Features of the packaging project

Before starting any project, you first need to identify its advantages; to know what returns you will get from this project and how to determine a good profit from it. The following are the most important advantages:

1- A food packaging and wrapping project is very profitable, and its capital is low compared to its profits, as food items, vegetables, and fruits are continuously available and their prices are relatively moderate, especially if a large quantity is purchased and prepared for sale.

2- The packaging and wrapping project does not require a large workforce like other projects, it is enough to have a distribution representative and someone specialized in cleaning and preparing the goods only.

3- You can set up the project at home, you do not need a designated place, because just having enough space to prepare and package the goods saves you from buying or renting a special place to work in.

4- It is a project with guaranteed profits, as the goods you wrap and package are first-class consumer goods, and are in high demand in markets, and homes, especially with the fast-paced routine of life we suffer from. 

5- You can expand the project after knowing the profit rate, and establish a packaging factory to expand the work and await further development and profits.

Secondly: What is the project idea?

The idea of the food packaging and wrapping project revolves around wrapping small packages of some important consumer goods such as (rice, pasta, salt, sugar, lentils, beans, flour, coconut, raisins, pepper, cumin, lemon salt, aniseed, coriander...etc). The idea on which the project is based is to wrap small packages of the mentioned goods, so that they are within reach, and then distribute them to store owners and supermarkets. 

You can obtain the goods from wholesale traders and major suppliers at low prices, then wrap and sell them to generate profits.

Many requirements must be present at the food packaging and wrapping facility. 

These requirements are necessary to complete the work in the best way possible and allow you to work properly. 

These requirements include:

* A table to prepare and arrange the products

* A stainless steel scoop for weighing  

* Cleaning and cutting equipment

* Plastic bags of different sizes, printed with production date, expiration date, product name, factory phone number for complaints, address, and commercial registration number. You can get these bags directly from a plastic factory.

* End sealing packaging machine

* Electronic or regular scale

* Empty crates  

* Machine to print production date on the package

* One or more cars or motorcycles to distribute products

* Provide gloves for workers

* Provide masks to wear during work

* Provide fire extinguishers for any danger that may occur

* You must provide a clean water source and sewage network

Required Labor for the Food Packaging and Wrapping Project:

This project requires a workforce ranging from two to four individuals. You can seek help from some of your family members to save costs in the initial phase of the project. If you want to reduce costs until profits start coming in, try to provide the tools yourself and employ women from your family or youth seeking work, and start taking the first steps for the project without fear, as this project is profitable by God's will with perseverance and commitment to requirements.

These are a set of the most important basic and main requirements that help in establishing a packaging and wrapping factory for the project, as they will guide you appropriately and work on completing the project properly.

**Weights of Packaged Goods**

After purchasing the required quantities of the aforementioned goods, you must package them and determine their weights in bags or boxes according to the market you are targeting and based on demand. If you are going to market in upscale areas, you must choose distinguished boxes and bags for distribution so that the appearance of the goods is appealing to those individuals. This is a form of visual marketing. The suggested weights for the goods are as follows:

1- Packages of 1/4 kg

2- Packages of 1/4 kg  

3- Packages of 1/2 kg

4- Packages of 1 1/4 kg

5- 1 kg packages 

6- 1.5 kg packages

7- 2 kg packages  

Required Space for the Food Packaging and Wrapping Project:

As mentioned, one of the advantages of the project is that it can be established inside the home. 

As for the required space, it must be somewhat spacious to accommodate the machines, workers, and goods, and you must be able to store the goods there. 

In the initial phase of the project, if you will be doing this manually without machines, you need a space to store food items another space for cutting and cleaning, and a dedicated space for an accountant or auditor to review the packaged and wrapped goods.

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Integrated Packaging and Wrapping Systems:

Integrated packaging and wrapping systems are those sequential stages that materials, supplies, goods, and their components go through, from various production sources until they reach the consumer or the end user, passing through processes of handling, transportation, storage, refrigeration, filling, assembly, wrapping, packaging, and display. 

They also include the production, conversion, preparation, and printing of packaging materials, containers, supplies, and their use, the collection of waste before, during, and after production, packaging and consumption processes, sorting, classification, reuse, recycling, exploitation, manufacturing, recovery, or disposal of this waste, as well as the production of equipment, supplies, spare parts and molds required by the integrated packaging and wrapping systems.

From this perspective, packaging and wrapping systems are the tributaries for manufacturing, converting, printing, and preparing paper, electronic, plastic, thermal (glass and ceramics), metallic (tin and aluminum), textile (natural and synthetic fibers), wooden (natural and manufactured woods) materials, in addition to multi-component and multi-layer materials.

Function of Packaging and Wrapping Systems:

The function of these systems is to (contain, protect, and sell). They contain the product inside, and protect it from external conditions and various pressures, as good packaging materials act as a strong barrier between the external environment and the internal environment of the package contents.

 They also add locational, temporal, and utilitarian value to the content, meaning organizing usage.

 Additionally, they also aim to protect the environment, the consumer, and national economies. 

Among their functions are marketing, communication, storage, preservation, and thus promoting sales and exports.

Among the functional tasks of transport packaging is protection against mechanical damage, climatic, chemical, and physical hazards, rodent and pest attacks, theft and embezzlement, and other damage.

Key Elements of the Concept of These Systems:

- Commitment to specifications and quality of the final product, suitability for the nature of the content, and its protection.

- Packaging design according to different purposes of use and the nature of contents.

- Suitability of packaging in terms of shape for various stages: filling, assembly, wrapping, transportation, shipping, arrangement, storage, distribution, handling, inspection, etc.  

- Controlling data, marks, and labels of packages and contents that indicate their characteristics, components, use, and validity.

- Manufacturing, reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, or conversion for other purposes of the materials used in products.

- Observing environmental and health requirements at all previous stages. 

- Considering informational, advertising, and promotional aspects, whether for marketing or raising public awareness about proper handling of packaging.

- Observing local and international legal aspects.