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Find answers to your most common queries about our services and processes. Discover more about our services, work process, and more in our comprehensive FAQs.
Find answers to your most common queries about our services and processes. Discover more about our services, work process, and more in our comprehensive FAQs.
Yes! Designing and Manufacturing custom glass bottles is our specialty! We work with entrepreneurs looking to start up their very own liquor brand, to fortune 500 companies looking to minimize product cost.
Although most of our customers choose to go with a truly custom designed bottle they have had part in creating, occasionally we do assist customers requesting a pre-designed bottle.
We would not personally do it, and I would never recommend this since many designs in the marketplace especially the custom looking bottles have either a copyright, or design patent and you will only get into trouble later when you have already wasted money in tooling and production. Since it costs nothing extra to do your own design why waste the time coping someone else’s.
“Super Flint” is the highest grade of all glass, it has various names like “Crystal Flint” but what sets this glass apart from all other glass is its clarity and brightness. Nearly all high end Brandies, Cognacs, Gins, and even Vodkas will use this type of glass. This is a grade of glass we are very familiar with, because customers want this type of glass for their bottles.
Basically most manufacturer will want you to order at least one 40’ Container of glass which equates to 22,000 to 25,000 of a 750ml bottle. Obviously a smaller bottle would be a bigger quantity (375ml = 40,000) and a larger bottle like a 1.75L bottle might be only 11,000 pieces in a 40’ container.
Each bottle decoration/ label is unique, and for the best answer to this question we would always recommend to simply give us a call so we can advise you of the most cost effective way for you. For Example: If you are doing a paper or plastic label, then I would say no as the pricing in the USA, and China are very similar. However if you want to do a silkscreened or baked on logo then China is definitely the way to go saving as much as 40-60% having this done in China.
This is probably the most common question we get as a result of a big problem years ago with a toy manufacturer who had lead in their paint. Ever since this incident the Chinese government has come down hard on any company using lead. Some glass bottle companies will tell you lead is no big deal especially if it is on the outside of the bottle, but it is a big deal so you need to make sure you know who you are dealing with. Here is an article that discusses it http://www.packaginglaw.com/2895_.shtml I can assure you that all of our glass and decoration meets all USA guidelines, and we even take it one step further by providing a “Health Certificates” and or a “FDA Certificates” from an independent lab with each shipment.
This is where we are very different than most US companies that do business in China, in that we have our own full time engineering and quality control staff in both our Shanghai and Shenzhen offices. The whole purpose to having our own staff in China is to catch the problem in China not LA or NY. We have a quality assurance guarantee to make sure that our customer satisfaction is always 100 percent.
The pat answer would be Yes, but we know for a fact that over 50% of distilleries to not wash bottles at all, and the most common way they clean them for dust is to blow air into them, and use a vacuum system to suck out any particulates. This is why we pack the way we do and use shrink warp since we know washing is not as common as we would like.
Yes we do a variety of both custom and standard closures from screw top to cork tops. We will be happy to help you design your very own custom top for your custom bottle.
Yes, our team has extensive experience managing both small and large-scale manufacturing projects. We can do from 1-50 containers depending on your needs
You will be communicating directly with one of the owners at BIC
Tooling is payable 100% up front since this is custom made for you . But it is a very reasonable $4,500 fo a ocmplete set of production tools
Typically we charge 50% with the order and the balance when we deliver.
With over 40 years experience and a full Quailty Control Tem in China we will make sure you get the quality you demand.
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