What is Stretch Wrap?

Stretch wrap is a polyethylene plastic 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. Thus the “elastic band effect” holds the load tight.

Stretch wrap is also referred to as Pallet Wraps, hand wrap or stretch wrap

Stretch wrap is a plastic film usually made from high density polyethylene (HDPE), low density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), and/or polypropylene (PP) resins. Stretch wrap is most often used to package products together for internal and external shipping. Warehouse/distribution centers, industrial plants, and large retail stores typically generate large quantities of stretch wrap.

Why Stretch Wrap packaging?

Stretch wrap is exceptionally strong, form fits to any item, and sticks only to itself, leaving no adhesive residue. Tired of drawers and cabinet doors flying open while moving your furniture? Simply wrap your furniture with stretch wrap and your drawers and doors will stay firmly in place. Wrap cables with your electronics, ski poles to skis, curtain rods, and table legs together. Better than rope for many applications, you’ll be amazed at how many uses you will find for this stretch wrap. Large roll makes wrapping furniture and other bulky items fast and easy.

Banding and bundling, a way to contain small items for shipping or storage with stretch film, eliminates the need for tape, string, strapping, and other conventional securing methods that mar product surfaces. Narrow width stretch film stretches more than the wider widths while still retaining much of its memory/recovery properties.

This allows the stretch wrap to recover and form-fit the objects – tightly banding them together. Tape, string, or strapping does not continually provide the same form-fitted wrap that stretch film provides even as the objects settle. Better yet, stretch film does this without adhesives. No adhesives mean that there is no sticky residue left behind or boxes surfaces torn up when removed.