How to differentiate between suitable metal closures

With an emphasis nowadays on the environment, metal cans and metal caps provide the much needed visual appeal to your packaged product with an extended shelf life. With advances in technology these metalclosures now allow the customer to open your product with various easy-open options. Many easy open ends supplier specifications will leave you confused. Here are a few metal closures to help you deal with that confusion:

• Continuous Thread (Plastisol-lined and standard): This metal cap provides the best sealing properties and extends shelf life. The product is best used on glass jars or bottles as it is compatible with vacuum sealing or otherwise options and is used extensively in various cooking sauces, ready meals and soups, dry food, preserves, pet food, meats and sausages, powdered drinks, etc.
• Eco Cap: This metal closure is usually used with items that require hot and cold aseptic filling like dairy products, fish and seafood, pickles and preserves, fruits and desserts, confectionery, juices and drinks, pet food, etc.
• Flex: This is best used for non-vacuum easy application that allows resealability with pressure sensitive or adhesive seal to protect products like confectionery, powdered drinks, nuts and dry foods.
• Orbit Closure: This closure is suitable for glass jars that have to undergo sterilization and pasteurization like dressings, condiments, cooking sauces, vegetables, preserves, spreads, etc.
• Press Twist: These are best for products that need easy-open convenience like baby foods, nutritional and health drinks, dairy products, etc. that need a reseal after use. They can be used for hot fills, sterilized and pasteurized items and can be applied at very high speeds.
• Twist: This is the easiest to use from a customer’s viewpoint and provides an excellent sealant that increases shelf life of the product. It is suitable for hot and cold filling of various food and beverage packaging applications and also compatible with pasteurization and sterilization applications.

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