Stick Packs.

A narrow, tall single-dose sachet. Structurally it is a back seal bag — one sheet of film formed into a tube and sealed down the back, then across the top and bottom — but made long and thin rather than square.

The proportions are the whole design. A stick pack is narrow enough to pour into the neck of a water bottle without spilling, slim enough to carry in a pocket, and it visually communicates "one serving" before the customer reads anything.

Each stick holds one measured dose, sealed at the factory, which removes both the scoop and the customer's ability to get the quantity wrong.

Three reasons, and one honest counter-argument.

Dosing. One stick is one serving, measured at the factory. No scoop, no guessing, no scoop buried in the powder — which is one of the most common complaints about tubs.

Portability. A stick goes in a pocket or a gym bag. A tub does not.

Freshness. Every dose has its own barrier, so opening today's stick does not expose the rest.

The counter-argument: cost. Thirty individual packs use far more film than one tub, and there is more labour and machine time per gram of product. Stick packs cost meaningfully more per serving. You are buying convenience and dose control — worth it for some products, not for all.

Our stated minimum is 500 units, but the honest answer is that this format only starts making commercial sense at higher volumes.

Stick packs run on dedicated high-speed machinery fed from roll stock. That equipment is efficient over long runs and expensive to set up for short ones, so at a few hundred units the setup dominates the price per pack.

If you are testing a product, a small flat three-side-seal sachet gives you a single-dose pack at a much lower entry cost, and you can move to sticks once the volume justifies it. We would rather tell you that than sell you a short run at a price that makes the product look unviable.