Rice, as cereal grain, is one of the most widely consumed food, specially for Asia and Africa area.
Rice could come into many styles: different shapes, sizes and colors. Also cooking methods vary from different regionally.
As reported, till 2021, rice consumption of word wide was about 560 million tons, and may increase up to about 590 million tons after 2030. The consumption will mainly increase in other parts over the world except Asia.
Therefore, it’s never too late to start your rice packaging business.
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Most Popular Packaging for Rice
As people’s most stable main food, specially for Asians, the rice package is very common. And we could divide the main package as small volume, lower weight of less than 5kg packaging, and high volume, heavy weight of 5kg, 10kg 15kg ….packaging.
Lightweight bag: Rice packaging bag less than 5kg
Normally used to pack more high-class rice product, and the package style face high-end customer directly, or retailing distributors. Such as some of the rice snack, seasoned rice, puffed rice in premade pouch or roll film formed bag.
Heavy bag: Rice Packaging bags 5kg~20kg
Mainly used for wholesale purpose, which often prefer to fill and packed with thick plastic bag or woven bags, strong enough to protect the big capacity rice.
In addition, some customer request to remove all air inside bag, so they will need vacuum rice packaging machines.
Top 3 Rice Packing Machine
According to above most popular package in the market, today we mainly introduce the top three most popular rice packaging machines to help you make smart solution easier for your business.
Top-1 : VFFS Vertical Packing Machine for Rice ≤10kg
VFFS TYPE – VERTICAL FORM FILL SEAL RICE PACKING MACHINE
Bag Capacity Up to 5 KG / Bags
Speed: Range 10~60 bags/Min
Acceptable Bag Style: Pillow Bag, gusset Bag, Block Bottom Bag
Vertical Form Fill Seal Rice Packing Machine is suitable for both light weight package, and heavy pouch like up to 10kg per bag. Comparing with Premade Bag Style, it cost lower price and pretty high packaging speed to ensure great production efficiency. Will be a great option if you are starting a new business and want to pack wide bag size range at same time.
Top-2: Rotary Premade Bag Packing Machine for Rice ≤5kg
Rotary Type PREMADE BAG RICE PACKING MACHINE
Bag Capacity Up to 5 KG / Bags
Speed: Range 10~50 bags/Min
Acceptable Bag Style: Standard up pouch, Zipper Pouch, etc.
Rotary Type Premade Bag Rice Packing Machine is more suitable for light weight rice packaging bag, and the perfect packing bag effect allows your products has no pressure to enter high-end market. Thought the Rotary Premade Bag Rice Packing Machine requires higher initial investment cost, but it can also help your package and rice brand stands out on the shelf and get the highest product premium.
Top-3: Single Station Premade Bag Packing Machine for Rice up to 20kg
SINGLE DOYPACK RICE PREMADE BAG PACKING MACHINE
Bag Capacity Up to 20 KG / Bags
Speed: Range 3~10 bags/Min
Acceptable Bag Style: Standard up pouch, Zipper Pouch, etc.
Single-station premade bag packing machine is more suitable for heavy-weight packaging bag. Like 5kg, 10kg, 20kg.
Since only one station to complete all working process from bag opening, coding, filling, sealing and other motions, plus the bag capacity is heavy, means big volume rice need to weighing and filling, so overall speed will not be very big, can only reach 3~10 bags per min.
The advantages of this solution is that: It’s fully automatic solution, and requires relatively low initial investment cost, and vacuum packaging function is available for option. No need too much extra cost. The finished bag effect is as good as that of rotary premade bag packaging machine.
And it makes up for the shortcoming that the rotary packaging machine cannot pack heavy packaging.
Can be your perfect option to start up a new rice packing business of heavy-weight bag.
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