Popular for home, office and industrial use, zip lock bags are manufactured and distributed by several recognizable companies as well as smaller brands providing accessible and affordable options for all plastic bag sealing needs. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Action Bags
Bensenville, IL | 800-490-8830Action Bags is the industry leader in reclosable zip and custom packaging for over 40 years. We stock over 500 different plastic bag styles to meet our customer’s needs across all industries regardless of its use. We are your go-to product experts for any custom bags to incorporate branding, sizes, or product features that you do not see in our stock offering. Contact our excellent customer service or order online with our ecommerce website.
Custom Poly Packaging
Fort Wayne, IN | 800-548-6603Custom Poly Packaging provides unique, private label or personalized plastic bags. We are primarily a wholesale source for custom plastic bags and flexible packaging.
Diversified Plastics & Packaging, Inc.
Sumter, SC | 800-959-1337Diversified Plastics & Packaging supplies plastic bags for many industries. We deliver prompt service, competitive prices & unparalleled variety in flexible packaging. Fast quotes, free samples when needed, custom made poly bags and stock items of any color and size. Industrial, textile, medical, small & large flexible packaging markets. Visit our website today.
Champion Plastics
Clifton, NJ | 800-526-1230Champion Plastics is an extruder of all bags in every size, gauge and color for any need. Industries served include food, pharmaceutical, chemical, industrial, waste removal, service and retail.
The Buckeye Bag Company
Delaware, OH | 888-312-6446We’re NUTS about plastic bags! Buckeye Bag offers incredibly low prices on a wide selection of commercial quantity industrial plastic bags. Order securely from our online stock product catalog or request a fast, custom quote.
bagbarn.com
Madison, IN | 800-720-1215Plastic bags and sheeting custom made for industrial, retail and promotional applications. Materials include LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, and polypropylene. Custom printing up to 6 colors. Bagbarn.com manufactures products that include bags on rolls, wickets, cut bags, retail bags and more. Promotional bags are available for trade shows & other events as well as environment friendly biodegradable bags.
Universal Plastic Bag Manufacturing Co.
Ontario, CA | 800-750-2247For over 20 years, Universal Plastic Bag has been a leading manufacturer and distributor of plastic bags and packaging supplies. We manufacture gusseted bags, food and fish bags, garment bags, reclosable bags, plastic bags, trash can liners, full color process printing on (poly and poly propylene) bags and sheeting, laminated bag and sheeting, vacuum pouches and standup pouches! Whatever your plastic bag requirement, we are prepared to help you today. We use only the highest quality materials!
Connover Packaging
East Rochester, NY | 800-770-4906Connover Packaging is your single source for all of your plastic bag needs. With over 30 years of experience, we are industry experts. Our highly skilled team works alongside our customers through all steps of the process to ensure that our products fit their specifications. Connover Packaging offers a wide selection of a variety of plastic bag styles and customization to ensure all of your needs are met.
Associated Bag
Milwaukee, WI | 800-926-6100Family-owned for over 75 years, we've been known for our outstanding customer service, a reputation we've earned by always treating customers the way we would like to be treated.
Zip Lock Bags - Packateers, Inc.Food, archival, parts, shipping and storage industries are among the most fervent users of zip lock bags. To accommodate the many uses for zip lock or lock top bags, most manufacturers produce them in several different standardized sizes. Common domestic sizes include snack, sandwich, quart and gallon bags.
Industrial bags are often much larger while other archival baggies are often very small. As a secure seal is essential, some bags have two different colored seams which are easily identified when open and become a different color when the closure is properly sealed. Common alternatives include the use of twist ties and heat-sealed or shrink-wrapped bags.
Zip Lock Bags - Packateers, Inc.Twist ties are useful, but do not provide the durable and impermeable seal of the zipper lock. Heat-sealed or shrink-wrapped options create an effective seal, but are not reclosable or resealable bags as zip lock bags may be.
Not all, but most zip lock bags are made to be resealed and even reused any number of times. Durable materials must therefore be used in the construction of both the bag and attached locking devices. Polypropylene and polyethylene are most frequently used for the film-like bag component.
The plastic resin is melted until it becomes pliable or even to temperatures which produce a viscous fluid. Casting, winding, sheet or blown film extrusion may then be used. The seal is formed in a mold. Thicker, stronger plastic is used, though it may have a base material similar to that used for the film. A male track is fixed to one side of the opening of the bag while the female track is placed parallel on the adjacent edge.
The tracks connect together like puzzle pieces when pressure is applied either manually or through the use of a plastic slider. The fastening capabilities vary among the many manufacturers of zip lock bags, but all require a significant tug to part the closure of a properly sealed bag. It is important to consider the durability of a seal as well as the plastic material used in overall bag construction to ensure the proper unit is used.
