Can You Use a Hair Iron to Seal Stand Up Pouches?

Yes you can, if you are prepared to spoil your hair iron and be content with a pathetic sealing job. A slight touch with a hot hair iron will melt plastic which will then stick with your hair iron, making it unusable for hair jobs. The melting will not be uniform - unless you are adept at tinkering with machines - and the resulting seal will be more like an irregular national border than a uniform straight seal which you may have been expecting.

At such a high cost and poor results, it is useless to spoil a hair iron to steal stand up pouches. Let us explain how the science works here.

There are two kinds of plastic - thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic. The former is mainly used in lightweight products, while the latter finds its chief use in heavy plastic products. A major difference between these two plastics is that while thermoplastics can be melted and remolded with heat, thermosetting plastics do not change shape even under extreme heat. Polyethylene bags are made from thermoplastic resins, and so are most stand up pouch bags. If a pouch is not made from thermoplastic, not only will you be unable to reseal it, there are also chances of accidents.

While it is theoretically possible for a hair iron to seal and reseal custom printed stand up pouches, it is not an efficient use of energy and equipment. An efficient method to seal a pouch is to use a stand up bag that is resealable. StandUpPouches.net makes resealable pouch bags from high quality materials at a fraction of the price of other packaging mediums. These pouches use a variety of accessories – spouts, zippers, or Velcro like techniques – to make it possible for consumers to reseal pouches after using a small amount of the product.

Ability to reseal the pouch is a highly valued quality in today's packaging. This is especially important in packages that carry a large amount of a product. Resealable packets allow consumers to use a portion of the product and then keep the rest of it safely inside the packet for future use without needing extra containers. Manufacturers are aware of it, so they choose resealable pouches to package those products that cannot be consumed in a single go.