Stratos™ hand wrap from Pliant/Berry Plastics is the recipient of an FPA Gold Award for Environmental & Sustainability Achievement. Designed as a material-saving way to facilitate manual wrapping of pallet loads, Stratos hand wrap is a 35-ga stretch film (not prestretched) with folded edges.
The high-elasticity, easy-to-stretch film can be manually pulled tight on a load, yielding an additional 10 to 20% film coverage compared to conventional prestretched films. It is extruded via a cast process, which provides exceptional optics, and superior tear resistance, and is susceptible to strain hardening (stiffness)—essential to load containment at thin gauges.
The folded-edge feature offers major performance benefits. It protects the edges of the roll from damage that might render a roll of film unusable and wasted due to tearing as it unwinds. This feature also reduces line downtime and generation of scrap materials. Additionally, the folded edge reinforces tear resistance, especially at the corners, where the load wrap is most vulnerable. If the film is somehow punctured on the pallet, the folded edge frequently can stop a tear from propagating in the cross direction, thus improving load integrity.
Due to the relatively thin gauge of the Stratos hand wrap, it requires less film usage and reduces associated film transportation costs versus thicker, more conventional hand-wrap stretch films. In turn, the carbon footprint of the wrapping material is significantly reduced.
