Custom Printed Stretch Film Wrap.

A film with better pre-stretch covers far more pallets per roll, so a dearer roll often costs less for each load it wraps. Good films elongate 200 to 300% before they go on the load. Buying purely on roll price is where most of the money is lost.

Judge film by pallets wrapped per roll during a trial, and the comparison becomes clear.

Most loads run well on 60 to 90 gauge, and loads with sharp corners or heavy items need something thicker. Gauge is the thickness measure. Going heavier than needed wastes film, while going too light lets corners puncture it in transit.

Blown film has higher tear resistance for heavy or awkward loads. Cast film unwinds quietly, stays clear and gives consistent cling.

Most pallet failures start at the base, where too few wraps leave the load free to shift on the deck. The damage often gets blamed on the boxes, but the wrap pattern is usually the cause. Several tight wraps at the bottom lock the load to the pallet, and a top lock stops the upper layers moving.

We'd write the wrap pattern into your spec instead of leaving it to each shift.

Yes, the film can carry a printed logo or message, and coloured or opaque films are available too. A printed wrap identifies your pallets at a glance in a shared warehouse and makes re-wrapping easier to spot. Opaque film hides the contents, and colours can code loads by destination.

For loads stored outdoors, UVI film protects against sunlight breaking the wrap down.

Common widths run from 12 to 20 in, with hand rolls at the narrow end and machine rolls at the wide end. Hand rolls are light enough to carry round a pallet. Machine rolls are long and heavy and give the lowest cost per pallet at volume.

They are different products, so tell us whether you wrap by hand or on a turntable. Ask for single-sided cling as well, so wrapped pallets don't bond to each other in a trailer.

Yes, recycled-content grades are available where the claim matters to your customers. Clean polyethylene stretch wrap is accepted by many commercial film recycling programmes. Using less film per pallet, through better pre-stretch and a set wrap pattern, cuts plastic use as well.

Vented film is another option for produce loads that need airflow through the wrap.

Printed stretch film has a 500-unit minimum. Orders can reach 100,000, which suits a distribution centre wrapping loads around the clock. Tell us whether you run hand or machine rolls and at what width, because that decides how the order is wound and packed.

Printed rolls leave the line 7 to 10 business days after artwork approval. A rush of 5 to 7 business days is available. We'd suggest a sample first, ready in 5 to 7 business days, so you can put it through a real shift and count pallets per roll.

The sample fee is credited to the bulk run.