Shrink Wrap Manufacturers for Clothing Warehouses
Film that shrinks tight with heat, and film that stretches tight around a pallet — the manufacturers for both.
Shrink wrap protects clothing twice over in a warehouse: as a tight, clear skin shrunk around a garment, a bundle or a retail pack with heat, and — in its stretch-film cousin — as the elastic wrap that unitises a pallet of cartons for the road. The manufacturers in this directory supply both worlds: shrink films and bags, the sealers and systems that apply them, stretch films made beside garment bags, and the pallet wrapping machines that finish a shipment. This page introduces the materials and lists the makers.
Warehouse Packaging Topics
Shrink Film, Shrink Bags and Sealing Systems
Shrink film is applied loose and finished with heat: the product is bagged or sleeved, sealed, and passed through heat that shrinks the film tight to the product's shape, giving a clean, tamper-showing, display-ready pack. The starting point is deliberately simple — shrink bags with a bar sealer are the least expensive way to begin, keeping items clean, neat and well displayed, with larger bar sealers and full systems as volume grows, in the words of the equipment listing below, which serves everyone from beginning companies to semi-production levels.
The films themselves are a family. PVC shrinkable film is a long-established speciality — one listed maker, established in 1987, produces more than 1,500 tonnes of it a year — while polyolefin (POF) and polypropylene films serve clearer, tougher and more food-adjacent duties, within a wider film range that runs through PETG, BOPP, CPP, polyester, nylon, polyethylene and OPP films, printed films and shrink labels. Formulated film ranges, as the film maker listed here puts it, exist to give the most cost-effective solution for each specific requirement — clarity, strength, shrink force and machinery all trade against each other.
Crystal clarity is the retail argument: a good shrink film gives dust-free protection with a fast-shrinking, energy-saving application, and specialised films — colour-tinted films for seasonal gift presentation among them — turn a protective process into a presentational one. For apparel, that is the difference between a garment merely wrapped and a garment displayed in its wrap.
Stretch Wrap and Pallet Wrapping
Stretch film works without heat: it is stretched as it is applied, and its elastic memory clamps the load. By hand, dispenser systems with patented hand braking give the operator tension control with a squeeze of the hand, protect the hands from friction heat, and draw maximum stretch — and therefore maximum security — from the film, as the hand-wrap maker below describes its system. A well hand-wrapped pallet is a skilled product, not a casual one.
By machine, rotary and turntable stretch wrappers apply film at a set prestretch — one pallet specialist's film delivery system provides a standard prestretch rate of 260%, for strength and film savings together — across a comprehensive line of end-of-line pallet packaging built over twenty years in the business of protecting palletised products. The cast stretch film in another listing is made on the same site as garment poly bags, which is typical: film extrusion is one trade, and its products serve the whole warehouse.
Around the films and machines sit the neighbouring supplies this directory's makers also carry — water-activated kraft tapes, printed tapes, plugboard and specialty papers and films from a paper house of more than 85 years in its industry — because a shrink and stretch programme is bought as part of a warehouse's whole packaging shelf.
Shrink Wrap Manufacturers — Suppliers & Manufacturers
3M United States
3M's tapes are presented as right in a product's design — quick solutions that enhance product quality and add functionality — with in-depth tape selection and expertise making 3M a one-stop source for optimising a product's performance and image.
Supplies: Industrial tapes and packaging tape solutions
AJM, Inc.
AJM supplies shrink wrap packaging and shrink wrap equipment for basic packaging needs — overpackaging to keep items clean and neat, as well as displayed well — selling to beginning companies through semi-production levels. Shrink bags are its least expensive way to get started, and it offers larger bar sealers and systems for larger volume users. Address: 1500 E. Juana Avenue Ste-W, San Leandro, California 94577-3931, USA. Phone: 510-357-7791 or 1-800-845-6839. Fax: 510-357-7791. Email: mfrug@ajminc.com. Contact: M. Frug, VP.
Supplies: Shrink wrap, shrink bags, shrink wrap machines, shrink packaging, packaging equipment, bag sealers and shrink films
BP Plastics Holding Bhd.
BP Plastics is one of the leading producers of industrial plastic packaging bags and stretch film in Malaysia. Established in 1990, it began by supplying polyethylene bags to the garment and textile industries and today produces cast stretch film and plastic bags for industrial, commercial, logistic and warehousing use, employing approximately 280 staff across more than 80 manufacturing machines at its Batu Pahat, Johor plant, with combined annual capacity of 36,000 metric tonnes.
Supplies: Cast stretch film and plastic bags for industrial and warehousing use
Custom Poly Bag
Custom Poly Bag, Inc. is a manufacturer of thousands of different sizes of plastic bags to customer specifications, and a custom plastics manufacturer and wholesale packaging supplier of polyethylene and polypropylene bags and shrink wrap film, and printed promotional advertising products for sports and shopping gift bags.
Supplies: Custom poly bags and shrink wrap film
Dynapak Plastics Inc.
Dynapak Plastics, established in 1987, has 50 personnel and specialises in the production of professional PVC shrinkable film. Its yearly output of PVC shrinkable film amounts to more than 1,500 tonnes, at a productivity of 30 tonnes per person per year.
Supplies: PVC shrinkable film
Glory Formosa Co. Ltd.
Glory Formosa is listed among this directory's shrink wrap and film suppliers for the apparel trade.
Supplies: Shrink wrap and packaging films and tapes
Goodwrappers
Goodwrappers stretch wrap products, manufactured by J. C. Parry & Sons, Inc., revolve around patented hand braking systems offering the operator an efficient means of dispensing handwrap. The hand braking system protects the operator's hands from friction heat, gives total tension control with a squeeze of the hand, and provides maximum film stretch with the tightest, most secure hand wrap; wear pads molded into the hand brakes dissipate the friction heat generated when the operator squeezes for tension.
Supplies: Hand stretch wrap and braking dispensers
Klöckner Pentaplast
Klöckner Pentaplast offers a full range of specially-formulated films for packaging, printing and technical applications, with the expertise to guide customers to the right film for a product, maintaining a broad range of films to provide the most cost-effective solutions and pioneering new formulations as industries face new challenges.
Supplies: Packaging films, including shrink films
LPS Industries
An ISO 9001:2000 certified company, LPS Industries works in three areas: flexible packaging — custom laminated roll stock, custom barrier pouches, resealable polyethylene bags and zipper profiles; coated products — pressure-sensitive envelopes, labels for EDP, thermal, laser and prime use, and fullgum, pattern, hot melt and aqueous adhesive coating; and general packaging — systems and accessories, identification products and hazardous material shippers, all made to high standards in modern facilities with state-of-the-art equipment.
Supplies: Flexible packaging, coated products and general packaging systems
Orion Packaging
Orion Packaging has been in the business of protecting customers' palletised products for 20 years, as a manufacturer of heavy duty industrial stretch wrapping technology offering a comprehensive line of end-of-line stretch wrapping pallet packaging, with advanced film prestretch systems for efficient, cost-effective film use. Its Flex Rotary Tower stretch wrapping machines use the Insta-Thread film delivery system with a standard prestretch rate of 260%. Address: 100 Crescent Drive, Collierville, TN 38017. Phone: 1-800-333-6556. Fax: 901-365-1071.
Supplies: Stretch wrapping machines and pallet packaging systems
Papertec Inc.
Papertec is a distributor of plugboard, specialty papers and films, from a family involved in the paper industry for more than 85 years. It stocks water-activated kraft tapes in two types — traditional water-activated kraft paper and water-activated non-asphaltic reinforced kraft — in natural and white, with printing available in up to two colours, printing company names, logos and instructions.
Supplies: Water-activated kraft tapes, specialty papers and films
Shing Fu Plastics
Shing Fu, with over 30 years of advanced technology from its headquarters base in Taiwan, manufactures a series of PVC shrinkable materials and related goods, supplying shrink film products worldwide — to Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, the United States and Middle East nations among others. Its crystal clear film provides dust-free protection with easy application and a fast shrinking result that reduces energy consumption. Its range covers PVC shrinkable film and bags, PETG shrinkable film, polyolefin-POF and polypropylene-PP shrink film, BOPP, CPP, polyester, PVC, nylon, polyethylene and OPP films, pallet stretch wrap, plastic films, printed films and shrink labels, including colour-tinted films popular for seasonal gift baskets.
Supplies: PVC and polyolefin shrink films, shrink labels and stretch wrap
Choosing a Shrink or Stretch Programme
Decide first what is being protected: a single garment or retail pack wants shrink film and a sealer sized to the volume — bags and a bar sealer to begin, a system as volume grows. A pallet wants stretch film and the right application, by braked hand dispenser for occasional loads or by machine at a standard prestretch for a shipping dock's daily work.
Then buy the film and the application together, from makers who formulate and advise: shrink force against a soft garment, clarity against a display product, prestretch against a heavy pallet. The listings here include the definition of shrinkwrap itself, linked below, and the palletising supplies that complete the pallet end of the programme.
Common Questions
What is the difference between shrink wrap and stretch wrap?
Shrink wrap is applied loose around a product and shrunk tight with heat, giving a clear, tamper-showing, display-ready pack for garments, bundles and retail packs. Stretch wrap is elastic film stretched as it is applied around a pallet load; its memory clamps the load together for transport, with no heat involved.
How does a small clothing company start with shrink wrap?
With shrink bags and a bar sealer — described in the listings as the least expensive way to get started, keeping items clean, neat and well displayed. As volume grows, the same suppliers offer larger bar sealers and complete systems for semi-production levels.
What does prestretch mean on a pallet wrapping machine?
Prestretch is how far the machine stretches the film before applying it — a standard rate of 260% on the rotary tower machines listed here. Stretching film further before application increases its clamping strength per wrap and reduces the film used per pallet, so prestretch is both a security and an economy setting.
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