Decoration & Printing

The company’s printing department can decorate round, flat and flat-oval bottles, and offer multi-pass printing of several colours to very tight tolerances, using both conventional and UV printing technology. Silkscreen offers bright, firm colours for striking designs.

Hot foil blocking machinery has been designed and built in-house to give the highest level of quality and capability for the blocking or banding of bottles, jars, tubes and the periphery blocking of caps. The company now has over 40 years experience of this process.

We can pad print across areas that are otherwise difficult to print or are heavily contoured, such as closures.

The company offers full 360-degree wraparound coverage on bottles of any shape and size using full-body shrink sleeve labels.

This offers pressure-sensitive, roll-fed, orientated labelling in all sizes. Equipment is engineered to ensure a high degree of accuracy and repeatability of label placement, including spot labels, base labels on jars, and wraparound labels on bottles and tubes.

We have developed an innovative method of producing an embossed effect by printing high-build varnish directly onto bottles. This gives a tactile textured embossed effect which adds a premium feel to the product.

We can offer almost any material finish which is technically possible, stretching boundaries to explore new techniques.

Here is a selection of some of the options available:

Appears to change colour when offered at different angles to a light source, giving a dual colour effect. Using a dark background colour, iridescent inks can be silkscreen printed onto the surface of containers.

Translucent bottle with a hint of colour.

These contain particles that are essentially transparent crystals of a high refractive index. The result is a silvery lustre, an iridescent effect resembling natural pearl.

A co-extrusion blow moulding process which offers an extremely highly-polished finish to HDPE bottles, giving a high-quality ‘premium’ feel.

The bottle is frosted to give it a ‘smoked’, hazy effect, reminiscent of acid-etched glass.

The bottle is frosted to give it a smoked, completely translucent effect, similar to a piece of iced glass.

A ‘stripe’ is put into the bottle allowing you to see the capacity of product, or alternatively put in a contrasting colour for decoration.

Gives a shiny, polished finish to bottles and tubes.

A co-extrusion blow moulding process that gives the plastic bottle a soft/rubbery feel.

The materials reversibly change colour with alteration in temperature.

Using silkscreen printing lacquer is applied to clear containers to simulate the appearance of ‘acid etched’ glass.

The ‘silk effect’ is achieved by a combination of lacquers. The effect can be created by a combination of dry offset printing and silkscreen printing, or just by silkscreen printing.

A co-extrusion blow moulding process using a PCTG outer with PP inner giving a clear-glass like appearance.

Achieved by a masterbatch additive of transparent crystals giving a soft metallic sheen.

A clear gloss lacquer which is silkscreen printed onto the product to give a distinctive high-quality appearance

A total PCR package. PCR PET and HDPE available at levels from 25-100% PCR with 100% PCR recyclable labels giving same high performance as non-recycled labels.

We are able to produce foil blocked caps in a range of standard colours – gold, silver, bronze and purple. Custom colours and designs also available. These eye-catching caps will add a touch of luxury to any toiletries and personal care product.