Glass bottles for juice

Thanks to its mechanical and chemical resistance, glass is an ideal material for returnable containers. Individual bottle types can reach up to 50 cycles.
Because of its barrier characteristics, glass is quite important in the beverage and food industry. Its absolute resistance as to possible permeation between environment, bottle sidewall and inner atmosphere provides maximum safety for storing beverages that are sensitive to oxygen. Any other interaction between glass and product could be interdependent with the migration of beverage components into the bottle wall and – with returnable bottles – back into the product after cleaning. As glass behaves with absolute neutrality and does not yield any substances to the content of the container, nor absorb components thereof, the possibility of interactions can be ruled out.*
The juice industry as well appreciates these properties of glass. The brown colour of the bottles optimises UV protection and assures the high quality of the juices. Depending on the listing of the juice product involved, the glass bottle is an interesting alternative to composite board, PET or HDPE packaging.

* Footnote: Extract from chapter 4.1.1 "Glass containers", Manual of Filling Technology – The Theory and Practice of Filling Liquid Products, ISBN 3-89947-089-3