Stretch hood for building materials

MSK stretch hood: Automated packaging systems for the building material industry 

Rain protection for the outside storage and on construction sites as well as an optimal brand name are important demands that the building material industry puts on pallet packaging systems.

Depending on the type of product and its physical properties (from sand-lime brick and insulating materials through to chemicals) modern automated packaging systems must meet very different requirements. Climate protection and the reduction of the CO2 footprint are playing an increasingly important role. An increasing degree of automation also calls for data networked solutions for the entire intralogistics.

Depending on the required load stability as well as the pressure sensitivity of the materials the stretch hood packaging is a sustainable and versatile procedure in the international building material industry.

NEW: The single-format stretch hooder MSK Wraptech

The single-format MSK Wraptech is specially customized for standard applications in the area of pressure-insensitive products such as bags or stones on standard pallets. The MSK Wraptech enables palletized and non-palletized products to be packed with a stable stretch hood. The stretching of the film hood not only leads to optimal load securing, but also to the best possible advertising effect of the brand logo. The absence of hydraulics, very low energy consumption and film savings thanks to the patented MSK stretch process (EP 1 353 847 and EP 1 717 148) make the MSK Wraptech a sustainable and environmentally friendly packaging solution.

Advantages:

• Up to 60 pallets per hour
• 1 film format, flexible for various stretch hood dimensions
• Low energy consumption < 0.07 kW per pallet
• Quick and easy assembly
• Easy maintenance thanks to lowerable machine head and lubricant-free time-belt technology

The fully automatic stretch hood system MSK Tensiontech enables the packaging of products whether or not they are on pallets with a stable stretch hood thanks to its special film stretching procedure. The MSK automated packaging system stretches the film hood individually to each pallet/package format in any coordinate in longitudinal and transverse direction so that optimum load securing properties are achieved. The special and patented MSK packaging technology allowing the use of thinner films and presents the brand logo in the most effective manner. Very low energy consumption and lubricant-free time-belt technology protect the environment. The MSK Tensiontech stretch hooder is also suitable for film made with recycled material.

Advantages:

• Precise hood cover thanks to the patented MSK device to gather the film (EP 1 353 847) and the MSK vertical film tightening procedure (EP 1 717 148)
• High quality seam welding
• Simple maintenance thanks to the lowerable machine head and maintenance-free time belt technology
• Low energy consumption < 0.07 kW per pallet
• Suitable for film made with recycled material
• High flexibility through fully automated processing of up to four different film formats and thicknesses.
• Also available in XL or XXL version for wide format products
• Easy and intuitive operating via MSK EMSY, and mobile status monitoring via smartphone (MSK EMSY smart app)
• Standard interfaces to ERP-/MES-systems via MSK EMSY

MSK stretch hood packaging for bagged goods

For bagged goods, the stretch hood procedure is often the most cost-effective packaging solution. For the standard range of pallet dimensions on the basis of Euro pallets, industry and CP MSK offers a standard stretch hood packaging machine to the customer at an optimum price-performance ratio and preferred delivery times.

Advantages:

• Cost savings through minimum film thickness
• Hydraulic systems are not used: Simple, solely electrical movements
• Very simple, intuitive system operation (MSK EMSY)
• Standard interfaces to ERP-/MES-systems and bagging lines via MSK EMSY
• Simple maintenance through lowerable machine head

Experience

Customers from the cement industry confirm that by using MSK Tensiontech stretch hood packaging machine, within two years their previously used film thickness was halved to 60 µm and that significant savings in packaging costs were achieved without any loss to load safety.

MSK stretch hood packaging for stone building materials

With building materials such as sand-lime bricks or breeze blocks, a steel strapping tape is often the best way to ensure load safety and stability. The primary task of the film packaging is to provide protection from moisture. Printing the firm's logo on the film also ensures some very effective advertising.

Most requirements are met by a MSK stretch hood solution as it is both economically interesting and technically optimal, thanks to a patented method to gather and to pre-stretch the film which ensures that the sharp edge of the products do not make holes or cracks in the film during film application on the top layer of the bricks. The more precise gathering of the film also offers a undistorted logo on the wrapped pallet.

Advantages:

• Reliable welds of the film hood even at higher strains
• Even gathering of the film for brand logo
• Easy maintenance and welding bar change due to lowerable machine head

MSK stretch hood packaging for chemical building materials

Some chemical plants would like to have machines and systems which work without gas and heat. Here is stretch hood packaging the right choice because the stretch takes place without the use of heat. 

Advantages:

• No use of gas and heat
• No use of hydraulics, no lubricants
• Cost savings possible through the use of thinner films
• Ergonomic maintenance thanks to the lowerable machine head
• Interfaces to ERP-/MES-systems and bagging lines via MSK EMSY software

MSK stretch hood packaging for insulating materials

A reliable film application as well as reliable seam welding of the film hood, also with very different pallet and film formats, is crucial for a good advertising effect of the brand logo printed onto the film.

Large-format pallet loads with extreme length/width ratio make new demands when stretching the film. These demands are fully met by the MSK stretch hooder. The special MSK coordinate stretch procedure is ideal for extreme product/pallet dimensions and allows the use of thinner film.

Advantages:

• Reliable film hood seven with very long welds
• Straight, undistorted brand labelling
• Use of thinner films
• Ideal for extreme product/pallet dimensions
• Standardized XL and XXL packaging machines (packages max. 3700 x 1300 mm)
• Can be used for different pallet sizes and special pallets