Let's first take the Chinese market as an example to illustrate why the West attaches great importance to the management of beer bottle impacts.

Take 600ml beer bottles as an example. To fill one ton of beer, 1,667 beer bottles (using 600ml ones) are needed. Assuming a new beer bottle is purchased at 0.6 yuan, its cost will be fully discounted after six uses. When used again, the beer bottle will have no cost (the recycling cost of the recycled bottle is not considered here). This means that if one ton of beer is refilled with a discounted beer bottle once more, and the beer price remains unchanged, the beer enterprise will earn a new net profit of 1667 x 0.6=1000.2 yuan from the 0.6-yuan beer bottle. This is a very large profit figure. Take an enterprise with an annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of beer as an example. Assuming that the proportion of recycled beer bottles recycled each year is 25%, that is, 25% of the 200,000 tons of beer produced each year is packaged in recycled bottles, that is, 20 x 25%= 50,000 tons of beer packaged in recycled bottles. The number of beer bottles needed for 50,000 tons of beer is 50,000 x 1,667 = 83,350,000. Assuming that the cost of a batch of new bottles (marked with dates) has been fully discounted after being used six times, but their quality is still qualified, then the enterprise can reuse these bottles. What benefits can a beer company gain in a year if 25% of its beer is refilled with discounted beer bottles within a year and the beer price remains unchanged? The enterprise will gain a new profit of 50,000 x 1,00.2 = 50 million yuan from a 0.6-yuan beer bottle (the recycling cost of the bottle is not taken into account here). Such a huge benefit is self-evident. This is the most fundamental reason why Western beer enterprises take all measures to reduce the impact on beer bottles and keep their appearance in good condition.

The above algorithm is a simple one. Of course, there are other factors involved, but it is sufficient to explain why Western countries attach so much importance to bottle management. It is not only due to social effects but also driven by significant interests.

The first approach that domestic beer enterprises generally think of is to use as cheap beer bottles as possible to increase production. During the entire production and recycling process, the bottles collide violently, and the short lifespan of the beer bottles leads to frequent explosions and injuries. The first thing that Western companies think of is to use as high-quality beer bottles as possible, reduce the intense collisions between the bottles, and greatly extend the usage times of the beer bottles. The returns they obtain are much higher than those of the former.

At present, in many large beer companies in Europe, beer bottles are reused as many as 40 times, and some even reach an astonishing 50 times.

China's beer production has firmly ranked first in the world. Due to the huge Chinese beer market, the competition among domestic beer industry giants has been fierce. Mergers and reorganizations have formed a pattern of groupization and large-scale automation in the beer industry over the past decade or so. Due to the fact that many Chinese beer enterprises originally had a relatively small production scale, their production capacity has significantly increased after reorganization or acquisition. As a result, they are not well-matched in many aspects, with imported main machines and many other domestic equipment. In many production equipment indicators, the aim is to reduce costs in the fierce market competition, with high output and low cost as the starting point. Therefore, it is inevitable that beer bottles will be severely worn and scratched. Some beer bottles that have significantly shortened their service life are still in use, and incidents of beer bottle explosions injuring people occur frequently. However, in recent years, beer enterprises have begun to pay attention to the management of beer bottles, purchasing high-quality beer bottles, and using cardboard boxes or plastic boxes for beer loading, unloading and transportation. The appearance of beer bottles has been improved, enhancing the market competitiveness of enterprises. To reduce the risk of bottle bursts and facilitate problem tracking and resolution, almost every beer company has adopted dedicated beer bottles, making the appearance of beer bottles on the market more exquisite.

As is known to all, beer bottles can be used indefinitely if they are not hit, but in fact, collisions are inevitable. In the markets of advanced developed countries, why are beer bottles so aesthetically pleasing, with almost no or few being scratched, and even fewer causing injuries due to beer bottle explosions? The reason lies in their excellent management and standardized operation.

A beer bottle, like an egg, will break in one blow or impact. Another situation is that it will start to break when the number of impacts accumulates to a certain extent. However, unlike an egg, a beer bottle has internal pressure, and when it breaks, it will cause a burst or explosion. Therefore, it is required that beer bottles be protected from harmful impacts (harmful impacts refer to collisions or impacts that can cause breakage) during beer production, loading and unloading, transportation and recycling, and the number of collisions should be minimized or mitigated as much as possible. The first situation is highly valued by every beer enterprise, but the second situation is not given much attention by most beer enterprises at present. This is because many people wonder if the service life of beer bottles can be prolonged from so many chaotic collisions.

Collisions can cause damage to beer bottles. The magnitude and frequency of the collision force throughout the entire cycle of a beer bottle are the main reasons for its breakage and quality decline.

Beer bottles will encounter various collisions throughout the entire production, loading and unloading, transportation and recycling process. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the number of collisions and mitigate them throughout the process. This requires the establishment of a standardized operation and management mechanism for the entire production, loading and unloading, transportation and recycling and reuse. You must know the magnitude of the impact force that the beer bottle is subjected to throughout the entire process, what the maximum impact force is, and where it occurs. It serves as the basis for establishing standardized working standards in each process.

Formal approach: You need to use a collision measuring instrument to actually measure whether the specific impact force on the beer bottle is concentrated at the bottom, at the shoulder, or in the vertical direction during the processes of production, storage, transportation, and recycling. You also need to know how much force the bottle body, bottom, and mouth are subjected to. Measure which process, operation or certain equipment working parameters cause significant impact between beer bottles, which bottle convergence point has a "fatal" harmful collision, understand how much pressure the stacking height of the bottles exerts on the bottom bottles or during unloading, and use these measurement data as the basis Constantly adjusting the equipment and changing the working parameters or operation methods can ensure that the beer bottles are subject to the least or warmest collisions on various equipment, during production, packaging, handling and transportation. Only by operating the beer bottles in a benign state with minimal damage to their quality under the premise of maximizing the output as much as possible can the service life of the beer bottles be prolonged.

Even new or higher-quality beer bottles will break when subjected to a large impact force during transportation. However, old or lower-quality beer bottles are less likely to break when subjected to a smaller impact force. Therefore, it is also an effective method for us to handle new bottles separately from recycled ones. Because the impact resistance of old bottles that have been used many times has declined significantly, using the same intensity of recycling methods will lead to more severe damage or bottle damage. All these require a different operation and management approach, establishing the entire production, shipping, transportation and recycling process based on different models for new and old bottles. A reasonable operation method will extend the service life of beer bottles, which not only enhances the safety of beer bottles in the consumer market but also greatly increases the benefits of enterprises.

In many European beer companies, recycled bottles are filled and used separately. This way, the parameters and operation methods of each equipment on the production line can be set as low as possible under the premise of the highest output, so that the recycled bottles are less subject to impact during production, transportation and recycling, and as a result, the service life of the recycled bottles is prolonged.

In addition, the outer bottles vary in size, and so do the number of impacts and the force of impact they experience. For instance, when beer bottles for 640ml and 500ml beer are running on the production line, the number of impacts and the degree of force they experience are different, and thus the degree of damage they suffer is also different. The reason lies in the fact that the number and size of the bottles are not the same. All of this requires us to know the impact force it is subjected to throughout the process, the maximum impact force it is subjected to, and where it is damaged during shipment and transportation. All of this needs to be measured. Relying solely on experience to make inferences cannot accurately solve the problem or achieve the goal of maximizing production while minimizing collisions.

The damage to glass bottles caused by collisions before and after beer filling varies greatly. After filling, the weight of the bottles increases significantly, and collisions during operation will cause more damage to the bottles. There are also many places with large collision points, such as when many bottles converge, when a high-speed conveyor phase suddenly stops, and at the junction of two conveyors of different speeds... Wait a moment. In conclusion, the aim is to establish the entire production cycle process within the standard range suitable for extending the service life of each type of beer bottle, that is, a good production process, reducing the number of collisions and damage to glass bottles, maintaining their beautiful appearance, increasing the number of recycling and reuse times, and also a highly beneficial way to deal with the rising freight costs.

In addition, intense collisions will hinder lightweight glass bottles, as the impact resistance of any quality glass bottle will sharply decline under intense collisions. The more times it is impacted, the more rapidly the decline will be and the more severe the damage will be. Only by making the entire process of collisions smooth can external environmental conditions with less damage be provided for the lightweighting of glass bottles.

However, beer producers must understand that the number of times beer bottles can be used and their service life is limited. This is because when the accumulation of impacts they have suffered reaches a certain extent, their impact resistance has seriously declined to the point where they can no longer withstand the same force of impact as before. Its safety is obviously very low (if internal pressure is also taken into account), so the regular scrapping of beer bottles is inevitable. What beer producers need to do is to take measures to extend the safety period of beer bottles, increase the number of uses within the safe usage period of beer bottles, rather than continuing to use them beyond the safe usage period. It is not the viewpoint of this article to continue using beer bottles beyond their safe usage period for profit, as it would endanger public safety and damage the reputation of producers.

Western enterprises basically scrap beer bottles in batches after they have been used for a certain number of times (thus there are no explosion injuries), while most domestic enterprises let them break naturally during production. This is also the reason why many domestic products that have been used multiple times and become substandard are still in use. Domestic beer enterprises should not compete with rivals by using old beer bottles without limit to gain profits, but rather by extending the safety of glass bottles as much as possible to increase their usage times.