How a Thai Agricultural Bag Manufacturer Scaled PP Woven FIBC Output with a 4-in-1 Convention Line
Asia-Pacific leads the global FIBC market with over 35% of worldwide volume. The regional market was valued at USD 2.48 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach USD 3.96 billion by 2033, driven by agricultural commodities, food processing, and chemical export demand. Thailand is a significant FIBC production hub within the region, with manufacturers serving rice, sugar, flour, animal feed, and fertilizer sectors across ASEAN and beyond.
This illustrative case describes a Thailand-based PP woven bag manufacturer supplying FIBC bags to agricultural commodity exporters. The company operated separate printing, tubing, cutting, and sewing stations — a multi-step layout that required significant inter-station handling, created alignment inconsistency, and limited throughput per shift.
Requirements
- Integrate printing, tube forming, cutting, and sewing into one continuous process to eliminate inter-station handling
- Achieve consistent bag dimensions with cutting accuracy ≤ 1 mm
- Add 4-color in-line printing capability without a separate offline print line
- Increase throughput to at least 30 bags/min on standard FIBC formats
Machine Deployed: Reylong JLPTCSM-1300W
The Automatic Printing-Tubing-Cutting-Sewing-Overtape Convention Line (Model JLPTCSM-1300W) consolidates four production stages into a single continuous line. Specifications relevant to this application:
- Production capacity: 25–40 bags/min
- In-line 4-color flexographic printing (4+0) — print repeat length 450–1,200 mm; max printing width 1,300 mm
- Cutting accuracy: ±1 mm with servo-controlled cutting unit
- Fabric width before tubing: 700–1,300 mm; after tubing: 430–660 mm
- Cutting length range: 550–1,250 mm — covers standard FIBC bottom and body panel formats
- Integrated overtape application at 55 mm or 65 mm width
- Total power: 51.7 kW
Outcome
- Throughput: 35 bags/min achieved consistently on standard FIBC formats — within the rated range
- Inter-station handling eliminated — fabric moves continuously from print to sew with no manual transfer points
- Cutting accuracy within ±1 mm across the full shift, reducing trim waste and rejected bags from dimensional non-conformance
- 4-color branding added at no additional floor space — the integrated print unit replaced a separate offline printing step
Machine used in this project: Automatic Printing-Tubing-Cutting-Sewing-Overtape Convention Line →