Dry food packaging is a broad stroke of the packaging industry that includes everything from cereal and trail mix to granola and flour and everything in between. The point of this post is to explain in a little detail how using stand up pouches can save money over other types of packaging.
Let's assume we are dealing with dry food packaging for flour. Some options to package flour include
- Folding Cartons
- Corrugated Boxes
- Heavy Duty Plastic Bags
- Paper Sacks
- Stand Up Pouches
Folding cartons are made from paperboard (either recycled or virgin grade). Dry food products packaged using this type of container are limited to the amount of weight, most likely less than 1.5 pounds and folding cartons offer little or no barrier protection, meaning in order to protect the flour another type of packaging is required, most likely a plastic bag. In a nutshell, dry food packaging using folding cartons would need not only the carton but an inner barrier bag as well. Estimated cost for a custom printed folding carton that would hold 1 pound of flour $.25 cents + $.02 cents for an inner liner. $.27 cents
Corrugated cartons are another style using paper but this dry food packaging is much more durable than folding cartons...and in many instances...cheaper too. Same as folding cartons, corrugated cartons offer no barrier protection for the flour, so an inner liner, most likely a plastic bag, will be needed to not only contain the flour but offer some barrier protection. This style of dry food packaging will cost $.20 cents + $.02 for an inner liner. $.22 cents
Tomorrow...in Part Two, we'll discuss other types of dry food packaging.