Still packing bottles by hand？

Rising labour costs are squeezing profit margins for Pakistan’s small‑medium water plants.

It not only arises bad appearance, but will happen one hidden problem, the rising labour costs am  quietly eating up your little profit in such a fiercely competitive water business environment.In whole Pakistan bottled water market, more than 200 water plants.Against this competitive landscape (mineral water, sparkling Water, functional Water, flavoured Water, RO water, mountain water, etc.) Most packed by PET bottles. Its easy, can lower cost, the PET bottles held 63.12% of Pakistan bottled water market share in 2025, growing estimated at 11.16% over 2026-2031.Below market analysis report link for your reference.

https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/pakistan-bottled-water-market

Small and medium RO drinking water plants are mainly located in Punjab, especially in Sialkot and Gujranwala. These two areas water plants, many still wrap PE film by manual, and welding by hands.It not only dangerous, but Poor‑looking appearance and cannot withstand rough handling during transportation.Although some water brand, already use semi-automatic or automatic PE film shrink wrapping machine, but most not. Small RO Water Plants in Punjab still use manual Packing.This brings more troubles than just high labour expenses. For example when workers get tired after long time work, pack quality becomes inconsistent is very common. Some film seals are loose, or some PE film is over burned. Besides low capacity, you also face unstable packing quality and higher product waste.

Many water plant owners thought to save equipment fee. Actually if he learn about the PE film shrinking wrapping machine market, calculate carefully, to compare invest automatic machine cost with manual packing cost, automatic machine cost lower than manual package.

bottle shrink wrapping machine

Let’s do the math, our komalpack machine model S10. Capacity is 10 packs/minute. 1 hour capacity is 600pack. 1 day capacity is 4800packs.One worker pack 1 hour just can pack 10packs. 1 day can pack 80packs. 1 day cost is 1300-1800PKR. Average is about 1500PKR. 4800/80=60 times.S10 cost is about USD10000/set. 10000*280PKR=280 0000.2800000/(1500*60)=30.Means 30 days, you can return cost.Also our machine valid time is more than 10years.So it’s a business with solid return on investment.

If fully automatic shrink wrapping machines require heavy capital investment, which is exteed budget for most small and medium RO water factories. So can customized semi automatic shrink wrapping machines a practical solution for Pakistani water owners, to free your hands.Here we attached some packed PET bottles vedio link for your reference.