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For higher speed presentation shrink wrapping it is necessary to move to a continuous motion style of wrapping, the side sealing machine. Wraps UK offers the Flexo500s which is capable of speeds up to 60 products per minute. The complete system consists of the shrink wrapper and a high capacity shrink tunnel which ensures perfect shrinking at high speed.
The product is fed into the side sealing shrink wrapper in the same way as the automatic L-sealer. The machine measures the length of the product being wrapped and a single sealing bar cuts and seals the film across the width of the machine. Then, instead of using an L shape to form the other side of the seal, a continuous motion cutting and sealing blade system produces the lateral seal.
The advantage that this provides is that almost any length of product can be wrapped. Since the machine spends less time sealing the film than a conventional L sealer, the film is almost continuously moving resulting in higher wrapping speeds.