Everything You Need to Know About Spouted Pouches

04 Feb.,2023

 

spout pouch for juice

Businesses are always looking for new and innovative ways to package their products. In addition to offering functionality, well considered packaging choices can play a substantial role in maximizing product sales and minimizing a brand’s environmental footprint. Here at Fillcon, we specialise in producing fit for purpose packaging, suitable for use across a wide range of industries including personal care, cosmetic and medical. Whether your business requires pouches, sachets, boxes or tissue packaging, our wide variety of packaging solutions can be customised to meet your needs.

Included within our range of packaging solutions are spouted pouches. Spouted pouch packaging is gaining rapid popularity across a range of industries. As awareness of this flexible packaging style increases, many businesses may wish to learn more about spouted pouches, their benefits and how they may further product sales. In this blog from Fillcon, we offer information about spouted pouches, the benefits they provide as well as their typical uses. For more information about packaging varieties and insight into how mindful packaging choices can contribute to the growth of brands across many industries, visit our blog.

What are Pouches?

Pouches are flexible storage and packaging solutions that allow for the containment of solid and liquid products. Pouches are used to package products ranging from cleaning products, to baby food, cosmetics and more. As well as catering to the needs of many industries, pouches also come in a variety of forms including: 

  • Stand Up Pouches
  • Flat Pouches
  • Flat Bottom Pouches
  • Clear Pouches
  • Kraft Pouches
  • Resealable Pouches

What are Spouted Pouches?

Within the overarching category of ‘pouches’, falls spouted pouches. As previously mentioned, the popularity of spouted pouches is rapidly inclining, this popularity being attributed to a variety of factors, a selection of which will be discussed below. Spouted pouches feature spout/cap attachments that narrow the dispensing of product from a pouch.

Spouted pouches prove particularly useful for refillable products. In an age where many businesses aim to reduce the environmental impact of their packaging, refill pouches offer a perfect alternative to repurchasing a product in it’s full packaging with unnecessary frequency. Refill pouches are particularly popular for items such as cleaning products and some food stuffs that require frequent top ups.

While spouted pouches may be gaining popularity, there’s one big problem – many aren’t recyclable. To combat this issue Fillcon offer recyclable pouch solutions and will soon offer a spouted pouch filling service with fully recyclable PP pouches! Keep an eye on our website for updates.

Benefits of Spouted Pouches

As previously noted, spouted pouches offer a range of unique benefits, many of which mirror that of pouches more generally, some of which are unique to spouted varieties. A post detailing the benefits of using pouches for your packaging can be found here.

Easily Customisable

One of the central advantages of spouted pouches is the ease with which they can be customised. Carefully considered and well-designed product packaging not only helps establish an easily identifiable aesthetic for your brand, it also plays a substantial role in boosting sales. Customisation options allow a business to design packaging that attracts the eye of the consumer and encourages a product’s selection when presented amongst competitor offerings in settings such as supermarkets.

Many pouches also allow for customisation with their spout attachments. Businesses are able to select from a variety of caps depending on the particulars of their product. For example, a product that sees users eat or drink directly from a pouch will require different features than a product for which the pouch functions only to dispense a substance.

Environmental Advantages

Spouted pouches offer an environmentally preferable alternative to plastic bottles, tubs or tins. Ditching alternative packaging for spouted pouches can reduce a package’s plastic content by up to 70%. Using reduced quantities of plastic not only has environmental benefits in that it limits the amount of plastic waste generated by your business, but also lessens the amount of energy required to produce the packaging in the first place.

Storage Advantages

As mentioned, pouches require far less plastic than many packaging alternatives and are resultantly less rigid – this in turn results in a range of storage benefits. Streamline packaging allows more items to be stored in one location, reducing the need to pay for additional storage facilities. In addition to having advantages for the business, the ease of product storage may also be an attractive incentive for a customer!

Convenient For on the Go

The Flexible, easily transportable solution offered by Fillcon’s pouches also makes for easier on-the-go use. The addition of spouts into pouch designs give an additional layer of security to prevent product leaks. Spouts also allow a product to be re-sealed once opened – ideal for days out where waste disposal/recycling points are not always nearby.  Non-bulky, lightweight styles also allow products to be transported easily between places.

Suited For Use by Children 

Spouted pouches are especially practical for use within products designed for children. Spouted varieties offer an opening that is wide enough to allow for filling and dispensing but narrow enough to limit spillages. The re-sealable nature of spouted pouches also has benefits in this realm, limiting the potential for messy mealtimes – especially in on-the-go settings.

Recyclable Spouted Pouch Packaging – Coming Soon!

Here at Fillcon, we offer a range of packaging solutions for a wide range of industries. Established in 2011, we have spent 10 years working alongside experts to create packaging to suit your business’ needs. To combat the issues regarding pouch recycling the Fillcon team are working towards the launch of a spouted pouch filling service for which all pouches offered will be fully recyclable! For more information about our services, get in touch with our team today.