{"id":71431,"date":"2016-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantechweb.wpengine.com\/blog\/what-are-the-trade-offs-to-wrap-my-pallet-load-effectively\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T18:03:30","slug":"what-are-the-trade-offs-to-wrap-my-pallet-load-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/what-are-the-trade-offs-to-wrap-my-pallet-load-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Trade-Offs to Wrap My Pallet Load Effectively?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\nWhat are the trade-offs when trying to wrap my pallet load effectively? Not just any theoretical pallet load but the one sitting on the shipping dock floor in front of me?<\/p>\n
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This is a typical question our team gets on a daily basis. These questions assume a number of key issues\u00a0including:<\/p>\n
Film resins and additives may be important to chemists and technicians but people tasked with shipping pallet loads correctly and without damage care about the question of ‘how to do that’ much more that the question of ‘why a film was designed with a certain chemistry’.<\/p>\n
From a practical standpoint\u00a0today\u2019s stretch film issues revolve around:<\/p>\n
1. Trade-off between wrap force and film layers.
\n2. Trade-off between film layers and throughput.
\n3. Impact of film breaks on wrap force and containment force (24\/7 sustainable wrap force).
\n4. Impact of reduced film gauge or increased pre-stretch on wrap force, containment force, throughput, and film cost.<\/p>\n
Let’s dig into each of these issues.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a \u201cright\u201d amount of containment force for each load, depending on its weight and stability. The best containment force information is based on actual shipping experience, but there are helpful guidelines if no data are available. Here’s a link to a recommendation chart<\/a>\u00a0that will help you figure out the right amount of containment force.<\/p>\n To get to an effective and efficient wrap pattern – the right amount of containment force with the least amount of film accounting for time to wrap – there are lots of choices available in the stretch wrapper\u2019s<\/a> settings. You can dial in wrap force, film layers and film delivery system speed. You can also choose different types of stretch film, gauges and pre-stretch levels. But the interactions between all these variables aren\u2019t always obvious and if you change one you might have to make adjustments to another.<\/p>\n The minimum level of containment force on a load determines its success. No matter where the minimum level occurs on a load, when it’s too low, the risk of failure increases.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n