The stuff that is sold in grocery stores, supermarkets, club stores, and other vending places comes in different types of packaging. Glass jars are generally used to package honey, and manufacturers often choose to safeguard milk in folded cartons. Tin cans and plastic bottles are other popular mediums of packaging. The industry in the United States has been using all of them for several years now.
First used in the 1960s, stand up pouch bags are the new way of packaging consumer and industrial products. A juice manufacturer Capri Sun first used them in the early 1960s. Nearly three decades went by before American industry embraced stand up pouches with open arms. Currently, stand up bags are an attractive option for manufacturers looking for high-quality and economical solutions for food and liquid packaging.
Pouch bags have several other advantages. They include:
(1) Minimal transportation and inventory costs
Stand up bags packed and shipped flat. It takes a fraction of space to store 1,000 stand up bags than it takes to store 1,000 tin cans, glass jars, or plastic bottles. A stand up pouch is made from multiple layers of plastic and other materials. Together, these layers give strength to the pouch. Stand up bags take up just a little more space than a piece of paper when they are empty. This makes transportation easy. A truck can carry more stand up pouches than glass jars and plastic bottles.
(2) Low minimum run
StandUpPouches.net has the lowest minimum run in the entire packaging industry. We can manufacture as little as 5,000 pouches in one go. This minimum run has been decided keeping small businesses in mind. At the same time, we possess an expandable manufacturing system which can be used to take care of very large orders from large firms.
(3) Most inexpensive packaging medium in industry
A stand up pouch costs between 15 and 20 cents apiece. This is nearly half the cost of its nearest competitor - the folded plastic carton. A carton costs 35 cents. Ranging between 45 and 50 cents per piece, plastic jars are more expensive. Leading them all is the tin can, which can cost as much as 60 cents, or even more.
(4) Attractive printing
Stand up pouches are print friendly. We use advanced rotogravure printing to publish highly customized artwork that woos customers and increases sales. In comparison, printing on metal tins is labor intensive. Then there are issues with label pasting. These problems are non existent in stand up pouches that yield readily to even very intricate designs.
Considering these advantages, standup pouches are certainly the best packaging medium for many products.