Tool-less unpacking

BEUMER Group now provides its stretch film packaging system (BEUMER stretch hood A) with a newly developed easy opening hood: this worldwide innovation allows employees in retail stores and logistics centers to quickly and easily remove the film when unpacking or repacking the goods, without the use of any cutting tools.

Most packaging system for pallets on the market require the operator to open the film with a cutting tool. This conventional opening method could increase the risk of accidents or damage the product, and it is also more expensive.

The Easy Opening hood makes it easier for employees in logistics centers, while saving a lot of time. To achieve this BEUMER, together with a well-known film supplier, developed a technology that allows the user to open the film along a precise tear line in the center, without affecting the safety function of the stretch hood. The user can open the film quickly and easily, with no tools required. This considerably increases unpacking productivity.

After collaborating closely with its film supplier for decades, BEUMER, the machine and systems supplier, had generated this idea for film preparation.

To reduce the damage caused during transport and to satisfy the increased logistic requirements, many companies from the chemical sector opt for stretch hooding (Credit: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)

The film on the Easy Opening hood is deliberately weakened along a precise tear line in the center. This means that the film can be opened easily and quickly, with no cutting tools required (  Credit: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG)