{"id":63169,"date":"2020-12-28T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantechweb.wpengine.com\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:47:54","slug":"how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/","title":{"rendered":"How tight should you wrap your pallet loads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-migrated-cms-post\">\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; padding: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQlacvPGjO8\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe>Containment Force <\/strong>can mean the difference between a load that is safe to ship and a disaster waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Setting the stretch wrapper so that the containment force is appropriate without wasting film is\u00a0the goal of cost-efficient shipping. But for a particular load, finding the ideal containment force can take some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But with so many different products and materials shipping in the frenzy of today&#8217;s diverse industries, how is the best containment force determined for a particular load?<span style=\"font-size: 1.17em; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In general, the &#8220;golden rule&#8221; of containment force is simple: Use what works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">To find out what works, create a testing process based on actual shipments or real experience using a PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Adjust) loop. Your process should include wrapping pallet loads, measuring the containment force, shipping the loads, evaluating the results, taking correct action if needed, and trying again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">While there is no magic formula for the &#8220;ideal&#8221; containment force, we have produced <a title=\"Lantech's Containment Force Recommendations\" href=\"https:\/\/offers.lantech.com\/free-containment-force-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lantech&#8217;s Containment Force Recommendations<\/a>. It&#8217;s a simple tool that users may refer to as a general guide based upon many years of Lantech&#8217;s recorded field observations. They provide guidelines you can compare to your test results and are great place to start if you don\u2019t have testing of actual shipments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">\u201cTo measure is to know!\u201d is one of our favorite quotes from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. Thomson was a famous 19th Century, British\u00a0mathematician and physicist who developed the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement.\u00a0So now we can all know exactly how hot or cold we are. You can know your containment force by measuring it with the <a title=\"CFT-5 Containment Force Tool\" href=\"\/stretch-wrapping\/containment-force-tool?region=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CFT-6 Containment Force Tool<\/a>. See a video on\u00a0<a title=\"How to Measure Containment Force with CFT-5 Tool. \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_QgttrhrKJA&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\" noopener\">How to Measure Containment Force with CFT-6 Tool.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/189024\/820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lantech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b.png\" alt=\"Download the Containment Force Recommendations Chart\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 1em; background-color: transparent;\">For more information on containment force, or to learn more about how Lantech can help with your stretch wrapping needs, you can contact us on our\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1em; background-color: transparent;\" title=\"website\" href=\"\/\/lantechweb.wpengine.com\/contactus?region=1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0or call us at (502) 815-9109.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">Click here to see related blog:\u00a0<a title=\"How Stretch Wrapping HELPS The Environment.\" href=\"https:\/\/lantech.com\/blog\/bid\/288916\/How-Stretch-Wrapping-HELPS-The-Environment?region=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Stretch Wrapping HELPS The Environment.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was published on May 22, 2013 and updated on July 2, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-date\">May 22, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-decription\">Containment force can mean the difference between a load that is safe to ship and a disaster waiting to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Containment force  can mean the difference between a load that is safe to ship and a disaster waiting to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[113,97],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How tight should you wrap your pallet loads?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Containment force can mean the difference between a load that is safe to ship and a disaster waiting to happen.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How tight should you wrap your pallet loads?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Containment force can mean the difference between a load that is safe to ship and a disaster waiting to happen.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Region 4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-28T20:47:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/lantech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/820c29ec-fe1a-4d52-90f7-0ee5070f7f7b.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lantech\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How tight should you wrap your pallet loads?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lantech\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/\"},\"author\":{\"@context\":\"http:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"How tight should you wrap your pallet loads?\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r4\/blog\/how-tight-should-you-wrap-your-pallet-loads\/\",\"image\":false,\"sameAs\":[null],\"jobTitle\":null,\"description\":\"&nbsp;\\n\\n\\nContainment Force can mean the difference between a load that is safe to ship and a disaster waiting to happen.\\nSetting the stretch wrapper so that the containment force is appropriate without wasting film is\u00a0the goal of cost-efficient shipping. 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