Standup pouches tend to be a perfect fit for a lot of items
or products; however, they are surely not for all products. SUPs do come with
specific challenges when it is about manufacturing & packaging and they
aren’t the best choice in all instances. Here are a few challenges that a
manufacturer may face when dealing with pouch filling machine and standup
pouches:
·
Machinery changes. The pouch filling
machinery that is needed for standup pouch packaging could be really expensive
to implement. It is quite a different system as compared to what is
traditionally applicable for packaging traditionally, and not all businesses
would have that kind of capital to be able to invest in such implementations.
·
Inefficiency. The standup pouches might
be a really efficient means of containment and storage, but the process of
filling itself isn’t always that efficient. The process of filling depends on
what product is being packaged. As for breakfast cereals, for example, the
process of filling or the line speed of the pouch packing machine would be
required to equate with speed of the current equipment being used, which isn’t
really easy and efficient.
·
Unsuitability. With standup pouches, not
all kind of products are actually good contenders. For instance, take ice
cream. The ice cream containers need to have rigid sides, since scooping the
stuff required resistance, which is not the case with stand up pouches with are
flexible and may tear. So, stand-up pouches may not be great in all cases.
