Pallet and container pooling solutions provider CHEP has launched CHEP Stretch, a new service that allows customers to use a market-leading, semi-automatic stretch wrap machine on a simple cost-per-wrap contract basis.
According to the company, the CHEP Stretch service works in a similar way to a photocopier lease, with CHEP providing a stretch wrapping machine, the stretch film, and equipment maintenance.
Rather than buying their own stretch wrap machines, which require significant investment, or leasing a machine on a hire purchase basis, CHEP Stretch provides customers a more flexible solution.
Commenting on the associated cost comparison between CHEP Stretch and the alternative of hand wrapping, CHEP UK & Ireland commercial director Gill Sinclair says: “Our total cost of ownership calculator shows that for some customers we can halve their total load containment cost with the CHEP Stretch solution.”
According to CHEP, further benefits of CHEP Stretch include:
- improved product presentation
- safer, more stable loads and less manual handling that significantly reduces the potential for safety incidents
- efficient film stock-holding
- management of peaks and troughs in demand
- reliable machinery with equipment fully maintained and managed by CHEP
- BS EN415-6 compliant
- less product damage and fewer rejected loads
- minimised unproductive hours
- elimination of unpredictability
- reduced risk of film price fluctuations
- no capital investment required
- elimination of inefficient wrapping
- less re-work of rejected loads
- guaranteed inclusive maintenance
“CHEP Stretch is an important addition to our service offers, and we’ve already successfully trialled the service with a small number of customers,” says Sinclair.
In the UK, CHEP has partnered with Lantech, a stretch wrapping industry pioneer since 1972 and the world’s largest manufacturer of stretch wrapping equipment, having sold over 65,000 machines.
