An Overview of Poly Bag Used in Apparel Industry

An Overview of Poly Bag Used in Apparel Industry

What is Poly Bag?

The poly bag is also known as polythene bags. It is a common and one of the most important materials in the readymade garments sector. A poly bag is a plastic packet, which is used to contain garments to keep those garments intact and dust, dirt, or moisture-free.

There are different types of material are used to produce poly bags such as PP, LD, HD, LLDP, LDPE, OPP, and VINYL, etc. where, PP, LD, VINYL, LDPE & VINYL mainly used for special purposes. It should be noted that, in the past, PP and LD poly bags used for garments packing but now buyer prefers LLDP, LDPE for environmental friendly issues.

The main reason for choosing LLDP, LDPE is that both are recyclable items, where others cannot be recycled. One more thing should be noted that LDPE is a little expensive than LLDP. At present, some buyer suggests using both items proportionally in producing poly bag. Because the mixture of both items helps to transparent poly bags.

Types of Poly Bag:

There are different types of poly bags used in clothing finishing, which are mentioned below:

1. Poly bags with flap,
2. Poly bags with button,
3. Adhesive poly or self-sealing bags,
4. Lip and gazette bags,
5. Ziplock ploy,
6. Slider zip-lock poly,
7. Poly Tubing / Heat Sealed,
8. Plain poly bags,
9. Hanger bags.

Poly Bag Thickness:

Normally, we can count poly bags thickness by using three different ways. Those are-

1. Mil,
2. Microns,
3. Gauge.

Mil:

Mil means the thickness is 1/1000 of an inch. That means, 1mil= 1/1000 of an inch.

Microns:

Microns means the thickness is 1/1000 of an mm. That means, 1microns= 1/1000 of an mm.

Gauge:

Microns means the thickness is 1/100000 of an inch. That means, 1gauge= 1/100000 of an inch.

The relation between Mil, Microns, and Gauge:

1 mil = 25 microns = 100 gauge

Among the above three, the gauge is the most used system of counting poly bags thickness worldwide.

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1. What is poly bags?
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3. Mention different types of poly bags.
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