Since its introduction, stretch wrapping has become the dominant method of unitizing products for safe shipment to their destinations. But, it has become so routine that sometimes we lose sight of the fundamentals. …

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  Arriving at the destination in “as made” condition 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. …

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  Purchasing a stretch wrapper doesn’t have to be a complicated, painful process. However, spending some time answering a few, simple questions can help you find the right machine that balances your needs, budget, and efficiency. Isn’t it just a choice between semi-auto and automatic? Yes, …

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  What’s in a name? Turns out a lot – because efficiently finding the right solution for your material handling challenge may turn upon searching for and using the terms that are common in the industry. The hard part is that those terms may not be intuitive. Similar to the …

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  As technology changes rapidly, so does the look and feel of many warehouses. Equipment and processing continues to evolve, along with the rules for preserving worker and work place safety. Switching from hand wrapping pallets to the use of a semi-automatic or automatic stretch wrapper is no …

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Life in a JiT supply chain Your company, like most, probably manages according to known priorities. Every business has so many ongoing sales conversations that if you built capacity to satisfy the sale pipeline you’d have an enormous factory that was rarely all that busy. …

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