Glass Water Bottles in Dubai: A Sleeve Doing Two Jobs
Glass is chosen for how water tastes out of it and how the bottle looks on a desk, and then a silicone sleeve is added because glass breaks. Glass water bottles in Dubai are a considered gift, ordered in smaller numbers for people who will actually appreciate one.
Glass Water Bottles: tell us the size, the quantity and the date you need it by.
An estimator replies with a firm, VAT-inclusive price and a production date.From your file to the finished job.
Six steps happen between the brief and the finished job. Here they are, in the order they happen on our floor in Dubai South.
The Sleeve Protects and Carries the Brand
A silicone sleeve absorbs knocks, gives grip and is the easiest surface on the bottle to decorate. Branding the sleeve instead of the glass means the mark sits on a material that takes print well and survives handling.
Borosilicate Takes Temperature Changes
Ordinary glass can crack when hot liquid meets a cold bottle. Borosilicate handles the change, which is what makes a glass bottle usable for tea as well as water. It is worth specifying by name.
Printing on Glass Needs Firing or Etching
Direct decoration on glass is either a fired ceramic ink, which is permanent, or a frosted etch, which cannot wear off because it is cut into the surface. Surface printing on glass scratches away quickly.
Water Tastes of Nothing
Glass holds no flavour and no smell, which plastic does and steel sometimes does. For anybody who drinks a lot of water at a desk, that single property is why they choose glass over a better insulated bottle.
It Is a Desk and Gym Bottle, Not a Site Bottle
These suit offices, studios and homes. Nobody should be taking a glass bottle onto a construction site or a sports field, and a gift set going to a field based team is better served by steel.
Packed Individually, Not Loose
Glass bottles ship in their own boxes inside the carton, because a layer of glass bottles packed loose arrives as a box of glass.
The obvious risk is breakage, and the sleeve reduces it without removing it. A proportion of any glass order will arrive broken and some will break in use, so we order a margin above your quantity and build that into the plan from the start.
Compare with travel mugs, plastic water bottles, and bottles and mugs.
Setting up your file.
- 01Send the logo as a vectorAI, EPS, SVG or PDF. Engraving, embroidery and screen printing all work from clean outlines.
- 02Keep it simple for small areasA pen barrel or a cap front holds a few centimetres of artwork. A simple logo reads better than a full lockup with a tagline.
- 03Give us the Pantone numbersIf a brand colour has to match, send the Pantone reference. Some methods print a limited number of colours.
- 04Send the breakdownFor clothing, the quantity in each size. For gift sets, how many of each item go in every box.
Quick answers.
Some will. The sleeve reduces it and we order a margin.
Yes, fired or etched. Surface printing scratches off.
Borosilicate can. Specify it by name.