Stretch wrapping

Navigated via computer menu, the stretch hooder draws down the film uniformly over the pallet load and securely seals the hood.
Machine Case Study
| July 20, 2012

Pallet operations upgrade pumps up production by 30%

Bay State Milling adopts versatile, low-maintenance palletizer and stretch hood packaging system to secure pallet loads of bagged grain products.
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The 2000-lb pallet loads of bottled water are wrapped with 71-gauge stretch film.
Machine Case Study
| July 2, 2012

Optimizing pallet stretch wrap efficiencies

Wrapping machine performance monitoring system helps Ice River Springs increase production flow and freeze film cost overages.
Machine Product Brief
| March 21, 2012

Orbital stretch wrapper saves money, time, space

Yellow Jacket’s 87M Orbital Stretch Wrap Machine is designed for securing oversized, oddly shaped, palletized loads—up to 68-in. diagonal-- while the pallet remains on the forklift.
Machine Product Brief
| February 23, 2012

Integrated scale cuts shipping costs

Designed for weighing each load for quality and freight costs, Lantech’s EZ Weigh Integrated Scale includes load cells that are directly under the turntable to ensure only what you want to weigh is weighed.
Machine Product Brief
| November 15, 2011

Integrated scale features small footprint, low profile

The EZ Weigh™ Integrated Scale (patent pending) from Lantech includes load cells that are built into the frame of the stretch wrapper.
Automatic detection of unstable pallet wrapping
 Video | October 23, 2011

Automatic detection of unstable pallet wrapping

Leanwrap stretch wrapping is a Lantech concept that measures containment force on a wrapped load so that the quality of the containment force can be known automatically.
Rotary arm stretch wrapper
 Video | October 23, 2011

Rotary arm stretch wrapper

Electrowrap rotary arm stretch wrapper from Arpac is fully automatic and uses no pneumatics.
Machine Product Brief
| October 5, 2011

Integrated scale option for stretch wrappers

Lantech’s EZ Weigh Integrated Scale option for Q-Series Stretch Wrappers uses load cell technology to combine pallet load weighing and stretch wrapping.
Feature Article
| September 28, 2011

A Jim Beam perspective

Robert Land, corporate packaging engineer at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., talks about trends in packaging.
Robots add corner boards to pallets
 Video | September 28, 2011

Robots add corner boards to pallets

Replacing the need for labor-intensive manual placement of pallet corner boards, Orion Packaging Systems new Automatic Corner Board Placer can add corner boards to the four edges of a pallet using robotic systems at speeds from 50 to 75 loads/hr.

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