3. Applications from strapping to transport packaging

3.1 Strapping for bundling

In addition to its usual functions of closing and reinforcing, strapping is increasingly becoming a packaging material in its own right.

This is known as "packetizing", a method of forming homogeneous handling units by strapping. Long used to make bundles or bundles of long, rigid products (steel tubes, sections, cast-iron or asbestos-cement pipes), or to hold products such as steel wire in coils, strapping, thanks to new strap qualities, has recently proved to be an effective means of creating loads of heavy, resistant parallelepiped products (cement blocks, terracotta products, for example).

This process involves stacking the products in such a way as to create holes in the body of the package for the passage...