Beatson Clark Launches New Glass Decorating Service

We’ve been manufacturing quality glass bottles and jars for over 270 years, and we are pleased to announce that we are also now offering a premium in-house decoration service.

Thanks to our new state-of-the-art facility we can now spray glass packaging any colour and achieve dazzling effects such as opaque, frosted, glitter, vignette, and pearlescent.

What’s more, we can offer a flexible service by decorating glass containers provided by the customer, subject to suitability, as well as our own range of bottles and jars.

“Thanks to the latest cutting-edge technology and innovation, we can create premium, eye-catching effects that can elevate a brand and leave a lasting impression with the consumer,” explained Richard Pike, Decorating Plant Manager at Beatson Clark.

“Our new decorating plant is just the latest major investment we’ve undertaken to strengthen our status as an independently owned market leader and to ensure that customers get the highest quality service and products.

“As always, we aim to provide maximum flexibility to give our customers the best possible result, and bringing this service inhouse increases the control we have over our supply chain.”

The new decorating plant uses both an electrostatic disc and a spray gun method to achieve a variety of colourful effects, with a quality finish.

It uses premium paint which ranges from high gloss to full matt, in a choice of translucency levels, and we can colour-match paint to suit the customer’s requirements.

We’re committed to sustainability and minimising environmental impacts, and our new decorating plant is no different.

The water-based paint we use is low in volatile organic compounds – harmful gases that are emitted into the air which can react with other gases and form air pollutants – and it’s organic, which means it’s made up of natural ingredients and contains very few or no chemical components.

To help improve shelf life of food, beverage and pharmaceutical products alike, we can also spray a UV coating to glass packaging to protect products from the harmful effects of sunlight, including light strike in beers, and changes to the colour and flavours of food products.

The electrostatic spray method is highly efficient and avoids unnecessary waste, and the finished sprayed bottles and jars can be fully recycled just like ordinary glass containers.

The fact that our new decorating plant is adjacent to our existing glassworks also means a reduction in transportation miles: less pollution, less congestion and less use of fossil fuels.

We will be introducing the array of effects available at this year’s London Packaging Week on 11th and 12th September where visitors can see a wide variety of sprayed samples on stand #G54.

To find out more visit www.glasscontainerdecorating.co.uk