Featured Tea Packaging Formats
Explore our flagship bottom gusset and high-barrier pouch solutions crafted for premium shelf appeal and freshness retention.
Commercial & Industrial Landscape of Bottom Gusset Pouches in Tea Packaging
The global tea market has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade. Driven by evolving consumer preferences toward artisanal loose-leaf teas, organic herbal infusions, single-origin botanical blends, and functional matcha powders, the packaging requirement has shifted from traditional rigid tins and simple paper cartons to high-performance flexible packaging. Among the various pouch formats, Bottom Gusset Pouches (commonly known as Stand-Up Pouches or Doypack) have emerged as the industry benchmark for commercial tea packaging worldwide.
Commercial tea producers and specialty blenders face a continuous challenge: preserving volatile essential oils, delicate aromas, and bioactive compounds (such as catechins and polyphenols) while maximizing shelf visibility and transportation efficiency. Bottom gusset pouches address these critical demands by offering a stable, dynamic base that allows the package to stand upright on retail shelves, creating a commanding visual presence while optimizing interior volume to material consumption ratios.
Optimized Display & Ergonomics
The folded bottom expands when filled, creating a sturdy base that stands unsupported. This maximizes shelf space efficiency and provides 360-degree brand visibility across front, back, and bottom panels.
Advanced Aroma & Barrier Shielding
Multi-layer laminations combining PET, Aluminum foil, VMPET, and EVOH prevent moisture ingress, oxygen degradation, light degradation, and aroma dispersion, guaranteeing extended shelf life.
Sustainable & Lightweight Design
Bottom gusset pouches consume up to 75% less raw material than traditional glass or metal packaging, dramatically reducing carbon emissions during shipping and distribution logistics.
Material Science & Barrier Engineering for Tea Preservation
Tea leaves are highly sensitive to environmental factors. Exposure to moisture leads to rapid mold growth and loss of crispness; oxygen causes oxidation of flavor lipids and loss of vibrant leaf color; UV light alters chemical composition, leading to stale notes. Consequently, selecting the ideal film structure for bottom gusset tea pouches requires sophisticated multi-layer material engineering.
High-Barrier Lamination Configurations
At Yantai Meifeng Plastic Packaging, we engineer multi-tier laminate structures customized to the specific shelf-life requirements of your tea products:
- PET / AL / PE (Aluminum Foil Barrier): Provides zero moisture transfer, absolute light blockage, and total oxygen insulation. Perfect for premium white tea, green tea, and high-grade matcha.
- PET / VMPET / PE (Metallized Foil Barrier): Excellent cost-to-performance ratio offering metallic luster, high barrier against humidity, and light deflection for high-volume commercial teas.
- Kraft Paper / VMPET / PE (Natural Aesthetics): Combines the organic tactile feel of natural kraft paper on the exterior with high-barrier plastic protection on the interior.
- Mono-Material Recyclable PP/PE: Eco-friendly single-polymer structures (High Barrier MDO-PE / PE) engineered for circular economy initiatives without compromising barrier performance.
Functional Packaging Add-Ons
Enhance consumer convenience and product longevity with tailored custom features:
• Press-to-Close Resealable Zippers: Standard press zippers, pocket zippers, or tactile click zippers ensure air-tight reclosure after every use.
• Clear Viewing Windows: High-clarity PET windows integrated into the bottom gusset or front panel allow consumers to inspect whole leaf quality before purchase.
• Tear Notches & Laser Scoring: Clean, effortless opening without requiring scissors.
• One-Way Degassing Valves: Essential for specialized roasted teas or herbal blends that emit trapped gases after drying.
Introduction of Meifeng plastic
Meifeng people believes that we are producers as well as end consumers, safe packages with high quality and fast delivery to our clients is our working orientations.
Meifeng Packaging established on 1995, with over 30 years industry experiences that we have a stable quality output, and reliable relationship with current business partners. Meifeng is focus on full-service flexible packaging manufacturer. We are specialized on stand-up pouch, flat bottom bag, side gusseted bag, Vacuum bag and plastic film roll for food, pet food, healthy treatment, beauty treatment and non-food package industry.
6 Point of PARTNER PLEDGE from MEIFENG
- MeiFeng are committed to honesty and transparency with our clients.
- MeiFeng never sacrifice quality for price.
- MeiFeng guarantee 100% of everything we produce.
- MeiFeng are direct factory. No manufacturers reps or brokers.
- MeiFeng provide multi-angle inspections of our work, conducted by independent labs.
- MeiFeng work with a professional logistics team and company.
- Meifeng offered third part for payment safety, and if you do not satisfy, we can go through refund system.
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Deep Application Scenarios for Bottom Gusset Pouches in the Tea Industry
Versatile engineering allows bottom gusset pouches to meet diverse packaging requirements across various market segments.
1. Specialty Loose Leaf & Whole-Leaf Teas
Whole leaf green teas, Dragonwell, Silver Needle, and Ti Kuan Yin require space so leaves remain uncrushed. Bottom gusset pouches expand internally, giving bulkier leaf structures the volume they need while standing rigid for retail presentation.
2. Fine Matcha & Botanical Powders
Micro-milled powders like Uji Matcha, powdered chai, and dietary herbal powders react rapidly to oxygen and humidity. Foil-laminated bottom gusset pouches equipped with airtight zippers ensure powder remains dry, clump-free, and vivid green.
3. Commercial Foodservice & HORECA Packs
For restaurant suppliers, hotel chains, and teahouses requiring 500g to 2kg bulk packaging, high-durability bottom gussets combined with reinforced seals support heavy product weights without bursting during long-distance shipping.
Industries Served & Advanced Production Equipment
We served customers in several industries, such as food, snack food, pet food, fertilizer, cat litter, textile masks, and some non-food industry such like electronic accessories, magnetic material and etc. These products are made by all different type of bags, such like Stand up pouches, gusset bags, flat pouches, three side bags and roll stock.
Our company’s owned Swiss BOBST, and Italy solvent-free Laminators “Nordmeccanica”. High-speed slitting machine, and high-speed multifunctional bag-making machine, are capable of printing, laminating, slitting, bag-making various kinds of productions.
We have cooperated with brands supplier such like DIC for printing ink, and Bostic for glue. With the branding supplier, kept us a high-quality supply to our clients.
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Company History
Mu Dan Jiang JiaLong established.
YanTai Jialong established. As the Main company for produce plastic packaging.
YanTai Jialong renamed to YanTai MeiFeng, Register capital amount is 16 million RMB with total assets of 1 billion RMB.
Upgrade production machine to Italy solvent-free Laminators “Nordmeccanica”. Energy conservation and emission reduction, low carbon output is our mission.
In order to produce higher quality and professional packaging, the company has consistently invested numbers of online testing system and testing equipment. To keep a consistent high quality products for the business partners.
We purchased Italy BOBST 3.0 high-speed gravure printing press and domestic advanced high speed slitting machines.
Initial local company whom using VOCs emission system to give a clear air output. And we award compliment by Yantai government.
Through upgrade internal production machine and bag making machine, we turned to be high efficiency and high output factory. And at the same year, the register capital increased to be 20 million RMB.
The company is incorporated into Yantai high-tech enterprise.
The company plans to build the third industry, and upgrade several workshop which include film blowing machine, laminating machine, slitting machine and bag making machine.
The third plant starting to build.
The new factory completed construction.
Staff Training
MeiFeng has over 30 years experiences, and all the of managing team is in a good training system. We conduct regular skill training and learning for our employees, reward those excellent employees, display and commend them for their outstanding work, and keep employees positively at all times.
Regularly, we provide all types of competition for machine operating activity, and give a training concept of “Reduce, Recyclable, Reused” to our employees, through all of the effort to contribute a good packaging industry and help our partner to get a perfect packaging plans, at the same time, we want to give a green, safe and sustainable packaging to the future. And this is always in Meifeng’s employee’s mind.
For our Sales reps we offered regular training as well, it is the window connected from outside to inside, our sales team members not only need to know our products well but also need to know our clients as well. How to make a smooth connection from a fancy idea to a reality packaging plan is a skill job to all of the sales team.
We would love to hear from our client’s but also to make a prototype for their ideas. We have an expertise team to simulated client’s idea and hand made before the mass production. This is great reduced the client’s lost from new packaging risks.
All of these nice concepts are be recognized by Meifeng groups, and when new employees start from work, they are trained these concepts as well.
Through a full set of training system. All of Meifeng people are dedicated with our jobs and passionate about our products. With our clients’ and partners, we will create a great packaging to our clients, to the end-using markets. We are producers but also consumers, and we are responsible to the environment also to the food packaging industry.
Factory Workshops & Infrastructure
Company Culture
Company's core values: Meet customer's need, achieving employees and giving back to the society.
Our goals: Providing suitable packaging solutions, focus on innovation and sustainable productions.
Enterprise vision: Stable quality control, achieve branding client’s requirement.
Quality Policy: Safety, environmental friendly, satisfy the end-user needs.
Core competitiveness: People-oriented, win the market with quality.
Why Choose MeiFeng Plastic?
Meifeng found in 1995, it has rich experiences on running packaging industry. We provide Smart Solutions, and suitable packaging plans.
Good credit on Banking system, stable working process, and reliable partnership with supplier keep us innovative to grow with our clients.
Multiple branding printing press, laminating machines and high-speed inspection machines, support us to make a “Green, Safe, Exquisite” products.
We grow up from a small factory, we know the hardness of starting a new business, we would like to grow with you and to be partner of you, and have a win-win business.
Several on-line & off-line inspection machine, to ensure a high-quality control.
Approved by BRC and ISO 9001:2015 certificate.
Rapid production process, satisfy custom who need Rush order delivery requirement.
Customer Satisfaction is our managing team main focus.
Environmental Responsibility: VOCs Control
VOCs Control
VOCs standard for Volatile Organic Compounds, which have many harmful effects on the environment and human health.
During the printing and Dry laminating, there will occur toluene, xylene and other VOCs volatile emissions, so we introduced VOCs equipment to collect the chemical gas, and through compression to burning convert them to CO2 and water, which is friendly to the environment.
This system we invested from Spain since 2016, and we received award from local government in 2017. Not only to make a good economy, but also through our effort to make this world better is our goal and working orientations.
Complete Packaging Product Portfolio
Explore our comprehensive selection of high-barrier pouches, quad-seal bags, and customizable flexible packaging solutions.
