Water is essential to life; the amount of water intake balances out dehydration, it helps in metabolic reactions for food breakdown, and internal waste removal that’s why Medical Doctors suggest that you must consume at least 8 glasses or 1.5 liters of water in a day.
One of the most popular and widely commercial means of getting drinking water is “the sachet water”, it is very convenient, easily affordable (N10), one serve of 60Cl, easily recyclable into other plastics if the population would just use a nylon recyclable bin!
Going into a sachet water production business is profitable but expensive, time and energy-consuming, although there are several other ways to knock a bit of stress off your back, like;
- Franchise: In this case, you buy your production machine and use an already set-up factory, brand name, NAFDAC number, purified water and other facilities, etc. The company charges you a franchise fee and other fees for production.
- Distribution: This involves getting a delivery vehicle, buying at wholesale bulk prices and distributing to retailers and consumers alike.
Considering your interests, this is a bit of an expo on what your potential daily/weekly/monthly profits looks like;
Based on Market analysis, the current sachet water prices are as follows;
Consumer price: N120/150 – 1 bag (20 sachet),
Retail price: N83, which is N500 – 6 bags,
For Bulk prices: N70 – 50 bags = N3500
Let’s say your daily production target is 500 bags:
Daily = N83 * 500 bags = N41, 500
Weekly = N41,500 * 6 days = N249,000
Monthly = N41,500 * 26 working days = N1, 079,000
This is excluding expenses such as maintenance, operation, labour, and transportation costs, but the cost of producing one bag of sachet water is estimated below;
1kg of printed nylon produces 25 bags, which means 20kg gives you 20 bags = N9400
Total profit after production: N41,500 – N9400 = N32,100
Potential startup costs
N8, 000,000 (This is excluding Land and building capital)
Pure Water Factory layout
Your factory, if you’re building one or remodeling, should have the following layout;
- Water production room
- Storage material room
- Finished product room
- Changing/cloak room
- Laboratory room
- General office room
Be sure to carry out a subsurface water analysis before siting your factory, this would save you a lot of money during water treatment processes.
Materials required to set up a pure water factory
- Printed nylon sachets – N470/kg
- Packaging bags – N3200/Bundle
- Water micron filters – N250/one
- Micron filter casing – N3500/one
- Treatment materials (Activated carbon, Hydrolite, Brim, Calcite, Sand, Gravel) – N64,000
- Morning Fresh for monthly tank cleaning maintenance – N450
- Diesel – N190/liter
- Fuel – N140/liter
- Drums, buckets and plastic baskets – N400/one
- Overalls, crocs, disposable hand gloves and hair nets – N7200
Equipment required to set up a pure water factory
Routine maintenance should be carried out regularly on all equipment to avoid production downtime, machine failure, health and electrical hazards.
- Borehole system – N100,000
- Overhead tanks (2) – N40,000
- Water filtration unit + treatment charging – N250,000
- 20 KVA generator – N700,000 to N1,200,000
- Pumps, valves and pipes – N150,000
- UV sterilizing unit (55 Watts) – N23,000
- Reverse osmosis unit (optional, 2000L) – N2,500,000
- Ozone generator – N450,000
- Dingli automatic filling/sealing machine – N650,000
- Delivery truck (most popular is the Mitsubishi Canter) – N1,200,000
Total: N6,563,000
Expected Labour costs for pure water factory
Before employing any personnel in contact with water production operations, ensure that you ask/require for a proper food handler’s medical test, and also provide proper training for machine handling and processes.
- Machine operators (2) – N12,000, above daily production target would earn them extra N3 commission/bag
- Quality Control – N20,000 – N30,000 depending on your profit margin
- Marketing/Administrative personnel – N20,000, N200 commission for each new client
- Cleaner (1) – N8000
- Driver – N15,000 with extra N3 for extra bags sold
- Motor boys (2) – N8000, commission amount are the same as driver.
- Security – N10,000, this is compulsory, because you don’t want your property going missing at night.
Total: N123,000 excluding commissions
Registration requirements for pure water factory
- Corporate Affairs Commission Business registration: this is a necessary documentation for your company band and identity. Total costs is N20,500 for company name, business registration and lawyer fees.
- Tax Identification Number: This registration is free, but always ensure you file your taxes as soon as possible.
- Community/Local tax: This registration is for the community which you’re located, a sum of N5,000 should cover the initial phase.
- NAFDAC Registration Number: this is the most important registration to kick off your business, factory inspections, borehole and water quality analysis by a NAFDAC certified Laboratory will be required for this process, along with a fee of N30,000.
- Association of Table Water Producers: These associations are your comrades and competitors alike; they regulate the market and price economics.
How to market a pure water factory
This is the one of the most important part of this business, if you’re going to succeed and achieve more than the figures I quoted above. First thing, study your competition in every way (not corporate espionage oh) “SWOT ANALYSIS”.
- Improve on your delivery time (early morning/early evening)
- Have customers far and wide such as personal friends/acquaintances, student hostels, restaurants, chemists, interstate traffic hawkers, shop owners, and market stands.
- Introduce a distribution program whereby distributors buy at your factory a cheaper bulk price to resell
- Reward your loyal/bulk buying customers
Note that during the rain season, there’s bound to be a drop in water purchase, but picks up during the harmattan season.
I do hope that I’ve provided you with valuable insight into the sachet water production business, please share your thoughts, requests and enquiries below!
Yes its quite noble reading this, keep it up
Thanks for the insight. Hope to start one in Jos soon. Do you do consultancy for start-ups?
Hi Emmanuel,
I’m happy to discuss ideas for free. This is more of a passion for me, so time will be limited. Shoot me an email: ethan@mrpepe.com
You said 1kg of nylon will produce 20bags and 20kg will produce 25 bags. Please check your post if its correct in that area. I’d like to get the correct evaluation. Thank you
This is great, detailed, comprehensive. May God help you. I don’t mind having your contact details for further guidance as am in process of establishing one soon.
This is a fantastic write up on Pure water production and it is well appreciated, I actually wanted to start one in Sango Ota Ogun state…
Thanks so much for this free consultancy services. I hope to start the process of setting up a production factory soon and will be contacting you for advice.
God bless you real good.
Pls could kindly let me have your contacts? Email and phone number Thanks.
This is a good business plan that one can follow. For any of the equipments mentioned in this post, you can get all of them in our office @ Elegushi Plaza, Off Jakande Roundabout, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. Call us or Whatsapp for more 08033065152
Thanks Festus. I will be contacting you on those relevant equipments for the start up of the pure water business.
Please I need a guidance on this business I have the site ready and I need a guide from an operating personnel who is already into this business to put me through
Thanks and I do appreciate your explanation and I do loved to know more about the pure water and bottle water production cuz am about to start my own very soon in Lagos
Good read!
Are batch coder/expiration date machines needed to put batch code on the water sachets for production?
I can help you get these equipments!
Thanks very much
Can all this equipments listed above use for bottle water too?
is the price negotiable?
I am really overwhelmed. Thanks for the tip
THANKS ABUNCH REALLY APPRECIATE
THANKS ABUNCH!
This is quite interesting omowunmi…. This is comprehensive and I appreciate.
Thanks for the guide line, I appreciate.
Thanks, and I hope you found it helpful!
This is great!. Thanks and God bless you the free lecture. I don’t mind having your contact for further counselling because I wish to start the business soon.
An excellent job
Thanks, Ibrahim. I hope you find it helpful and it helps you prosper.
Thanks for your kind enough of introducing and explaining more detail on Startup of Sachet water/Bottle
I will like to meet you one on one for more detail for my new proposed sachet water/bottle factory at Anambra Oba Idemili South L G A but l am based at Abuja/ Mararaba Nasarawa State Thanks 09095721999 08034623784
Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. I will to start my own sachet water factory soon
You’re welcome and all the best with your venture!
Nice one. Very detailed informations. Do you have a whatsapp group on this? I won’t mind joining for further discussions.
Thanks for this great explanation on how to start a medium scale water production. The calculations analysis contained in your explanation seems confusing, please clarify further. O can be reached on geophil.ent@gmail.com
Regards
This is an interesting and comprehensive write up on satchet water production. May God bless you real good for sharing. Do you have a WhatsApp group for further discussion?
I appreciate your efforts
it is very useful for me,I am a manufacturer of the pure water machine, pet bottle blowing machine in China,we have a plan to build a pure water factory in Nigeria,but we have no idea about everything in Nigeria,it is very useful for me.
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