Unique Stand-Up Pouch for Motor Oil

Votaw reports that Star is looking at even larger-sized spouted pouches with handles—as large as four gallons—for other liquid product applications. "The biggest barrier to transitioning to pouches," he observes, "is the existing capital investment in rigid packaging equipment." It's more productive, he continues, to target new applications and product lines for a pouch conversion, and align any new equipment investments with product launch objectives. (In Universal Lubricants' case, the investment in a filling line for the ECO ULTRA pouch brought all aspects of production of the oil in-house.) At the same time, Votaw believes, continued in-roads in pouches will cause competing rigid packages to lose market share, and ultimately compel those brands to consider their own rigid-to-pouch transition. pP