About Packaging Textiles

• Packaging textiles comprise of numerous flexible packing material made of textile used for packaging a variety of commodities for:
  1. Industrial,
  2. Agricultural,
  3. Consumer and
  4. Other goods.
• It ranges from polymer based bags used for industrial packing to jute based sacks used for packaging food grains and packaging used for tea.
• This packaging (excluding jute) is also referred to as flexible packaging materials.
• The technical textile products covered under Packaging textiles are as give below:-
  1. Polyolefin Woven Sacks (excluding FIBC)
  2. FIBC
  3. Leno bags
  4. Wrapping fabric
  5. Jute Hessian and Sacks (including Food grade jute bags)
  6. Soft luggage products (TT component)
  7. Tea-bags (filter paper)

Packaging material:

• There are several textile material used for packaging:

  1. Cotton
  2. Burlap
  3. BOPP
  4. Cartage
  5. Kenaf
  6. Sisal
  7. Wood
  8. Cellulosic
  9. Polypropylene
  10. Polyethylene
  11. Other film
  12. Coated films
  13. Laminated films
  14. Coextruded films
  15. Metal
  16. Glass
  17. Traditional packaging material are:
  1. Leaves (banana, plantain etc)
  2. Vegetable
  3. Bamboo & rattan
  4. Coconut palm
  5. Trated skin
  6. Earthenware