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Two empty tapered glass mineral water bottles with metal caps

Beverage glass · Water bottles and drinkware

Glass Water Bottles: Bottling Packaging and Drinkware

Two ranges under one word. Caps that seal a shelf, and lids that survive a bag.

Whether you bottle mineral water or import drinkware, you land on the same page wanting two different products, and both come off our own lines in Shandong. Eight running-mould bodies cover 150 ml to 750 ml (5 to 25 oz). Single-serve packaging with aluminium and tinplate caps sits beside reusable carry bottles with bamboo, stainless and plastic lids, and we quote you for them as the different products they are.

Water Bottles in Stock: Still-Water Packaging and Drinkware

Eight running-mould bodies in two ranges. The first filter separates a bottle your shopper opens once from a bottle they carry for a year, because almost nothing about the two purchases matches. We quote wholesale per range and per quantity.

Capacities in production, ml (350 ml ≈ 12 oz · 500 ml ≈ 17 oz · 750 ml ≈ 25 oz)
  • 150
  • 250
  • 300
  • 330
  • 350
  • 420
  • 500
  • 750
  • ml
Clear glass carry bottle with a stainless steel lid and a fabric carrying loop
A drinkware lid is judged in a rucksack, not on a shelf. That is a different test from tamper evidence.

What Your Bottling Line or Buying Office Confirms First

Two products share one word, and which one you mean changes everything that follows. Three things reach you in writing before a deposit.

01

Packaging, or drinkware

What is at stake

A bottled water pack is opened once, has to show it was sealed, and you are judged on cost per unit and container count. A reusable bottle is carried in a bag for a year, and you are judged on whether it leaks, how it feels and whether the lid survives a dishwasher. Brief one and receive the other, and you have lost a season.

What we supply

We keep the two ranges apart and price them apart. Your quotation names the range a design belongs to and the closure that goes with it, so you never buy a dual-purpose bottle that serves neither job well.

02

Leaks, for anything that goes in a bag

What has to match

Water in the bottom of a rucksack is the one reason a reusable bottle comes back to you. It is almost never the glass. It traces to the seal in the lid, the thread pitch, or a bamboo lid that swelled after a month of washing and no longer closes square.

What we supply

Your drinkware ships assembled, so your QA fills one, inverts it and leaves it overnight before you list it. Your quotation states lid material, the seal inside it and dishwasher performance, per design.

03

What a bamboo or wood lid actually does

What is at stake

Bamboo and wood sell a bottle. They also absorb water, and a lid that lives in your customer's dishwasher changes shape long before the glass shows a mark. Sold with a silicone insert and honest care instructions, they last. Sold as maintenance-free, they come back.

What we supply

The bamboo-lidded designs carry a silicone seal inside the lid, and your quotation says so, along with the care wording your pack needs. Where you sell into a gym or a school and the bottles get abused, the stainless and plastic lids are the honest recommendation.

Water Bottle Lids We Supply: Aluminium, Steel, Bamboo, Plastic

Four lid families run against these bodies, and which ones you can use depends on your range.

Aluminium and tinplate capsFor single-serve packaging. It rolls or screws onto the finish with a pilfer band, so your shopper sees at a glance that nobody has opened it. We print it to your colour with the rest of the decoration.
Stainless lidFor carry bottles. A steel shell over a silicone seal, with a loop or a strap. It takes the dishwasher and the drops your customer will give it.
Bamboo and wood lidThe finish that sells your reusable bottle, with a silicone insert doing the sealing. Pair it with care wording on your pack, because the wood is the part that ages.
Plastic lid, sleeve and strawLight, cheap to replace and easy to mould in your colour. We quote it with the silicone sleeves, straws and infuser baskets that turn your bottle into a product.

Your quotation states the lid, the seal inside it and the finish it closes onto, so you settle the difference between a packaging cap and a drinkware lid before you order.

Shelf or rucksack. Say which.

Whether your shopper opens it once or carries it for a year changes the glass, the lid and the price. Your quotation comes back within 24 hours with the bodies that suit, and their loading data.

Match My Range

Water Bottle MOQ, Wholesale Terms and Loading

Bulk terms from the factory. No tooling on a running body, 15–20 days from confirmation, bottles sampled with the lid fitted, and a container count printed beside your price.

MOQ

Pallet or container

A running mould carries no tooling minimum, so your opening order can be a single pallet, on identical terms for private-label water brands and homeware buyers. Cutting steel of your own starts at 12,000 pieces in extra flint, 50,000 in standard flint.

Lead time

15–20 days

From confirmation on running moulds, glass and lids together. We assemble sleeves, straws and infusers here, so they add no second lead time to yours. A custom mould adds 30–45 days from drawing approval.

Samples

On request

Drinkware ships assembled, so your QA can run a leak test and a dishwasher cycle before you list it. On the custom path, an acrylic model lands in about 10 days at $500, then a sample mould at 35 days puts 5–10 bottles on your desk.

Shipping terms

EXW · FOB

Warehousing and consolidation stay in-house, and we quote transit to your port. Your water bottles travel with juice or milk bottles in one container, which is how most opening orders travel.

Container loading

Per range, with the quote

A sleeved tumbler in a gift box and a bare packaging bottle load nothing alike, so one anchor would mislead you. Your quotation gives you carton dimensions and the 20GP and 40HC counts per design.

Frosted glass carry bottle with printed lettering and a coloured plastic lid
Frosting and print turn a running body into a brand. On drinkware the finish is most of the product.

Branded Water Bottles: Printing, Frosting and Sleeves

A promotional bottle carries your logo for a year and a water bottle carries it for a minute, and both marks go on the same way. Our Shandong plant screen prints, frosts, sprays, hot stamps and labels in-house, so your decorated glass keeps the same 15–20 days as plain.

FrostingFull-body or a band, matte or satin. The finish that makes your plain carry bottle feel like a product, and it hides the fingerprints a clear bottle collects.
Screen printingYour logo or a slogan straight onto the glass. It survives the dishwasher cycles your reusable bottle actually gets, where a transfer will not.
Spray coatingOpaque or gradient colour on clear glass, matched to your brief. How a single body becomes a seasonal colourway without new steel.
Silicone sleevesWe mould them to your colour and fit them here, so your bottle arrives complete. On drinkware the sleeve is grip, protection and brand at once.
Hot stampingMetallic foil for a logo or a band, on gift and corporate ranges.
LabellingWe apply them in-house, including the sleeve labels a packaging bottle needs, so your bottles arrive shelf-ready.

We quote decoration per design, beside the glass. Decoration and labelling in detail →

Double-walled glass bottle with a bamboo lid and an internal infuser basket
A double wall and an infuser seat are tooling and assembly together. Most of this range needs neither.

Custom Water Bottle Moulds: What Steel Costs Here

A drawing, a rival's bottle or a photograph starts the check. Running bodies cover almost any brief you bring, because a bottler buys on cap stock and a drinkware importer buys on the lid. When a bottle of your own is the point, our mould shop prices it in three stages.

Stage 1Acrylic model~10 days · $500

A full-size model of your bottle, so shape, grip and label panel are signed off before steel is cut.

Stage 2Sample mould35 days · ≈$1,200

Real glass from a sample mould: 5–10 bottles with lids and sleeves fitted, for your QA and your buyer to approve.

Stage 3Production mould$1,200–2,200

Your production tooling runs on the flint lines in Shandong. Minimum 12,000 pieces in extra-flint, 50,000 in standard flint.

The custom process, priced by stage →

Glass forming machines running on the hot end of the production line
Our own lines in Shandong. Bottles are formed, annealed, decorated and assembled inside the group.

Water Bottle Manufacturing: Finish, Wall Thickness, Papers

We form your bottles in Shandong, decorate them on the same site and load them with our own warehouse team, so the glass, the lid and the sleeve arrive on one order. Bottlers and drinkware buyers in 40+ countries have shipped from these Shandong lines since 2013, on the same terms you get.

Finish

We gauge the thread and sealing surface on every run. On a carry bottle a finish half a turn out is a leak in somebody's bag, and that is the complaint your whole listing lives or dies on.

Assembly

We fit lids, seals, sleeves and straws here and leak-check them as a set, so what your QA tests is what your customer receives.

Annealing

Controlled lehr curve on every bottle, with residual strain checked under polarised light on every run. Reusable bottles meet more thermal cycling than any packaging bottle does.

Documentation

Your shipment carries an EC 1935/2004 declaration of compliance for the EU and UK, food-contact documentation to FDA requirements for the United States, and ISO 9001. SGS test reports and third-party pre-shipment inspection come on request.

Before You Order Glass Water Bottles

Two Ranges, One Word: Your Water Bottle Questions

Which of the two you are actually buying, what a carbonated fill needs, and which lids survive a bag.

What is the difference between your packaging bottles and your reusable ones?

A packaging bottle is opened once, has to prove it was sealed, and you buy it on cost per unit and container count. A reusable bottle is carried for a year, and you buy it on whether it leaks and how it feels. They use different closures and are quoted separately, so the range belongs in your first message.

Are the bamboo lids dishwasher safe?

The silicone seal inside them is; the wood is the part that ages. Bamboo and wood absorb water and change shape over months of hot washing, so your pack needs care wording. Where your bottles go to a gym or a school, the stainless and plastic lids are the honest recommendation.

Can these bottles hold sparkling or soda water?

The packaging bodies are built for still water, and your carbonated fill needs a heavier bottle with a pressure-rated finish. Our beer and swing-top ranges carry the profiles that hold pressure, and a sparkling bottle of your own is a mould at 12,000 pieces in extra flint. The carbonation level belongs in your first message, because the honest answer sometimes rules a body out.

Are you a glass water bottle manufacturer or a trading company?

A manufacturer. Your bottles are formed on our own lines in Shandong, one of MAIDAO INDUSTRY's two production sites, and finished in Shandong. Lids, sleeves, straws and infusers come from component makers we buy from weekly, and they reach you assembled on our invoice.

Do these bottles leak in a bag?

That is the test your listing lives on, and the answer sits in the lid rather than the glass. Drinkware ships assembled so your QA can fill one, invert it and leave it overnight before listing. Lid material and the seal inside it are stated per design on your quotation.

What is the minimum order for glass water bottles?

There is no tooling minimum on the eight running-mould bodies, so your opening order can be a single pallet. Cutting steel of your own starts at 12,000 pieces in extra flint, or 50,000 in standard flint.

Can you fit silicone sleeves, straws and infusers?

Yes, and we assemble them here instead of shipping them loose, so your bottles arrive complete and leak-checked as a set. Sleeves mould to your colour, and we quote them with the glass.

Can these bottles take hot drinks?

That depends on the design, and settling it at enquiry costs you nothing. Where your bottle will see tea or coffee, that belongs on the enquiry, and the answer comes back per design alongside the sample.

Are your water bottles food-grade?

Yes. Your order ships with food-contact documentation to FDA requirements for the United States and an EC 1935/2004 declaration of compliance for the EU and UK, and SGS test reports come on request.

Can we print our logo on the bottle?

Yes, by screen printing your mark straight onto the glass, which survives the dishwasher cycles a reusable bottle actually gets. Frosting, spray colour and printed sleeves are all quoted with the glass.

Ask for Water Bottle Wholesale Pricing

A range, a size or the bottle you fill today is enough to start. Our beverage desk answers with pricing, drawings and loading data inside 24 hours.

I know the range and sizes I want

Matching running-mould bottles, pricing and loading data come back within 24 hours.

  • Packaging or reusable drinkware
  • Capacity and lid per SKU
  • Quantity or container count, and destination port
Request Pricing

I am matching a bottle already on sale

The running moulds that fit get found before anyone talks about tooling.

  • A photo of the bottle and lid, with a ruler in frame
  • Whether it is sold sealed or refilled
  • Any sleeve, straw or infuser it ships with
Match My Bottle
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