Will glass bottles disappear in beverage package market in the future?
The glass is a kind of packing material having a long history and glass bottle is also a kind of traditional beverage package container. Under the circumstance of multiple package materials flooding into market, the glass bottle still plays an important role in beverage package market, because it has characteristics, which cannot be replaced by other package materials, but the application amount of glass bottle in beverage package market begins to greatly decrease even gradually withdraw from the beverage package market.
The application amount of glass bottle in beverage package market begins to greatly decrease due to large dead weight, being easy to damage, expensive transportation expenses, poor secondary processing performance such as printing. Nowadays, there are basically no beverages packed in glass bottles on shelves of hypermarkets, and cheap carbonate beverages, soymilk and herbal tea packed in glass bottles can be seen in places of low consumptive power only, such as school, small shop, canteen and small restaurant, etc. It is possible that glass bottles will disappear in beverage package market in the future.