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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.

The UK Plastic Packaging Tax introduced in April 2022 imposes a £200 per tonne levy on manufactured or imported plastic packaging materials that contain less than 30% certified recycled content.

Yorkshire Packaging have been working closely with our manufacturing sites for a number of years to develop and bring to market a range of flexible films that contain over 30% and as much as 98% recycled content which are exempt from the tax. Look for the green logo stating ‘Also available with recycled content’ on our packaging material webpages to identify the conforming products.

Within the general field of shrink wrapping we typically distinguish between two main areas. Display shrink wrapping is where the aesthetics of the final product is of primary importance and this typically involves the use of Polyolefin (PO) shrink film with the use of ‘L’ sealers and side sealers. Typical examples would be items such as shrink wrapped calendars, posters, boxed games, DVD’s etc. Transit shrink wrapping is where the primary focus is to protect and help transport the product through the distribution channel and this typically involves the use Polythene (PE) film and the use of sleeve sealers. A typical example would be a shrink wrapped pack of 24 litre bottles of water or flat-packed furniture being put through a carrier network.

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.