Unchanging attachment to glass packaging
All things pass away, all things change, all prices fall. Five hundred years ago, glass beads bought Cortés passage to Mayan lands, and now glass jewelry is cheaper than high-quality coffee. There was a time when glass vials were the privilege of court perfumers, and later the most ordinary glass bottles were filled with fresh milk and appeared every morning on the porches of houses in the suburbs.
The golden era of glass is over - for quite obvious and reasonable reasons - it is increasingly being replaced by plastic. Despite the constant "swing" of trends and materials, there will always be those who will not be able to resist glass packaging.
The reason why glass has been successful in many industries for thousands of years is due to its physical and aesthetic characteristics:
- Gloss and transparency that make the glass packaging a decoration in itself;
- The glass is hygienic, chemically neutral, able to retain the initial taste and smell of the product and provides strong protection against the damaging effects of sunlight;
- Glass bottles and vials make customers subconsciously assume the superior medicinal properties of the product inside;
- Environmentally friendly: glass packaging is reusable and recyclable and can be easily separated from other types of waste.
At the same time, there are only two significant disadvantages of glass: fragility and expensiveness (especially in transportation due to its high weight). Some people add possible manufacturing defects and unit weight to this list. However, defects appear in all types of packaging. Massiveness, in turn, seems to be treated as solidity in the perception of customers, which is rather a great advantage.
