One of the most challenging things facing the manufacturing industry today (particularly for manufacturers of items like tires and other synthetic rubber compounds), is finding ways to decrease costs while maximizing profits and efficiencies. Factories that focus on mixing a variety of ingredients to achieve a final product are especially challenged to incorporate new methods that make manufacturing faster and easier.

In recent years, many manufacturers who use chemical-based ingredients in the construction of their products have turned to low melt batch inclusion bags to help improve their operations. These plastic bags are used to house specific quantities of ingredients that are then added to a mixture. In the past, these ingredients would be added individually and could prove to be extremely messy and wasteful; low melt batch inclusion bags are used to hold these ingredients beforehand so that they can be added cleanly to a mixture, all at the same time.

The bags are made of thin yet strong plastic that is specially designed to melt at very low temperatures (typically between 160 and 230 degrees Fahrenheit). Once they are added to an industrial mixer, the plastic bag melts very quickly, and its internal ingredients are rapidly dispersed into the mixture. Made with FDA-approved materials, the composition of the bags themselves is kept at a minimum so as to maximize the purity of the final mixture.

Using low melt batch inclusion bags will increase a factory’s productivity because the mixed components are always available and ready when needed. The bags also improve consistency and uniformity in the manufacturing process, since exact measurements of each ingredient are going into the batch, each and every time. They offer a clean way to produce a mixture and help prevent the wasting of ingredients. Other benefits include reduced solid waste disposal costs and minimized worker exposure to hazardous chemicals.