Wholesale Plastic Jars

This website presents information about wholesale plastic jars. We hope that you find your visit to this site useful.

Welcome to this website. Here you can learn about the many types of wholesale plastic jars for your container requirements or customer needs.

The best way to buy plastic jars is via online mail order.  Thes days you just cannot find what you need at the right price locally.  If you live in a very populated industrial area, then perhaps you can, but everyone else must find a source that is usually far away and only available via their website.  This is the the Internet comes to the rescue.  As with many products these days, you can find exactly what you need online, and plastic jars priced wholesale are much easier to find online from merchants who do most of their business in this manner.  They all advertise online and it is these vendors who are competing for your business.  Even with shipping costs factored in, you can find much better wholesale pricing online even if you can find the jars locally.

Wholesale plastic jars are the best choice for jarring all sorts of products. Wholesale pricing enables your company to get the most cost to benefit ratio for your materials investment. Plastic jars are used in storing and selling a variety of products. Just a few would be anything in the preserved foods section of the food industry. Plastic jars hold everything from peanut and nut butters, mayonnaise, honey, snack foods, preserved fruits and vegetables, applesauce, yogurt, nuts, spices and many more foods that make our everyday lives tastier.

Plastic jars are everywhere and for good reason. The food industry jars vast amounts of foodstuffs and trucks them to our local markets for our purchase and consumption. If you are a producer seeking plastic jars for your own products, then you are well aware of this.

What is the line between a jar and a container? That can be tough to discern, since by definition all jars are containers. Jars typically have a screw top or lid, but some spice containers fit this definition pretty well. They might incorporate a shaker top under the lid for ease in dispersing a powdered product like spices or salts. Sometimes they contain vitamins, powdered supplements, liquid supplements, or even non food non personal products such as golf balls or BBs.

Plastic jars aren't just for food products. Many health and beauty aids are packed in containers which fit the jar description to a "T". They have screw top lids and stack nicely.

Plastic jars come in a variety of materials. Some need to be food grade while others need to be resistant to various materials which they hold, such as acids, solvents, alcohols, and other chemicals. They can be constructed of high density polyethylene (HDPE) which can be food grade and is used in squeeze and condiment containers as well as vitamin and supplement jars, low density polyethylene (LDPE), polyethylene terephthalate (PETE) which is used in water and cold beverage bottles, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP) which is used for reusable food storage containers, and polystyrene (PS) which is used for petroleum jelly and also for vitamins and dry supplements. There also exists fluorine treated HDPE which provides a greater barrier for cleaning liquids and other chemicals. Post consumer resin (PCR) which cannot be used for food or vitamin products, and K-Resin SBC which is used for packaging materials.

These wholesale jars should be recycled in order to reduce the use of petroleum in the creation of new plastic jars. Old discarded plastic can be a renewable resource and is much better being resused and saving crude oil as well as preventing environmental pollution.

For your information here are the common plastic recycling symbols:

Plastic container demand is scheduled to grow 5.4% through 2012.  Wholesale plastic jars are the best and most cost effective way to obtain the plastic jars that are needed for your food business needs or even if you are a consumer who needs them for your own personal needs, such as food preserving and storage, or even as a way to organize small items like screw and nails in your garage.  

Plastic jars are ideal for storing homemade food items like pickles, mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard.  For kitchen use you would want food grade plastic, and the types most commonly used for food grade plastic jars are PETE and HDPE.  Fluorine treated HDPE would be a good choice if you wanted to store cleaning liquids or other mild chemicals.  If you need to store any sort of oil or solvent in the garage, then PVC would probably be a better bet since it is extremely resistant to oils.  the recycle symbol for PVC is "3" with the letter "V".