Glass Bottle Manufacturing

Manufacturing top quality glass packaging containers with natural, recycle ans sustainable materials. Expert glass bottle manufacturer of custom glass bottles, wholesale glass bottles, personalized glass decorations. Our glass factory is well-equipped with modern facilities, skilful workers, and rigorious quality inspection standard to save real cost.

High-end Glass Bottle Manufacturers

Seekbottles is leading glass bottle manufacturer in China, with over 10 years experience in producing best glass bottles and jars, glass containers for worldwide clients. Inside Seekbottles glass factory, we combine quality raw materials for top-quality glass products. 

Premium glass bottles for liquor, wine and spirits, water, oil, beverages and drinking, glassware, food jars, glass medicine bottles. Customization and personalization services make your glass containers unique and outstanding on shelf. Developing custom glass bottles wholesale prices.  

Our glass factory pay special attention to sustainability,  endless glass recycling process to achieve a sustainable development.

custom glass liquor bottles manufacturing

Making Glass Bottles Process

The glass process from raw materials to shaped glass bottles includes mixing of raw materials, weighting and batching, melting, feeding, forming, annealing, quality inspection, safe-packaging. We turn raw materials to woderful glass packaging containers under high standard management.

glass raw materials

Step 1 - Mixing raw materials and cullet

The main raw materials used to produce glass are sand, soda ash, limestone. We mix the raw materials and combine with premium cullet. Batching raw materials and transferring into the melting furnace. 

glass material melting

Step 2 - Melting mixture into liquid

Batched materials will be turned into molten liquid glass when the melting furnace reaching up to 1600 Degree ℃. Applying auto-system to control melting, maxizing fuel efficiency, saving energy consumption.

cutting glass gobs

Step 3 - Cutting to feed molding machine

Once the melting liquid glass is cooled to unifomed temperature, the shear panels cut the melton glass into gobs. Automatically the gobs drop into refiners, then split out the gobs into forming mold machine.

forming and molding

Step 4 - Forming shapes and molding

The melton gobs are diverted into forming machine. Press-blow or blow-blow methods is introduced. The pre-formed bottle flip out from the bank mold into final mold to create desired glass containers.

annealing

Step 5 - Annealing

After the formed glass bottles released from the mold machine, they are reheated slow on the lehr, and gradually cooled. This process is annealing which will reduce the glass stress, avoiding shatter and break.

quality inspection

Step 6 - Inspection

Strict inspection will keep high-end glass bottles. Manual and automatic inspection are applied, eliminating defective glass containers. Rejected glass bottles will be back to re-melted and the process begins again.

glass bottle packaging

Step 7 - Packaging

Once the glass bottles passed the quality inspection, they will be well-packaged in warehouse. Those stocked glass bottles will be ready for customized surface decoration as requirements or shipment to customers directly.

FAQs For Glass Bottle Production

The cullet portion will affect the color of glass bottles.  For colored glass bottles, we add various chemical additives, like cobalt to blue bottles, oxidized iron chromate to green bottles

Our standard colors for glass bottles are various including clear transparent color, green, blue, and amber. As customer’s request, we offer special colored glass bottles for your products.

Standard shape for glass bottles is round or square, triangle shape. Bespoke custom glass bottles with unique shapes are according your customized bottle designs, like diamond shape, slim waist shape and other. Our customization specialists and custom model designers will discuss the design feasibility and function, to help make unique shaped bottles successfully.

The glass factory will keep running 24 hours and 7 day continuously. Because the furnaces need to keep burning otherwise the fire resistant blocks may break caused by shutting. 

Standard glass bottles and jars are widely used in the market by any bottling company, no extra mould cost, and standard bottles are stocked continuously at consistent quality bulk for sale at wholesale prices and fast delivery. 

Custom glass bottles are exclusively for one customer, bespoke bottle design for a specific product packaging. Brand owners especially premium wine and spirit, liquor, oil, water, cosmetics prefer customized glass bottles. Embossing, debossing, engraving and avaiable with custom models. For custom designed bottle production, there will be extra cost for bespoke molds, and minimum quantity from 10,000 to 300,000 depending on bottle sizes, colors etc. 

We offer a diverse bottle decorations for both standard glass bottles and custom glass bottles to help brand ownes to achieve higher recognition. High quality but affordable decorations include silkscreen printing, decal printing, hot-stamping, custom coating, 360° spray painting and gradient painting, frosting, etching, sandblasting, paperlabel and more. 

Quality Management

Quality is one of the core competences of trusted glass bottle manufacturers. We take advantages of quality control system, experienced inspectors, modern automic machines, skilfull frontiers to supply qualified glass bottle packaging.  

Test raw material

Qualified raw material is the foundation of high-end glass bottles. Buy premium raw materials from reliable suppliers at high standard. 

  • The purity of sand affect the transparency and color of glass products.
  • Soda ash makes the molten glass flow better
  • Limestone stabilize glass and make it resistant to chemicals.
  • Premium cullet makes glass bottles attractive and help furnace long-life.

Control production process

Use modern IS section lines, and automatic system to make sure normal production efficiently and produce glass bottles defect-free.

  • Regular maintained equipment and renew moulds to low defective output.
  • Focus on quality defects, analyse defect causes and solve defect problems, making efforts to improve quality continiously.
  • Aim to producing qualified glass bottles to exceed your quality expectations.

Train employees with skills

Producing qualified glass bottles is a team efforts requiring skilful line operators as well as experienced technicians.

  • High standand regulations for employees, salary-oriention management
  • Fair competition to increase worker’s attention on quality.
  • Regular training course to make our line operators gain all skills.
  • Work together to achieve your quality satisfaction. 

Inspect finished glass products

Quality inspection for finished glass bottles is important to keep high quality glass.

  • Implement rigiorous inspection system, apply both automatic and manual inspection
  • Experienced and responsible inspectors eminate defective glass bottles.
  • Only minor defected bottles will be delivered our from factory.

Automatic inspection on glass bottles by machine system

Lamp and visual inspection on glass bottles by inspectors