carry bag

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A carrier bag (in Austria : Sackerl ) is used for the combined transport of smaller goods. Straps or openings through which a hand can pass are often provided for carrying.

The most common are carrier bags made of welded plastic films , the plastic bags . These are mostly provided with marketing imprints in the form of advertising . In addition, carrier bags made of textile fabric or paper are also used , occasionally also mesh carrier bags . Bags reinforced with fibers are common for the transport of heavy goods .

Tote bags are mostly printed for advertising purposes. For this purpose, the offset or flexographic printing process is mainly used for paper carrier bags . Plastic carrier bags are printed using flexographic printing and cotton carrier bags are printed using screen printing.

Product examples

  • Cotton bag with the runes of the elder Futhark and a large Algiz rune

  • Plastic bag (known as a shirt bag)

  • Reusable mesh carry bag

  • Reusable textile carrier bag

  • Reusable rigid, foldable textile carry bag

literature

  • Christine Behle, Rainer HG Großklaus, Malte W. Wilkes: The 120 best checklists for sales promotion . mi, Landsberg am Lech 2007, ISBN 978-3-636-03087-0 (with CD-Rom).
  • Heinz Schmidt-Bachem: Made of paper. A cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany , De Gruyter Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1 .
  • Heinz Schmidt-Bachem: Bags, pouches, carrier bags. On the history of the paper, cardboard and plastics processing industry in Germany. Waxmann, Münster / Munich / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8309-1037-1 .