To keep the best freshness and function,it is vital to choose the right packaging for pet food.General pet food packaging bags (for freeze-dried dog food, cat treats, jerky/fish jerky, catnip, pudding cheese, retorted cat/dog food) include various bag types: three-side sealed bags, four-side sealed bags, back-sealed bags, self sealed bags, stand-up zipper bags, shaped bags, stand-up window bags, and roll films.
Each type of bag has its own features and benefits, so the selection of packaging bag type is of specific concern.
- Market Research
Pet snacks are specifically tailored for dogs and cats with different types to serve the various needs such as appetite stimulation and coat care—similar to human snacks. Dog treats include primarily jerky/meat strips, dental bones/chew toys/gnawing sticks, canned dog food, freeze-dried treats, pet drinks/milk, sausages, biscuits,retorted food, and cheese. Cat snacks include primarily canned cat food, cat treats/retorted food, freeze-dried snacks, dried meat/fish jerky, catnip, cat grass, pet drinks/milk, cat pudding, cat cheese, and cat treats.
Statistics indicate in dog snack subcategories that jerky and dental chews form the highest level with strong preference. Freeze-dried snacks represent the fastest-growing category in consumer preference.
- Freeze-Dried Pet Food
Freeze-Dried Pet Food cotain Fish (Tuna, Salmon, Shrimp, etc.) Meat (Chicken, Duck, Goose, Pigeon, etc.)These ingredients can boost up the growth of the pets bones and body.This makes the food more appealing to pets,encouraging them to eat well and stay nourished.
- Cat treat
Cat treat like these can attract cats better,it is a great way to enhance the happinsee and quality of their life.It is convenient for pet owners to bring the cat treats during travel or ourdoor activities.
- Pet Food Characteristics:
Cat food and dog food both require to minimize direct sunlight exposure. Sunlight exposure over an extended period may result in degradation.So it is necessary to keep in dry place away from mold.
Retorted food like cooked chicken liver and similar foodstuffs acquire to put them into refrigerator to extend shelf life.
- Choices of raw material
The common materials we adopt contain PET/AL/PE,PET/NL/CP,PET/NL/AL/RCPP,PET/VMPET/PE and so on.There are so many materials，our team will help you select the most suitable packaging based on the characteristics of your product inside.
Aluminum：Aluminum foil layer can provide excellent airtightness and excellent light exclusion and also offer high level of resistance and flexibility.
PET: PET material offers excellent airtightness, moisture retention, and sealing; good barrier performance with minimal oxygen and moisture permeability.
- Choices of pouch tyes
3-side sealed pouch
3-side sealed pouches are the simplest and most common type. This kind of pouch can highly protect the food from the moisture and mold. And it is simple to manufacture with high cost-effective, they are extensively used on packaging of small-sized dog and cat food.
They are also the optimal choice for vacuum-cooked and retorted cat and dog food pouch.
8-side sealing pouch
8-side sealing pouches are the most common choice for pet food and treats,which can stand stably by itself and bear heavy weight with display attractiveness, and their distinctive shape makes them brand recognizable and unique. Flat bottom and gusset design can offer large capacity and stiff load support, so it is suitable for bulkier, heavier merchandise. Large-capacity freeze-dried pet treats and food typically choose 8-side sealing packaging. It is wildly used easy-tear zipper in 8-side sealing pouches because it can conserve the food in a better way and useful to open repeatedly.
stand-up pouch
Stand-up pouches have good sealing and composite material strength, resistance to breakage, and leakage. Stand-up pouches are light in weight, reduce more material usage than 8-side sealing pouches with no gusset.It will make transportation easy too. Stand-up pouches with zippers employed for use in pet snack packaging with easy use and safe storage. Stand-up zipper pouches also can be used in ideal packaging dog and cat food in 500g capacity. They can also be used as whole packs for cat treats.
Roll films
Roll films are the ideal choices for small packagings like cat and dog snacks , they undergo processing by automatic packaging machinery.
This packaging eliminates the procedure for the final pouch manufacturing, this can effectively reduces expenses and cut the budgets down. These individual pouches are separately and suitable for single servings for cats and dogs.
Shaped pouch
If you want a unique pouch which can stand out from the crowd.Shaped pouches are the good choice.You can fully go with your own mind, design the pouch shape,size and any of your irregular thought.
Their cute and interesting appearances are able to evoke emotional connections with consumers and attract attention. But there are some inevitable concrens of shape pouches.Producing shaped pouches are much more complex than regular pouches and the material waste will much larger during the production.These will lead to the comparatively higher unit price.
conclusion
As a packaging innovator，PACKMIC is OEM printing manufacturer since 2009，in more than 15 years，we became the leading company in flexible packaging with world class quality.We own more than 10000㎡ factory，300000-level purification workshop and full quality control system.We will protect every meal of your pets and keep them healthy.
BY:NORA
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Post time: Oct-11-2025
