Stretch vs Shrink Wrap: What’s the Difference?
Stretch vs Shrink Wrap: Stretch Wrapping Stretch wrap is a plastic film that’s used to secure a load of products, usually on a pallet. Its high-elasticity allows it to hold things tightly and securely, so they won’t move during shipping or storage. Essentially, it wants to return to its unstretched state, which is what provides such excellent protective tension. Most commonly made from polyethylene plastic, it protects against dust, dirt, and is highly resistant to punctures and tears. There...
Stretch wrap film: What can you use it for?
Stretch film or stretch wrap is a highly stretchable film composed of linear low-density polyethylene. It’s used by the packaging and logistics industry, as well as other industries for numerous applications. The Types of Stretch Film There are various kinds of the stretch film available, and each one has a unique purpose, quality, and manufacturing process. The different types of stretch film are: 1. Hand stretch film As its name implies, hand stretch film (or hand stretch wrap) is...
How to use plastic wrap for moving?
Plastic wrap, also known as stretch wrap, is one of the most useful and practical packing supplies you can resort to when preparing your items for shipment. It is readily available, extremely versatile, and easy to use. Plastic wrap can help you provide good protection to your furniture, keep dust and dirt away from your belongings, secure loose cords and wires, and keep furniture drawers and doors closed and secured. It has no adhesive backing and sticks only to itself, so it won’t leave a...
PE strapping plastic packaging
China is a big country in the world of packaging manufacturing and consumption . The proportion of plastic packaging in the total output value of the packaging industry has exceeded 30%. It has become a new force in the packaging industry and plays an irreplaceable role in various fields of medicine, beverage, daily necessities and industrial and agricultural production. At present, plastic products produced in China are mainly made of plastic film (including agricultural film), plastic wire...
How to wrap a pallet in 7 easy steps!
Select a pallet Use a pallet that is in good shape. Ensure that it is sturdy without any broken boards or splitting edges. Find a pallet that is close to the right size to accommodate your items. Stack your goods Stack the items on your pallet as close together as possible. If they have space to shift after being wrapped, it will loosen the pallet wrap, making the load unstable and increasing the risk of damaged goods. If you are unable to remove gaps between items, use anti-slip layer sheets...
What are the PP strapping processes?
At present, plastic packaging used in China is made of polypropylene, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, etc. Polypropylene plastic strapping is the main component, accounting for about 90% of the plastic strapping output. The production process of polypropylene and polyethylene plastic straps is basically the same. Wuhan Ai Mei Jie PP strapping is the polypropylene pellets into the extruder, the material is heated and melted, the head extruded into a band, and then by the process of drawing and...
What are the advantages of plastic strapping?
The plastic strap has good elastic recovery, high strength, good water resistance, strong chemical resistance, light weight and softness, and can be tied by hand or machine. It is easy to use and cheap, and can be made into red, white, blue, yellow, green and other colors. The goods of different grades are bundled according to the color, which is convenient for distinguishing the grade of the goods and improving the delivery efficiency. In addition to the sealing and bundling of corrugated...
How Does Stretch Wrapping Work?
Before the stretch wrapping process can begin a load must first be assembled on a pallet. Once the load is on the pallet, the whole ensemble (pallet and load) is stretch wrapped together. Assembling the load on the pallet is an important step. Load placement on the pallet is key. The load should not overhang the sides of the pallet or be more than four inches inboard. The pallet itself also plays a role and should be in good condition. It is important when stretch wrapping not to skip steps...
Stretch film improves packaging efficiency and packaging grade
The stretched film forms a very light maintenance appearance around the product, and primary maintenance provides the appearance maintenance of the product. In order to achieve the purpose of dust, oil, moisture, waterproof, anti-theft, especially important stretch film packaging to force evenly packaged goods, to prevent damage caused by uneven force on the goods, which is bundled, packaged, tape and other packaging can not Do it. At present, the stretched film is widely used in different...
Stretch film for pallet packaging
Industrial uses 100% recyclable linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). Uses: Used for palletizing (machine or artificial) stretch film, waste film. Applications: food, beverage, manufacturing medicine, paper making, pottery, engineering companies, supermarket supply chain, agriculture, etc. Thanks to its proprietary "cast film" manufacturing technology and octene high-purity raw materials, all Manuli stretch films guarantee lower raw material consumption while also having higher mechanical...
Large size, marking machine and strapping
The number is marked with the serial number from the first layer to the last layer in the first layer according to the level of accessories. The purpose is to avoid chromatic aberration. At the same time, each garment in the same sequence number is made up of one piece of clothing. It is the same piece of clothing that comes from the same fabric to facilitate the quality inspection and tracking in the sewing process. The position of the marking number should be on the opposite side of the...
Stretch film packaging machinery
Dongguang County carton packaging machinery has a history of more than 40 years. In the 1970s, local farmers pulled the processing of blades from Shanghai's packaging machinery factory. Under the gradual development, Dongguang County has now formed the entire industrial chain of the packaging machinery industry. According to reports, Dongguang County now has more than 400 enterprises, employing more than 30,000 people, annual sales income of more than 6 billion yuan, more than 50 kinds of...
What are the advantages of plastic strapping?
The plastic strap has good elastic recovery, high strength, good water resistance, strong chemical resistance, light weight and softness, and can be tied by hand or machine. It is easy to use and cheap, and can be made into red, white, blue, yellow, green and other colors. The goods of different grades are bundled according to the color, which is convenient for distinguishing the grade of the goods and improving the delivery efficiency. In addition to the sealing and bundling of corrugated...
Why do you generally prefer to use plastic strapping?
The most common strapping on the market today is the PP strapping and PET strapping, but for all applications, the PET strapping is used in a wider range. So why do people prefer to use PET straps instead of other types of straps? PET packing belt is a plastic steel packing belt, referred to as a plastic steel belt. The main raw material is polyethylene terephthalate, which is a kind of polyester packing belt which is uniaxially stretched and formed. It is the most popular environmentally...
Quick Guide to Stretch Wrapping
The first thing you should know about stretch wrapping is containment force. Containment force is the hugging pressure that holds a pallet load together. Containment force is vital for securing loads and minimizing damage. In fact, containment force is the key metric for reducing damage and ensuring you have safe-to-ship loads. How do you find containment force? We find containment force by multiplying the number of revolutions of stretch film by the wrap force tightness. You should be...
What are the alternatives to stretch wrap?
That's the goal of companies that put product on pallets (or slip sheets, or floor loaded) for shipment. Pretty simple, right? Except it's not. Loads are subject to a lot of stresses and forces during shipment. Temperature extremes; vibration over hundreds or thousands of miles of rail and truck movement; loading, unloading and shuttling around at depots and distribution centers; and the product itself which can be very heavy, quite light, slippery (not easy to keep stacked) or even sharp or...
Do you know PET strapping?
PET strapping is a kind of polyester strapping which is made of PET as the main raw material through uniaxial extrusion. It is the most popular new environmentally friendly packaging material for steel strap, steel wire and heavy PP strapping. Since 2002, China's demand for PET packaging tapes has grown at an annual rate of 500%. It is now widely used in wood, paper, steel, aluminum ingots, steel pipes, profiles, glass, building materials, ceramics, electrical appliances, and metal products. ,...
Environmentally friendly strapping, the benefits
With the strengthening of people's environmental awareness, many commodities have gone green, and those products that are not environmentally friendly have gradually been eliminated. Therefore, the strapping belt has also begun its environmental protection road. In the past two years, the new environmentally-friendly packaging material fiber strapping belt was born in this environment, and it is very timely to meet the needs of today's market. As a new type of packaging material, fiber...
Advantages of stretch film packaging machine
The advantage of the stretch film packaging machine is obvious in the vacuum packaging machine . The principle of the fully automatic stretch film packaging machine is to use the molding die, first heat the film, and then use the forming die to punch into the shape of the container, and then The package is placed in the formed lower membrane cavity and vacuum packed. Mainly consists of vacuum system, pumping air sealing system, hot pressing sealing system, electrical control system and so on....
The importance of strapping in semi-automatic strapping machines
for semi-automatic strapping machines are widely used in food, hardware, chemical, clothing, postal and other industries, apply to carton packaging, paper packaging, parcel letter packaging, carton packaging, light industry packaging, hardware tools packaging, ceramic packaging , Auto parts packaging, daily chemical goods packaging, sports goods packaging, equipment packaging and other automatic packing of various sizes of goods. Users who are familiar with the balers know that the pallet...
Advantages and characteristics of fully automatic stretch film vacuum packaging machine
The fully automatic stretch film vacuum packaging machine is also called the automatic plastic box thermoforming vacuum packaging machine. The principle of the fully automatic stretch film vacuum packaging machine is to use a forming mold to heat the film first, and then use a forming die to form a shape of the container, and then load the package into the formed lower film cavity, and then vacuum-package. Mainly consists of vacuum system, pumping air sealing system, hot pressing sealing...
Stretch film vacuum packaging machine workflow
Stretch-wrapped film is a kind of packaging method which is produced by mechanical stretching device or manual stretching of film at room temperature, which is convenient for transportation and storage. It is a very international packaging. form. Imported resin and advanced flow-through film extrusion production process. It has good tensile properties, tear resistance, strong penetration resistance, high transparency, good self-adhesiveness and high retraction rate, tight packaging and no...
Essential in packaging materials - strapping
When packaging any item, no matter what kind of material or container is used for packaging, there is finally a problem of sealing or tying the package. The materials used to seal packaging containers are called packaging and packaging materials, and various materials for packaging products and combination packages are called packaging and binding materials. The purpose of sealing and strapping in inner packaging, outer packaging, large packaging and small packaging is not completely the same,...
cotton plastic strapping production line settled in Agricultural Division 7
A few days ago, the cotton packaging plastic packaging production line of Xinjiang Wenchang Plastic Products Co., Ltd., the first plastic packing production line in Xinjiang that settled in the farm group's 131st regimen, officially started. It started the end of the 37-year history of cotton packing and steel wire baling for the seven farming divisions' cotton processing plants. It is understood that in order to integrate with the international market and adapt to the needs of the market for...
