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Stretch wrap and pallet wrap for warehouses and shippers

Stretch film by the case or the pallet, quoted on what you wrap each month.

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A single roll of clear hand stretch film standing on end on a workbench, its brown core showing at the top
18 in x 1,500 ft x 80 ga · 3 in coreThe hand roll most docks start with, stood on end
Illustrative image, generated; not a photograph of our stock
A pallet of cartons on a turntable stretch wrapper, part-way through wrapping, the film roll on the carriage beside it
Clear machine film, going on at the turntableA pallet of cartons part-way through its wrap, the roll riding the carriage
Illustrative image, generated; not a photograph of our stock
A clear machine film roll on a wrapper carriage, film pulling away from it across the load
20 in x 5,000 ft · 3 in coreA machine roll on the carriage, film pulling off to the load
Illustrative image, generated; not a photograph of our stock

Hand, machine, specialty

Three parts to the range, each written by the spec line you reorder by.

  • Cases of stretch film on a pallet, one case open to show four hand rolls inside

    Hand film, by the case

    18 in x 1,500 ft x 80 ga · 4 rolls a case

    Short, light rolls wrapped by hand or with a dispenser. The 18 in roll is where most shipping docks start; 12, 15 and 20 in rolls cover bundles and taller loads.

  • Machine film rolls stood on end in layers on a pallet, with board slip sheets between the layers

    Machine film, by the pallet

    20 in x 5,000 ft · 3 in core · about 9 in across

    Long rolls for turntable and rotary-arm wrappers. Gauge and pre-stretch are matched to the loads and the carriage you run, then bought by the pallet of rolls.

  • Three rolls of tinted stretch film, blue, green and red, on a warehouse shelf

    Specialty film, when a load needs it

    Vented · black and opaque · tinted · anti-static · VCI · UV · netting

    For cold pallets that must breathe, loads that should not be seen, colour-coded shifts, electronics, metal parts and pallets staged outdoors.

Which film for which load

Start from the weight on the pallet. Then decide cast or blown.

Stretch film gauge by pallet load weight
GaugeLoad weight it suits1
63 gaUp to 2,200 lb
70–80 ga2,200 to 2,400 lb
90 gaUp to 2,600 lb
100–115 ga3,000 lb and up

Pre-stretched film is sold by its equivalent gauge, so compare it on that and not on the thickness printed for the cast resin.1 Sharp corners, protruding parts and uneven stacks push you a step heavier than the weight alone says.

Cast film unwinds quietly and you can read a label through it. Blown film is louder, but it takes a sharp corner without tearing. Cast makes up most of what is sold, somewhere around 70 to 80 percent by one wrapper maker's estimate.2

The full gauge chart · Cast vs blown, in detail

Stretch or shrink?

If you searched for pallet shrink wrap, read this first.

What goes round a pallet is almost always stretch film. It holds the load by its own tension and needs no heat.

Shrink film is loose until a heat gun or a tunnel tightens it.3 It has its place, as a five-sided pallet cover or a sleeve over a product, but a dock wrapping cartons by hand or on a turntable wants stretch film, bought by the roll.

Stretch wrap vs shrink wrap, explained

A pallet of stone slabs under a clear shrunk cover, strapped, standing outdoors on wet ground
Shrink film: a cover pulled over a strapped pallet and tightened with heat. Stretch film needs no heat at allIllustrative image, generated; not a photograph of our stock

Machine film and your wrapper

The carriage decides how far a roll goes.

A turntable stretch wrapper's mast and film carriage, a spare roll of machine film standing at its foot
A turntable wrapper's mast and film carriage, a spare machine roll at its footPhoto: Bene16, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped; marks blurred, blurred edges cropped off)

A power pre-stretch carriage stretches film between two rollers before it reaches the load. Hand film stretches something like 25 to 100 percent; machine film on a powered carriage runs at 150 to 350 percent.4 Stretched that far, a thinner film can hold the same pallet, and each roll wraps more of them.

What holds the load is containment force: the squeeze of every layer added together. Thinner film can go on, as long as that force is still there when the pallet is tested.5 Tell us the wrapper and its pre-stretch when you ask, and the film is quoted to suit it.

Machine film · Containment force

Who it supplies

Docks that wrap pallets every day, anywhere in the US.

We supply film across the US: put the delivery ZIP on the request and the quote is made out for that dock. Find your state for the industries wrapping pallets near you, or read how buying works.

Sources

  1. AAA Polymer, "A guide to buying stretch wrap film" (reviewed 2026-11-13)
  2. Lantech, "Blown vs. cast: how is stretch film made?" (reviewed 2026-11-13)
  3. Industrial Packaging, "Difference between shrink and stretch film" (reviewed 2026-11-13)
  4. Colony Packaging, "4 differences between stretch film and shrink film" (reviewed 2026-11-13)
  5. Lantech, "Use the force: containment force is the key to safe pallet loads" (reviewed 2026-11-13)

Facts on this page last reviewed 2026-11-13.

Ask for a stretch film quote

Tell us the film, the width, the gauge if you know it and roughly how many rolls you go through a month. We will come back with a quote.

  • Step 1 asks what you need, how much a month, the delivery ZIP and how to reach you
  • Step 2 asks the film, the width and the gauge; skip what you don't know