Need help with your paper straws business?

Paper straws are categorized into 2 main categories;

• Food service straws
• Industrial straws

Food service straws are the straws we find in the restaurants and fast food experiences. These straws have certain industry standard sizes. Some of the common sizes for the food service straws are 6mm, 8mm and 10mm with lengths ranging from 200mm to 250mm.

Industrial straws are commonly found on aseptic packaging products. They can either be U-shaped straws, telescopic straws and straight straws with diameters of 3.8mm onwards. These straws consume lesser material due to their small sizes but require sophisticated and precision technology for large scale manufacturing.

Paper straws unlike plastic work on different principles. It is important to ensure the paper straw produced can last in the beverage long enough before the fibers start becoming weak. Soggy straws defeat the purpose of paper straws, hence ensuring your paper straws are stiff and strong during the consumer experience is important.

This can be achieved by selecting the right type of paper material, the right paper straw forming technology and automating the entire process under ambient production conditions.

We can help you develop your paper straws manufacturing business model. Please reach out to us at sales@carbonprintz.com if you need help.

Paper straws is a converting business. The sizes are standard and customizations are seldom. Hence, like any other converting business, the more you produce, the lower your production costs.

Some of the factors you need to consider to make your paper straws manufacturing business profitable are;

Production automation

Paper straws are direct food contact products, hence ensuring the production process meets all the necessary food safety standards is non-negotiable. Investing in a state-of-the-art production technology ensures that your production capabilities are enhanced to get maximum output and at the same time helps you meet all the necessary food safety standards.

Quality Control

Paper straws are sensitive in many ways. The application of getting immersed in beverages is in itself contradicting to the primary properties of paper. Hence, ensuring the paper selected is of the right quality, the tension of straw winding is optimum and the glue used is food safe and minimal in quantity are all factors that can influence the final quality of your paper straws.

If you need help with starting up your paper straws production plant, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@carbonprintz.com

The paper straws production process is precision driven, hence as a production facility, there will be a lot of costs incurred in replacing wearable machine parts. The best way to jusitfy the cost of wearable parts is to improve rate of productivity so the running cost per unit becomes negligible.

The two biggest costs in the production of paper straws are the paper used and the investment of high technology production line. With the right configuration and planning, these challenges can be overcome.

If you need help with developing your paper straws production business, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@carbonprintz.com. 

At Carbon, our primary focus is in helping you build your business model through an informed decision making process. The type of machines, material and every other resource comes at a later stage. We first help you establish the scope of the business. We then follow a structured approach to validate the identified scope using our proprietary analysis tools.  

There are cases, where the client would have already done this part before reaching out to us. In such cases, we begin the project at the next level, with technical pre-qualifications, strategy building, resource planning etc. Every project is different. The best way to find out is to reach out to us for an initial project scope discussion and let us discover together how can we help you kick start your project. 

If you need help with setting up your packaging business, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@carbonprintz.com.