Want To Distribute Your Own Food Products? This Packaging Wonder Will Help You Out!
Believe it or not, but there is indeed an industry dedicated to food packaging. If you are involved with a business that processes and packages food you will eventually need to get involved with it yourself. When you distribute goods to multiple grocery and general stores, you want your product to stand out in interesting ways on the shelf.
Having clear packaging with shrink wrap is a great idea for multiple reasons. With shrink wrap food looks fresh is kept safe and gives consumers a great idea of what your food looks like, opposed to deceiving imagery on a box. Polyolefin shrink film is a wrap that offers benefits as well as burdens in regards to wrapping processed food.
Rolls of shrink film can cost upwards of $250. You may consider that to be expensive, but it can actually be used to wrap hundreds of different packages in one roll. Shrink film, in general, is extremely inexpensive, for one. Shrink wrap will only cost you less than ten cents a package.
Cost for machinery for shrink wrapping is reasonable as well. Small businesses can potentially spend as little as $500 on machinery that is used to wrap products.
Shrink wrap can also be used to wrap together multiple items in a bundle, and present itself as one item. So even if you are not selling food products, polyolefin shrink wrap is great for keeping items, such as supplies and assembly parts together.
It does not take a lot of time at all to wrap multiple packages per minute. With just only one or two workers the efficiency in packaging products can be very high weather with automatic or manual shrink wrap machines. This is very ideal for primitive food makers that got no other resources to contain and present their products.
Compared to other shrink wrap, polyolefin offers the best clarity when it comes to displaying food. Through polyolefin, consumers can see food products the best, and can see the most natural of colors through it.
We are all used to using plastic wrap to preserve leftover foods and store them in the refrigerator. Did you also know, however, that polyolefin offers the same use as it presents food products on store shelves? The shrink film can act as a shield against dust moisture and other particles so that food will always stay fresh. Polyolefin shrink film can also extend the life of a food product when on a shelf.
Depending on the types of foods you’re selling, however, there are foods that require other packaging materials besides shrink wrap. There are some food items that are ideal for paperboard containers, styrofoam trays, or other materials to accompany the shrink film to make for a professional and marketable product.
Polyolefin shrink film can cause a certain condition called ballooning. Ballooning is caused by concealed air underneath the shrink film. This is not a cause for concern for most food products, and can be easily be remedied by poking a small hole through the shrink wrap. Sometimes, polyolefin shrink wrap is capable of shrinking a product too much. This film will often take the form of the food product rather than its own form. A small box or paperboard container used to contain the product will allow the shrink wrap to take the shape of the container rather than the food itself.
You can purchase polyolefin shrink wrap either in centerfold rolls or shrink bags. There is certain machinery that can be used to seal shrink wrap of either kind, but shrink bags can also be sealed by hand.
