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October 10, 2022

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Clint S. Rush

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Why Maintaining Beverage Product Integrity Matters

Having a consistent, high-quality product is important for any brand, and it’s especially critical for consumables such as beverage brands. While the formulation of the beverage itself obviously plays a large role in product integrity, so does the beverage packaging itself. Read on to discover why maintaining beverage product integrity matters so much and to learn how bottle caps from Closure System International contribute to beverage product integrity.

The Importance of Maintaining Beverage Product Integrity
Maintaining consistency over time and between product batches is essential, whether your brand sells bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, liquid dairy, malt beverages, juice, distilled spirits, beer, wine, or another type of non-carbonated beverage. The product must remain stable both in transit and on the shelf, providing the same taste, smell, appearance, and texture whenever a consumer buys one.

When consumers reach for their favorite bottled beverage in the grocery store or gas station, they want to know that it will taste and smell the same as it always does. If it doesn’t, they may throw the drink away and turn to another brand in hopes that it offers a more consistent experience. If this happens often enough, then your brand’s reputation and profits could begin to feel the effects.

The integrity of the packaging is a key factor in ensuring that every bottled drink provides a consistent consumer experience every time. It is also vital in keeping the beverage sealed and protected from potential contaminants, ensuring that the beverages meet industry safety standards from the FDA and other governing bodies. Reliable packaging also helps to prevent leaks and spills that result in the loss of product, frustrated consumers, and potentially cause slip and fall hazards as well.

How CSI Bottle Closures Promote Beverage Product Integrity
Clearly, maintaining beverage product integrity relies greatly on the packaging itself. But focusing on the bottle isn’t enough, because the integrity of the rest of the packaging doesn’t matter if the cap itself is faulty. Even if the bottle itself is sound, if the closure springs a leak, then the beverage could become flat, spoil and possibly be unsafe to drink. This creates a negative experience for the consumer and may potentially lead them to seek out other beverage brands permanently.

As such, having a reliable capping partner that can ensure closure integrity on nearly every product is crucial for maintaining overall packaging quality. At Closure System International, we specialize in designing and manufacturing a variety of bottle closure types. Unlike some other beverage packaging manufacturers who view caps as an afterthought, our primary focus is on designing these vital parts and creating capping machines for them.

With more than 90 years of experience, we are a leading global manufacturer and supplier of consumer beverage and foodservice packaging, with a specialization in caps and closures. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, we produce 50+ billion closures annually across our multiple manufacturing sites. The Who’s Who of the beverage industry trust our bottle caps and closures to maintain their product integrity.

While we pride ourselves on our engineering innovations and reliable service, we don’t stop there: We are also a leading pioneer in sustainable bottle caps and closures, both recycling plastic to create our closures and creating caps that can be recycled again. In fact, we even won the 2020 Caps & Closures Innovation Award for the bottle cap we designed for Coca-Cola’s best-selling Dasani bottled water brand, which uses 30% post-consumer recycled content (PCR). At CSI, we believe that you can design and manufacture sustainable bottle closures that still meet the highest standards of quality.

Want to learn more about how our bottle caps and closures can help your beverage brand maintain product integrity while meeting sustainability goals? Contact us today to discuss your bottle capping needs and to learn more about CSI’s closure capabilities.

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