WHAT IS PACKAGING AND STRETCH FILM

What is packaging? In a broad sense, it is one or more means (materials) to protect both the product itself and the environment from negative mutual effects and losses, as well as to simplify the storage, transportation (transportation) and sale of specific products. Container is a part of the packaging, which usually contains less voluminous products. There are many types of it: boxes, bags, boxes, banks, others.

Every customer knows what packaging is for. The main thing is to conveniently and safely carry or transport products. Its second purpose is to protect against ultraviolet radiation, moisture, and other aggressive factors. Third, to present the product in a favorable light to sellers. However, this is not a complete list of the main properties or tasks that the packaging material solves. Let’s try to understand this in more detail.

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FUNCTIONS OF PACKAGING MATERIALS

The purpose of the packaging is determined by the functions for which it is intended to be performed:

• Transport – optimization of the convenience of transportation (carrying) of various goods by specific modes of transport.
• Protective – protection of products for a certain period in specific conditions from damage under the influence of aggressive environmental factors and vice versa.
• Environmental – protection of nature from the harmful effects of a large amount of poorly decomposed packaging materials by reducing the time for their assimilation (assimilation) by the environment.
• Informational – providing data on the characteristics and properties of the goods to facilitate the choice of the buyer. In addition to the mandatory information, the use of advertising, decoration, etc. is allowed.
• Operational – ease of handling during sorting, storage and implementation. Ease of use by the consumer.
• Marketing – ensuring the impact on sales through an attractive design, a convenient form, the use of high quality printing, bright logos, and other advertising techniques.

Along with the basic ones, there are also additional packaging functions. Among them – dosing, which allows you to determine the required or optimal amount of the product.

The SM Custom packaging company is engaged in the production of various types of packaging materials with delivery in USA and Canada. The range of products can be found on the corresponding page. To ask questions and place an application, order a call. The manager will promptly advise and make a special offer.

WHAT IS STRETCH FILM?

Stretch film is a universal material in the form of a thin polymer film of increased elasticity. It is widely used in all areas of industry, construction, agriculture, trade and services due to chemical and biological neutrality, low cost, ease of use and transparency. Its unique properties provide good tensile strength in all directions, anti-static, and the ability to use without additional fastening when palletizing or packaging any product, for example, suitcases, food, furniture, other goods or cargo.

The main parameter of the polymer packaging film is the thickness, which determines the application:

• Thin is usually supplied in rolls of 800 mm width with a thickness of 5–11 µm. The use of this material is limited to individual packaging of vegetables, fruits, bread, and other retail products.
• A thick, durable film of 12-30 microns and a width of 500 mm are intended for palletizing products in industrial plants, wrapping luggage at airports, growing plants in agriculture or preparing feed for livestock breeding.

Taking into account the winding technology, a distinction is made between manual or machine material with a tensile threshold of up to 230% or 350%. Depending on the raw material, it can be primary or secondary.

APPLICATIONS

What is stretch wrap used for? It all depends on the scope:

• Industry. Manufacturers use it for packaging products, parts, mechanisms, structures, and furniture, various cargo and building materials. Large batches are formed into pallets on pallets, which greatly simplifies loading, transportation and unloading.
• Trade. The distributors use practical material for the formation of small batches from the same type or different products or packaging of individual vegetables, fruits, meat and sausages, other food, confectionery, cosmetic, medicinal products.
• Services sector. In the transport industry, there are two types of stretch film for baggage wrapping: manual or machine (pallet) for wrapping using automatic equipment.
• Agriculture. Elastic film with increased light transmittance is in demand for arranging greenhouses, greenhouses in the country, in a garden, a vegetable garden.
• Livestock rising. It is convenient to harvest silage using pallet polyethylene. The not yet dried grass, wrapped in a film, retains its taste for a long time without decay.

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