Spouted Pouches
(Fitment Pouches)

Spouted pouches (also known as fitment pouches or refill pouches) are helping brands reduce their carbon footprint because they are lighter weight, use less plastic, and help lower greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption when compared to rigid liquid packaging. Many products once limited to rigid packaging are now excellent candidates for spouted pouches.

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Did you know?

26 truckloads of unfilled glass jars is equal to 1 truckload of unfilled flexible pouches.

Why Choose Spouted Pouches

Spouted pouches deliver the controlled dispensing of rigid containers with the sustainability benefits of flexible packaging. As one of the most effective sustainable packaging solutions available today, these versatile pouches offer easy pouring for liquid products, superior barrier protection to extend shelf life, and standout shelf impact that helps your brand compete. Whether you’re packaging baby food, laundry detergent, or energy drinks, spout pouches provide the product integrity and user convenience that today’s consumers demand, while significantly reducing your environmental footprint.

Common Spouted Pouch Fitment/Closure Options

We offer a wide range of options for fitments and closures with our flexible pouches. A few examples include:

Corner-mounted spouts
Top-mounted spouts
Tamper-evident spouts
QuickFlip spouts
Disc-cap closures
Screw-cap closures
Push-pull closures

Manufactured by Glenroy, the SoChatti Chocolate spouted pouch received a special exemption from Amazon to enable year-round fulfillment without temperature regulation or waste.

Glenroy’s Spouted Pouch Expertise

At Glenroy, we’ve helped leading brands convert from rigid packaging to spouted pouches. We offer not only exceptional expertise in spouted pouches, but also expansive in-house spouted pouch converting capabilities.

This allows us to produce your spouted pouches from start to finish, without outsourcing important stages of the project such as spout insertion. We’re able to produce spouted pouches with shorter lead times, while keeping full control of your pouches’ quality throughout the entire process.

Our pouch converting equipment has produced award-winning spouted pouches. We’re able to design and produce pouches with innovative shapes that prevent flex cracking, with extremely high burst strength and the ability to withstand even the most rigorous drop testing.

Manufactured by Glenroy, the SoChatti Chocolate spouted pouch received a special exemption from Amazon to enable year-round fulfillment without temperature regulation or waste.

Read the SoChatti Chocolate Case Study

Spouted Pouches vs. Rigid Packaging

Spouted pouches provide many sustainability benefits when compared to rigid packaging, spouted pouches…

Allow for near total evacuation of the product (rigid containers can leave 6–14% of product in packaging, while pouches can evacuate up to 99.5%)
Are conveniently lighter and more portable
Use approximately 60% less plastic than rigid plastic bottles
Require approximately 50% less energy to produce
Provide increased printable surface area for attention-grabbing graphics
Require fewer trucks for transportation—reducing fossil fuel consumption

Spouted Pouches: The Sustainable Alternative to Rigid Packaging

According to a recent LCA study by PTIS, choosing spouted pouches instead of rigid PET bottles results in up to:

72% less plastic (by weight)
79% less fossil fuel consumption
83% less greenhouse gas emissions
62% less water usage
65% less landfill waste (even when factoring in plastic recycling rates)

Download the Spouted Pouch LCA Study

Spouted Pouch Applications

We have the technology and expertise to manufacture spouted pouches for a wide array of products, including:

Condiments, dressings, marinades, spreads, jams, sauces, and syrups
Lotions, shampoos, conditioners, gels, creams, and ointments
Oil, lubricants, and chemical products
Laundry detergent, cleaning products, sanitizers, dish soap, and hand soap

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Spouted Pouch Prototyping

Our packaging engineers are experts at listening to your needs and crafting innovative prototypes that incorporate convenient features such as handles to facilitate easy pouring and high-barrier formats to meet the requirements of your product. We’re uniquely able to engineer and produce spouted pouch prototypes custom-printed with your graphics, so your prototypes show a more accurate presentation of the final package. We have access to a large variety of spouts and fitments for liquids, powders, gels, and granulates.