How to Ensure That You Use The Perfect Quality Can Ends

The integrity of any beverage or food cans is largely dependent upon the can ends. The can ends are the only piece of metal that is fabricated and fitted later on which means that the chances of a problem occurring are maximum at the can ends. Quality cans ensure that the can ends they use are not only easy to use but also are robust enough to handle the contents of the can. Choosing the right type of material for these can ends is crucial dependent on the product they are meant to handle. Can ends are also used for enhanced visual appeal by embossing, printing with neon colours or changing the colour of the ends and making them stand out from the rest of the products in the market. The most commonly used can ends by most quality cans are the easy open lids. They are used mainly as food cans and beverage cans as well as for non food products. Products that usually employ them to present their products in these quality cans are tomato paste, vegetables, fruits, juices, milk powder, cereals and nuts. The peel off ends come in several combinations with a tinplate ring or aluminium ring, various types of tabs, clinch marks for gassing as well as without clinch marks. They are available as full aperture openings as well as partial openings and come in all sizes and shapes including round, square, rectangle, oval, pear shape, etc. These can ends are in the shape of ring pull tabs, stay on tabs and large opening ends. The stay on tabs are generally used for beverages, carbonated as well as non-carbonated like juices and pasteurized products. A special high quality tinplate end called sanitary ends are also available that come equipped with special lacquer to make them suitable for more acidic foods like meats, fish and tomato paste and other pickled items as well as for holding aerosol and paint products. The lacquered ends are also more suitable for printing on the tab itself for marketing purposes.