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Food packaging

Food-grade buckets made of polypropylene

At HTI, the food-grade version covers our entire bucket lineup from 560 ml to 21 L: 14 sizes, white or clear polypropylene, a flat lid that seats into a double rim, and a tamper-evident seal. Producers fill them with sour cream and mayonnaise, jam and honey, pickles, Korean-style salads, fish, and ice cream. We mold the buckets in the Bishkek Free Economic Zone (FEZ). We ship them to dairy and sauce plants, deli kitchens, and packers across Kyrgyzstan and to Kazakhstan.

14sizes in the lineup
0.56-21 Lsingle-serve to bulk
2 colorswhite and clear
OPENseal on the lid
Food plant scales

From bucket liters to kilograms of product

The table on this page covers three products: mayonnaise, jam, and pickles in brine. The calculator does the same for any size. Pick a product or enter your own weight per liter to get net weight, weight with packaging, and headroom to the brim.

Packaging from this page
560 ml plastic bucket80 mm
Ø 118 mm
1 L plastic bucket121 mm
Ø 132.5 mm
2.3 L plastic bucket132 mm
Ø 175 mm
3.8 L plastic bucket176 mm
Ø 200 mm
5.6 L plastic bucket193 mm
Ø 224 mm
8 L plastic bucket197.5 mm
Ø 276 mm
15 L plastic bucket292 mm
Ø 303 mm
21 L plastic bucket333.5 mm
Ø 332 mm
What's in the food-grade version

What makes a bucket food-grade

A food-grade bucket looks simple from the outside, but with food every detail matters. What is the body molded from? How does the lid seat? What proves the package is intact, and in what condition does the packaging reach your plant? Below are four features that technologists and buyers usually check on the first order before they put a bucket into regular production. They are the same across the whole lineup, from the 560 ml bucket to the 21 L bucket.

White 18 L plastic bucket with metal bail handle and lid on the tiled floor of a food prep kitchen next to a rack of pots
Prep for cafes18 L: about 16.9 kg of mayonnaise in one bucket
Polypropylene body

We mold the body and lid from polypropylene, a material widely used for food packaging. The wall is smooth, with no seams or pores. You can scrape out thick product with a spatula and rinse the empty bucket easily. The packaging is light, so it's easy to unload by hand.

Double-rim lid

The flat lid locks into both rings of the rim and holds all the way around. The flat top works as a platform: you stack the next closed bucket on it, so your finished-goods warehouse grows up, not out. The wide opening lets you fill without a funnel.

Tamper evidence

An OPEN tamper-evident tear strip with raised lettering is molded under the lid rim. The lid can only come off for the first time once the strip is torn away, and the strip can't be put back. Stores and shoppers can tell at a glance whether the package was opened after filling.

Empty buckets take up little space

The tapered body lets empty buckets nest inside each other. One pallet holds 7,200 of the 560 ml buckets or 816 of the 15 L buckets. You don't need a separate warehouse for packaging stock: keep it next to the filling line.

Product weight

How much product fits in a food-grade bucket

Technologists write recipes in kilograms, but packaging is ordered in liters. Here we convert each bucket's nominal capacity into the weight of three typical products: mayonnaise and sauces (about 0.94 kg per liter), jam and preserves (about 1.33 kg), and pickles with brine (about 1.05 kg). The "Brim-full" column shows the full capacity of the body. The difference from nominal capacity is the headspace under the lid. Figures are rounded. Actual weight depends on the recipe and fat content, so weigh it again during a trial fill.

Lineup at the same scalebody width and height per factory spec sheets
VolumeModelBrim-fullMayonnaise, kgJam, kgPickles in brine, kg
560 mlPKS560650 ml0.530.740.59
1 LPK101.18 L0.941.331.05
2.3 LPK232.444 L2.23.12.4
3.8 LPK384.1 L3.65.14.0
5.6 LPK565.87 L5.37.45.9
8 LPK809.326 L7.510.68.4
15 LPK15016.56 L14.120.015.8
21 LPK21021.9 L19.727.922.1

The same packaging gives very different net weights: a 21 L bucket holds about 19.7 kg of mayonnaise but almost 28 kg of jam. So choose the size by the weight you sell, not by the liter size you're used to. The 800, 850, and 900 ml and the 3, 11.5, and 18 L sizes are not in the table. Calculate their weight the same way: nominal capacity times product density.

15 L plastic bucket with lid in a factory cafeteria kitchen
How to choose

Five questions before you order

Choose a food-grade bucket based on the product and on who will open it: a shopper at home, a cook on the serving line, or a packer at the next processing stage. Answer the questions below to narrow the 14 sizes down to two or three. The more precise your answers, the fewer unused items will sit in your packaging warehouse.

1Liquid or thick product? For pickles in brine, choose a bucket with brim-full headroom: the 1 L bucket holds 180 ml above nominal capacity.1 L bucket
2Who is your customer? Home retail needs 560 ml to 1 L, cafes and canteens prefer 3.8-8 L, and plants and resellers take 11.5 L and up.560 ml bucket1 L bucket3.8 L bucket5.6 L bucket8 L bucket
3How will the bucket be carried? Up to 1 L, lugs or a light plastic handle are enough. From 8 L, we fit a metal bail handle with a plastic grip.8 L bucket
4Do you need to show the product? A clear body sells on the shelf, while white suits labels and full-surface printing.
5Will your brand be on the wall? A label works for a trial order, and in-mold labeling (IML) suits regular production.
White 850 ml plastic bucket with lid on a dairy shop counter next to a basket of eggs
Tap a tip to highlight the sizes it covers
Logistics

How packaging gets to your production floor

Empty buckets nest inside each other, so one pallet carries thousands of small buckets or hundreds of large ones. You can pick up your order from the factory warehouse in the Bishkek FEZ, Ak-Chiy village. We deliver to dairy and sauce plants in Bishkek and Chuy Region with our own delivery trucks. Producers in Osh, Jalal-Abad, Karakol, Naryn, and Talas receive buckets via a freight carrier. We ship by the pallet to Kazakhstan within the EAEU, including Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, and Karaganda. Our sales manager confirms delivery time and cost when you place your order. If you fill several sizes, combine them in one request so the packaging arrives on one truck. Plan orders for the summer peak in advance. During pickle, jam, and ice cream season, filling lines run at full capacity and packaging sells out faster than usual.

White 2.3 L plastic bucket with lid and bail handle on a wooden table in a home kitchen in Karakol next to a bunch of dill
Questions and answers

Frequently asked questions about food-grade buckets

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All 14 sizes in the lineup: 560, 800, 850, and 900 ml, and 1, 2.3, 3, 3.8, 5.6, 8, 11.5, 15, 18, and 21 L. Each size comes in white or clear. You'll find dimensions and empty weight for each item in the Buckets by size section.

Clear polypropylene shows the product through the wall, so shoppers see right away what's inside: jam, cucumbers, mushrooms, or honey. A white body is neutral and works as a background for a label or IML. Producers usually choose it for sour cream, mayonnaise, and products sold under a brand.

By the OPEN tear strip with raised lettering under the lid rim. As long as it's intact, nobody has opened the package since filling. A torn strip is visible right away, and nobody will take that bucket off the shelf.

Yes, but fill to nominal capacity, not to the brim. The headroom lets the lid seat evenly in the rim without squeezing out liquid as you close it. It differs by size: 90 ml for a 560 ml bucket and almost 1.9 L for an 18 L bucket.

Our sales manager quotes a price for each order. It depends on size, quantity, color, handle, and printing. Call +996 222 600 292 and tell us your product and monthly output. If you need several sizes or both colors, list them all at once to get a single estimate.

Yes. We can apply a label to the finished bucket, which works well for a launch or seasonal lines. For regular order volumes, IML is the better fit: the label is fused into the wall during molding, so it doesn't rub off or peel during washing.

Yes, by the pallet within the EAEU: to Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, Karaganda, and other cities. Our sales manager confirms delivery time and cost when you place your order. Empty buckets travel nested, so even a large order takes up only a few pallet spaces.

Catalog

Food-grade buckets in the HTI catalog

Our catalog lists every food-grade bucket with dimensions, empty weight, and handle options. Choosing packaging for a specific product? See the Packaging by application section, with separate pages for honey, pickles, sauces, dairy products, and ready meals. To compare sizes by height, opening diameter, and units per pallet, use the buckets by size section.

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Not sure which size fits your recipe?

Tell us your product, the fill weight per pack, and your approximate monthly output. A sales manager will pick a bucket with the right brim-full headroom, calculate pallets, and suggest a printing option. For a new product, start with a small order of two or three sizes. Then keep the one that performs best on the filling line and in sales.