Shrink wrapping in the laundry industry is used to protect the cleaned product before it arrives at its final destination, be it a blanket for use with an air line or a bundle of towels for supply to a hospital.
Where a straightforward bag is required to protect a garment or blanket, an L-sealer is the ideal system. If no shrinking is applied to an L-sealed pack, the resulting loose bag produces an ideal protective covering. Wraps UK automatic L sealers can use both polyolefin or, predominantly for the laundry industry, low cost polyethylene. Systems can either be low speed and manual or fully automatic, depending on volume.
For the large scale laundry where high volumes of towels or garments are being laundered and ironed, Wraps UK supplies fully automatic sleeve wrapping systems for speeds up to 25 per minute. Using thin, low cost, 30 micron polyethylene, randomly sized laundered products can all be completely enclosed in film. Through heat shrinking, the enclosed pack can be reduced in volume, making distribution easier when compared to wrapping in paper.
Many years of experience in the laundry industry means that the shrinkwrapping machines supplied are suitably robust to work in a continuous production environment. Wraps UK has developed a range of ancillary equipment to feed the shrink wrapper to ensure that multiple production lines can feed one wrapper and centralisation systems ensure that the garments are correctly positioned before wrapping.