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How to Choose the Right Packaging Tape for Shipping, Storage, and Manufacturing

How to Choose the Right Packaging Tape for Shipping, Storage, and Manufacturing

Adhesives & Tapes, Packaging Equipment / By

Packaging tape may seem like a straightforward supply purchase, but the wrong tape can create problems throughout an operation. Cartons that open during transit, tape that loses adhesion in cold storage, unnecessary material usage, and packaging line slowdowns can all result from using a tape that is poorly matched to the application. For manufacturers, distributors, warehouses,

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Stretch Film vs. Shrink Film: Which Packaging Solution Is Right for Your Operation?

Stretch Film vs. Shrink Film: Which Packaging Solution Is Right for Your Operation?

Films, Stretch Film / By

When evaluating packaging materials, it’s common to hear the terms stretch film and shrink film used interchangeably. While both are plastic films designed to protect products during shipping and storage, they serve very different purposes and require different equipment. Choosing the wrong material can lead to higher packaging costs, slower production, damaged shipments, or an unprofessional presentation. Understanding how

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Bollore Shrink Film

Shrink film cost and gauge guide: get clarity before you buy

Films, Protective Packaging / By

Packaging teams and operations leads balance budgets against throughput, presentation, and protection, and shrink is often the “simple” answer that becomes complex when energy use, scrap, and downtime show up in the monthly report. Film price per pound matters, yet the true cost of a shrink program is driven by film type and gauge, tunnel

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Breckenridge Stretch Film Product

Summer shipping readiness: pallet wrapping, edge protection, and dunnage that survives the heat

Stretch Film, Void Fill / By

Hot trailers, softening adhesives, and long over-the-road routes put pallets under real stress in summer. Heat magnifies small mistakes in pallet building, which can become lean angles, crushed corners, and product shift that shows up as damage on arrival. Distribution center managers preparing for hot-weather shipping need practical guidance on stretch vs. shrink, when to

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Poly strapping vs. steel banding: how to choose, apply, and save

Strapping & Securing / By

Selecting the right strapping for shipping is a practical decision that affects product safety, worker safety, throughput, and total landed cost. Plant managers and warehouse supervisors balance load type, handling risks, tool choices, and budget, and the right choice can simplify operations while reducing damage and injuries. This guide compares poly strapping and steel banding

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Dunnage air bags explained: safer trailer loads with the right inflation and placement

Void Fill / By

Shipping managers know that a stable load is cheaper than a freight claim, and that lateral movement in rail, truckload, and intermodal lanes often starts small, a few inches of drift that becomes broken stretch wrap, crushed corners, and toppled pallets. Dunnage air bags solve for that side-to-side creep when used with edge protectors, corrugated

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Air Pillows Packaging: when to use it, when not to, and how to get it right

Void Fill / By

Air pillows have become a go-to void fill for fast-moving e-commerce and fulfillment teams because they are light, clean, and quick to deploy in high parcel volumes, and when matched to the right product mix and box sizes they reduce damage and dimensional weight, yet like any packaging solution they shine in specific scenarios and

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Protective Packaging 101: How To Choose The Right Cushioning, Void Fill, And Protection For Your Shipments

Protective Packaging, Void Fill / By

Protective packaging is easy to overcomplicate, especially when products move through parcel networks, LTL cross-docks, and mixed DC environments where shock, vibration, compression, puncture, and moisture all show up in different combinations. Damage cost is rarely just a packaging line item, it is reshipments, returns, labor, freight on replacement orders, and strained customer relationships. This

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