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Volume 10 – May 2005

Food Containers

Whether you are a large food supplier for supermarkets and convenient stores or operate your own farm stand, SKS has a great selection of food containers to meet your needs. Choose from plastic, metal, and glass food containers that may create the perfect look for your product.

If you are looking for the perfect bottle to package and market your salad dressing, consider our selection of clear glass salad dressing bottles. Try the traditional 8 and 16 oz clear glass salad dressing bottles, vinegar-style glass bottles with metal caps, or woozy bottles with plastic caps and orifice reducers. Apply shrink bands you can make your salad dressing bottles tamper evident, which offers added protection and integrity to the consumer.

We also have an extensive selection of plastic salad dressing bottles. Available in many attractive shapes and sizes, these plastic salad-dressing bottles may also work well with your special brand of marinades, hot sauces, and flavored oils. To prevent customers from over pouring your strong- flavored sauces, purchase orifice reducers to place in bottle mouths after filling them with your delectable dressings.

Try our wide range of glass sauce bottles and cap styles for packaging your barbecue sauce, chimichurri, chutney, curry, pesto, satay, steak sauce, vinegar, and more. These clear glass sauce bottles range in size from 5 oz to 16 oz, providing a variety of packaging options for retail and sample sizes.

If the task at hand includes packaging sauces and salsas or jams and jellies, SKS has the perfect glass jars for you. Many of our clear glass jars are available with metal plastisol lined caps. When properly heated, the liner melts and creates a hermetic seal with the glass jar as it cools. This ensures prolonged product freshness and offers your customers a tamper evident container.

Our glass and plastic honey jars may be just what you need to package raw, flavored and spun honey. In addition, we offer several bulk honey containers such as glass jugs and plastic pails for holding larger volumes of honey products. Read our honey jars press release here.

Preserve your summertime harvests with our canning and pickling jars. These clear glass canning jars range in size from 1.25 oz to 32 oz making them ideal for samples and large bulk quantities alike. Whether you're canning your homemade sauces and jellies or pickling vegetables from your prized garden or farm, SKS has a beautiful line of pickling and canning containers for both small and large end users! Read our canning jars press release here.

Whether you're packaging juices, coffee drinks, specialty waters or your favorite carbonated thirst quenchers, make your special blend stand out against the competition. Outfit your brew in our 16 oz clear glass beverage bottles and top them off with white or gold metal lug caps.

You're sure to find the perfect container for your oil & vinegar products at SKS! Our plastic oil and vinegar bottles come in an array of shapes and sizes. Offer your customers convenient, environmentally friendly packaging when you use our air spray bottles to house salad dressings or balsamic vinegar. These plastic bottles dispense a continuous fine mist spray without the use of gas propellants.

Stand out from the crowd by offering your olive oil and infused oils in our lovely glass olive oil bottles. Available in woozy, cylinder, and square glass bottle styles with black, gold, red, or white plastic screw caps, or earthy cork stoppers.

The possibilities for your next food packaging are endless with our extensive line of metal tins. Whether you're looking to package herbs & spices, candies and mints, or tea and coffee, SKS is sure to have the right tin for your needs! Round metal tea tins with roll-edged lids and small square metal tea tins with snug see-through covers could be ideal for tea bags, loose tea leaves or whole coffee beans. Offer larger amounts of tea in tall silver metal cylinder tea tins with interior seal lids to keep your product fresh for the best brewed flavor.

Customers will keep your metal mint tins long after popping the last of the candy that came with them. Make the most of this lasting visibility by creating a line of collectible metal mint tins. Sell your delectable mints and candies in a wide variety of metal tins, such as hinge-top tins, slip cover tins, and rectangular slide top tins in all kinds of sizes.

Our selection of metal tins could also be excellent packaging for herbs and spices. Choose from round or square clear top tins, twist top tins, and slip cover tins. Capacities range from 1/4 oz to 16 oz so you're sure to find a tin that's a perfect fit for just about any seasoning! Try attaching magnets to the back of our tins and transform your refrigerator door into an easily accessible spice rack! Read our spice bottles press release here.

Our food containers are available in a large assortment of shapes, sizes and materials. Take a few minutes to browse our food container selection, if you can't find what you're looking for, feel free to e-mail us.

When choosing a food storage container or food packaging container for your product we suggest that you test the container with your product for compatibility, as always this step is important in providing the best suited package for your product.

Packaging Tip

Tamper Evident Shrink Bands

Offer your customers a tamper evident product by applying a shrink band to your container! Our shrink bands are made of clear PVC plastic, are .2 mm thick, and contain a vertical perforation for easy removal. Once the band has been removed it cannot be re-applied to the container. Simply slide the appropriate size shrink band over the container so it fits around the cap and opening of your bottle, tube or jar. Gradually heat the band until it shrinks fitting snuggly around the container. Be sure that your heat source is not too hot as it may result in uneven shrink band application or damage the actual packaging of your product.

In addition to the stock shrink bands listed on our site, we also have the capability to produce custom shrink bands and sleeves in unique sizes, colors and materials.

SKS Books

Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends

by Maggie Oster

This Herbal Book contains dozens of easy-to-make recipes that use herb mixtures and spice blends to create healthy, tasty dishes without a lot of added salt or fat.

Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends

Specials

16 oz Clear Glass Paragon Jars

These 16 oz clear glass paragon jars are now available at a special price! Try using these clear glass jars to package jellies, jams, herbs, pickled vegetables and more. Choose from a wide range of compatible caps when you select "Add-ons" on the product page.

Purchase 16 oz Glass Paragon Jars

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