Cold drink PET cups
Clear PET cups with domed lids, for iced coffee, milkshakes and cold tea service.
Dome lid PET cold cup 350 ml
Dome lid PET cold cup 400 ml
Dome lid PET cold cup 470 ml
Dome lid PET cold cup 500 ml
Dome lid PET cold cup 700 ml
Cold drink PET cups — a supplied item, shipped with your paper cups. 5 products in this range, from 350 ml to 700 ml. Cartons of 1,000 pcs. Dry offset printing in two colours as standard (up to four on request) with your brand, or plain. We supply vending operators, wholesalers, importers and foodservice distributors, ex-works Turkey. On PET cups the minimum is one full truck load.
Board buyers add these to the same booking: custom paper cups for the hot side and paper cup lids where a flat closure is needed. Cold drink PET cups are the set where the cup and its domed lid are specified together, instead of being bought as two guesses that have to meet at the counter. Five sizes run from 350 to 700 ml, all drawn on a 95 mm opening and a 55 mm base, packed 1000 to the case and declared under HS 3924.10. Iced coffee, milkshake, bubble tea, cold tea and layered dessert menus are what they are ordered for.
Five sizes, and two figures we will not guess
The range opens at 350 ml, named 12 oz, standing 110 mm tall. Next comes 400 ml at 14 oz and 123 mm, then 470 ml at 16 oz, then 500 ml at 17 oz and 138 mm, and it closes at 700 ml, named 24 oz. The odd-looking 17 oz is deliberate: 16 oz is already the name of the 470 ml shell, so the half litre takes the next number rather than a duplicate that would collide on a picking list.
Two heights are missing on purpose. The 470 ml and the 700 ml have not been measured off the running line; both are confirmed against the production batch when the offer is written. Estimating them from the neighbouring size would read well and travel badly: a shelf or a car holder planned on an invented millimetre is discovered wrong only after the container is unloaded.
What the dome is for, and where PET stops
A flat lid presses whatever sits on top of the drink down into it. The dome does not: whipped cream keeps its swirl, a heap of crushed ice keeps its peak, and fruit, syrup or biscuit dressing stays where it was built. That is why the group is quoted as a set rather than a cup with an accessory, and the clear wall lets the customer see the build before the first sip. The same 95 mm domes are listed separately under lids as well.
The material has a hard limit. PET is a cold service plastic: no hot filling, no oven, no dishwasher, nothing poured warm. Coffee and tea go to the board sections of the catalogue, where a barrier film does that work. Inside the cold menu PET earns its place by staying rigid and optically clear for the whole trip, so condensation does not turn the wall cloudy between the counter and a delivery address.
Dry offset printing, packing and the export order
The container arithmetic stays simple here: 1,000 pieces to the case across all five sizes. Decoration on these shells is dry offset in two colours as standard (up to four on request). The honest limit of the process on transparent plastic is the colour count and the kind of colour: flat solid areas, clean line work, a wordmark or a contour logo. Photographs and soft gradients do not transfer here; a design drawn for board is separated into flat inks first. The lid stays plain in every case; the print goes on the cup.
Packing is fixed at 1000 pieces to the case across all five sizes, which makes the arithmetic on a container load unusually simple for a cup line, and customs takes the whole set under one heading. Send the sizes, the quantity per size and the destination country; the written reply carries the packing figures, the tariff heading and the delivery term that applies. These cups are a supplied item, shipped with your paper cups and exported under our own invoice.
Cold drink PET cups: tell us the quantity, we come back with a price
Pick the sizes you need and send them in one message — you get a quotation, not a list of questions.
Send the sizes, the quantity per size and the destination country and the cold drink PET cups offer comes back with packing, the tariff heading and the delivery term.
Frequently asked questions
What is a dome lid cold cup, and how does it differ from a flat lid?
A dome lid rises above the rim of the cup instead of sealing flush with it, and that raised space is the whole point.
Whipped cream, a scoop of ice cream, fruit on top, the head on a milkshake — all of it sits under the dome untouched. Under a flat lid the same garnish presses against the underside and arrives already collapsed, which undoes the presentation the drink was built for.
The second difference is visibility. The dome is transparent, so a closed cup carries on showing what is inside it. Layered cold drinks are sold by eye, and keeping that view intact through service is worth more than any label on the wall.
Three shaped 95 mm covers are catalogued: a dome with the straw slot already cut, a closed dome, and a spouted flat one. All three pack 1000 to a carton and ship unprinted. Because the same 95 mm rim repeats across twelve clear cup sizes in the catalogue, moving a line from flat to dome opens no second cover reference in your warehouse — the order row stays one.
Tell us what you serve and we mark dome or flat in the quotation rather than leaving you to guess.
What sizes are the cold drink PET cups available in?
Five: 350 ml at 12 oz, 400 ml at 14 oz, 470 ml at 16 oz, 500 ml at 17 oz and 700 ml at 24 oz.
Three of the heights are measured — 110 mm at 350 ml, 123 mm at 400 ml, 138 mm at 500 ml. The opening is 95 mm and the base 55 mm across every size. That shared rim is a stocking advantage: the dome lids (straw-slot or solid) and the spout lid all fit the same 95 mm, so one lid stock covers all five sizes — switching cup size never changes your lid line. Unit weights run 9.5 g, 10.5 g and 11.5 g respectively.
Height and unit weight for the 470 ml and 700 ml are left blank in the table because they have not been confirmed off the line. Scaling a figure from the neighbouring size would fill the gap neatly, but it would not be a measurement, so we publish neither. Both values go out with the quotation once they are taken.
Carton of 1000, 50 pieces to a sleeve, HS code 3924.10.
On the ordering side: on PET cups the minimum order is one full truck load. Twenty cartons go on a pallet and a carton holds 1,000 cups, so one pallet is 20,000 cups; how many cups a full truck load comes to is stated in writing on the quotation. Measured gross carton weights are 9.98 kg at 350 ml, 11.03 kg at 400 ml and 12.08 kg at 500 ml, so the freight can be worked out before the enquiry is even sent. EXW or FCA is the usual delivery term — you send the vehicle, we load at the plant — while DAP is discussed only for regular, high-volume orders, and FOB or CIF is organised for sea shipments.
Send the sizes you plan to run; measurements and case data come back with the loading plan.
Does one dome lid fit every size in the range?
Yes. All five bodies are built on a 95 mm opening, so a single lid closes the whole range.
On the buying side that means one stock line rather than five, no size-to-lid mismatch at the counter, and one order row for a distributor. Adding a size to the menu later does not add a second lid reference to the warehouse.
Two lid versions exist — 95 mm with a straw hole already cut, and 95 mm solid. Both seat on the same rim; the choice follows the service style, not the cup size. Cartons of 1000.
The shared diameter is not limited to these five. In the plain PET range another seven sizes are drawn on the same 95 mm rim, so twelve cups in the catalogue — from 250 ml up to 700 ml — hang off one cover family without a second closure reference. On PET cups the minimum order is one full truck load.
We give the lid-to-cup match in one table with the quotation — just name the sizes you need.
Can a logo be printed on the clear PET cups, and how many colours?
Yes: printing on the clear PET body is dry offset, in two colours as standard and up to four on request, fewer than on the board lines.
The difference from the board ranges lies both in the number of colours and in the kind of colour. On single-wall paper cups flexographic printing goes up to six colours, and the double wall range is printed in offset CMYK, where even photography reproduces. Dry offset on PET lays two flat inks as standard (up to four on request), so the artwork has to be built from solid colours. A logo, a name, a flat-colour design and a short line work well under that constraint; gradients, photographs and halftones do not.
On a transparent body the area around the design stays clear, so the colour and the layers of the drink keep showing beside the print. Most buyers choose a narrow band or a single well-placed mark anyway — covering the whole wall cancels the one advantage a clear cup has.
Lids are not printed. They ship plain.
Send the logo file and the colour count and we price the PET print as a separate line.
Can hot drinks go in these cups?
No. PET is supplied for chilled service only; hot filling, microwave use and dishwashers are outside what these articles are made for.
This is a property of the material rather than a limitation of any particular batch — heat deforms both the wall and the dome. For hot service the catalogue carries a separate board range, lined with polyethylene on the inner face to handle serving temperature.
On the cold side the scope is wide: iced coffee, lemonade, smoothies, milkshakes, iced tea, juice, bubble tea and chilled desserts all belong in this body.
The hot side sits in the same catalogue: board cups from 100 ml to 500 ml, flexo printed in up to six colours. Cold and hot items go on one quotation and one proforma, so a counter serving both needs neither a second supplier nor a second loading file. The minimum order is not the same on both lines: on the board cups it is three pallets, that is 60 cartons; on the PET side it is one full truck load. On the board cups, a partial load collected from our factory by your own vehicle or appointed forwarder can also be 1 or 2 pallets — the unit price rises as the pallet count drops; this does not apply to the PET cups.
If you need hot service we recommend the paper range; write your menu and we mark the right item.
Why is 500 ml shown as 17 oz here but 16 oz in the PET cups section?
Because the two sections follow two different naming conventions, and we have left both as they are rather than forcing one onto the other.
The plain PET range is sold under the size names established in the Turkish market, where a 500 cc body is called 16 oz and that is the product's actual name. The cold drink range is specified in millimetres and millilitres instead; 500 ml converts to 16.9 oz, so the table says 17 oz. The same section already carries a 470 ml at 16 oz, and labelling both of them 16 oz would put two distinct products under one name.
When ordering, go by the millilitre figure. Product names in this range are built on volume, and the ounce equivalent is there for reference only.
On the paperwork it does not blur either: the whole range sits under HS heading 3924.10, so the naming difference never reaches the customs line. We write the volume in millilitres on the quotation, the proforma and the loading list; cartons hold 1000 pieces and on PET cups the minimum order is one full truck load. Given in millilitres, an order needs no confirmation round.
Tell us which unit you work in and the quotation shows ml and oz side by side, so nothing is lost in conversion.