Film that is stretched during manufacturing, so it arrives lighter, applies with less effort by hand, and wastes less. The film-saving benefits of stretching without owning a machine, delivered across Houston at the best price in the market.
Pre-stretched film is stretch wrap that has already been elongated at the factory instead of at the point of use. Because the stretching is done in manufacturing, the roll arrives thinner and much lighter, so an operator can wrap a load with far less pulling effort and cover more pallets per roll than with conventional hand film. It is the simplest way to capture real film savings in a hand-wrap operation without buying a machine.
The two are not the same. A powered wrapper stretches conventional machine film in real time, right before it wraps the load, and can reach very high stretch levels for the lowest cost per pallet. Pre-stretched film moves that stretching back to the factory, so you get a big share of the same film-saving benefit by hand, with no machine to buy or maintain. Think of it as the bridge between standard hand film and a full powered system.
Pre-stretched film is ideal when you wrap by hand, want to cut film use and operator fatigue, and are not ready to invest in equipment. If your pallet volume keeps climbing, moving to a semi-automatic wrapper with machine film will drive cost per pallet lower still, and we can help you make that jump when the numbers make sense.
Weighing film-only savings against a machine? Our guide on reducing stretch film cost walks through both paths.