When it comes to packaging, a reliable bag sealer is a must-have tool for businesses across various industries. Whether you’re sealing food products, medical supplies, or industrial components, ensuring a secure and airtight seal is crucial for product freshness, hygiene, and longevity. Why Use a Bag Sealer? Bag sealers provide a simple yet effective solution […]

In today’s fast-paced logistics and manufacturing industries, ensuring that goods are securely wrapped for transport is essential. Stretch wrappers play a crucial role in this process, offering an efficient and reliable solution for securing palletised loads. Whether you’re looking to improve productivity, reduce waste, or enhance load stability, a stretch wrapper is a valuable investment. […]

In today’s fast-paced industries, finding the right packaging solution is crucial for efficiency, professionalism, and product protection. This is where the shrink wrapper comes into its own, offering a versatile and cost-effective method for securing and presenting items. Whether you’re in retail, manufacturing, or distribution, shrink wrapping provides a reliable solution that enhances both functionality […]

Polyolefin shrink film is a versatile and highly popular packaging material used in various industries. Known for its durability, clarity, and ease of use, it has quickly become a favourite choice for businesses looking to protect and present their products in the best possible light. But what exactly is polyolefin shrink film, and why has […]

Shrink wrapping machines have become essential tools across various industries due to their efficiency and versatility in packaging. These machines use heat to shrink plastic film tightly around products, providing numerous benefits from protection to aesthetics. As businesses increasingly seek effective packaging solutions, understanding the capabilities and advantages of shrink wrapping machines is crucial. What […]

  Heat shrink tunnels are amongst the most popular types of machinery used to package products, typically mounted over or around conveyor systems’. Products being packaged in this way are provided with a loose surrounding of shrink film, which is then shrunk to fit snugly around the wrapped object using the shrink tunnel.   There […]

Shrink wrapping is not that hard, especially when using quality shrink wrap machinery such as that we sell here at Sontex. However, there are a few common problems that can occur, as there is with any packaging solution.   If you use shrink wrapping to packaging your products and want to ensure that you can […]

We recently collaborated with Network Pack, another one of the UK’s leading packaging suppliers, to provide a wholesale customer that also offer third-party re-packing as an added value service, with an improved packaging line. The customer was looking to reduce both labour and material costs, looking for enhanced packaging productivity to help cope with their […]

At Sontex we often receive questions regarding pallet wrapping machines and their advantages, with people frequently wondering what benefits pallet wrappers actually offer over manual wrapping and why pallet wrapping machines have grown to become so popular around the world. With this is mind today we are here to highlight just some of the amazing […]

Christmas is definitely one of the busiest times of year for shops and online retailers, and because of this it is now important for business owners to ensure that their packaging lines are fully optimised before the big rush! Many companies see record-breaking sales in the run-up to Christmas, with many people buying gifts for […]