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What are the Benefits to the Pharmaceutical Industry when using Tamper-Proof Zipper Bags from Diversified Plastics & Packaging? The pharmaceutical industry demands packaging solutions that ensure product safety, compliance, and trust—qualities perfectly met by tamper-proof zipper bags from Diversified Plastics & Packaging. We leverages "Made in the U.S.A." manufacturing to...

In the fast-paced retail industry, effective packaging is essential for enhancing customer experience, promoting brand identity, and ensuring product protection. Diversified Plastics & Packaging, Inc., a leading manufacturer based in Sumter, South Carolina, specializes in high-quality merchandise bags tailored for retail applications. With over 30 years of expertise, their poly...

How Are Gusseted Poly Bags Used in the Food Packaging Industry?   Gusseted poly bags are a versatile and essential solution in the food packaging industry, offering flexibility, durability, and efficiency. At Diversified Plastics and Packaging, Inc., we recognize their critical role in meeting the diverse needs of food businesses....

Diversified Plastics & Packaging, Inc. offers a comprehensive range of poly-based products tailored to meet the needs of various industries, from retail to agriculture. With over 30 years of expertise, their stock and custom solutions, including poly bags, tubing, and films, provide durable, cost-effective packaging options. Below is an in-depth...

In the fast-paced world of food packaging, businesses need reliable, versatile, and cost-effective solutions to ensure product safety and customer satisfaction. Gusseted poly bags, offered by Diversified Plastics & Packaging, are an ideal choice for food packaging, providing expandable capacity, durability, and a professional appearance. Whether you're packaging bulk candies,...

How to Measure Plastic Bags for Shipping: A Step-by-Step Guide At DP Packaging Solutions, we understand that proper packaging is key to safe and efficient shipping. Whether you’re using plastic shipping bags or pairing them with our high-quality polyethylene stretch wrap, knowing how to measure plastic bags correctly ensures your...

Your Guide to Partnering with the Best—like Diversified Plastics & Packaging, Inc. When it comes to selecting a custom plastic bag manufacturer, you need a partner who delivers quality, reliability, and value—exactly what Diversified Plastics & Packaging brings to the table with over 35 years of expertise. Whether you’re packaging...

Packaging Solutions for Pellet Products by Diversified Plastics & Packaging, Inc. In today's market, where sustainability and efficiency are paramount, the need for specialized packaging for products like bedding pellets, litter box pellets, wood pellets, and biochar pellets has never been higher. Diversified Plastics & Packaging, Inc. (DP&P), with their...

Plastics 101: From Resins to Rolls Walking you through the fascinating blown film extrusion process, from plastics resins to finished rolls. At the surface, plastic film seems like a very straightforward and simple product. Many think plastic cling wrap and grocery bags are the extent to which films are used,...

What is a Clean Room? A Clean Room is an environment that is free from dust and other contaminants. Many industries require high standards of cleanliness in the manufacturing and packaging process to prevent cross contamination, hence this is done in a Clean Room. Items transported in and out of...

K 2019 Sets Clear Signal for Responsible Handling of Plastics At the recent K Fair, the world’s No. 1 trade fair for Plastics and Rubber, 3,330 exhibitors from 63 nations impressively demonstrated that plastic continues to be an innovative, indispensable and future-oriented material. At the same time, the exhibitors unanimously...

Keep Food Products Fresh with Reclosable Bags A reclosable bag, also known as a resealable bag, is a convenient way to keep products fresh after they are opened. Many common grocery store foods are now sold in reclosable bags so that a person can use only a small amount and...

Beyond the Basic Bag Complex equations present themselves in many forms (shapes and sizes, too). Not all of them can be solved on a chalkboard, either. These unique problems often require unique solutions. In many cases, it seems, flexible packaging is the answer. Poly with New Purpose In the wake...

Poly Mailers and the Evolution of Shipping Let’s talk about shipping. It starts with our relatively young, national love affair with denim. Sure, jeans are an American wardrobe staple now, but the trend is overall relatively new. Before the 1940s jeans were just for cowboys and carpenters – nobody in...

What's the Difference Between Ultraviolet Inhibitors (UVI) and Ultraviolet Absorbers (UVA)? We all know the effects of the sun's UV Rays. Polymers are particularly vulnerable (i.e., plastics, rubbers, neoprene and PVC). When UV Rays are absorbed by a polymer it excites the photons in the material, which causes the molecular...

Polypropylene Bags The most popular type of thermoplastic used in the plastic bag industry is called polypropylene. This type of plastic is non-toxic, sturdy, flexible, and lightweight—making it perfect for poly bags. The diversity in poly bags makes them an option for many industries and applications. They can be standard...

Using Plastic Bags to Advertise Every day, millions of bags are produced, making them among the most common plastic product in the world. There are many types of poly bags available and that are used by manufacturing, commercial, and residential places. An easy way for businesses to advertise is on...

Plastic Bags are Everywhere! On a daily basis, a person will come into contact with some sort of plastic bag. Plastic bags offer convenience to daily tasks and have different roles based on what type of plastic bag it is. At home, you can use the plastic poly baggies to...

Plastic Bags are Environmentally Friendly Plastic bags are not normally termed “environmentally friendly”, but plastic bags are an environmentally friendly product. Resealable plastic bags are particularly environmentally friendly since they can be reused multiple times before being recycled by the responsible consumer. Since the plastic bags are made from thermoplastics,...

Gusseted Bags: More Than Just a Bag As most industries in this day and age, the baking industry cannot depend on foot traffic alone to generate the sales needed to stay in business. The number of bakeries that deliver their products to schools, grocery stores, and coffee shops is increasing...

Medical Plastic Bags to the Rescue! Medical plastic bags are critical in their surroundings. They are utilized to rapidly and securely dispose of specific materials that may be unsanitary or infectious. There are limitations that apply to plastic bags that are utilized as a part of the medical field that...

A Spin on Everyday Envelopes Although most public consumers have never used a plastic mailer or envelope, many industries use plastic envelopes to send important documents, such as confidential papers. These types of documents or contents need more safe-guarding versus the average Christmas card. A need for more secure mailers...

Cloth or Plastic? More and more people are becoming aware of the environmental issue we face, which means that more and more people are turning to cloth bag at the grocery store or other applications in order to minimize their impact on plastic waste and the environmental stress that plastic...

Clear Plastic Bags: The Anti-Theft Bag We live in a world where theft is an absolute. It is not a matter of if it will happen, it is a matter of when will it happen and what are you doing to prevent it. From cameras to security guards a lot...

New Stock HD Liners You spoke and we listened! We've added 24 sizes of stock HD liners, flat packed or wound on coreless rolls. These liners are provided in convenient dispenser boxes. We've also added 5 types of stock red bag black print Biohazard Infectious Waste liners and 1 Blue...

The Advantages of Custom Plastic Bags Throughout virtually every industry plastic bags can be found, from industrial to residential settings. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that custom bag creation options are available. These options are typically utilized by industrial or commercial users as residential applications do not typically...

The Popularity of Clear Plastic Bags Plastic bags are commonplace in our day to day lives, and clear plastic bags are probably one of the most prevalent types of plastic bags. They are used in a wide range of industries and applications from residential use with zip lock bags to...

What Makes Poly Bags So Great? Polypropylene Bags, or poly bags, are made from a popular thermoplastic that is nontoxic, sturdy, lightweight, and is clear. These characteristics make poly bags ideal when you consider the wide variety of products that are stored in each bag. Poly bags can be used...

Wide Range of Plastic Shopping Bags Plastic shopping bags have been a staple of the shopping industry for many years, and each store has their own style of shopping bag. Upscale stores have done their best to increase their plastic bags style and class in order to appeal even further...

Food Packaging With the exception of some fresh produce, all of the food that we buy at our local grocery stores is packaged to maintain freshness and prevent it from being contaminated. This packaging can be as simple as a vacuum sealed plastic bag, to a resalable plastic container or...

Making Durable Mulch Bags for the Landscaping Industry Around this time of year you will notice mulch being spread in flower beds around business and residential properties. You might have also seen it for sale by the bag at your local garden center. Landscapers and home gardeners use mulch to...

Great Lead Times Whether you order a custom unprinted bag or select one of our stock printing plates, our lead times are a short as 6 days on most items . Need a custom image? No worries. Making your plate adds just 1-2 extra weeks, and then we will keep...

Random Repeat Printing If you want a single color suffocation warning, recycle symbol, custom image, or custom message on any bag, tubing, or sheeting Diversified Plastics offers, we can do it. We offer up to 10 mil and up to 240” wide gusseted bag printed random repeat. What is Random...

Retail Merchandise Poly Bags Almost every retail store that you visit is well supplied with poly bags that they put your product or products in after you make a purchase. This bag makes it easy for you to carry the item around, and most of the time it prominently displays...

Pallet Covers Among the many plastic products that we manufacture are pallet covers. Pallet covers fit snugly over a loaded pallet and protect the load from dust, moisture and other damages that could devalue the contents. Loaded pallets might be stored for several months before being moved again, or they...

Mailer Poly Bags Even though we live in a digital age where files are constantly being sent and received electronically, many businesses still need to use snail mail to deliver original files of copies for legal purposes. These mailer bags need to be sealable to avoid tampering during delivery, and...

VCI Bags Are Best For Protecting Metal Products From Corrosion A VCI bag protects metal products from corrosion by creating a barrier from moisture, dirt and other elements that could begin the corrosion process. VCI stands for vapour corrosion inhibitor. The ability to store metal parts over long periods of...

What Are Gas Flushing Bags? You may or may not have heard of gas flushing bags before. Either way, you’re probably wondering how they work, what they’re for and where you can get them. We have the answer to all three of those questions! We’ll get to each one, but...

Shrink Film If your company operates in a busy industry where shipping is essential, you know that it’s important to have the right supplies on hand. If you can’t securely ship your goods, you risk losing or damaging products and losing revenue. Concerns about about security during shipping are especially...

What You Didn't Know About Shaving Bags No, in case you were wondering, shaving bags don’t have anything to do with the razor that you use to shave your face. They’re actually used to package wood shavings and similar products that are used in horse stables or for other animals....

Now Offering "Returnable" Poly Mailers Poly Mailers A lightweight (typically opaque) plastic bag with a permanent adhesive seal used to send items through the mail are considered non-returnable. Some film used for these bags are made of two or more layers of different materials. Each material has a different function....

Looking for Poultry Bags? Chicken is one of the most popular meats in any grocery store because it makes a great meal and it can be used in so many different ways. To package chicken, food companies use poultry bags like the ones from Diversified Plastics & Packaging. These bags...

Potting Soil Bags Garden centers and nurseries always sell large plastic bags of potting soil for gardening. The bags are usually stacked up on pallets and stores order them from their supplier by the pallet. At Diversified Plastics, we manufacture potting soil bags for a number of clients. The bags...

Is Stretch Film Right for You? Stretch Wrap is a highly stretchable plastic film commonly made from linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) that is wrapped around items. The elastic recovery keeps the items tightly bound. Stretch film is commonly used to wrap products on pallets and secure them to each other...

7 Reasons to Make the Switch to Flexible Packaging Today Flexible packaging is any package or any part of any package with a shape that you can easily change. Flexible packaging includes produce poly bags, reclosable zip lock bags, retail handle bags, wicket bags, tubing, box liners, pallet covers and...

HACCP-Certified Packaging Partner for Food-Related Applications HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point. This is used in the food industry to control hazards associated with food processing. The FDA definition for it is this: a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of...

What is Polyethylene? What is a plastic? A plastic is a synthetic or man-made resin, a material similar in many ways to natural resins found 'in trees and other plants. It generally has a high molecular weight. (A molecule is the smallest existing particle of a chemical compound; it is...

What You Recycle Could Help Fill Your Next Order Diversified Plastics is pleased to offer our customers plastic bags made from recycled polyethylene materials. Plastic bags, sheeting and tubing are one of the most commonly finished products to recycle. Once recycled, they can be made into a variety of products,...

Diversified Plastics Now Offers Chicopee Industrial Wipers Diversified Plastics is please to announce we are now offering Chicopee industrial wipers. Chicopee® has the broadest line of industrial wipers that are engineered to deliver the strength and efficiency you need, from the removal of grease and grime on machinery to fingerprints...