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UK – Freight and logistics companies who incorporate a warehouse element in their supply chain service package are always on the lookout for ways to ensure the standard of goods consolidation and the safety of pallet loads in transit. Now Polythene UK tell us they are offering a new ‘Power stretch’ turntable, capable of stretching film by up to 300% more than rival packing equipment, providing the user with significant cost savings.
According to the company their new ‘Power stretch’ turntable is a more advanced machine than existing turntables. Designed for companies who pallet wrap on a larger scale, the machine offers potentially a major improvement to users by minimizing their packaging requirements, both good for the environment and their bank balances.
James Woollard, Polythene UK’s Managing Director, says: “Power stretch is the most cost effective method of stretch wrapping pallets and gives the best load containment. Our latest ‘Power stretch’ turntables and our new ‘300% power stretch’ film make for the ultimate combination in film stretching.”
He added that: “I’m so convinced that our turntables are the best around, I’m even offering one of our machines for free for any company who signs a three year deal to use our machine stretch film. We guarantee to provide customers with the highest yielding films in Europe, and on a like for like basis we’re the cheapest there is for this type of film.
“For any business who uses film on a regular basis, and is looking for the best in quality and cost, then our turntables and film provide the perfect solution. It’s a no brainer.”
(Source: HandyShippingGuide.com)
The EU was recently under fire for seeking a ban on plastic shopping bags to fight pollution.
Shops in Britain could be outlawed from stocking them, or alternatively there might be a new tax to dramatically reduce their use. The move has angered retailers who say a move like this would hit sales, while doing nothing to save the environment.
Statistics show that the average British family uses 12 plastic ¬carriers for the weekly food shop, while 46 per cent take home up to 10 from each visit. Retailers say that a ban would require people to remember to take their own bags each time they go shopping. Unplanned trips will be almost wiped out as bags will not be available for purchase.
Richard Dodd, of the British Retail Consortium said, “A Europe-wide ban on bags is unnecessary. It is likely to alienate customers from the green agenda”.
Well hello… what have I been banging on about for the last few months?
If retailers sold Polycomp bags at the checkouts, shoppers would have a plastic free alternative that they could purchase, take home and reuse in their food caddies.
Resulting in, business as usual for the retailers, ongoing impromptu visits by customers and British landfill site being free of millions of unnecessary checkout bags.
‘Polylite’ mailing film, a new mailing film from Polythene UK, the largest broker of polythene film and bags in the UK, promises to provide the user/buyer between 36% – 47% more film per roll than any other regular polythene.
The new mailing film is supplied using a 3-layer extrusion that allows Polythene UK to produce thinner film whilst maintaining the recorded strength. With the ‘Polylite’ mailing film being high clarity and lightweight this leads to lower transportation requirements, less waste material and fewer roll changes – resulting in a more efficient production process and improved profit margins for the companies who use it.
James Woollard, Managing Director of Polythene UK, comments: “Our knowledge of the UK industry and our global network of suppliers enables us to provide the best-quality and best-priced mailing film around.”
Polythene UK can manufacture the mailing films using various materials either mono or co-extruded, and the films are available plain or printed up to 8 colours. However it’s the ‘Polylite’ offering which provides the real value.
James explains: “Although we can offer a choice of materials, our ‘Polylite’ mailing film really does tick all the boxes. Not only can it provide nearly half more film per roll than regular polythene, but it also has huge environmental advantages, including a huge reduction in the use of oil based product during manufacture and less fuel consumption required for transportation, plus the material is 100% recyclable.”
He continues: “Mailing film is becoming a very popular solution in today’s business world. It provides a cost effective way to dispatch literature and products through mailing and courier systems. It is an economical alternative to paper-based solutions and offers a high level of protection from both moisture and punctures. Our ‘Polylite’ mailing film is available now, and free samples are available on request.”
(Source: Retail Packaging)
Polythene UK has launched a range of polythene shrink covers available in its new ‘Polylite material’. This promises users 20 per cent savings in both costs and carbon.
The pallet covers are essentially produced from standard pe but are ‘made in a superior way compared to traditional methods’.
Polythene UK says that its manufacturing methods enable the company to produce a multi-layered, tough, lightweight, easy-to-apply film that offers ‘great strength at lower gauges whilst reducing the weight of pe consumption’.
The typical effect of this is ‘the massive 20 per cent savings’ noted earlier.
Elaborates James Woollard, managing director of Polythene UK: “Never has so much been achieved by so little. Our shrink pallet covers can reduce the weight of pe consumption by 20 per cent – leading to less material waste going into our landfill system, and thus significantly reducing the user’s carbon footprint.
“It’s a terrific product that provides the ultimate ‘transit and storage packing’ solution, saving users money, decreasing their carbon footprint, and tackling the problem of pe waste.”
The pallet covers come in shrink and non-shrink versions, different sizes, and can be printed in up to eight colours. For every initial order placed, Polythene UK is also giving away a free heat-shrink gas gun.
(Source: Retail Packaging)
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