Published on the Packaging World Web site
Video | March 31, 2003
ARI: Shrink wrapper for contract packager
At Advertising Resources, workers load cartoned product onto a flighted infeed conveyor, two cartons per flight in this instance. Cartons are conveyed downstream into polyvinyl chloride film.
A patented film former folds the single-wound flat film. The film is side-sealed into a tube by radiant heat so there’s no mechanism that contacts the film. A reciprocating cross-seal system then seals and cuts between each multipack on the conveyor. The leading pack is conveyed into a heat-shrink tunnel.
Afterwards the pack discharges for manual case/tray packing and palletization.¥ The Arpac Group (www.thearpacgroup. com), suppliers of five of the wrappers; ¥ Xpedx (www.xpedex.com), the International Paper packaging distributor that procures machinery and materials; and ¥ Alcoa Flexible Packaging (www.alcoa.com/ flexiblepackaging), whose primary role is to provide the polyvinyl chloride film used on the wrappers.
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