SPOTLIGHT – SIGMA STRETCH FILM
Insights into the individual companies that make up the Sigma Plastics Group.
Our Mission:
At Sigma Stretch Film, we manufacture highly engineered films that are used to wrap pallets of product, unitizing them to ensure the safe transport of goods from point A to point B.
What we sell, is a comprehensive solution that is based on sound scientific and engineering principles that revolves around developing a customized solution for customers. This solution is developed to reduce film consumption and labor cost, increase throughput/efficiencies, sustainability (less waste going to landfill) and most importantly, getting more product to the destination in as-made condition.
Sigma Stretch Film – The Industry Leader
“Excellence through innovation, education, and creative stretch packaging solutions.”
Sigma Stretch Film’s main product is quite simply, “stretch film” but it is not that simple.
Stretch films are thin films that are wrapped around a pallet of product, stretched to a point that converts film into an “elastic band” that unitizes the individual products into one big package. You see our products sitting on shelves in big box stores.
Stretch film can be applied by hand (walking around a pallet with a small roll of film and using a person’s force to create the elastic) or by machinery that ranges from very simple ($2500) to fully automatic, in-line production equipment that can cost well over $100,000.
We have designed our product portfolio so that it works in all applications and creates customer value…if you don’t have a solution that revolves around customer value, you have nothing to say.
For more information on what we do and why we do it, visit our website, www.sigmastretchfilm.com.
Benefits of Stretch Film
Stretch Film is the cheapest insurance available! On average, the cost of film required to wrap a pallet of product is $0.50 (approximately 7 ounces of film). The average value of a pallet of product is $1,500. This means that the cost of film is 0.00033% of the value of the product it is designed to protect.
We prefer to discuss stretch film as a profit enhancing product for our clients, rather than a cost item. Think of it like this…according to the most recent study, 0.58% of all goods in the grocery distribution cycle get damaged and are unsaleable. This means that a $1 billion company would have approximately $5.8 million in annual damages. Improving and standardizing the wrapping operation could significantly reduce the amount of damage, resulting in a positive impact on their profitability and minimizing their impact on the environment by reducing the amount of unsaleable goods going into our landfills.