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Plastic jerry cans5 L and 10 LPlastic buckets16 models, 560 ml - 21 LMedical buckets10 models, 1 - 21 LFood containers5 models, 250 - 750 mlPlastic canisters5 and 10 L塑料桶16 个型号，560 毫升 - 21 升食品容器5 个型号，250 - 750 毫升塑料方桶5 升和 10 升Hello! We'll suggest the right size for your product, calculate pallets, and quote a price for your order.
In Mailuu-Suu, mining is a thing of the past, but the orchards on the mountain slopes are still here: apricot, sweet cherry, apple, and walnut. The harvest goes into preserves and jam or gets dried, honey comes in from apiaries in the mountains around town, and it's all sold in Jalal-Abad, Osh, and Bishkek. For this kind of family and small-workshop packing, HTI's small and medium buckets are the best fit, and they reach town by freight carrier.
Mailuu-Suu, Jalal-Abad Region: buckets across the region
An orchard household needs buckets at every stage: large ones for picking, medium ones for cooking and storage, and small ones for selling. Under each size, you'll see how it's used in Mailuu-Suu and nearby villages.
Packs for the market, guests, and stores.
Cooking, storage, and sales in family-size portions.
Harvest, wholesale, and storage.
Containers for preserves, jam, walnuts in honey, and homemade baked goods.
Jerry cans for juice, vinegar, and water for the orchard.
Yellow and red buckets for the city hospital, clinics, and the vet.
Sweet cherry jam for a neighborhood store: the low, handleless bucket stands steady on the shelf.
Apricot preserves as a gift for relatives in Bishkek: the handle makes the bucket easy to carry on the road.
The town's go-to gift pack: about 1.1 kg of preserves in a bucket that fits in a bag.
Suzma and kaymak from neighbors who keep cows: the handle is molded in one piece with the bucket.
Mountain honey from apiaries around town, about 1.42 kg in a single one-liter bucket.
Apple and quince jam for the Jalal-Abad market: the clear wall shows how thick it is.
Dried apricots and apple slices: the lid keeps dust and gnats off the dried fruit.
Pickled tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant from the home garden, sold to the neighbors.
Fruit puree and fruit butter for bakeries that make sweet hand pies.
Sauerkraut to see a big family through the winter: with a plastic grip, a full bucket is easy to carry up from the cellar.
Picking sweet cherries and apricots from tall trees: the bucket hangs on a branch by its bail handle.
Selling apples to a middleman: closed buckets stack on top of each other in the truck bed.
A wholesale order of preserves for confectionery producers: about 24 kg in a single bucket.
Sugar for the whole jam-making season: a large lidded bucket keeps it dry and clean.
Sweet cherry preserves to taste before buying: the 250 ml hexagonal container, about 0.33 kg.
Quince jam for a honey gift set: 385 ml round containers, about half a kilo.
Walnuts in honey from an orchard family: 400 ml, a clear hexagonal container ready for the farm's sticker.
Apple slices and dried apricots by weight: 550 ml under a tight lid, with the dried fruit visible through the wall.
Apricot pie or samsa (savory pastries) from a home bakery, to go: a flat tray with a lid.
Apple cider vinegar and home-pressed juice: a 5 L jerry can with a screw cap.
Water for seedlings on the slope: ten liters, carried by the molded-in handle.
Mailuu-Suu City Hospital: in the treatment room, the needle drops into the bucket through the valve.
Vaccination room: ampoules and swabs after appointments, a yellow 2.3 L bucket.
A nurse on home visits to elderly former miners: after each shot, the syringe goes behind the needle remover valve.
Dental clinic: disinfecting wipes come out through the lid valve, 3.8 L bucket.
Injuries on the orchard slopes during the harvest: bandages and dressings go into a red bucket for Class C waste (by Kyrgyz sanitary classification).
City sanitary lab: used supplies from water and soil testing, yellow 11.2 L.
Internal medicine: a day's waste from a patient room, plastic handle, 11.5 L bucket.
Vet for the orchard villages: used supplies from treating goats and cows in backyards, 18 L.
Until it's hauled to Jalal-Abad, the waste is kept in a closed 21 L bucket.
A liter of preserves weighs about 1.33 kg, a liter of honey about 1.42 kg. With these figures, it's easy to estimate how much product a bucket holds: about 3 kg of jam in the 2.3 L, about 1.4 kg of honey in the one-liter size.
Mailuu-Suu families sell both small packs and wholesale. The table lists a size for each product, and the "Fill guide" column gives the weight of preserves or honey based on density, or for dry goods and vegetables, the bucket's brim-full capacity.
| Product | Volume | Fill guide | Handle | Learn more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preserves as a gift | 850 ml | about 1.1 kg | plastic or molded-in | jam and preserves |
| Jam and fruit butter for the market | 2.3 L | about 3 kg | metal or plastic | clear buckets |
| Mountain honey | 1 L | about 1.4 kg | plastic | honey buckets |
| Dried apricots, dried apples | 3 L | 3.28 L brim-full | metal or plastic | nuts and dried fruit |
| Sweet cherries for sale | 3.8 L | 4.1 L brim-full | metal or plastic | berry buckets |
| Pickled vegetables | 5.6 L | 5.87 L brim-full | metal or plastic | pickles |
| Wholesale preserves | 18 L | about 24 kg | metal with plastic grip, or plastic | pastry fillings |
Brim-full capacity is the bucket's total volume when it's filled right up to the rim. For dried fruit and cherries, it matters more than the nominal capacity: dry goods are filled to the top, while jam needs a little headspace so the lid sits flat.
In Mailuu-Suu, most buckets go to families and small workshops that turn their harvest into products to sell. Some sell to neighbors and at the market; others supply pastry producers and stores in bigger cities. Their needs differ, and so do their buckets: some care most about shelf appeal, others about a sturdy bail handle and a tight lid for the long road.
Apricots, cherries, and apples ripen almost back to back, and there are never enough hands. For picking, families use the 11.5 L bucket with a plastic grip so the handle doesn't cut into their palms, and fruit for sale goes into lidded 15 L buckets that stack on top of each other in the truck bed.
Homemade preserves sell in clear 850 ml and 2.3 L buckets, so shoppers can see the fruit and how thick the syrup is. The bucket opens across its full width, making it easy to spoon out every last bit.
Honey from mountain apiaries goes into large buckets first, then gets portioned into 1 L buckets with a plastic handle for sale. The OPEN tamper-evident tear strip under the rim shows buyers the bucket hasn't been opened since filling.
Small workshops cook fruit butter and fruit fillings for bakeries in Jalal-Abad and Osh. The 5.6 L and 18 L buckets with a metal bail handle suit them well: each bakery takes exactly what it uses in a shift or a week.
The calculator works out pallets for the bucket you choose. For example, a family jam business in Mailuu-Suu fills 10,000 of the 850 ml buckets in a season, which comes to two pallets. Add 4,000 clear 2.3 L buckets for the market, and that's two more.
It makes sense for small farms to team up: a pallet of small buckets holds thousands of units and is easy to split among several families.
Estimate how much jam, honey, or dried fruit you'll sell and in what pack sizes. That determines which sizes you need and how many pallets.
An HTI sales manager will confirm your product, suggest a clear or white body, and quote the order price along with shipping terms.
To put your brand on the bucket, we agree on a label or in-mold labeling (IML) artwork with you. Without printing, this step is skipped and your order goes straight to packing at our plant in the Bishkek Free Economic Zone (FEZ).
A freight carrier delivers the buckets to Mailuu-Suu. You can also pick them up yourself from our plant in Ak-Chiy village.
The HTI plant is in Ak-Chiy village, Bishkek Free Economic Zone (FEZ), Chuy Region, and that's the only place we have a warehouse. A freight carrier delivers the buckets to Mailuu-Suu by the pallet. Your sales manager confirms delivery time and cost when you place the order; both depend on the number of pallets.
For orchard farms, the key is to be ready before the harvest. Order buckets for jam and fruit picking in spring, while the orchards are in bloom: that leaves plenty of time to pack and ship your order without a rush.
If you drive to Bishkek in your own truck, you can pick up the buckets at the plant and bring them home along with your other purchases.
Clear and white, small and large: all your buckets can go in one shipment. A family that both makes jam and sells apples won't have to order packaging twice. Everything arrives on one truck, with each size on its own pallet.
Towns that have their own page are linked below, each with buckets matched to local products.
Orchard produce sells on looks. That's why growers in Mailuu-Suu choose their bucket version almost as carefully as their apricot variety.
Preserves, jam, and honey show through the wall, so shoppers at the market don't ask you to open the lid. A clear body is available in all 14 sizes.
The 800 and 850 ml buckets come with a plastic or molded-in handle. With a handle, a gift is easy to carry; without one, the bucket sits more neatly on the shelf.
At the market, shoppers often ask for a taste. You open one bucket for samples, while the OPEN tear strip on the rest stays intact, and anyone can see that at a glance.
Your own name on the bucket helps bring customers back. A label is enough for your first order; for ongoing runs, the design is fused into the wall with IML.
Directly from the HTI plant, in orders of one pallet or more. Call our sales team at +996 222 600 292, tell us what you'll be packing, and a sales manager will pick the sizes and work out the shipment.
The minimum order is one pallet of a single size. A pallet of small buckets holds thousands, so it's easy to split one order with your neighbors.
The price depends on size, quantity, color, handle, and printing. Your sales manager calculates it for your order and gives you the delivery terms right away.
By freight carrier, on pallets shipped from our plant in the Bishkek Free Economic Zone. Your sales manager confirms delivery time and cost when you place the order.
No, our only warehouse is at the plant in Ak-Chiy village. Every order ships directly from there.
For gifts and samples, the clear 850 ml; for families, the 2.3 L, which holds about 3 kg of jam. For more tips, see our buckets for jam and fruit butter page.
Yes. For picking, the 11.5 L bucket with a plastic grip on the bail handle works well, while cherries for sale go into 3 L and 3.8 L buckets so the bottom layer doesn't get crushed under the top. Learn more on our buckets for berries page.
Yes. For a trial order, we apply a label; for ongoing runs, we use IML: the design is fused into the wall during molding. You prepare the artwork together with your sales manager.
Product pages for every size, with dimensions and handle options, are in the catalog. To see what's in demand nearby, read our Jalal-Abad Region and Kochkor-Ata pages.
Tell us how many buckets you go through in a season and in which sizes. Your sales manager will pick clear or white buckets and give you shipping terms to Mailuu-Suu.
