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Stretch Wrap Versus Shrink Wrap Virginia

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.

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Abacus Retail Packaging
(281) 933-0200
10805 Seaboard Loop
Stafford, VA
Poquoson Self Storage
(757) 833-3366
363 Wythe Creek Rd
Hampton, VA
Saturn Packaging
(281) 835-0401
1203 Twining Oaks Ln
Stafford, VA
Affordable Storage
(757) 723-6551
1635 W Pembroke Ave, Ste A
Hampton, VA
Packaging Brokers of Texas
(713) 723-8981
15311 E Fondren Cir
Stafford, VA
Dynamic Packaging
(804) 714-3330
2551 Bellwood Rd
Richmond, VA
Parcel Plus
(703) 752-1888
2503D N Harrison St
Arlington, VA
The Ups Store
(703) 263-2522
14408 Chantilly Crossing L
Chantilly, VA
Packaging Store the
(703) 242-0600
Vienna, VA
Gomez International Courier
(703) 820-3298
5881 Leesburg Pike Ste 200
Falls Church, VA

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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(281) 933-0200
10805 Seaboard Loop
Stafford, VA
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