When Are Fluorinated Bottles Necessary
Fluorinated bottles are used for certain products for the simple reason that though plastic is popular and has many benefits, without fluorination it cannot be used to package many products. Chemicals and solvents react with plastic and cause paneling and distortion of the bottles and so they are often packaged in glass. However, glass is expensive, shatters and is heavy in weight, making it more difficult to transport and increasing the damage proportion. Fluorinated bottles combine the benefits of glass with plastic, giving the packaging a double advantage.
What is fluorination and how does it help?
Fluorination is a barrier treatment wherein different kinds of plastic are exposed to elemental fluorine under controlled conditions, replacing the hydrogen atoms on the plastic with fluorine carbons. Thanks to fluorination, the plastic bottles can:
- Meet food industry standards and regulations.
- Prevent product loss.
- Prevent odor emission.
- Be non-reactive to chemicals and solvents.
- Be impervious to change of flavor or fragrance of the contents.
- Reduce weight loss of the contents.
- Obviate the possibility of product contamination due to packaging.
Fluorination treatment permits a range of plastics to be conveniently used to package different chemicals and solvents as the product does not react with the plastic and product integrity is preserved. HDPE, LDPE and PP can easily be fluorinated though PET cannot be fluorinated. Fluorinated bottles are used to packaged products like
- Heptane
- Hexane
- Cyclohexane
- Carbon Tetrachloride
- Toluene
- Trichloroethylene
- White spirit
- Petroleum
- Limonene
- Trimethylbenzene
- Pentane
- Xylene
- Naphtha
- Turpentine
- Lubricants
- Enzyme-containing detergents, shampoos and other cleaning products
- Fragrances
- Flavors
- Insecticides
- Herbicides
- Solvents
If you manufacture any of the above products or others that require to be packaged in fluorinated containers, you need to make sure that you use fluorinated bottles of the most appropriate plastic along with fluorinated closures.
For your requirements of fluorinated bottles come to MJS Packaging. We can offer you a wide range of plastic bottles that have undergone the fluorination process so that your product is safe, your bottles do not panel or distort and your packaging meets legal and regulatory compliance norms. If you are not certain whether or not your products need fluorination for the bottles you use, we can provide the right advice and also source the bottles and closures that you need to package your products.
