Shipping sack production is a major area for the film converting industry. The growth of global trade has led to higher demand for transportation of goods, which in turn creates opportunities for protective and heavy duty shipping sacks.

Heavy duty shipping sacks are used for a variety of goods, including bags for polyolefins.  In the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, filling lines for heavy goods such as plastic pellets, pigments, fertilizer, sand, fish food, are tending more towards the form-fill-seal (FFS) system.  This system calls for properties such as good sealing, toughness, rigidity, hot content capability and shape retention.

Borstar Enhanced Polyethylene is the only PE material available in the market today which can combine excellent processing characteristics with final film toughness.

Other key benefits of Borouge’s Borstar bimodal enhanced polyethylene for heavy duty sacks include:

• Excellent combination of high impact and seal strength, thus reduces risk of package bursting during various stages of package life – from filling, to transportation, to end-use
• Superior load retention and minimise deformation of package in use
• Material savings and lower costs
• Shorter production time per bag unit
• Reduced transportation costs
• Reduced environmental taxation