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The Inpac PSW automatic pallet wrappii machine, manufactured by lnpac Automation Li Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middx.
Protecting pallet loads from damage or theft during transport has always been a headache for shipping companies. Mostly hauliers rely on two tried and proven methods; binding the load with metal or plastic straps, or wrapping it with polythene and then shrinking the covering to encase the pallet.
Now Inpae Automation Ltd have introduced a third and, they claim, more effective alternative in Britain. Using an idea developed in the States, the company is manufacturing a pallet wrapping machine that works on the stretch principle.
The PSW pallet wrapping machine, as it's called, uses polythene film to bind the load. The film is wrapped under tension, when it's released it snaps back into shape, creating a secure bond around the pallet.
Compared with the traditional modes of pallet wrap ping, the stretch method distinct advantages. Un binding, which is labour in sive, the PSW machine operated automatically. Ani contrast to the shrink meth which requires the extra stel heating the polythene filrr shrink it, stretching is doni one operation.
In a comparison test, car out at United Biscuits wit PSW pallet wrapper lent th by Inpac, the company fo their damage rate was cut 75 per cent using sir( wrapping. Further, with PSW machine they clairr savings of 8 pence a I against the strapping meth and a 70 per cent sa) against the heat wrapp method.
Prices and installation i mates on both versions of PSW automatic wrapp machines are available from company.