Track every paper reel, bag size and handle type through forming, pasting and carton count.

Paper bags look simple until a retailer asks for forty thousand pieces in three sizes with twisted handles and a two-colour logo. Each size needs its own reel width, its own former and its own glue setting, and none of that is written down anywhere the next shift can find. Sizes multiply fast.

Paper bag manufacturer software keeps the specification as the centre of the order. Size, GSM, handle, print and carton pack all sit on one record that the planner, the printing floor and the dispatch clerk read before they act. Nobody guesses. Share your requirements, starting with the bag sizes you run most.

A customer sends a bag specification: width, gusset and height, paper type and weight, handle style, print colours and pieces per carton. The estimator works out the reel width and the cut-off length for each size, adds trimming and wastage, and prices the whole order from this week’s paper rate and glue cost. Plates or cylinders are made for the print. The customer approves the artwork.

On the floor, a reel is mounted on the bag-making machine. The machine forms the tube from the moving web, creases the gusset, pastes the bottom, and cuts each bag to length at a speed the operator sets by feel. Handles are fixed in a separate step on handled bags. Bags are counted into bundles and cartons. A finished carton is labelled with size, quantity and batch. Odd rolls, trimmings and rejected bags are weighed once the shift closes and sold as scrap, though that weight seldom returns to the reel that produced it.