Food glass · Honey and syrup jars
Sized by the weight on your label. Mouths a spoon fits. Lids that seal, and lids that sell.
If you keep bees, pack honey or run a co-op, you buy jars by the fill weight on your label, and every body from 45 ml to 1 litre comes off our own furnaces in Shandong. Honey runs about 1.4 times the density of water, so your 500 g (1.1 lb) takes roughly 375 ml of jar and your 1 kg (2.2 lb) takes roughly 730 ml. Seven running-mould designs carry those weights across hexagon, ribbed, pot-belly and square bodies.
Seven running-mould designs, filtered by the lid family that decides how your jar sells. The pot-belly ladder carries its fill weights, because your label is printed in grams and in pounds. We quote wholesale per design and per quantity.
No running-mould jar carries that lid at that size. Your quotation can still cover it, because the twist-off finishes repeat across several of these bodies.
Honey behaves like nothing else that goes into a jar. It sells by weight, it moves slowly, and it crystallises on a shelf. Three things follow from that, and all three reach you in writing before a deposit.
What is at stake
Your label says 500 g. Honey is about 1.4 times the density of water, so your 500 g fill occupies roughly 375 ml of jar. Order a 500 ml jar for a 500 g fill and your customer sees a jar that looks a quarter empty on the shelf, next to a competitor whose jar looks full.
What we supply
We tooled the pot-belly ladder to fill weight and quote it that way for you: 375 ml for 500 g, 730 ml for 1 kg. For every other design, your quotation gives brimful volume and the fill weight it lands at, so you choose against the number that goes on your label.
What has to match
A viscous product fills slowly through a narrow mouth, and your filling line is paid by the hour. On the shelf side, honey crystallises, and a jar your customer cannot get a spoon into gets thrown away half full. Both problems are the same measurement.
What we supply
The hexagon and pot-belly bodies run wide mouths, and all three sizes in the pot-belly ladder share one 6.5 cm mouth, so your 500 g and your 1 kg take the same lid and the same capping head. Every design ships its finish drawing with your quotation.
What is at stake
Wood and dipper lids move honey at a farm shop and a gift counter, and they are why your jar gets picked up. They are also not a hermetic twist-off. Put a wooden lid on a supermarket SKU and you buy returns instead of margin.
What we supply
Four lid families run against these bodies for you: tinplate twist-off for retail and export, alumina for a premium finish, food-grade plastic for the 1 kg catering sizes, and wood or wood-dipper for gift and farm-shop lines. Your quotation states which of them seals and which of them presents.
Four lid families come with the jars, each matched to the finish on the design you shortlist.
Your quotation states the lid, the liner and the finish it seals against, so your closure supplier or ours signs off before any stock is committed.
Bulk terms from the glassworks. No tooling on a running mould, 15–20 days from confirmation, jars sampled with the lid fitted, and a pallet count printed beside your price.
Pallet or container
A running mould carries no tooling minimum, so your opening order can be one pallet, on identical terms for private-label honey packers and beekeeping co-operatives. Cutting steel of your own starts at 12,000 pieces in extra flint, 50,000 in standard flint.
15–20 days
From confirmation on running moulds, glass and lids together. A custom mould adds 30–45 days to your lead time, counted from drawing approval.
On request
Samples go out with the lid fitted so you can fill one to your label weight and see how it sits on a shelf. On the custom path, an acrylic model lands in about 10 days at $500, then a sample mould at 35 days puts 5–10 decorated jars on your desk.
EXW · FOB
Warehousing and consolidation stay in-house, and we quote transit to your port. Your honey jars ride with jam jars or spice jars in one container, which is how most opening orders are built.
≈22,000–60,000 per 40HC
By design and export pack: around 22,000 of your 1 kg jars, up to about 60,000 at the small gift sizes. Your exact 20GP and 40HC counts arrive with your quotation.
You win a honey shelf on the jar, because the product inside every jar on it looks much the same. Our Shandong plant frosts, sprays, screen prints, hot stamps, electroplates and labels in-house, which keeps your branded jar on the same 15–20 days as a plain one.
We quote decoration per design, beside the glass. Decoration and labelling in detail →
A drawing, a rival's jar or a photograph starts the check. Seven running bodies cover the fill weights honey actually sells in, so you are unlikely to need steel of your own. When a jar of your own is the point, our mould shop prices it in three stages.
A full-size model of your jar, so shape, shoulder and label panel are signed off before steel is cut.
Real glass from a sample mould: 5–10 decorated jars with lids fitted, for your filling line and your retailer to approve.
Your production tooling runs on the flint lines in Shandong. Minimum 12,000 pieces in extra-flint, 50,000 in standard flint.
We form your jars in Shandong, decorate them on the same site and pack them with our own warehouse team, so one company answers for the glass, the lid and the carton. Honey packers in 40+ countries have shipped from these Shandong lines since 2013.
We inspect the neck and sealing surface on every jar. You fill honey warm and it sits for months, so a finish that seals on day one has to still seal after a season in your warehouse.
Brimful capacity verified by water-fill weight on every run, and your quotation converts it to the fill weight your label carries. The mould number in the base traces any drift on your pallet back to the cavity that caused it.
Controlled lehr curve on every jar, and we check residual strain under polarised light on every run of yours. Faceted and ribbed bodies hold strain unevenly, so we watch yours harder than a plain body.
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.
Four neighbouring ranges from the same furnaces, on your one quotation and one bill of lading.
| Requirement | Range | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| A twist-off jar for jam, curd or a spread |  Glass Jam Jars | 45 – 770 ml, tinplate twist-off finishes. |
| A pouring bottle for syrup or a dressing |  Olive Oil Bottles | 100 ml – 1 L, screw caps and pourer inserts. |
| A clamp jar for comb or a bulk refill |  Glass Storage Jars | 500 ml – 5 L, glass lid, wire clamp and gasket. |
| A small jar for a taster or a wedding favour |  Glass Spice Jars | 50 – 250 ml, nine dispensing systems. |
Your ranges combine in one container and on one set of documents.
The shapes your buyers name, the weights your label prints, and the smallest order we can start you on.
About 375 ml. Honey runs roughly 1.4 times the density of water, so your 500 g fill takes far less jar than the number on the label suggests, and 1 kg lands around 730 ml. The pot-belly hexagon ladder here is tooled to exactly those two weights.
There is no tooling minimum on the seven running-mould designs, so your opening order can be a single pallet across a few sizes. Cutting steel of your own starts at 12,000 pieces in extra flint, or 50,000 in standard flint.
Two reasons that both still hold. A hexagon reads as honey before your customer has read the label, and flat panels take your label cleanly and pack tighter on a pallet than a round body of the same volume. Every hexagon in this range also runs a wide mouth.
The ribbed round body is the closest we run to the queenline profile you may know from North America, at 100 to 730 ml (3.4 to 25 oz) with a tinplate twist-off. A Muth jar, tall and straight with a cork, sits on no running mould here; the nearest bodies are in our swing-top and liquor ranges, or it becomes a mould of your own at 12,000 pieces in extra flint.
A manufacturer. Your jars come off our own lines in Shandong, and MAIDAO INDUSTRY runs 14 lines in Shandong and Xuzhou. Beekeeping dealers hold cases locally and sell by the dozen, which suits a small apiary; a pallet is the point where buying from the furnace is worth the freight to you.
Yes, on the hexagon pot and the faceted round. The dipper hangs from the lid into your jar, and we quote and ship the pair together. Both suit your gift and farm-shop lines; for a supermarket or export listing your buyer will ask for the twist-off or the alumina lid.
The pot-belly hexagon ladder runs one 6.5 cm mouth across 500 g and 1 kg, so both of your sizes take the same lid and the same capping head. Mouth dimensions for every other design come with the finish drawing on your quotation.
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.
Yes. We price tinplate twist-off, alumina, food-grade plastic, wooden and wood-dipper lids with the glass, matched to the finish of each design you list.
Warm filling is normal for honey and the range is made for it. Where your process runs hotter than a creaming temperature, say so with the enquiry, because the answer changes by design and it is cheaper to know before the first container.
A fill weight, a lid or a photo of the jar you use today is enough to start. Our food glass desk answers you with pricing, mouth diameters and loading data inside 24 hours.
Matching running-mould jars, pricing and loading data come back within 24 hours.
The running moulds that fit get found before anyone talks about tooling.