Industry
Cosmetics & skincare
เครื่องสำอางและสกินแคร์
Sachets, travel sizes and refill pouches for creams, serums, shampoo and masks. In this category the pack is the advertisement. A buyer sees the print before reading a word, so the metallic ink, the matt varnish and the spot colour have to look the same on the last pouch as on the first. Under the print, the film has a second job: keep oils, actives and fragrance in, and air and light out.
Filled cold, not cooked in the pouch
What this category asks of the film
Light and moisture are rated high here; oxygen one step lower. Most of what goes in is an emulsion, so it does not go rancid on the shelf — but sunlight bleaches pigment and breaks down vitamin C and retinol, and Thai humidity turns a powder mask into a brick.
- Holds air out
- Medium
Oxygen is what turns oil rancid and takes the colour and the potency out of a product. It is the slowest of the three and the one that decides a shelf life in months rather than weeks.
- Holds damp out
- High
Damp is the fastest of the three to show. Water between the layers delaminates the film, and in Thai humidity a weak film can lose a product in a single wet season.
- Holds light out
- High
Light bleaches pigment and breaks down vitamins, and a clear window lets it through as readily as an open doorway does. It is also the only barrier a buyer can see is missing.
- Takes heat
- xxxWe have not rated this one yet
A retort pouch is cooked with the food inside it, under pressure, above boiling point. A film that survives filling does not automatically survive the retort.
- Takes a knock
- xxxWe have not rated this one yet
Dry pet food and coffee beans have corners. So does a pallet on a lorry. Most failures in transit are one hole, not a whole seam.
- Seals shut
- xxxWe have not rated this one yet
Every barrier above this one is undone by a seal that opens. It is also the layer that has to close cleanly through spilled powder and oil on a filling line running at speed.
- Prints true
- xxxWe have not rated this one yet
The shelf is the only place most products meet a buyer. Gravure prints from an engraved copper cylinder, which is why the same brown holds across a run instead of drifting.
- Goes back
- xxxWe have not rated this one yet
A laminate of three different plastics cannot be recycled as any one of them. A mono-material structure can, and every year it reaches the same shelf life on more of the jobs.
The barrier is the easy part. What this category really buys is a printable surface: gravure prints from an engraved copper cylinder, so the same rose gold holds from the first metre to the last.
Shapes that suit it
Of every shape we convert, what this category reaches for.
3-Side Seal Pouchซองซีล 3 ด้านgram fill range1 g – 15 gThe sample sachet and the single-use mask. Flat, cheap to post, cheap to hand across a counter.
Spouted Pouchซองติดจุกmillilitre fill volume30 ml – 2 LThe refill. A screw cap on a pouch that stands up, so shampoo or toner goes into the bottle the customer already owns.
Not the shape you had in mind? Ask — tell us the fill weight and we will point you at the right one.
Structures a quote would start from
Four laminates meet the levels above.
PET / NY / AL / RCPP
- PETOuter face — takes the print and the knocks
- NYToughness — takes the puncture and the drop, not the barrier
- ALBarrier — real aluminium foil, the highest barrier there is
- RCPPSealant — holds its seal at retort temperature
RetortRetort grade. Rarely needed here.
Our plant can build this.
See this category on the formula sheetPET / VMPET / PE
- PETOuter face — takes the print and the knocks
- VMPETBarrier — aluminium vapour-deposited on film, blocks light like foil for less
- PESealant — melts to itself to close the pouch
The everyday sachet. Metallised film blocks light like foil, for less.
Industry standard — not yet confirmed on our line.
See this category on the formula sheetPET / AL / PE
- PETOuter face — takes the print and the knocks
- ALBarrier — real aluminium foil, the highest barrier there is
- PESealant — melts to itself to close the pouch
Real foil, for fragrance and essential oils whose smell must not drift out.
Not yet confirmed.
See this category on the formula sheetPET / VMPET / NY / PE
- PETOuter face — takes the print and the knocks
- VMPETBarrier — aluminium vapour-deposited on film, blocks light like foil for less
- NYToughness — takes the puncture and the drop, not the barrier
- PESealant — melts to itself to close the pouch
Nylon added when the pouch is spouted, heavy, or shipped loose.
Not yet confirmed.
See this category on the formula sheet
The four figures asked first
Where production has signed a number off, it is printed. Where it has not, the box stays empty — a blank is more use to you than a guess.
- Minimum order
- xxxmetres of film (xxx pouches)
- Lead time, first run
- 20 – 45days from the layout you signed at Step 3
- Colours in one pass
- xxx
- Size and seal tolerance
- xxxmm
Questions
What buyers ask before they order
- Can it keep moisture out, keep light out, hold a vacuum, take a retort?
Tell us what the pack has to survive and the film spec is built for it. That covers vacuum, and retort for a pouch that has to take pressure and heat and come out of a boiling or steaming cycle intact.
- Can you run food and cosmetics work, and can you certify it?
Yes, for every industry — the line runs food-grade film from end to end. A certificate of analysis (COA) goes out with every production lot and every delivery.
- What are you certified to?
ISO 9001:2015, GHPs, HACCP and BRC/IoP, all certified by BSI.
Ask for a price
A quote request, not an order — nothing is bought and nothing is charged.
Bring what you have:
- what goes in the pouch, and how many grams or millilitres
- roughly how many pouches, and by when
- filled hot, cooked in the pouch, or neither
- artwork if you have it — a pencil sketch is enough to start
We answer within two working days. Only have half the answers? Send the half you have.