Do you have a large shipment of goods to be sent, but you are worried about the parcels being lost in transit? Are you shipping in pallets via a busy courier and want your customer’s goods to remain intact and received all at once? Well read how the professionals do it.
When packaging distributors’ ship out in large quantities, they usually tend to bundle the shipments of the similar products or on the basis of the end destination. This is to ensure that the parcels stay combined and remains together, to avoid any scenario of missing products or being involved in a different shipment and resulting in the product being sent to a wrong destination.
The bundle method, which is generally used, is known as strapping. It binds the packages with multiple straps made from a strong flat flexible material. The most common straps are made from various plastics including polypropylene, nylon, and polyester. The other common material used for strapping is steel.
Steel strapping is mainly used for heavier processes of bundling parcels/packages to keep them reinforced and fastened, to minimise movement during different types of transit. Strapping is also used for attaching items to pallets and securing unit loads.
With steel strapping you of course need steel seals. These come in all different sizes, and so if it is your first time using strapping tools it is advisable to speak to a specialist. Plastic strapping is usually joined together by heat and melting the straps ends together.
Strapping tools can be purchased from all leading packaging suppliers, along with the much needed strapping material supplies. Such tools include a tensioner, a sealer and a heavy duty strapping stand for hand pallet strapping and the supplies include coils of polypropylene and steel.
Of course depending on the volume and size of the pallet etc which you wish to strap, you select manual or automatic strapping tools. Strapping machines are mainly used for high volume sealing, whereas manual hand tools are ideal for low volume applications.
