Are wholesale aluminum bottles safe for hot liquids?

wholesale China-made aluminum bottles, has won a series of foreign safety certificates as a hot beverage. SGS testing data indicates aluminum bottles with food-grade epoxy resin inner coating is -20℃ to 150℃ temperature range. After being immersed in 95℃ hot water for 12 hours continuously, the precipitated bisphenol A (BPA) is ≤0.001μg/L, far lower than the FDA standard requirement of 0.05μg/L. In 2023, a 500-milliliter aluminum bottle by Zhejiang Province’s leading supplier passed Germany’s LFGB certification. Its inner coating adhesion quality was 5B level (the highest quality) and did not peel after being tested through 5,000 thermal cycle tests, which is advantageous to Starbucks’ worldwide annual demand for 8 million aluminum bottles for hot drinks.

The structural design significantly enhances the safety of use. Experiments prove that the outer wall temperature of double-layer vacuum structured wholesale aluminum bottles is reduced by 67% as against single-layer bottle. With hot drink at 95 ° C, both outer and inner wall temperatures attained 41 ° C ±2 ° C within 1 hour to meet EN 14350 standard for children’s product heat protection. The sinuous mouth curvature of the bottle, designed by a specific company in Jiangsu Province, is able to regulate the rate of flow of hot beverages at 15-20ml/s, reducing the hazard of splashing by 43% in relation to the straight cylindrical shape. Hydro Flask was specifically designed in China in 2024 as an insulated aluminum bottle of 480 milliliters. The tank, which was filled with hot water, had the temperature over 58℃ for 12 hours, and it passed the drop test from 1.8 meters. The deformation rate of the inner liner was less than 0.3%.

Reliability tests under extreme conditions are assured by stress tests. Wholesale aluminum bottles, as regulated by GB/T 24693-2022, is subjected to a pressure test of 0.35MPa (5 times the operating pressure for normal working days) and product breakage of the top supplier with probability ≤0.02%. The bottom compressive strength of aluminum bottles produced by a Guangdong factory using the rotary thinning process is 210N (industry benchmark 150N). Only 0.07% leakage rate resulted from the -20℃ freezing temperature difference shock test and injection of 100℃ hot water. With the transportation simulation test of 8G vibration acceleration (5-200Hz frequency), the integrity rate reached up to 99.94% in the 2023 Coca-Cola personalized hot drink aluminum bottle.

Market feedback guarantees the safety performance. Statistics from Amazon indicate that the overall return rate for wholesale Chinese-made aluminum cups of hot drinks was 1.8% in 2023 and quality issues accounted for only 0.3% of them. A cross-border seller purchased 2 million Chinese-made aluminum cups with a complaint ratio of 0.05%. The most frequent issues were on appearance flaws instead of operating flaws. As the research of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University indicates, the inner coating of aluminum bottles that conforms to the GB 4806.9-2016 standard possesses a heavy metal migration quantity (lead ≤0.01mg/kg, cadmium not detected) at high temperatures that is just 1/20 of that of glass packaging.

The cost-to-safety balancing strategy. wholesale aluminum bottles, with grade A aluminum (thickness 0.5-1.2mm), costs $0.15-0.3 more than the normal one, but has a lifespan of more than 5 years (cost $0.003 per day). In 2024, the popular insulated aluminum bottles on the Temu platform were sold at $9.9 through the Chinese supply chain (similar products’ European and American average price was $24), and the third-party tested low rate of heat loss of just 1.2℃/h ensured coexistence with low cost and high safety.

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