Many industries look to improve production and cut material costs by using banding material. The perks of banding are many: the equipment is compact with a small footprint and can be moved around easily. It can also be incorporated in production lines to speed output. Banding machines wrap a strip of paper or film around your product, insuring unitization at a lower cost than a bag, a box or a chip board sleeve. When stacks are ready to be bundled, they are placed in the bander, at which point a sensor will detect the bundle and a band would be automatically wrapped around it, all done in a very environmentally friendly process.
Unfortunately, after a customer researches and purchases a piece of equipment and the necessary paper or film banding for their application, most purchasing managers/buyers find themselves single-sourced. The pursuit for a quotation from conventional packaging professionals is fruitless because of their lack of knowledge in that area or their inability to submit the necessary samples consisting of narrow-width rolls needed for evaluation. Therefore, little to no marketing or promotion reaches the eyes of finishing, production or purchasing managers. As a result, overseas sources hold a virtual monopoly on the pricing.