Why Convert from Rigid Packaging to Pouches?

The benefits of choosing stand-up pouches over rigid packaging are many.  Flexible pouches:

• Are conveniently lighter and more portable for today’s on-the-go consumers.
• Result in a higher product-to-package ratio.
• Use approximately 60 percent less plastic than rigid plastic bottles.
• Allow for more efficient warehousing since unfilled pouches take up significantly less space than rigid packaging.
• Allow for near total evacuation of the product. (Rigid containers can leave 6 – 14% of product in packaging, while pouches can evacuate up to 99.5% of the product.)
• Require approximately 50 percent less energy to produce.
• Generate less CO2 emissions during production.
• Produce less landfill waste.
• Require fewer trucks for transportation—reducing fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
• Provide shelf impact, differentiation, visibility, and a wide range of convenient features that all translate to a competitive advantage for your brand.

For example, in 2013, we produced a durable spouted stand-up pouch for Arctic Cat’s innovative C-TEC2 Synthetic engine oil. It was the first oil pouch in the U.S. power sports industry. Not only did the new pouch provide the benefits listed above, but converting from the industry standard 32 oz. F-style quart bottle to a pouch also:

• provided a sizeable increase (over 500%) in printable surface area to present attention-grabbing graphics and key information.
• facilitated easier dispensing of oil into compact oil reservoirs.
• reinforced the high-performance, environmentally-conscious characteristics of the brand.