Air Flow Stretch Film…Is it Right for You?
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Products Palletized Hot: |
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| Beverages: Beer, Fruit and Vegetable juices, Refreshments – Vino Spumante. |  |
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Food Industry: Butter, Yogurt, Pre-fried or Cooked Foods, Cereals, Cookies, Candies, Canned Foods, Cubes of Sugar, Canned Fruits and Vegetables. |
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| Pet Foods: Dehydrated Animal Feed, Canned Animal Food. | |
Products that need to breathe after palletizing: |
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| Produce: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Dairy Products: Milk, Various Types of Cheese.Deep Freeze Products: Ice Cream, Poultry, Meat, Fish, Vegetables. |  |
Industrial Applications: |
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| Paper Mills: Tissue, Fine Paper Roll Stock, Corrugated, Diaper Roll Stock. Wood: Firewood, Fire Logs, Fire Works, Skin Board, Molding.Plastic Products: Legos, Injection Molded Products.Pharmaceutical: Vitamins, Gas Sterilization for Bottles/Medical Devices. Air-Flow allows gases to predominate through the products/pallets.Agriculture: Seeds, Flowers, Plants.Misc: Battery Manufacturers. |  |
| Source Reduction Management: | |
| Exporters: Asia, and the EU have strict waste guidelines. US Exporter must comply with these regulations or be fined. | |
| Green Companies: Environmentally conscious companies committed to recycling, reducing waste sent to landfills. Less dumping space required, lower dumpster fees |
Cost Reduction: |
Less Material: Required to achieve goal. Lower Labor: Requires 1 person only to palletize.Time Efficient: Wraps quickly, more pallets wrapped in shorter time. Fewer backend losses: Less damaged product returned.Pilferage Protection: Unique product Fewer Workers Comp Claims.Less Maintenance (Forklift, Pallet Wrapper) |
Can Air-Flow Solve Your Problems?
The following are examples where innovative packaging distributors solved their customers packaging problems. This resulted in increased sales, loyal customers and the satisfaction of a job well done:
Problem:Products are boxed and palletized when still warm. Condensation forms on the inside of the cling film and deteriorates the boxes.
Solution: Place pallets in cool down/holding area for 24 to 36 hours, or wrap the pallets with Air-Flow and eliminate the time and expense of the holding area.
Problem: A product has excessive moisture when produced and has to “cure” prior to being stretch wrapped
Solution: Wrap the pallet in Air-Flow and let the curing take place in transit.
Problem: Film breaks when tested on stretch wrapping machine.
Solution:Machine is probably set for stretch film with 150+% pre stretch. The best way is to change the pre stretch setting to 30%. Some machines will require a gear ratio change to achieve this 30%. You may want to switch to Air-Flow Premium which yields 200% stretch.
Problem: Customer wrapped pallet and the load did not hold up during shipping.
Solution: Air-Flow needs to be stretched more. Try to get a minimum stretch of 15% while wrapping. If a customer by-passes all of the rollers there will not be any stretch to sustain the load. Depending on product being wrapped, the customer may need to use a different grade of Air-Flow (Heavy Duty or Premium).
Problem: Customer cannot find the beginning of the roll when hand wrapping.
Solution: When finished wrapping a pallet, the operator should walk away from the pallet three feet, grab, cut and tie the film. Their needs to be a little more care to wrapping with Air-Flow instead of stretch film to keep from wasting product.
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