TAB Offers Logos, Web Addresses, Corporate Colors on Line of Stretch Wrap

Reading, PA: Orbital wrapper manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (www.tabwrapper.com), has introduced custom branded stretch wrap. Offered as part of its proprietary TAB line of stretch wrap, the custom branded stretch films feature the company name, logo, Website address, and/or a choice of other information to transform the typically clear plastic into a marketing vehicle that delivers sales messaging with every wrapped pallet load. The full color branding may be printed on clear, translucent, or colored plastic wrap and may be color-matched to corporate colors for further brand extension.

Available with any of the stretch wrap grades in the TAB line, the branded stretch wrap differentiates a company’s wrapped pallet loads from other pallet loads and presents a professional image on the job site. The custom branding does not affect the strength, puncture resistance, thickness, or other properties of the stretch wrap.

The custom branding stretch wrap comes in a 20-inch width x 5,000 feet per roll, 50 rolls per pallet. Discounts for multiple pallet load orders are available.

For a free brochure or more information, contact TAB Industries, LLC, 2525 N. 12th Street, Reading PA 19605; 610-921-0012; info@tabwrapper.com or see www.tabwrapper.com.

Food manufacturers face an array of packaging challenges as they try to meet growing consumer demand, stay ahead of ever-changing consumer tastes, and maintain production efficiency despite rising ingredient costs and volatile labor issues. Add the strict FDA and USDA regulations for hygiene, tracking, and traceability, and earning a profit in this low margin – high volume industry becomes even more challenging.

Food and beverage companies have to pay close attention to protecting product integrity and minimizing waste to survive and succeed. The true costs of wasting time, wasting ingredients, and wasting perishable products have become so severe that many operations are simply unsustainable under present conditions. Since many food manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers have already cut most upstream costs to the bone, packaging and material handling are getting more and more attention as areas ripe for improvements in efficiency. In today’s economy, that often means automating key processes such as pallet wrapping, cartoning, and multi-packing using semi-automated and automated machines.

Automatic Stretch Wrappers Save Time

Food manufacturing facilities use some of the most advanced, automated processing machinery in the world from the latest mixers, conveyors and ovens to automatic carton forming machines. But at the end of the line, even many of these companies require their workers to stretch wrap palletized loads by hand. This manual process often takes three workers five – 10 minutes per pallet load and causes quite a number of cuts, scrapes, injuries – and dangerous packaging fails.

The newest pallet stretch wrapping technology enables one forklift driver to manage the entire pallet wrap process automatically without leaving the seat of the forklift – without pressing buttons or even using remote controls. Instead of diverting three workers from productive work for 10 minutes, the new, award-winning Genius Controls TAB Wrapper Tornado food pallet stretch wrapper automatically wraps 360 degrees around and under the raised pallet load in 30 seconds or less.

This is a contactless process that speeds the entire operation and eliminates any bottlenecks in packing and shipping. Now the packaging team can keep up with the increased pace of production.

Turntable Stretch Wrappers and Orbital Stretch Wrappers

Plastic stretch wrap offers a wide range of proven benefits in food packaging and transportation. It acts as a barrier against moisture, dust, pests, and dirt to safeguard product quality. It prevents contamination and extends shelf life. It also helps keep packaged food products securely in place on the pallet in transit as well as on warehouse racks. That’s why the horizontal turntable stretch wrapping machines were quickly adopted. But over time, a number of owners realized these pallet wrappers only wrap the load around itself, leaving the top and bottom unsecured and exposed to the environment. This invites the food products to shift in transit, slide off of the pallet, and damage the product. These machines also lack versatility since they restrict pallet sizes to the size of the turntable.

By contrast, the patented TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital stretch wrappers wrap around the entire pallet and load. It unitizes the load and locks it in place as a tight, secure load. It can be entirely encased in stretch wrap to seal every side plus the top and bottom. If ensuring proper hygiene throughout the supply chain is a key objective then cocooning the pallet load in stretch wrap is the surest way to achieve superior food product protection. Even with mixed loads and odd shapes, everything stays put. What’s the point of protecting your potato chips from breakage through the entire food production and packaging processes only to have them arrive at the supermarket shattered into crumbs?

Stretch Wrap Options for Safe Food Packaging

The latest stretch wrap materials we offer for the food industry promote airflow between the film and product to allow foods, pet foods, nutritional products, vegetables, and other products to breathe while in transit or storage while maintaining the integrity and durability of the wrapping. Try clear stretch wrap for a quick quality inspection or opaque for extra security. For refrigerated and frozen foods, our latest Cold Force stretch wrap is designed specifically for cold environments. For transporting pallet loads of cartons, multi-packs, and boxes, we also offer a choice of extra tough, puncture-resistant stretch wraps in a wide range of colors to suit any pallet load on any size pallet.

In industries such as food and beverage faced with constant cost pressures, demanding quality expectations, and burdensome regulations, automating the pallet wrapping process with the TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital stretch wrap machine provides immediate cost savings, labor savings, and quality controls along with a slate of intangibles that may not be quantified but directly impact the bottom line.

To test a Genius Controls model with your product, contact sales@tabwrapper.com or 610-921-0012, or see here.

Ribbed TAB Rope Wrap Proven Effective on Multiple Stretch Wrapper Types

When we developed the TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital wrapping machine, our first customers were other metal fabrication companies that needed a better way to deliver their palletized metal parts and products – just like we did. Word of our clever pallet wrapper spread within the metalworking industry and orders began taking off. Then we started getting calls from resellers like material handling equipment distributors, manufacturer’s rep firms, and a variety of local dealers. At a time when everything seemed to be moving to e-commerce as direct to the end user, we wondered whether investing in reseller relationships made any sense.

Yet they kept calling, emailing – and selling.

Resellers Recommend TAB Wrapper Tornado for Stretch Wrapping

Today, a handful of top packaging machinery and material handling equipment resellers represent between 10% and 20% of our stretch wrapper sales at any given time by units or revenue. We appreciate these relationships because it streamlines and speeds the sales process and helps introduce the TAB Wrapper Tornado to companies in a wide range of industries that need our orbital stretch wrapper but would otherwise be very costly for us to approach.

Our distributor partners appreciate speed, too, like our fast lead times. We know distributors go through a significant amount of work to help a customer get to the point of recognizing there’s a problem in the packaging department, asking for a price quote, and then signing a purchase order. By the time the customer accepts there’s a problem, the bottleneck in pallet wrapping has probably become quite desperate and the need for our speedy machine has become immediate.

Our distributor partners feel great telling their customers that when they buy a new orbital stretch wrapping machine from us, we’ll deliver it in a few weeks depending on the model – not a year, not six months, not whenever the container ship arrives. We can often deliver some models in two weeks.

The Orbital Stretch Wrapper Made in USA

The key reason we can deliver a new orbital wrapping machine in a matter of weeks and feel confident when our distributors quote lead times in weeks is we design and manufacture every TAB Wrapper Tornado in our Reading, Pa. headquarters using durable, long-lasting, laser cut and fabricated parts that we design and manufacture in the same facility. Upwards of 90% of the parts used to build our pallet stretch wrappers are made in USA and we stock them in quantity to be sure we can meet tight delivery deadlines. We don’t have to wait for parts to show up to build your machine.

These Pallet Wrappers Are Easy to Install, Easy to Use

When the new TAB Wrapper Tornado arrives at the customer’s facility, it’s already tested and ready to plug in and operate. Nearly anyone on staff can handle the setup without specialized electrical or mechanical knowledge. There’s nothing for the distributor to do except celebrate the arrival. Anyone who drives a forklift can learn to use it and be comfortable wrapping pallet loads in stretch wrap within 20 minutes – again with zero distributor involvement needed.

Reliable Stretch Wrapper Helps Distributors Sleep at Night

As many of our customers have reported, the TAB Wrapper Tornado just works and works and keeps working, year after year. We designed our orbital wrapper with a streamlined, minimalist approach so there’s almost nothing really serious that can go wrong, and almost no reason for a distributor to get a call or text with a problem. There’s very little maintenance involved – nearly anyone working in the plant can check a few common wear parts and replace them when worn in a matter of minutes without any real downtime. Swapping out a dull cutting blade, for example, is the most common task.

Keeping the wrapping machine up and running is not only easy but it also requires zero distributor involvement. There just aren’t very many calls for technical service so no headaches. If anything more serious happens, TAB stocks spare parts in Pennsylvania and can often send them out within hours – plus there’s quite a solid warranty included with every orbital wrapper.

It’s also a comfort to know that you’re recommending a dependable wrapping machine that’s designed for safety and proven after many years in the field. Installing a TAB Wrapper Tornado typically reduces injuries and eliminates workers compensation claims from incidents caused by stretch wrapping pallets by hand.

Quality Machine by Family-Owned Manufacturer

We’re a family-owned and operated manufacturer so when distributors call they often get connected to one of the owners. This makes it quick and easy to talk candidly about contracts, payment terms, marketing support, and any expectations at the outset.
While direct to end user stretch wrapper sales continue to grow, our sales involving industrial distributors and other equipment resellers also continue to grow as the distributors operating today are proving their high level of service and dedication to their customers.

To setup a distributor reseller account, contact sales@tabwrapper.com or 610-921-0012.

Latest TAB Wrapper Tornado Operates by Itself at FABTECH Booth #S-11128

Reading, PA: Now that’s ingenious! New Genius Controls from orbital stretch wrapper manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (www.tabwrapper.com), transform the company’s semi-automated TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital wrappers into fully automated pallet wrapping machines. To be introduced at FABTECH Orlando booth #S-11128, the breakthrough Genius Controls technology enables one forklift driver to trigger the TAB Wrapper Tornado to automatically stretch wrap a pallet load in 30 seconds or less without pressing any buttons, handling plastic film rolls, using remote controls, or even leaving the seat of the lift truck.

As the lift truck driver approaches the orbital wrapping ring with a pallet load, the TAB Wrapper Tornado equipped with Genius Controls automatically recognizes its presence, scans the load dimensions, determines the appropriate amount of stretch wrap, and applies the stretch wrap 360 degrees around and under the pallet and load. When complete, the Genius Controls automatically cuts the stretch wrap and readies it for wrapping the next pallet load.

Ideal for metal shops offering fabrication, stamping, powder coating, cutting, welding, and other metalworking services, the new Genius Controls operating package is available on TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital stretch wrappers with 115-inch, 100-inch, and 80-inch wrapping rings as standard. The patented pallet wrappers are designed and manufactured at the company’s Reading, Pa. headquarters and offered with a companion line of stretch wrap proven effective with nearly any orbital stretch wrapping machine.

For a free brochure or to schedule a demo at the booth, contact TAB Industries, LLC, 2525 N. 12th Street, Reading PA 19605; 610-921-0012; sales@tabwrapper.com or see www.tabwrapper.com.
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Automated TAB Wrapper Tornado Smart Controls To Be Shown in Two Sizes

Reading, PA: At FABTECH Orlando booth #S-11128, orbital stretch wrapper manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (www.tabwrapper.com), plans to showcase its patented TAB Wrapper Tornado pallet wrapping machine with two different machines. To be shown with 100-inch and 80-inch wrapping rings, the two orbital stretch wrappers are to feature the company’s Smart Controls automation technology with wireless remote control operation and automated cut and wrap capabilities, plus a new LED safety light tower. This best-selling configuration option enables one worker to automatically stretch wrap a pallet load in 30 seconds or less without leaving the seat of a forklift.

Ideal for metal shops offering fabrication, stamping, powder coating, cutting, welding, and other metalworking services, the TAB Wrapper Tornado automatically applies stretch wrap 360 degrees around and under the pallet and load to create a secure, stable, unitized load. The need for boxes, banding, and crates is eliminated along with shifting in transit and storage. In addition to the automated 100-inch and 80-inch units to be shown at the booth, the orbital stretch wrapping machine is also available with a 115-inch wrapping and in semi-automated models as standard.

The orbital stretch wrappers are designed and manufactured at the company’s Reading, Pa. headquarters and delivered ready for operation with a warranty. A companion line of stretch wrap is available for nearly any orbital stretch wrapping machine.

For a free brochure or to schedule a demo at the booth, contact TAB Industries, LLC, 2525 N. 12th Street, Reading PA 19605; 610-921-0012; sales@tabwrapper.com or see www.tabwrapper.com.
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TAB Wrapper Tornado Permits Delivery Without Custom Pallets, Crates

You could invest a lot of money offering a 401(k) plan, invest a lot of time in cross-training staff, and invest a lot of effort reconfiguring the metal shop workflow all to boost productivity, support employee retention, and save on costs. But ask a human resources consultant to calculate the actual returns in productivity or the payback period on any of these considerable investments and the answer is likely a blank stare.

Of course, it isn’t possible to calculate exactly how or when every investment would yield a quantifiable return at the time of purchase. Some may never yield any ROI. But now it is possible to calculate exactly how an investment in automating the stretch wrapping process with an orbital wrapping machine would boost productivity and cut labor costs – and by how much – and you could find out before signing the purchase order to buy a pallet wrapper.

In fact, this calculator also reveals how quickly the investment in packaging automation would pay for itself. Try the Pallet Wrapping ROI Calculator now.

Calculate Returns on Pallet Stretch Wrapper Machine

Few investments could be counted on as a sure thing. But our customers insist the TAB Wrapper Tornado is exactly that with zero downside and they have the numbers to document the results. With a fast payback period of about a year, it doesn’t just save money, it starts making money relatively quickly, and the savings recur year after year. Here’s how:

Your company needs two workers to stretch wrap 25 pallet loads per day by hand at a cost of $4.65/pallet load, based on wages, time, and benefits.

You think about buying a TAB Wrapper Tornado to automate the stretch wrapping process.

Now your company only needs one worker to stretch wrap the same 25 pallet loads per day, each in about 30 seconds (and you’re getting a tighter, stronger wrap on the pallet load). Total labor costs per pallet load plummet from $4.65 to just $0.44.

This translates to a total annual savings in labor costs of $27,349.40 – and these savings recur forever. And we haven’t even addressed the productivity gains, safety improvements, or upgrades in employee morale that enhance ROI yet defy proper quantification.

How Much Does a Pallet Stretch Wrapper Cost?

A pallet stretch wrap machine like a TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital wrapper costs about $27,000.00 so if a company typically saves upwards of $27,000.00 in labor costs during the first year alone like in the above example, then the payback period on this investment averages one year. After that it becomes a cash generator.

The greater the volume, the faster the returns and the shorter the payback period.

In fact, even a used pallet wrapper machine for sale would deliver comparable ROI to a new orbital pallet stretch wrap machine built in our Reading, Pennsylvania facility given it has been reasonably well maintained.

Meanwhile, your other worker has been freed from manual stretch wrapping to run a CNC machine, laser cutter, press brake, or other machinery that generates real revenue – it’s found money that can also be credited to your orbital pallet wrapper investment. And no one needed to hire anyone.

To determine your ROI with a TAB Wrapper Tornado, use the ROI Calculator here or contact sales@tabwrapper.com, 610-921-0012.