Aluminum strip, owing to narrow width, is usually produced directly for end usage such as power battery cover, cable materials, transformer winding and bottle caps etc. While used for bottle caps, aluminum strip must meet strict quality requirements. Processed by highly automatic production lines, the strip should be of perfect strength, elongation percentage, size error and surface. Otherwise cracks or folding marks may occur during the manufacturing process of bottle caps. Besides, purchasing departments will discard aluminum strip with stains, scratches, pressing marks or uneven surface to guarantee printing quality of designs.

Aluminum strip used for bottle caps are usually of alloys 8011 (H14) or 3003 (H16), thickness between 0.20mm and 0.23mm, and wideness from 449mm to 796mm. The process includes hot rolling, continuous casting and rolling, and cold rolling. Anti-fake bottle caps are usually made of aluminum strips from continuous casting and rolling. According to experts in bottle cap industry, market demand for aluminum strip used for bottle caps keeps increasing year by year. At present, thousands of wine, spirit and beverage producers tend to adopt anti-fake bottle caps in China.

Anti-fake proves to be an overwhelmingly advantageous function of aluminum strip used for bottle caps. To establish brand image, more and more wine manufacturers are attaching importance to anti-fake function of bottle caps, the style of which becomes more diverse, grander and more multiply functional. Some caps can be broken and removed easily. Some have multiple properties of anti-faking. Others can pop up, sing and even talk. No matter how their style or design changes, bottle caps have only two main raw materials: aluminum strips and plastics. Aluminum strip is the more popular one of the two, because it’s of simple appearance, delicate manufacturing, advanced printing technique and attractive designs. Besides, it displays better performance as raw material for bottle caps. Further more, it costs less, gives off no pollutants and gets recycled conveniently.