Strapping Packaging Materials
Locate distributors, manufacturers and suppliers for all your strapping material needs
By Robert Hill
When your business requires packages secured with something more than tape, strapping packaging fits the bill. Most businesses eventually rely on shipping or storing large boxes and packages. Industry and construction companies ship heavy products by rail or truck with strapping. In-house packaging requires manual strapping tools or strapping machines for greater output.
Packaging materials typically come in steel or plastic rolls. Each product contains length, width, strength and for steel strapping—thickness. The most important factor in strapping materials concerns retaining strength and elasticity to compensate for loss of tension during shipping. Steel strapping offers strength. Polypropylene strapping, considered the most common product used, provides price economy. Polyester presents greater strength over polypropylene. When ordering strapping supplies consider the following:
1. Choose your strapping material type by size of packaging—light, heavy or industrial.
2. Determine the correct construction characteristics of the strapping material needed for your business.
3. Look for the right strapping tool or machine for packaging.
Find steel strapping material
What steel strapping loses in elasticity, it gains in strength. Coils typically weigh more than 100 lbs. with lightweight portable coils 10 to 15 lbs. Consider rust and corrosion resistant zinc-coated coils for long-term outdoor storage.
Try: Select standard, high tensile, super duty, portable, stainless steel or zinc coated strapping at Uline Shipping Supplies, with same day shipping. Choose regular to medium use cold rolled or high tensile, medium to heavy duty heat treaded steel for general applications or high tensile heat treated strapping at Stretch Associates Packaging. See price per lb. for regular or high tensile strength with discounts on skid load quantities at Grant Packaging LLC. Visit Universal Packaging for a variety of manual steel strap sealers.
Locate industrial strapping materials
These plastic and steel strapping manufacturers and suppliers offer solutions for your business. Products include strapping machines, tools and materials.
Try: View Samuel Strapping Systems for products that include machine systems, steel, plastic, seals and buckles among other items; contact for pricing and solutions. Go to Teknika USA, Inc., for regular to heavy duty steel, plastic or cord strapping tools and polypropylene strapping.
Get plastic strapping material
Polyester strapping provides savings in cost per foot over steel for heavy duty binding that includes packaging lumber and pallets. Polypropylene offers cost advantage for light to heavy duty applications.
Try: Go to StretchPak, Inc., for heavy duty polyester strapping in 4,500 to 16,750 foot rolls. Search by size or product with the click of your mouse on the type of material you need at Dynaric, Inc. Choose polypropylene or polyester in machine or hand grade strapping at Johnson Plastics & Supply.
Choose strapping supplies
These companies combined provide the complete package for your business needs. Common items include tools, machines, steel or plastic strapping and boxes.
Try: Click your needed strapping packaging materials that include strapping, tools, machines, corner protectors and boxes among others at BrassPack Packing Supply, with same day shipping. Go to PTIPackaging.com and select from the list that includes power and manual strapping tools, dispensers, machines, and poly strapping. Go to AA Sales, Inc., for a nice line of steel and plastic strapping packaging materials.
Consider strapping tools and machines
Get the right type of manual strapping tools in many sizes and shapes. For enhanced production, select a battery, electric or pneumatic tool.
Try: Choose strapping carts, steel, poly, polyester or Signode strapping tools at CS Packaging, Inc. For metal strapping with 1/2 or 3/4 inch widths see the strapping sealer or the plastic and metal tensioner at Paper Mart. See Polychem Corp., for this manufacturer’s complete line that includes battery tools, PHT, PWT, manual plastic tensioners, sealers, dispensers and others.
- For getting optimal performance from steel strapping material, consider painted and waxed coatings for better results with automatic or manual tools.
