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Custom Spout Pouches from TheCardboardBoxes are designed for liquids, sauces, and semi-liquid products with easy-pour spouts and secure caps. Our food-safe pouches offer airtight sealing and strong barrier protection. Print your logo, product info, and brand designs with vibrant inks. Available in various sizes and finishes including matte, gloss, and clear. Perfect for juices, beauty products, and sauces. Order Spout Pouches from TheCardboardBoxes with low minimums.
A spout pouch (also called a nozzle pouch or spouted stand-up pouch) combines the benefits of flexible packaging with a rigid plastic spout that allows clean, controlled dispensing and resealing. The format has grown significantly in recent years across food, beverage, personal care, and household product categories.
For brands with liquid, gel, or semi-liquid products, a spout pouch often represents a better consumer experience than a bottle or jar, at a lower packaging cost and weight.
Compared to rigid bottles or jars:
- Significantly lighter (less packaging weight per unit of product)
- Squeezable design allows near-complete product evacuation (less waste)
- Lower packaging cost per unit at most production volumes
- More compact when empty (supply chain efficiency)
- Better product-to-packaging ratio (more product, less packaging per unit space)
Compared to standard flexible pouches without a spout:
- Controlled dispensing without spillage
- Resealing capability (the screw cap closes the spout)
- Hygienic application (the small spout opening reduces product contamination risk)
- Pour control (particularly important for sauces, oils, and concentrated products)
The spout is typically a welded-in plastic fitment available in several diameter sizes (most common: 8mm, 16mm, 20mm, 28mm) to suit different product viscosities and dispensing requirements.
Thicker products (nut butters, thick sauces, gel supplements) need wider spouts. Thin liquids (juice, water, oil) work fine with narrower spouts.
Cap options include:
- Standard screw cap: simple, effective, resealable
- Flip cap: one-handed opening, popular for sports and on-the-go use
- Push-pull cap: squeeze-to-dispense for drinks and sports nutrition
- Tamper-evident cap: first use breaks a seal ring, providing evidence of prior opening
- Child-resistant cap: for products requiring CR compliance
Spout and cap colours can be specified to match your brand palette.
Baby food: One of the largest spout pouch markets globally. The format allows infants and toddlers to suck directly from the spout; parents can squeeze a controlled portion onto a spoon. Portability and convenience are key. The range includes fruit purees, vegetable purees, and mixed meals.
Sports nutrition: Protein drinks, energy gels, recovery shakes, and hydration drinks in spout pouches are popular with athletes and gym users because the format is portable, lightweight, and reduces mess.
Condiments and sauces: Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, sriracha, and other sauces in spout pouches reduce mess, offer portion control, and eliminate the classic problem of getting sauce out of the bottom of a bottle.
Beverages: Juice, smoothies, milk, and flavoured water for children and adults. The child-friendly squeeze format is especially popular for lunchbox and on-the-go products.
Household products: Liquid laundry detergent, fabric softener, cleaning products. The squeezable format with controlled spout is practical for dosing household chemicals.
Cosmetics: Body lotion, shampoo, and liquid soap in spout pouches are common in travel and hospitality formats.
Spout pouches are made from stand-up pouch laminate with the spout fitment heat-welded into the top or gusset area:
- Standard food-grade PET/PE for beverages and low-sensitivity products
- PET/Foil/PE for oxygen-sensitive products (juices, smoothies needing shelf stability)
- PA/PE for products requiring puncture resistance and good barrier
- Transparent or windowed formats for product visibility
For baby food specifically, multi-layer structures meeting infant food contact standards are required.
Spout pouches have a clearly defined front panel (the largest flat surface, which is the consumer-facing side) and a back panel. Both can carry full-colour printing.
For food products, the front panel carries brand identity, product name, and key claims. The back carries nutritional information, ingredients, and compliance text.
For baby food specifically, design is typically bright, cheerful, and character-led for the child audience, while also communicating nutritional credentials for the parent decision-maker.
Spout pouches have the same general ordering structure as other flexible packaging formats. Minimums of 1,000 to 2,000 units are typical for custom-printed versions.
At TheCardBoardBoxes, spout pouches are available in multiple sizes, spout diameters, and cap configurations, with full custom printing and fast UK turnaround.
| Box Style | Any Style |
| Dimension | Custom sizes and shapes |
| Quantity | 250 - 500,000 boxes |
| Paper Stock | (12pt to 24pt) Cardstock, Kraft, E-Flute Corrugated, Cardboard, Bux-Board, Rigid |
| Printing | CMYK, PMS |
| Coating | Matte, Gloss |
| Finishing | Embossing, Debossing, Foil Stamping, Spot UV |
| Included Options | Die Cutting, Scoring, Gluing, Fold & Perforation |
| Proof | Electronic Proof (flat, 3D mock-up), Hardcopy Proofing (upon request) |
| Turnaround | 5 - 7 Business Days |
| Delivery | FLAT via Courier |
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