Board to Death? Think Shrink!

Eliminating corrugate is a huge step towards sustainability. Corrugate is made from paperboard, which is manufactured from downed pine trees. Not only is corrugate expensive, but it also adds weight and bulk, which increases fuel consumption for freight. Polypack's shrink wrapping systems can drastically reduce, or even completely eliminate your corrugated consumption. The end result is that your product produces less waste throughout the entire distribution chain. When you consider yearly production quantities, this difference is huge! 

How is shrink film more eco-friendly than corrugated packaging? Post-consumer low-density polyethylene (LDPE) shrink film is usually non-printed, clear film that is completely free of external contamination, recovered from shipping/distribution points. It falls into the category that represents the LARGEST source of potentially recoverable film. In addition, technological advancements in shrink film have produced eco-friendly products such as oxo-biodegradable film, which uses an organic catalyst to speed up the degradation process.

Source reduction and recycling are the most viable ways of achieving landfill diversion. They have become priorities in managing the current solid waste crisis. Source reduction not only minimizes solid waste, but it also saves companies money by down-sizing or down-gauging of packaging materials. Additional savings accrue as a result of increased shipping efficiencies and reduced storage costs. Obtaining an optimal cost/benefit ratio and being environmentally conscious simulataneously is at the focus of modern industrial eco-directives.

Polypack's High Efficiency Shrink Tunnels 

Polypack designs and manufactures shrink tunnels which are among the most energy efficient tunnels in the entire shrink wrap industry. One of the energy saving features found on some of our tunnels is the ability to automatically adjust the speeds of the fans. They run at a slower speed when the tunnel is heating and reverse also to a slower speed if production is interrupted. All Polypack shrink tunnels feature double insulation and the heater banks are always located in the center of the tunnel to avoid energy loss.