Your return on investment for an automatic stretch wrapper!

How a Stretch Wrapping Machine Can Save You Money!
If you’re shipping out products on pallets and stretch wrapping them by hand there is a chance you could save money by using a Stretch Wrapper to automate your operation. Although there is no set number of skids you would need to wrap per day to have a machine show a return on investment, typically you will start to see a ROI when you are wrapping around 50 or more skids by hand per day.

The money a Stretch Wrapper will save you comes from:

Stretching film tighter thus using less stretch film
Having your team members spend less time wrapping skids by hand (time is money)I have found the companies I work with usually set their machines to wrap at about 250% prestretch. This means the machines stretches the film by 250%. Obviously, this is much tighter than a person could stretch by hand which is how a machine allows you to use less film. Using less film will save you money and reduce the amount of waste your facility is producing. Many machines are Semi or Fully Automatic, so the guys or girls that would usually be spending their days wrapping skids by hand can be used in a different area while the machine does the work. Using the same amount of workers to do more will reduce labor costs.


“Ok, I want one, but how do I show purchasing it’s worth it?”

This is a question I get asked a lot and it’s actually one that’s very easy to answer. Machines can be set to always wrap the same way so there are formulas to show how much money a machine would save you. This cost analysis can be easily done by a packaging specialist and may make investing in a machine a no brainer. I had a company I was working with who wanted a machine but didn’t think they could afford it. When we did the cost analysis they saw leasing to own a machine would save them hundreds of dollars per month as soon the machine hit their floor. This eased any concerns they had of investing in a machine.


My Favorite Stretch Wrapping Machines

Arpac Lo Pro Series Wrapper


With the heavy-duty steel construction and the best warranty in the industry this machine will still be the best investment you have made a decade from now. It’s also amazingly easy to install and use. Set up just requires you to plug it in, put the film in the machine and press a few buttons. From then on out all you have to do to wrap a pallet is set the pallet on the base, and press the green button. If you want a fully automatic machine you will have to invest more up front, but you can have a machine that only requires you to set skids on a conveyor belt. The machine will move them onto the platform, wrap them, cut the film, and send them down the next conveyor belt without a human doing a thing. It’s so easy that a caveman can do it!!!

Posted by Paul Pileggi at 10:06