The Rising Market of Sickness Bags and Paper Bags

No air passenger needs an introduction about what is a sickness bag. Known by many names such as sick sack, airsick bag, airsickness bag, emesis bag, sick bag, barf bag, vomit bag or sickness bag, the bag provided to passengers on board of planes is used in collecting and keeping vomit when motion sickness strikes.

Invented by Gilmore Schjeldahl for Northwest Orient Airlines in 1949, airline sickness bags were made from waxed paper. However, the product evolved with times and modern bags are made of plastic-lined paper and a significant proportion from plastic itself.

In 2004, Virgin Atlantic unveiled a limited edition set of bags under the designs of Oz Dean with the project name "Design for Chunks". Designers were invited to elevate the value of sick bags compared to T-shirts, which were the standard challenges.

Among the items in the bag industry, paper bags stand out. With the number of users growing in food chains, supermarkets, wine stores, retailers and wholesalers their supply volumes of paper bags have also increased.

The merit of paper bags in slashing costs and enhancing environmental compliance has been appreciated. Enforcement of strict green standards is making the industry thrive as plastic packaging material is phased out.

The selling points are cost efficiency, sturdiness and the capacity to hold more volumes than plastic bags. Unlike plastic bags, paper bags will not rip away. They are highly recyclable as compared to plastics.

As the paper bag market has expanded, competition in the also increased Paper bags Uganda market is highly competitive today and has a large part of the global market share.

In Kenya, there are many leading manufactures in the paper bag sector. They have scripted success by garnering healthy market shares by adding new machines in paper packaging and increased their portfolios with different products. Increased innovation in printing capabilities, complex print designs on products have added to the appeal of paper bag products.

Paper bag makers have a wider market to operate. Big brand reputation has helped them in gaining Uganda’s and Rwanda’s regional markets with quality and first class service.

Export sales are their long term strategic plan. The paper bag industry is backed by people with strong sales and technical teams.

According to a manufacturers association, they are hiking investment in new technology and equipment. Paper bags production is in anticipation of the changing needs. Induction of latest automated machinery, in-line printers and 'just-in-time' delivery at competitive prices are part of the positive changes.