The primary function of any bottle cap is to prevent spillage of products from the sealed bottle and to prevent contamination of the products. If you are thinking about what type of bottle caps to use for your bottle closure, you should know that not all caps are made equal. Bottle caps come in different materials and forms of closure, but some caps tend to be more popular than others, of course. 

The use of threaded plastic caps for bottle closure applications is prevalent in Australia. You have probably seen these caps on milk, soda and water bottles at your local retail stores or supermarkets, and on bottled products in many other places, like hospitals and drug stores. Here are a number of points to explain why you too should consider using these types of caps for your particular bottling closure application:

They are easy to open and reseal

This is perhaps the greatest benefit that threaded plastic caps have to offer consumers. Unlike other types of caps, which may require a special opener to open and reseal (like a screw cap wrench for opening and closing screw caps), threaded caps don't require such tools. Threaded caps can be opened and resealed by simply twisting or rotating the caps in the right direction.

They can be made tamper-proof

As a manufacturer of bottled products, you need to assure your consumers that your products have not been tampered with in any way once they leave the manufacturing plant. An effective way to achieve this is to seal your bottled products with threaded plastic caps. These caps will not only prevent contamination of the products by the cap material itself but also maintain a tight seal that should only be broken by the final consumer of the product. Usually, manufacturers often include a disclaimer that consumers should not pick any product with a broken seal from the shelf.

They can be accepted for recycling

Like other plastic products, threaded plastic caps have reuse potential. Though most plastic waste recycling plants do not accept these caps as recyclable waste, some private companies that use plastic caps may not mind recycling the old caps and using them as new closures for their bottling applications. A few manufacturing companies seeking new ways of contributing towards environmental protection may accept and recycle unwanted plastic caps to be used in new product lines.

As discussed above, you have plenty of good reasons to use threaded plastic caps for your particular bottling closure application and, it goes without saying that your bottlenecks too will need to be threaded — it takes two to tango! 

Contact a company like Ant Packaging for more information and assistance.