Technical textiles

Packtech: Packaging Textiles, FIBC and Sacks

Textiles that pack, carry and protect goods in transit, from bulk containers holding a tonne to tea-bag paper.

  • 3 articles
  • 16 standards
  • 5 machines
  • 2 calculators

What it covers

  • FIBCs (bulk bags)
  • woven polypropylene and HDPE sacks
  • leno bags
  • jute hessian and sacking
  • wrapping fabrics
  • soft luggage
  • tea-bag filter paper

Made from

Polypropylene and HDPE tape, often coated or laminated, and jute.

Market size India: Rs 50,592 crore (US$7.77 billion) in 2019-20, 41.2% of India’s technical-textiles market. World: US$27.6 billion. Ministry of Textiles, Baseline Study 2020, Tables 9.1 and 9.2

Mandatory certification India: jute bags have been under the Jute Bags Quality Control Order (S.O. 2601(E)) since 2022. Every item, IS standard and date

Articles

Test methods and specifications

Grouped by the subject in each standard’s official title. Each entry links to the register record, which names the current edition and its equivalents.

High density polyethylene (HDPE)/polypropylene (PP) woven sacks for pa3
High density polyethylene (HDPE)/ polypropylene (PP) woven sacks for p1
Jute bags for packing 50 kg foodgrains1
High density polyethylene (HDPE)/polypropylene (PP) woven sack for fil1
Jute Bags For Packing 50 Kg Sugar1
Light weight jute sacking bags for packing 50 kg foodgrains1
Jute bags for packing up to 30 kg foodgrains1
High density polyethylene (HDPE) polypropylene (PP) woven sacks for pa1
Polypropylene (PP) woven, laminated, block bottom valve sacks for pack1
Polypropylene (PP)/high density polyethylene (HDPE) laminated woven sa1
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Textiles BTwill Jute Bags for Packing Food grains Specification1
Methods for determination of bitumen content in laminated jute bags (f1
High density polyethylene (HDPE)/polypropylene(pp)woven sacks for pack1

Laws and mandatory certification

Instruments in the regulation register whose obligations name this class’s products. In force first; rescinded and replaced orders stay listed as history.

Upcoming trade fairs

No fair is filed under this class. The general technical-textiles fairs are on the section page.

Machines

Calculators

Raw-material prices

Daily and monthly series for the fibres and feedstocks this class is mostly made from.

The site does not yet track a price for this class’s main materials (polypropylene, glass, aramid and carbon are not in the price register).

US import duty headings

The HTS headings these products usually fall under. Classification turns on the exact product, so read the lines under each heading.

India’s official HSN codes

Codes India lists as technical textiles (DGFT, 2019 and 2022) under this page’s HS headings.

HSN codeDescription
63053200Sacks And Bags, Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers: Of Man Made Textile Materials
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