As a result, reliable, flexible, plastic containers have allowed consumers to purchase less frequently, reduce their storage needs, handle their product less, contain larger quantities of their product, and improve their sanitation requirements. As a bonus, when the useful life of a plastic, semi-bulk container has elapsed, disposal is at a minimum. You name the product and most likely a bulk bag has been tried and used successfully. Agriculture, chemical, industrial, food and drug, and a number of other industries have found the bulk bag to be the preferred packaging method. The collapsible, woven polyolefin fabric that the bags are made out of can be designed to hold loads in excess of 8,000 pounds if desired.
Most loads are of the metric ton variety.
Fill and discharge spouts are incorporated for easy loading and emptying. A pallet full of empty bags usually number from 50 to 150 each, drastically reducing storage and handling when compared to any other form of packaging. Most bulk bags can have additional features added to them if necessary. Many bags are even deigned to allow reuse options. Units handling from 110 to 350 gallons of product could now be successfully sent around the world in containers other than rigid style.