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Yes! We offer a scheme where our equipment can be hired for a minimum period of three months. Should you wish to purchase the equipment after this period, we will deduct the hire charges you have already paid from the final price, meaning it costs no extra than purchasing it outright in the first place. Interested? Call us today to discuss this in further detail.

Service contracts are the most straightforward and economical way of maintaining your wrapping machinery and keeping it running at its peak performance. For an upfront cost (that’s discounted by 15% against our standard rates) you can secure a number of service visits arranged at regular intervals according to your usage, or use a visit in place of a costly breakdown. You will receive discounted spare parts throughout the lifetime of the contract and your needs will be prioritised over non-contract customers. Our team will work around your schedule, whether that’s on weekends or evenings, and we’ll call you before a visit is due to book in the work so you can relax. Finally, we’ll always service your entire collection of YPS machinery on every visit, not just units that may need attention. There are no time limits or expiry dates on our service contracts. Enquire today to enjoy total peace of mind, flexibility, security and incredible value. Read more here.

Overwrapping is a method of display packaging which produces an envelope-fold at each end of the packs. The benefit of this method is that it is very fast, however the disadvantage is that the overwrapping machinery requires very expensive change parts. Shrink wrapping offers more flexibility as there are no change parts required for the machinery. When wrapping multiple pack sizes, not having change parts is a major advantage and makes the wrapping process much easier. The machine operators can run all of the different pack sizes through the machine without having to alter parts. This also saves costs on not only the parts themselves but also down-time from changeovers.

Many manufacturers and suppliers are beginning to make the change from cardboard boxes to shrink wrapping. A much more cost effective method than cartons, shrink wrapping usually saves between 50-75% on material alone. Shrink wrapping is also proven to be much more efficient as the equipment has the ability to collate products automatically and an added bonus is that there is no box to erect. Shrink wrapping saves space within the warehouse and distribution process as one pallet of shrink film is the equivalent to 15 pallets of cardboard. It is also considered to be more environmentally friendly as less packaging is used and what is used is 100% recyclable.

There are a few important differences between the side feed and inline sleeve sealer models.

A side feed can provide flexibility due to its pusher plate feature, which pushes the pack through the curtain of film. This offers the potential to wrap trayless packs. Furthermore, side feed models are designed so that you do not need to worry about gapping the product, but you would have to change parts for different sized packs.

An inline sleeve sealer does not require any changeover of parts and is simpler in many ways as it consists of an infeed belt and outfeed belt with the curtain of film between the two. A slightly faster speed can be achieved on an inline system but trayless or very small packs cannot be wrapped because they would not maintain their collation as they transfer between the conveyors.

Both horizontal and vertical processes are styles of automated bagging suited to e-commerce or mail order fulfilment applications, but the introduction of product to the machines in each setting is different. Vertical bagging systems are usually hand-loaded, whereby an operator drops a product downwards into an opened bag before it is automatically sealed. Horizontal bagging involves the product travelling along an infeed conveyor and entering the bagging machine from a horizontal direction before being sealed within a bag material. Horizontal bagging is usually required when production is very high-speed or high volume.

A turntable model involves pallets being loaded onto a plate at the base. The plate is then spun round causing the stretch film, which is fixed to one corner, to wrap around the pallet. The film holder moves up and down to ensure the entire pallet is covered.

A rotating arm pallet wrapper, also called a rotary stretch wrapper, is ideal for more unstable or heavier products where the pallet is best kept stationary. The film holder is positioned on an arm which is levered from above and which moves around the pallet below in a circular motion, thereby wrapping the film around it. The arm is able to move up and down in order to distribute the stretch film over the entire pallet.

Both pallet wrapping systems are ideal for unstable or heavy loads because the pallets remain stationary whilst stretch film is applied, however there are some subtle differences between these two types.

The rotating arm machines use a cantilevered appendage with a mounted film holder to move around the perimeter of the pallet whilst dispensing and applying pallet wrap.

The rotating ring machines, by contrast, feature a fixed circuit which sits above the stationery pallet and around which the stretch film dispenser tracks, wrapping the load as it encircles it. Rotary ring wrappers are better suited to very high speed applications.