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Silver 26 mm crown cap with a shallow circular top and fluted perimeter skirt, shown without a bottle
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Crown caps & beverage closures

Crown Cap

A 26 mm pry-off crown cap in 0.20–0.25 mm tinplate with 21 skirt flutes, crimped onto a 26 H 126 crown finish for beer, cider, soda and kombucha.

26 mm crown21 flutesPVC-free liner options
Stock status
In stock
Lead time
2–3 weeks
FOB price / pc
$0.45 - $0.85
MOQ
5,000 pcs
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Final availability, dimensions, materials, assembled components and commercial terms are confirmed against the selected drawing and approved sample.

Standards-based interface

EN 17177 cap onto an EN ISO 12822 finish

Liner chosen per product

PVC-free, oxygen scavenger or sterilizable

Full-box economics

10,000–10,500 per box; printing from 63,000

Crown Cap profile

The cap is the cheap part. The crimp is where programs fail.

Geometry, liner choice & crimp control

Why two identically printed crowns can behave completely differently.

A 26 mm crown is a shallow tinplate shell with 21 flutes around the skirt, crimped onto a standardized glass finish. Material runs 0.20–0.25 mm in TFS or ETP grades, and the liner is specified separately for the product. At a unit cost of fractions of a cent, almost every real cost in a crown program sits in the crimp settings and the liner choice.

01

Two standards define the joint

The cap side is covered by EN 17177, titled for a 26 mm diameter, 6 mm height crown cap; the glass side by EN ISO 12822, which specifies the 26 H 126 crown finish. Naming both in a purchase order is what stops a supplier substituting a nominally similar crown that will not crimp onto your bottles.

02

Twenty-one flutes is not decoration

The flute count sets how the skirt folds under the transfer bead when the crimping head closes. A crown with a different count, or a skirt formed to a different depth, will either leak or grip so hard that a hand-opened bottle tears the flutes. It is one of the first things to check when a batch behaves oddly.

03

The liner does the sealing, not the metal

Common options are PVC-free compound, an oxygen-scavenging compound for products where shelf life is oxygen-limited, and a sterilizable insert for hot-fill or tunnel-pasteurized lines. The metal shell only holds that compound against the glass, which is why a change of liner is a change of closure.

04

Coating grade is a chemistry decision

Shells come in TFS and in electrolytic tinplate grades such as ETP E1/E1, E1/E4 and E4/E4, where the two figures describe coating weight on each face. The inner face is the one meeting an acidic or high-chloride product, so the grade follows the beverage rather than the print design.

05

Print and color raise the entry volume

Stock colors — gold, silver, white, red, navy, green and a dozen more — ship from a single box. Printed logos typically start around 63,000 pieces because the shell is decorated on sheet before it is stamped. That threshold, not the cap price, is what usually decides whether a small brand prints.

06

Pry-off is a two-part user decision

A pry-off crown needs an opener, which suits on-trade and enthusiast products and rules out drinking straight from a chilled bottle without one. Twist-off crowns exist on a different finish and are not interchangeable with this one, so the format is chosen with the bottle rather than after it.

Application guide

Twenty-one teeth crimped over a bead, unchanged since 1892.

The crown cap is the oldest closure still in mass use because it holds carbonation better than almost anything for its cost. It is also single-use: once removed, the bottle cannot be resealed. These are development directions confirmed on crimped samples.

Crown Cap used for bottles opened once and finished in a beer and carbonated drinks setting

Beer and carbonated drinks

Bottles opened once and finished

For beers, sodas and sparkling drinks consumed in one sitting, where nobody expects to reseal the bottle. The crimp holds pressure reliably through pasteurization and warehouse temperature swings, which is why the format has outlasted every closure designed to replace it.

  • Confirm the crimp holds the carbonation
  • Test through the thermal process
  • Check retention at warehouse temperatures
Crown Cap used for small-batch bottling lines in a craft breweries setting

Craft breweries

Small-batch bottling lines

For breweries running a few hundred bottles at a time on a bench capper or a modest inline machine, where the operator sets the head and then watches every bottle come off. Crown supply, color range and how forgiving the cap is of a slightly worn crowning head all matter more here than at industrial scale.

  • Match the crown to the capper in use
  • Confirm supply at small order volumes
  • Check printed crowns against the range
Crown Cap used for bottles opened across a counter in a bars and venues setting

Bars and venues

Bottles opened across a counter

For beer handed to a customer already open, where a bartender flips the cap off with one hand and drops it in a tray dozens of times an hour. Whether the finish takes a twist-off or needs an opener changes how that service runs, and a crown that tears rather than lifting cleanly slows the whole bar down.

  • Decide twist-off or pry-off early
  • Test opening speed at a counter
  • Confirm the cap lifts without tearing

Applications describe closure-development directions. Crimping, retention, sealing, leakage and regulatory outcomes are confirmed for the selected program.

Common questions

Crown Cap questions

Answers distinguish the visible crown cap from a qualified bottle-closure assembly.

Which standards define a crown closure?

Two, one for each side of the joint. The cap and the glass finish are covered separately, and naming both in a specification is what stops a cap built to one standard being fitted to glass built to another.

Does the coating grade matter?

It is a chemistry decision. The internal coating faces the product for the whole shelf life, so beer, a low-pH soft drink and a high-salt product do not all take the same grade. Specify it against the actual liquid rather than by category.

Why do printed crowns carry a higher minimum?

Because printing happens on sheet before the cap is formed. That sets up a print run rather than a machine setting, so color and artwork bring a much larger entry volume than a plain lacquered cap.

Why twenty-one flutes?

Because the number is engineered, not styling. Twenty-one gives an even distribution of crimping force around a 26 mm finish, which is what holds carbonation without cracking the glass. Caps with a different count are a different closure system, not a variation.

Next step

Send us the Crown Cap brief.

Tell us the product, fill volume, closure preference and destination market. We will come back with the matching drawings, available configurations and a sample plan before anything is quoted.

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  • 01Send the briefProduct, volume, closure and market
  • 02Get the optionsMatching drawings and configurations
  • 03Approve the sampleConfirm the pack before production