Made from sand, soda, ash and limestone, glass is the leading packaging material for spirits, wines and beer, as well as perfumery, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.
Glass offers a whole host of benefits: it’s sustainable, it’s inert, it’s 100% and infinitely recyclable, reusable and refillable. Not only that, but it’s safe to store food and drinks in – and it’s aesthetically pleasing.
Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled time and time again. In fact, glass is Europe’s most recycled food and beverage packaging material
Glass preserves may not be the most glamorous, but the human race would have had a much different story without them. From Napoleon to your dining room table, using glass to store and transport food is a technique that’s over 200 years in the making
This is the truth for the humble preserve jar, which despite advances in nearly every aspect of our daily lives, have remained largely the same over the last several thousand years. But how did they come to be, and why choose glass?
The story begins in 4000BC, as archaeologists have found evidence of manmade glass, although it was not until around 1500BC that the first hollow glass containers were made by covering a sand core with a layer of molten glass, thus allowing it to take on a shape for storing produce in.
HOW WE MAKE OUR DESİGNS
Since then, it’s been up and up for the glass preserve jar, finding its way into the homes of millions if not billions of people, but what makes it so enduring? Well, glass is a non-reactive material, meaning that produce that comes in to contact with it will never be altered or damaged via association with it. This is extremely important when preserving food, as you can imagine, and when sealed, a glass jar does not allow air to flow in and out of it, ensuring that your food remains perfectly edible and delicious for sometimes years on end and thanks to the versatility of the humble preserve jar, you can store pretty much anything at all – including your favourite jams!
Cam always fascinated me. It is very diverse and an integral part of many areas of life.
Glass Magic
Glass can also be artistic and has a wide range of different shapes, colors and types. It is a liquid before starting the process and will be as hard as stone at the next moment. It can be transparent, translucent or opaque. The color spectrum is almost infinite. Because there can be a myriad of shades and colors. It looks almost mystical, especially when the light falls.
Inspiration
Glass charm inspired our world. The appearance of the glass is quite diverse. It can be melted, deformed, sanded, satined, painted, scraped and much more.
In other words, glass is an inexhaustible material that always offers new possibilities and creativity.
