Open Mouth Paper Bags

Open mouth bags are closed on one side of the tube, either by sewing or by gluing. The high quality materials and constructions offered provide a longer shelf life for your products. Re-opening devices can be applied, so that the product remains protected for a longer period at the end user. A choice of bleached or unbleached paper is available, with grammage ranging from 60g/m2 to 130g/m2. Design facilities and printing with up to 10 colours can be provided, including process printing. Coatings to give a gloss finish or improve frictional characteristics can also be optionally applied. For special protection via a barrier, open mouth bags are available with PE-Inliner.

Benefits
Yields a neat, stable pallet	Open mouth bags can be designed with different bottoms, resulting in a sturdier bag with a nicer shape – for an optimal pallet.
Self-supporting for display	Special folding techniques and gussets help form a nicely shaped bottom during the filling process, thereby providing a pleasing, self-supporting display at the point of sale.
Various closure techniques.	The available bag closure techniques meet a variety of customer requirements, including sewing or folding over/gluing down, or the bags can be equipped with a re-opening device.
Meets various filling prerequisites	Open mouth sacks can be used with a wide range of filling equipment for fully automated or manual filling.

The following bases for open mouth sacks are available to meet your requirements for easy palletising or a self-supporting display: Pasted Bottom - Flat (standard, hexagonal bottom), Pasted Bottom - Flat (with tape closure), Sewn Bottom - Flat, Sewn Bottom - Gusset, Pinch Bottom - Flat, Pinch bottom - Gusset

Technical Specifications
Width	180 mm to 750mm
Bottom	70mm to 300mm
Length	240mm to 1390mm
Number of plies*	1 to 6

*Polycoated plies or high density polyethylene/low density polyethelyne sheets can be incorporated if required to improve barrier properties and to allow heat sealing.

Last change: 02/07/2007