Mia Xu
Sales at SGSBOTTLE
Mia Xu works in sales. She reviews the introductory glass packaging guides and the decoration guides — the ground a brand covers before it commits to a first pallet.
Articles written
Guides reviewed
- Glass vs PET: 6 Factors That Decide Your Packaging
- Glass vs Aluminium Cans: 6 Trade-Offs for Your Brand
- Amber, Green or Clear Glass: What 3 Colours Block
- Fired Print vs Label: 5 Ways They Differ on Glass
- Soda-Lime vs Borosilicate: 4 Differences That Matter
- Glass Batch: 5 Raw Materials and What Each One Does
- Cullet: How 30% Recycled Glass Changes Your Melt
- Glass Furnaces: How 2 Sites Decide Your Colour
- The Gob and the Feeder: Where 1 Setting Fixes Weight
- The IS Machine: 6, 8 or More Sections Making Your Bottle
- Blow-and-Blow Forming: The 2-Stage Narrow-Neck Process
- Press-and-Blow and NNPB: 2 Ways to Lighten a Bottle
- Parison and Wall Distribution: 4 Places Glass Runs Thin
- Glass Mould Construction: The 4 Parts and Where Seams Fall
- Embossing on Glass: What a Mould Can Hold at 1 mm
- Hot-End Coating: The 1 Layer That Keeps Bottles Strong
- Cold-End Coating: Why 1 Scratch Costs Strength for Good
- Glass Colour Chemistry: What 4 Metals Do to Your Light
- Frosting Glass: 3 Methods, Bands and Gradients
- Spray Coating Glass: 4 Things Coloured Glass Cannot Do
- Screen Printing on Glass: Ceramic Ink and 4 Artwork Rules
- Decals on Glass: The 4 Steps a Screen Cannot Match
- Hot Stamping Glass: Foil, Dies and the 3 Panel Rules
- Electroplating Glass: How the Metal Layer Bonds in 3 Stages
- Labelling Glass: 3 Adhesive Systems and Surface Energy
- Artwork for Glass: 5 Checks Before You Send the File
- Bottle and Jar Size Chart: oz to ml Across 11 Formats
- 8 oz in ml: 237 ml, and Why the UK Number Is 227
- 750 ml in oz: 25.4 US Ounces and 26.4 Imperial
- 12 oz or 355 ml? The North American Beverage Size
- Nominal, Brimful and Fill Point: 3 Volumes, One Bottle
- 16 oz in ml: 473 ml, and Why a Pint Has 2 Sizes
- 1 Litre in oz: 33.8 US Ounces and Where It Is Used
- 250 ml in oz: 8.5 Ounces, and Not an 8 oz Jar
- Headspace: The 4 Jobs That Empty Volume Is Doing
- Hot Fill, Cold Fill and Aseptic: 3 Routes for Glass
- Pasteurisation and Glass: Tunnel, Batch and 3 Limits
- Nitrogen Dosing: 3 Things a Gas Headspace Buys You
- Capping Heads: 3 Types and Why Glass Jams a Line
- Line Speed and Glass Handling: 4 Places Bottles Get Hurt
- Labelling Machinery: 3 Systems and What Each Needs
- Line Changeover Between Formats: 6 Things That Change
- Glass Bottle Decoration Guide: 7 Processes, One Comparison
- Glass Packaging Glossary: 91 Terms Every Bottle Buyer Meets
- How Glass Bottles Are Made: 8 Steps From Batch to Pallet
- Flint vs Extra-Flint Glass: Clarity, Colour and MOQ in 2026