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Three numbers decide whether it seals

The bore of the bottle neck, the interference between cap and neck, and how far the cap seats before it bottoms out. Get those right and the cap seals with a push; get them wrong and no amount of extra wall will help, because a cap seals by elastic recovery against the bore, not by friction on the outside.

Glass necks vary between suppliers even within a nominal size, so the drawing should reference the bottle the customer actually fills. Where a range of bottles has to be covered, a tapered skirt absorbs the variation better than a straight one — at the cost of a slightly different feel.

Heat, set and the second wash

The compound is rated to 200 °C, which covers hot filling and a dishwasher cycle. The failure that matters commercially is not melting — it is compression set. A cap that recovers after the first wash and not after the fifth will start to weep in a customer's fridge, and the complaint arrives long after the shipment.

That is a compound and cure question, and it is why we ask what the cap will be washed in and how many times before quoting a hardness.

Claims that travel with the partFood-grade, heat resistance and reuse are the three claims buyers ask to see in writing — they belong in the material declaration, not only in the product copy.

Four stock colours are a working tool

Blue, pink, white and black exist because buyers use colour as a system: one colour per product line, one per allergen group in a catering kitchen, one per customer in a co-packing operation. It is a cheaper control than labelling and it survives a wash.

Where the colour is brand rather than function, it is a Pantone match and a bulk quantity — the tool does not change, only the pigment and the colour master we hold for the run.

Where these caps run

Bulk beverage and catering operations, baby food and purée lines where a plastic closure is not wanted, and logistics where the cap has to keep contents secure through transport. In each case the specification is the same three numbers plus the cleaning regime — what changes is the bottle.

Inside the skirt is where it sealsThe internal skirt provides the interference against the bore. It is the only part of the cap that has to hit a tolerance, and it is the part nobody photographs.

Dongguan Bohao Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. IATF 16949:2016 / ISO 9001:2015 certified. Values are typical for the compound or platform described; the approved drawing and sample govern production.