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Stretch Wrap Versus Shrink Wrap Maryland

The following article offers a comparison of plastic wrap and shrink wrap. It talks about what the products are made out of and what their primary uses are.

Local Companies

St Laurent Packaging Corp
(410) 789-9400
725 Pittman Rd
Curtis Bay, MD
Ship & Copy Center
(410) 526-7687
Reisterstown, MD
Priya Enterprises
(410) 944-3500
6901 Security Blvd
Windsor Mill, MD
Sisk Fulfillment Service Inc
(410) 754-8141
1900 Industrial Park Rd
Federalsburg, MD
Pack N Ship
(301) 217-0938
350 Fortune Ter
Potomac, MD
Celtic Shipping Inc
(410) 384-9290
111 Stauffer Rd
Severna Park, MD
M & M Parteners Llc
(410) 737-8020
1587 Sulphur Spring Rd
Arbutus, MD
M & S Nationwide Distributor Inc
(301) 218-3312
503 Commerce Dr
Uppr Marlboro, MD
Mail Boxes Etc
(410) 778-9446
861 Washington Ave
Chestertown, MD
Parcel Plus
(301) 421-1391
15779 Columbia Pike
Burtonsville, MD

Well if you need one or the other, you should care and just about every industrial, commercial or distribution company uses these products. The last thing you need is to order a product that won’t work for your application, especially in these time sensitive days. These are two very different products used for very different applications.

Let’s clear up the confusion. Shrink wrap film is made from polyolefin plastic, while stretch wrap is made from polyethylene plastic. Shrink wrap is generally used to protect a single product, such as the plastic over toys at the toy store or CD's when you first buy them. Shrink wrap gets its tight seal through a heating process. The product is wrapped and heated with a hairdryer-like tool or put through a heat tunnel. Shrink wrap can also be used for bundling products together, such as bottles of soda. In some cases, shrink wrap is used for palletizing although it is far less common that stretch wrap for this application.

Stretch wrap is generally used to hold boxes on a pallet for transport. Stretch wrap is pulled around the load and stretched. The plastic has a memory and wants to return to its original size. This "elastic band effect" holds the load tight.

Generally stretch wrap comes in 12”, 15” and 18” sizes for hand wrapping and 20”-60” sizes for machine applications. Shrink wrap is available in most even number sizes between 4-20” and is generally “center-folded”, that is the film is folded over itself to form two layers. The product is inserted between the two layers and sealed on the remaining three sides, then shrunk by heat.

For more information on these products you can take a look at “Stretch Wrap 101” on our website www.allstarsupply.com.

About the Author:

Tom Zotter is President of Allstar Supply, Inc., one of the nation’s leading suppliers of both stretch wrap and shrink wrap films.

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