Ever wondered exactly how your Bag for Life is manufactured? Here's an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes in the Smartbags wholesale bag factory to see how it's done. [Updated 29th Jan 2024]
A Bag for Life is a common sight on our High Streets - these practical reusable shopping bags are great for carrying heavy, bulky shopping whilst also provide a large canvas to promote your business and brand. Use full-colour print in bold designs and photographic branding to Bag Your Brand in style.
With a plastic bag charge in force throughout the UK, it is now commonplace for consumers to carry reusable shopping bags or keep them in the car ready for shopping trips. Branded Bags for Life have become increasingly popular as they are a practical promotional product for supermarkets, garden centres, discount stores like Sports Direct and homeware/hardware stores.
How is a Bag for Life Made?
Visit Slideshare to watch a PowerPoint presentation on: How is a Bag for Life Made? from Leanne Dal Santo (founder of Smartbags).
The main points of the production process are also summarised below.
Bag for Life - Production Process
1. Recycled plastic pellets are melted down to form the basis of polypropylene (PP) material. Our recycled Laminated Woven PP Bags for Life are made from 70% old rice sacks.
2. The melted pellets are then rolled to make sheets of PP.
3. Those sheets are turned into rolls of Woven PP or Non-woven PP fabric, ready to be transformed into reusable bags.
4. The material is cut into sheets ready for stitching.
5. The sheets are then machine-stitched into a bag design.
6. Design features like zips are stitched on to create a finished Bag for Life.
7. The bags are then boxed and are ready for shipping to our customers.
Design a Branded Bag for Life - Resources
This video from our founder, Leanne, gives some design tips and explains more about reusable bags for life made from Woven PP.
If you'd like to find out more about creating a Bag for Life for your retail brand, read our blog on Designing a Printed Bag for Life. The article is full of tips to help you create a Bag for Life to suit your business needs.
We also create the ultimate eco-friendly range of Recycled Bags - view Bags for Life made with Laminated Woven PP made from 70% Recycled Content. Upgrade to 5,000 units for unit costs the same as our standard LWPP.
Browse the full range by clicking on the link below, then get in touch with us for a custom quote. We can create bags in any size, style or material so there's a solution for all budgets.
Browse our range of Shopping Bags for Life. If you don't see the exact bag you require, do get in touch.
Get a Quote - Bags for Life Wholesale
Smartbags are specialist, wholesale suppliers of Bags for Life and all kinds of custom-printed reusable bags. Get a quote by browsing our products, and submitting a quote on the products you are interested in.
And remember, bespoke bags are our speciality. So if you don't see exactly what you need, just let us know as we can creat it.
