industry Standards Are Met
All of the standards that we’ve listed above are important as they focus on maintaining the quality of stored items, the safety of interacting with packaging and the ability to withstand the impacts of shipping. Glass offers the below qualities to make this type of packaging suitable for most food and drink items.
Quality Glass is Durable
One of the key qualities that food and beverage packaging must encompass is being robust enough to protect the internal contents through various conditions. Quality glass is a chemically and physically stable material which often passes safety testing.
Consistency in Production
Another quality that packaging must meet to pass industry standards is offering consistent production once the initial design has been approved. As glass is a robust material, this is easy to guarantee as accurate dimensions can be easily replicated through mass production lines.
Glass is Impermeable
As glass cannot permeate, the condition of contents being stored is able to be maintained for a long period of time. This means that industry standards relating to the storage of products can be easily met as internal conditions within glass bottles will not be subject to influences such as oxidation from coming into contact with air.
How Does Croxsons Ensure All Glass Bottles Meet Industry Standards?
At Croxsons, we have a long history of designing and producing glass bottles which align with various industry standards. Thanks to our strict quality controls, testing and constant awareness of changes to industry requirements, we ensure every bottle that we supply is ready to use for food or drink contents.
Click here to learn more about what we do, and check out our industry-compliant glass bottles.