Clear-View®
History of Clear-View®
- The first Clear-View® systems installed in early 1990's
- Preferred packaging method for appliances in Europe
- Began as shrink wrapping systems using heat to shrink to film
- Today...Shrink wrapping is combined with stretch hooding
Clear-View® is...
Expanded foam designed to protect products from damage, thereby eliminating the need for traditional exterior packaging. The foam is engineered and molded from materials such as Styropor® EPS, EPP, and EPE. When the foam is installed on the product it can be held in place with banding, stretch wrap, and other types of plastic.
Driving Forces
- Reduced packaging material cost (up to 40%)
- Reduced labor cost...Film is applied automatically
- Reduced number of returned products...The product is visible
- Reduced warehouse space. One roll of film will will wrap the equivalent of eight pallet loads of corrugated material
- High capacities...350+ products/hr using automatic Clear-View® wrapping system
- More products per truckload due to less materials