Partially Wrapped Products
PPMA information relating to partially wrapped products and the related machinery and equipment used.
- Band Wrapper
- A packaging machine that wraps a band of material around a product or group of products and secures it with adhesive or heat. The band is usually made of paper but increasingly can be made from plastic film.
- Sleeve Wrapper
- A packaging machine which wraps a band of thermoplastic material loosely around a product or group of products before being passed through a shrink tunnel to form a shrink wrapped pack. The band can be formed from one or two reels of film.
- Stretch Bander
- A machine which wraps a band tightly round a product or group of products without the application of heat.
- Stretch Film Bundler
- A machine which wraps a web of thermoplastic material tightly around a product or group of products in a series of turns while the product is conveyed through the machine.