Description

Watch the video below for more understanding.

Introduce

This 500ml cheer-pack highly attracted consumers for sports water. It provides a strong and eye-catching package for the products. The pouch’s great standing ability makes it so gorgeous for branding and distributing the product effectively.

As a reliable manufacturer of these standing spout pouches with spouts & closure systems for various liquid products, we are going to share the details of this standup spout pouch.

Laminated Foil

Usually, a monolayer film material is not feasible to achieve the multiple functions required by this 500ml cheer pack for Sports Water. To achieve a robust package, this engine oil pouch will have to be made of a 4-layer structure, with the details of this foil laminate shown in the graphic below.

Generally, we name the foil structure PET12/Al7/PA15/LDPE.

so it can be well understood in business activities. This laminated foil also extends its wide application to many other liquid products, such as yogurt,  beverages, etc.

In this foil laminate, PET film works as the outside print substrate film layer, PA film and Al Foil work as the middle mechanical and supportive layer, and LDPE film works as the inner sealing film.

Please note, that all the film materials, inks, and adhesives applied in our flexible packaging are certificated human food safety. Then, let’s get into a better understanding of each of the substrate films.

PET12 is one of the most commonly used printing substrates in flexible packaging pouches. With great optical clarity, high gloss, good chemical resistance, stable mechanical strength, excellent dimensional stability, and great printability, it can present the customer artwork print in great quality, and also provide great mechanical strength to the final package.

AluminumL foil is a thin, pliable sheet of aluminum alloy that is often used for wrapping and covering food during cooking. It is made by rolling large slabs of aluminum until they are less than 0.2 millimeters thick, and then solidifying the molten alloy between water-cooled rollers. During the final rolling process, two layers of foil are passed through the mill at the same time, resulting in one shiny side and one dull side. The different finishes do not affect how the foil reacts with food, so it doesn’t matter which side is facing up or down when cooking.

PA15, which is short for biaxially orientated polyamide film, with the most used thickness of 15 microns (equal to 0.6 gauge). Usually, people call it nylon film. It is of excellent mechanical strength, anti-puncture resistance, and high barrier performance against oxygen. When it is applied to the foil laminate, usually the final package is achieved with reinforced mechanical strength.

LDPE means low-density polyethylene film, which is the most used inner sealing layer for coffee bags. LDPE is also lightweight, easy to fabricate, and has good chemical and impact resistance. LDPE is recyclable and reusable, making it a popular alternative to traditional plastic. LDPE is nontoxic, non-contaminating, and has a high degree of break resistance. Most importantly, LDPE membrane can be modified against the requirement of specific products, and finalize the package with great seal strength and protection. The thickness of the LDPE membrane will be decided against the particular application.

The thickness of the foil laminate PET12/Al7/PA15/LDPE should be 0.16mm (equals 160 microns). It should be good enough to meet the requirements of a 500ml sports water pack.

You may read here on our company website to get a deeper understanding of PET12/Al7/PA15/LDPE Foil Laminate and see how it can help you decide the ideal packages.

Ok, let’s get into a deeper understanding of the performance of this sports water cheer-up pack

3 Properties and Quality Assurance

3.1 Exquisite print quality

The artwork is printed through gravure printing on our rotogravure print press which can print up to a maximum of 10 colors. With advanced print techniques and a print defects inspection system, we are now outputting fantastic print results against customers’ artwork.

In our manufacturing plant, we take serious measures to achieve high color fidelity and consistency for repeated print orders, and here we will give an overall introduction.

a.  Color Analyzer

This color analyzer is one of the auxiliary tools in our system to achieve the highest standard for color fidelity. The eXact Advanced doesn’t just validate the color of CMYK and spot color inks, it can simultaneously measure four M modes to visualize the spectral reflectance of a substrate or ink, measure the concentration of a specific ink, and measure the difference of a substrate or ink over white and over black.

b. Pantone Color Code

The Pantone color guide would be so helpful to locate a specific color for the pring service supplier and the customers, especially if there is a large area printed in single Pantone color. For many Pantone colors, the accuracy may be influenced by the printer, paper substrate, and environmental factors when it is printed onto physical photo paper. Pantone Color Code will be located in the artwork design with the customers before the order is put into production.

c. Physically Printed On Photo Paper

Computer files such as JPG, PDF, PSD, AI, etc can not be taken as the guide to determine the color in print produce, as they present the colors through electronic screening devices. Different electronic screens may be set in different parameters by the various manufacturers, which will inevitably interfere with the color presentation. Artwork can only be a reliable guide when printed on the physical substrate, with the most common photo paper applied.

You may read here to understand more about how our company ensures color fidelity and consistency for all our orders.

Measures taken to achieve high color fidelity and consistency in reprints

3.2 Excellent standup effect

With the reinforced triplex laminated foil materials, the pouch is able to present an exquisite standing effect when 500ml of sports water is filled.

3.3 Great Mechanical Strength

The self-standing spout pouch must keep the 500 ml of sports water in good condition during travel and distribution. You can easily imagine what a catastrophe it would be if one of the standup pouch containers broke and contaminated the environment.

We put mechanical strength on the top list of our QC work, and there are serious measures and tests taken in our plant, to ensure each and every one of the pouches delivered to the customer site is accountable.

Put simply, a drop test should be considered one of the most reliable ways to check if the spout pouch is robust enough for protection purposes.  Usually, we fill a certain amount of water into the spout bag drop it from a certain height, and see whether it breaks when the filled pouch reaches the ground. Of course, the height should be decided against the requirements of the customer’s needs.

 

3.4 Eye-catching Effect

This pack of 500 ml motor oil becomes one of the top picks when it just stands on the shelves. People may not help to lay an eye on it when they just browse the products. It surely helps on the product sale.

 

3.5 Easily pour out

When customers wish to put water in their car, they may effortlessly pour it out of the flexible bag. Compared to plastic bottles and canisters, the multilayer pouch is soft, and consumers may easily run it in various positions for filling activities.

3.6 Anti-Counterfeit Available

A plastic circle is applied beneath the cap of the closure, to achieve counterfeit purpose. When the cap is screwed onto the plastic spout, the plastic circle will be locked under the hooks on the spout. People will have to destroy the closure to reach the inside products, and that is very important to protect the products.

You are advised to watch the video below for further understanding.

3.7 Delicate Bag Making

The self-standing bag is made with delicate elements that can make a superb impact on consumers as they pass by the products and prompt them to make a purchase. Some buyers prefer to acquire a product because of its attractive profile.

 

4 Quality Control Measures

Serious quality control measures have been taken in our manufacturing plant, to ensure each order is finished meeting the requirements of particular customers. With more than ten years of working experience in this field, we finalize this QC manual standard, to make sure each order is produced following the correct procedure.

Here, please allow us to guide you further into our QC system.

4.1 Manufacturing Traceback

We apply a strict recording system to document the manufacturing details, such as environmental conditions, craftsmanship parameters, production facility conditions, etc, which allows us to trace back whenever there is a problem.

4.2 QC Test Report Against Each Order

There will be a QC test report issued against each order produced in our plant, with some main items of the properties tested and listed. This is an effective way to get the customers settled on their packages, and highly appreciated by our customers.

You may read here to understand the QC test report of this 500ml motor oil sachet order.

4.3 Print Inspection

In our manufacturing plant, the print inspection is always taken and done in a serious way, as we will never allow the customer’s artwork to be achieved in a way that deteriorates their business. On our gravure print press, there is in-line inspection system that can eliminate more than 98% of the defects in the printing process.

You may check how it works on our control panel.

There is also a supplementary off-line inspection equipment, to allow us to do the print inspection again whenever it seems necessary.

We are now producing spout bags against customer artwork, and we surely love to support the startup and market-testing period for our customers. We will accept a minimum order quantity of 30,000 bags printed against customer artwork design.

4.4 Airtight Property Test

The finished spout pouch should be completely airtight, otherwise the product may deteriorate under the conditions of oxygen and moisture in the environment. The closure will need to be screwed tightly onto the spout during the filling process when it is done at the customer site.

Here, we apply an airtight property test on this capped spout pouch under the minus-pressure environment, and this proves to be the most reliable way in our industry to check if the package is completely tight from the air.

You are advised to watch the video below for a further understanding on this test process.

Video Airtight property test #

4.5 Gas Release Property Test

The gas will be released from the inside when the air pressure for the inside is 2~7 mbar than the outside environment. Usually, we will immerse the valve welded bag under the water, and check if the degassing valve works well.

4.6 Drop Test

Drop test should be considered as a very reliable way to check if the coffee bag’s strength is enough to meet the various conditions, as it copies the way when the products fall off the good shelves, and the finished bag will suffer great sudden shock. In our daily QC work, We perform the drop test against each order, of course, the standard for this drop test should be decided against customer needs.

Here, we are going to drop the filled coffee bag from 1.6m high, for 5 times.

You are advised to watch the video below, for a further understanding.

After 5 drops for each bag, none of them breaks,  all are fine and dandy.

4.7 Hard Sudden Strikes on inflated spout bags

Hard sudden strikes should be taken as a more fierce test method than drop test, as it causes much higher force on inflated packages.

Let’s watch the video to understand how we perform this test in our manufacturing plant.

4.8 Anti-Pressure Test

Pressure-resistance test is another effective method to decide if the final package will serve as great protection for the products, especially liquid products, like household detergent liquids, and windshield washer fluids. For coffee bags, we will perform the anti-pressure test in our daily QC work, to ensure each order is finished with great mechanical strength.

The leakage or breakage of the coffee bag will surely be a disaster, either for the distributor or the manufacturer.  We will never expect this thing happens in our customer’s business.

Sometimes, for easier and faster operation, we may just get one person to stand on the well-sealed and inflated coffee bag, to check if there is any burst of them.

4.9 Easy Screw-Off of the Closure

The closure will need to be screwed off the plastic spout without much strength, otherwise, it may be an obstacle for the old and weak people to use the products. This is put on our checklist in our QC work, and through the below video, you will be able to understand the screw-off test of the closures.

4.8 Laboratory Tests

Laboratory tests are essential to keep us updated with the intrinsic properties of the foil materials which are not visible to the human eyes. It is crucial to gain a thorough understanding of the data about the production of our bags. The craftsmanship can be improved bit by bit to pursue premium quality bags based on thorough analysis and application of these data. You may check more of these tests in the Technical Data Sheet part of this post.

4.9 Third-party Inspection

Third-party inspection is available for all our orders on agreed standards or regulations.

5 Human Food Safety

All the film materials, inks, adhesives, and solvents used to convert into kinds of food bags and packaging materials will comply with the regulations for human food safety. The below graphic shows the mass spectra in migration tests on these multilayer flexible pouches that are in direct contact with foods.

Through the below link, you will be able to study the certificates on each of the materials adapted in our factory.

Human Food Safety

 

6 Technical Data Sheet of standup spout bag for 500 ml sports water

Laboratory-test-flexible-roll-foilHere, we include the specifications on some main items of this multilayer spout bag, with the videos showing the test progress in the later columns.

You may check the attached PDF file for further understanding of the properties of this spout bag.

Technical-Data-Sheet-of-500ml-water-cheerpack-spouted-cap-pouch 

Some main items are listed below.

1. Dimension Tolerance
2. Print Appearance
3. Yield (grams per square meter)
4. Tensile Strength (Mpa)
5. Elongation Rate  (%)
6. Coefficient of friction, short as COF
7. Solvents Left (mg/m2 )
8. Sealing Strength (N/15mm)
9. Sealing Conditions
10. Bond Strength (N/15mm)
11. Burst Strength (J)
12. Anti-Puncture ability (N)
13. Drop Test Ability (cm)
14. Anti-pressure ability (kgs)
15. Water Vapor Transmission Rate (g/m2/24hr)
16. Oxygen Transmission Rate (cc/m2/24hr)

Just reach us if you have any questions about any of the items.

7 More Sustainable Options

With the increasing burden on plastic pollution, more and more manufacturers are now seeking more sustainable packages, like compostable film materials, recyclable mono materials packages, and plant-based materials packages. They all prove to be more eco-friendly and sustainable than the traditional plastic films which are usually derived from fossil chemicals, and very difficult to recycle and break down in the environment.

Here, we are going to share some of the trending sustainable packages for the coffee market.

7.1 Compostable film material packages

Thanks to the fast development of plant-based film materials, we can present the multi-layer standup pouch and roll foils in full compostable and biodegradable options.

 

The compostable substrate films we adapt to convert the multi-layer flexible pouches are listed below.

1. BOPLA Film
2. PLA+PBAT Film
3. Kraft Paper
4. Metallized Paper
5. Cellulose Film
6. Metallized Cellulose Paper
7. PBS Film
8. PVDC Coated Cellulose Film
9. Metalized BOPLA Membrane

We are now achieving multilayer compostable foil materials based on extrusion coating lamination, solvent-free lamination, and dry lamination, and then convertthem  into various types of flexible pouches against customers’ requirements.

Some of the common compostable foil structures are listed below.

• Kraft Paper/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Kraft Paper/BOPLA Membrane
• Cellulose/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Kraft Paper/PBS Foil Membrane
• Metallized Paper/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• BOPLA/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Cellulose/Metallized Cellulose/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Kraft Paper/Metallized Cellulose/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Cellulose/Metallized Paper/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Kraft Paper/Cellulose/PLA+PBAT Membrane
• Kraft Paper/Cellulose/PBS Membrane
• Metallized Paper/Cellulose/PLA+PBAT Membrane

Here, we are going to introduce the main performance of these compostable materials pouches.

a. Compostable

All the film materials we adapt are certificated compostable, under home or industrial conditions, complying with the standards EN 13432 or ASTM 6400.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The films will present different biodegradation behaviors under different conditions, such as industrial composting facilities, home and garden conditions, and natural soil conditions.

In most cases, industrial composting will be able to achieve faster biodegradation of the compostable film materials than other composting progress, as it is able to provide better conditions.

Some manufacturers would like to have better biodegradation behaviors of their own compostable packages under natural soil conditions, as in most cases, the abandoned package may not be recycled into human composting facilities.

You may read here to have a better understanding of the break-down progress of our compostable foil laminated materials under the natural conditions in Qingdao, Shandong, North China conditions.

The biodegrading process of compostable film materials buried in nature soil

b. High-barrier performance pouches

Through vacuum metallization, PVDC coating, and AlOx/SiOx depositing, the compostable films can be achieved with better barrier performance, such as water vapor transmission rate (short as WVTR) and Oxygen Transmission Rate (short as OTR). Later on, we will combine several layers of the barrier film and convert into laminate foil, with an improved barrier property for finished packages.odles, or soup products

In the below table, we are going to share some barrier data of the most common foil laminates tested on our Mocon permeation tester.

Biodegradable Foil Laminate	WVTR (g/m2/24hr)	OTR (cc/m2/24hr)
BOPLA40/PLA+PBAT60	62.2	267
Cellulose30/PLA+PBAT60	131.5	5.6
Kraft Paper45g /PLA+PBAT60	44	742
Kraft Paper45g/BOPLA40	41	380
Metallized Paper69g/PLA+PBAT40	27	127
Cellulose30/Metallized Cellulose20/PLA+PBAT60	23	0.16
Cellulose30/Metallized Cellulose20/BOPLA40	25	0.12
Metallized Paper 69g/Cellulose30/PLA+PBAT60	5.6	1.12
Kraft45g/Metallized Cellulose20/PLA+PBAT60	26	0.22
Cellulose30/Kraft45g/PLA+PBAT60	19	117.2
Cellulose30/Metallized Paper69g/PLA+PBAT60	8.9	1.1

c. Alkaline Resistant

We put a certain amount of bleaching powder into the compostable pouches with various foil structures, and placed them in an environment of 40~45 Celsius degrees, to accelerate the aging process of the compostable pouches.

The test result proves the compostable pouches will be fine for packing alkaline products, like household detergent powder, and hand wash cubes.

However, it is not ok for household liquid detergent and other liquid cleaning chemicals.

You may watch the video below for further knowledge on it.

d. Frozen Treatment

The compostable pouches can be well intended for frozen treatment for some food products, and the mechanical property of the frozen pouch still works well as good protection for the products during the transportation and distribution process.

You may watch the video below to study the test in our office.

d. Vacuum Packages

The compostable pouches can be intended for vacuum packages for products, like milk powder, nutrition products, etc.

f. Hot Filling up to 100 Celsius Degree

The compostable pouch will be fine for the hot filling process, which may work well for juice products.

Watch the video below to learn our test.

g. Microwave Oven Treatment

The compostable doypack can be well intended for microwave oven treatment, such as melting the candle wax, etc.

Please note, that there should not be a metalized film layer in the compostable pouch when it is intended for this microwave treatment purpose.

You may read here for a better understanding of compostable plant-based film materials packaging.

Compostable Plant-film Materials Pouch Packaging

7.2 Mono Materials Recyclable Pouch Packages

Mono materials pouch packages are truly recyclable, as they can be easily processed into plastic granules which can be used again for other applications. However, for the traditional multilayer laminates, take PET/LDPE for example, it is difficult to process, as PET and LDPE are quite different materials, and can not be melted under the same conditions. That’s why momo materials pouch packages are becoming so widely popular in the packaging field, and highly reputed in the consumer market.

At present, mono-material pouches are divided into Polyethylene channels and Polypropylene channels, with polyethylene channels much more popular, as they can be converted into kinds of standup pouch packages with relatively high performance.

Here we list the film materials that can be well intended for mono-materials recyclable pouch packages.

1. MDOPE Film
2. BOPE Film
3. APE Film
4. LDPE Film
5. LLDPE Film
6. CPE Film
7. ABOPP Film
8. CPP Film
9. VMCPP Film
10. VMBOPP Film
11. EVOH-LDPE Film
12. HDPE Film

Various foil laminates can be achieved based on the above film materials with different properties, which are intended to meet the particular requirements for specific products. Some of the common mono-material foil laminates are listed below.

1. MDOPE/APE
2. MDOPE/LDPE
3. MDOPE/EVOH-LDPE
4. MDOPE/HDPE/APE
5. MDOPE/BOPE/APE
6. BOPE/APE
7. BOPP/CPP
8. BOPP/VMCPP
9. ABOPP/VMCPP

From our experience, mono-material pouches can be well intended for spice powder products.

You may have a further understanding of the recyclable mono materials and pouches here, and just reach us if you have any questions

Fully Recyclable Mono Materials Package

8 About the manufacturer

Qingdao Tongli Packaging has devoted itself to the manufacture of quality spout bags for more than 10 years, with long-term customers around the world. You may just rely on us if you would like to get a sustainable and reliable supply for your spout packages.