Need Hot Fill Bottles For Your Product? – MJS Packaging Has Your Solutions

When you need packaging for products that have to be hot-filled you have to be careful that the bottles that you select are impervious to the temperature changes. Bottles need to be strong enough to withstand the hot filling process that serves to sterilize the products and improves its shelf life without the addition of unnecessary preservatives. Hot filling also removes harmful organisms that can spoil the products and keeps the products sterile.

Bottles used for hot filling

Hot filling is used for products like juices, nectars, teas, flavored waters and isotonic drinks. The products are first pasteurized to remove any possible microorganisms and then hot filled into the desired bottles and then capped and turned on the side or upside down for complete sterilization and then rapidly cooled. However, a proper balance has to be maintained between the temperature and the time taken to fill the bottle and the temperature has to be constantly monitored as a drop in temperature can result in improper sterilization. Among the benefits of this process are:

· Shelf life of the product is extended from between six months and one year.
· No preservatives are used so product is as natural as possible.
· Taste, flavor, vitamins and other nutrients are preserved.
· PET bottles are cheaper and more cost effective than glass.
· PET and other plastics are lightweight and easy to transport and carry as they don’t break.

While glass bottles are traditionally used for hot filling, the growing popularity and reduced cost of plastic means that plastic bottle manufacturers are now making bottles of different plastics that can withstand the required temperatures without deforming or collapsing. PET bottles are very popular for the packaging of low acid juices, drinks and beverages and these have to specially be made in particular designs with panels that can expand and contract during the heating and cooling processes without deforming. Caps for these bottles too are made of heavier materials.

Whether you need hot filling or aseptic filling for your food and beverage products, come to MJS Packaging. We are well aware of all the packaging requirements of different products and can offer you our professional expertise and experience for complete solutions to all your packaging needs. We can source the hot fill bottles that you require and help you with the fill process as well.