Closure is Important: How To Cap your Bottles the Right Way

Closure is as important when it comes to emotional troubles as it is for packaging containers!

Your packaging is incomplete if the bottle top or container cork doesn’t serve the purpose it’s intended to. The use of closures isn’t always to focus on presentation but also to serve functionality.

Depending on the industrial requirements and the choice of product, the closure can be used to dispense product or seal the opening. There are two broad categories of dispensing and non-dispensing closures that cater to different industries.

However, when you talk about dispensing caps, a range of options open up for you. From spraying mists, to lug caps and pop-top containers, every product needs to be used differently and the closure must fulfill their needs.

Here are some closure choices that’ll help you decide how to cap your bottle the right way.

Non-Dispensing Closures

Continuous Thread

Manufactured from either metal or plastic, continuous thread closures come with various liner options. You may have seen them on jars of peanut butter or mayonnaise. The name is borrowed from the design which is a thread that continuously wraps around a given finish.

Lug caps

You may know this category as the common twist-off caps that need to be turned slightly to be taken off. They’re most compatible with containers having non-continuous threads. The lugs are on the inner surface of the cap, which fit with the thread to seal the container completely.

Phenolic Polycone Caps

Such closures are ideal for chemicals, essential oils and harmful acids which need to be sealed as tightly as possible. The phenolic caps have an LDPE cone that fits into the internal diameter of the bottleneck, offering a guaranteed closure without any risks.

Ribbed Closure

This cap has vertical grooves that are symmetrically lined on the outer surface for a better grip and ease of twisting. Such closures are commonly used on bottles containing highly viscous liquids that need to be tightly capped. They are mostly seen on snap-top closures, lotion pumps and others.

Dispensing Closures

Disc Top Cap

The cap design comes with a molded pressure point that when pressed reveals an orifice that pops up at the other end of the ridge. It’s mostly seen on cosmetic products and sunscreen lotions that are needed in small quantities.

Glass Dropper

With a plastic bulb on top and a glass pipette extending till the bottom of the bottle, glass droppers are supposed to dispense small quantities in the form of drops. The bulb can be pressed to eject the liquid filled in the pipette.

Snap Top Cap

With a hinged lid that can be opened as per need to squeeze the product on your palm from the orifice, snap top caps are commonly seen on hand sanitizer and shampoo bottles.

Trigger Sprayers

If you need to spray a product on a surface, in the form of a stream or mist, trigger sprayers are what you need to close the container.

If your product packaging lacks proper closures, check out our closure varieties. We have plastic dropper bottles and mini trigger sprayers on wholesale for your business needs.