PP woven bags suppliers in Egypt: a buyer’s checklist

To choose among PP woven bags suppliers in Egypt, settle two things before you compare prices: whether the supplier is a manufacturer or a trader, and whether it will work to a written specification. A manufacturer can show its own tape line and looms; a trader sells bags made in another company’s plant. This guide is published by Al-Sharq Plastic Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of polypropylene (PP) woven bags in 10th of Ramadan City, Egypt. Its checklist applies to us as much as to any other supplier.

Key definitions

• Manufacturer. A company that makes the bags in its own plant: it extrudes and stretches the tapes, weaves them on circular looms, then cuts, sews and prints.
• Trader. A company that sells bags made by another company.
• Specification. The written description of the bag: size, contents and weight per bag, fabric colour, print, and anything else that matters to you.
• Sample. A bag, or a piece of fabric, supplied before the order so that you can check size, fabric, sewing and print.
• Proof. The supplier’s layout of your artwork on the bag, which you approve before printing starts.
• Repeat order. A later order for the same bag, made to the specification and proof approved for the first.

Manufacturer or trader: how to tell

A buyer looking for woven bags in Egypt will meet both, and either can serve well. What differs is who controls the fabric, the print and the timing: a manufacturer answers for its own production, while a trader depends on a factory you may never see.

Three signs that you are dealing with a PP woven bags manufacturer in Egypt:

• It shows its own production. Photos and video of a tape line, winders and circular looms, taken on its own floor. Our factory page shows ours. Pictures of finished bags alone say nothing about who made them.
• It gives a plant address. One that you, or someone acting for you, can visit.
• The names match. The company on the quotation and the invoice is the company whose plant you were shown.

If the supplier is a trader, ask which factory makes the bags, whether it will also make your repeat orders, and who puts things right if a delivery does not match the specification.

A buyer’s checklist in five steps

1. Write the specification down. Size, contents and weight per bag, fabric colour, print, quantity and destination are enough for a first quotation: see what to send for a quotation. Add the fabric weight, a liner or a particular top or bottom finish if they matter to you.
2. Ask for a sample or photos of similar work. Fill, stack and handle a sample before you commit; failing that, ask for photos that show the stitching and the print.
3. Agree the print proof. Check spelling in every language, net weight, colours and position, then approve the proof in writing. What must appear depends on the labelling rules of the country where the goods will be sold.
4. Confirm quantity, packing and delivery point. Woven bags usually travel pressed into bales, so ask how many go into each. Agree where the supplier’s delivery ends: at its plant, at your warehouse or at a named port.
5. For export, ask about documents and check your own import rules. Ask the supplier to list the documents it provides with an export shipment, then check the list against your own country’s import rules.

Questions to ask PP bag suppliers

Put the same questions to every supplier and compare the written answers.

Question to ask	Why it matters	What a good answer looks like
Do you make the fabric and the bags yourselves?	It shows who controls the fabric, the print and the timing.	Photos or video of the supplier’s own tape line and looms, and a plant address.
What is the minimum order, and when would the bags be ready?	The answers show whether the supplier suits your order.	A quantity and a date, in writing.
Where do you deliver, and how are the bags packed?	Both change the cost of handling and transport.	A named delivery point and the number of bags per bale, on the quotation.
Which documents come with an export order?	Your country’s customs authority, not the supplier, decides what is required.	A written list, given before you order.

Why location matters

Where the plant stands decides how the bags reach you and how easily you can see them being made. 10th of Ramadan City, where our plant is, is one of Egypt’s main industrial cities, on the desert road between Cairo and Ismailia. A buyer in Egypt can usually visit a plant in such a city and receive the bags by road. A buyer elsewhere in Africa or in the Middle East should ask where the supplier hands the goods over and who arranges the transport from there.

What Al-Sharq Plastic Manufacturing is

Al-Sharq Plastic Manufacturing is a manufacturer with one specialisation: polypropylene woven bags. What we can state as fact:

• What we make. White and coloured woven bags, printed or unprinted, to each buyer’s requirements. Coloured stripes are woven into the fabric, not printed on it. See the range.
• Where. Plot 176, Southern Developers Area, 10th of Ramadan City, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt.
• What you can see. The factory page shows our tape extrusion and stretching line, winders and circular looms in photos and video, with photos of white, red and striped fabric and of plain sewn bags.
• Who we supply. Customers in Egypt, in other African countries and in the Middle East.

This website does not publish a minimum order, lead times, payment or shipping terms, or export documents. Put those questions to us as you would to any supplier, through the enquiry form.