Palmetto Industries has multiple bags and storage options available, but which option is best for your industry? There are always liners and different adapters available to make certain options work, but getting the best fit early is more cost efficient.

Here are a few details about multiwall paper bags and PP woven bags to understand their versatility and differences.

What Are Multiwall Paper Bags?

Paper bag options are available for pet food, seed, minerals, chemicals, yard waste, and many other applications. These aren’t your flimsy grocery or basic yard clipping bags; the multiwall feature means so much more.

Enhanced structure and better protection are two major benefits of multiwall paper sacks. Standard brown paper bags, even the stiffer bags used for lawn care or groceries, can easily burst when filled at high, fast volumes.

Leakage and tearing from even slightly humid conditions can threaten to spill materials and product very quickly. Materials could be moist or may easily absorb moisture from the air, which could lead to slow and hard to observe internal damage.

Basic paper bags aren’t designed for industrial use, so it’s hard to gauge how much load or compromising conditions the bags can take.

Multiwall paper sacks are purpose-driven, well-documented, and customizable bag options. They have specific weight limits, safety precautions to help you avoid certain conditions, and standard durability that is obviously stronger from touch alone.

Structural Integrity Stays Intact

If your industrial process involves filling bags with cornered, sharp, or jagged seeds from a hopper at fast rates, reinforced bags are your best bet. If you’re increasing your farm’s lines of business and adding additional processes such as internal feed delivery, mulch management, manure management, or in-bag planting, multiwall bags are a great choice.

Wet materials and paper bags don’t mix well. Some clients may be fine with a bag that will deteriorate on-site, but for most industrial uses, a wet bag is just a burden. There is a middle ground, and aside from your own compliance rules, there’s nothing wrong with getting creative.

If you need paper bags for aesthetic reasons, but need greater structural integrity, make sure to speak with our product management team to discuss liners and other custom solutions.

What Are PP Woven Bags?

Recyclable polypropylene woven bags or PP woven bags are delivered in easily stored, easy to transport rolls. These bags are a groundbreaking combination of lightweight, compact storage that unrolls into massive structural integrity and high-volume storage.

PP Woven bags are mildew resistant, reusable, and can float for industries that need water loading and water surface management. The bags don’t absorb water and are moderately resistant to stretching and shrinking.

If your industrial process needs strong, moisture and mildew-resistant storage options, PP woven bags are the best choice. These bags have higher weight capacity options than the paper bags and can be designed to fit assorted loading and lifting systems.

Flexible for More Product

The flexible, woven design allows filling that can roughly mold to corner and surfaces. Unlike rigid storage containers, you can store more product while wasting less space.

This is especially helpful with small materials and products such as grains, pharmaceutical, minerals, pellets, and fine powders. Filling rigid containers makes unloading difficult, especially when you need to scrape corners or work through hard-to-reach textures, and the bag design helps.

Another advantage of woven bags is the unloading process. Woven bags can be fitted with spouts, ports, or other unloading options that you can design with the help of a Palmetto Industries consultant.

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The mining industry is in a constant state of change. Consuming less fuel to access more product and losing fewer materials in the process are just two vital goals both at the mine and at processing facilities.

Flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs) can help you tighten your mining and industrial processes by changing the way you fill, transport, store, and unload materials. Consider these mining industry details to help you implement better materials control with FIBCs.

Efficient Loading And Unloading

Think about modern storage and transport options. After drilling, blasting, shaking, siphoning, or otherwise gathering minerals and other materials from the earth and the sea, where do you put it all?

For too many businesses, the answer is, “Dump it in a truck.”

Flying dust, spilling crumbs, and sloshing sludge lead to lost products. What could be a bit of random dirt and debris could easily be a few pieces of highly valued mineral or ore. FIBCs can cut down on the guesswork while making the management and manufacturing processes more accurate. Instead of dealing with rectangular containers or otherwise rigid boxes, using flexible bags can help you fill and store materials with greater ease.

From the storage depot to the factory, many materials are managed with an awkward tipping container. It doesn’t matter if you’re tipping the container to a side or corner, opening a door, or using a hatch, some materials will be lost during tipping, requiring tricky scraping, shaking, or other reclamation techniques to get into the corners and crevices.

By using FIBCs, you cut down on a lot of the strange movement and residual material. The bags can be custom fit with opening, spouts, or ports that fit your equipment and allow a more sealed transfer. It all depends on how much time you invest in consultation to make the bigger process more time and waste-conscious.

At the mine or industrial site, dumping into big containers is understandable. Unless you have a giant, sturdy tarp and a way to connect the corners to a crane, you’ll likely continue to use rigid containers in some way.

Mining Is All About Efficiency

The most efficient mining processes use a series of chutes, roller beds, or other systems that can fit with FIBCs, you can make the filling and transport process just as efficient as the factory floor. Even with rigid containers, you can transfer materials to FIBCs on-site while only spilling a few pieces of ore or minerals in the same mining area.

From here, an FIBC consultant can help you figure out better ways to reclaim lost materials or catch spillage. Business efficiency can go beyond what we have to offer today, and we can custom-tailor products to fit your needs.

Heavy Cargo Doesn’t Need Heavy Containers

How much do your containers weigh when empty? If an empty container falls, how likely is someone to get injured?

Storage materials are often overlooked when it comes to inventory burden. Their storage capacity and ability to do the job without breaking are the most common qualities, but could you do more?

What if you could store the same amount of materials without requiring heavy lifting? Does it make sense that you’re using one heavy material to fill up with a heavy additional load? Absolutely not!

FIBCs narrow the waste gap in your business by requiring less weight—and often less space—to do the same job. Whether you’re storing freshly-mined cobalt or transferring milled or shaved metals pieces, using lighter bulk bags instead of heavy crates and shipping containers means less stress, freight/shipping costs, and work for most of your project.

The safety hazard pitch is just the beginning. Think about reduced fuel costs since your vehicles have a lighter load to carry. Consider the amount of time it takes to grab, secure, move, and properly position heavier containers. In addition, the lighter freight weight of FIBCs can also mean significant savings in freight charges.

Finally, think about what else you could do with saved space and less effort. Storage and transport options such as FIBC bulk bags are smaller than metal and wooden containers of the same capacity. If you’re wasting a lot of space just to store your containers, switching to FIBCs delivers a nice surprise in the form of free space.

Save Time and Money with FIBCs from Palmetto Industries

Filling, transport, and inventory management aren’t the only ways to stay efficient. Look into how you order your equipment and materials as well. Spending too much time and money on expensive, slow deliverables can cost your company if you’re not careful.

Don’t waste your time dealing with middlemen. At Palmetto Industries we manufacture and distribute FIBC’s, saving you time – and money. We’re the global experts on FIBC products. Contact us today to learn what customers around the world have known for over 25 years – Palmetto is the go-to name in packaging. Call us today at 706-737-7999.