Printed Polythene Ltd
Contact Details
Name: Unit 21 Barrs Fold Road
Address: Wingates Industrial Estate
Town: Westhoughton
City: Bolton
County: Greater Manchester England
Postcode: BL5 3XP
Phone: 01942 879256
Fax: 01942 876144
Website: https://www.printedpolythene.com/
E-mail: info@printedpolythene.com
Opening Times
Monday: 09:00 – 17:00
Tuesday: 09:00 – 17:00
Wednesday: 09:00 – 17:00
Thursday: 09:00 – 17:00
Friday: 09:00 – 17:00
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
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Printed Polythene Ltd
Printed Polythene Product Range
Shrink Wrap Pallet Covers
Shrink Pallet covers are the perfect way to keep your palletised loads secure, clean and weather proof. Available in both Printed or plain, clear or tinted, the cost effective way to protect your goods. Also an excellent way to advertise , promote and protect your companies name and products. All of which can be produced using Renewable Sources and are 100% recyclable. Helping towards a better environment.
Stretch Hooding Film
Polyethylene stretch tubing intended for hooding industrial goods without heat shrinkage. Different stretch properties (from 50% up to 160%), Customized holding force, Excellent puncture and tearing resistance. All of which can be produced using Renewable Sources and are 100% recyclable. Helping towards a better environment.
APPLICATIONS: Beverage Industry, Food Industry, Construction Industry, Chemical Industry/Fertilisers, Pellets, Customized applications for other sectors.
Shrink Tubing
Mono or co-extruded shrink tubing intended for automatic hooding machines using heat shrinkage. Shrink tubing can be customized for optical proprieties, mechanical properties, UV resistance, different colours available, also bicolour option. Can be printed up to 8 colours. Lastly it ensures your goods stability and is weatherproof. Including Standard tubing, No fusion tubing, Shrink film. All of which can be produced using Renewable Sources and are 100% recyclable. Helping towards a better environment.
Machine & Hand Stretch
Machine stretch film is supplied on large rolls intended for use with stretch machines & turntables, making this product perfect where high volume and continuous pallet wrapping is required, quickly proving you with a secure pallet or product. Hand Stretch is again supplied on a roll and is a quick and cost effective way of securing your loads. Unlike the machine stretch, no additional equipment is necessary so is perfect for companies with a small amount of palletised loads to be despatched. The hand stretch can also be provided with extended cores for easy hand use.
Mailing & Polythene Bags
Polythene mailing bags are a great alternative to traditional paper envelopes for all your mailing needs. From mailing paper literature in a clear lightweight bag that has been heat sealed, to sending out samples to your customers in a more robust coloured bag that has a self-adhesive strip applied at the opening, there are thousands of different specifications that could be applied to this product to suit your needs. Bags are also available in a wide range of colours, thicknesses and sizes and can also be supplied plain or printed with your company details in up to 8 colours for maximum impact. They can also be produced using Renewable Sources and are 100% recyclable. Helping towards a better environment.
Flame Retardant Films
This product is generally used to shrink wrap larger products such as boats and scaffolding. This is done to protect the working area from the elements & other pollutants as well as securing the area from theft or vandalism. Unlike a standard film, this product can be used without the potential risk of small sparks causing damage to the polythene rendering the protective layer redundant. The film is secured into place using a hand shrink gun. Flame retardant films we produce are supplied on rolls up to 12meters wide and are white, it can be produced up to 300mu in thickness & is an M-1 classification grade.
Our Polythene Capabilities
Extrusion capabilities from 25mm through to 14mtr in MONO and CO EXTRUDED films . Bag conversion capabilities up to 2.3mtr POR/perforated on a roll and 3mtr in singles, 18 printing machines at our disposal both in line and off line, producing print widths from 100mm to 2700mm wide. Up to 8 colours 1 side + lacquer or 4 colours 2 sides in random or registered repeats, ranging from 100mm up to 2280mm repeats. All of which can be made using renewable resources and are 100% recyclable helping towards a Better Environment.
Logistics & Warehousing
We serve our customers on a local, national and international basis. We are aware that this can be a complex process that needs to be handled cost effectively and efficiently, to ensure you receive your goods promptly and more importantly, undamaged. This is why we only work with experienced, professional logistics companies that pride themselves on great service, just as we do! Printed polythene warehouse. We have warehouse space where we can hold general products for immediate despatch, this also enables us to hold stock for customers for call off if you do not have the capacity to take delivery of your full consignment straight away.
Plastics and Sustainability
Plastic and sustainability are two things that seem not to have much in common, according to public opinion. Plastic is considered nowadays as the main offender guilty of all the environmental issues of the last century. By analysing this matter in a more detailed and objective way however, it emerges that replacing plastic with other materials can be far more expensive for the environment.
Plastics have delivered many benefits for society. They can be used in a wide range of applications and technologies providing economic and social advantages: plastic packaged food lasts longer reducing wastage. Plastic enables life-saving medical devices such as surgical equipment and drips light and innovative materials in cars or planes which save fuel and cut CO2 emissions moreover due to its light weight plastic transportation implies a reduction of vehicles on the road. Thanks to their versatility and capacity for innovation plastic materials also are invariably better suited for supporting innovative sustainable technologies. The main issue is that the use of plastic in modern society has enormously increased and so too have the environmental impacts associated with its production and disposal bringing people to argue that plastics should be replaced with alternative materials which may present fewer challenges for our planet. However, recent studies suggest that a move away from plastics may come at an even higher environmental cost.
Alternative packaging solutions such as glass or paper are heavier than plastic so the transport of products would cause a rise in trucks on the roads which would mean more pollution, more fuel involved, etc. Plastic packaging can be very thin meaning it uses fewer resources and takes up less space for transport which in turn means fewer trucks, trains or planes are needed to transport it. In the food industry plastic packaging guarantees long product shelf-life, hygiene and less damages in transportation therefore helping to reduce food wastage. Plastic packaging is one of the most important contributors to protecting food from spoiling. Food waste has a significantly higher environmental impact, particularly in the form of its carbon footprint, than packaging waste. It takes considerably more resources to create the food itself and therefore it makes environmental sense to protect it for as long as possible so the resources invested in its growth are not invested in vain.
- Plastics save water, the production of a plastic bags consumes less than 4% of the water needed to make a paper bag.
- Plastics help protect products – products sold loose have been found to suffer from in-store waste in some cases leading to losses of 20%.
- Plastics protects vulnerable products from damage whilst in transit and from contamination or damage by moisture, humidity, gases, microorganisms, insects and light.
- Plastics prevents waste, products kept together and spillages avoided.
- Plastics allows transport over great distances, so that we have access to a wide variety of non-local produce that, in turn, encourages trade. It also saves space through stacking objects which make transporting more efficient.
Compostable or biodegradable material?
Current biodegradable materials require specific circumstances, such as very high temperatures which are not met on our streets or in the oceans. In relation to marine litter, the UN’s chief scientist, Jacqueline McGlade said that these materials are ‘well-intentioned but wrong’. Source: The Guardian, Biodegradable plastic: false solution for ocean waste.
The UN also cautioned that using these materials may actually increase littering, as consumers would assume that because these materials would break down overtime it was acceptable to litter them. Source: UNEP (2015) Biodegradable Plastics and Marine Litter. Misconceptions, concerns and impacts on marine environments. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi.
There are applications where biodegradable compostable products can offer positive benefits to waste management. Some of these uses could be for some items in households where home composting facilities are available such as food waste. If compostable or biodegradable materials get into the recycling stream they can have detrimental effects rendering the recyclate unusable. The introduction of even the smallest amount of biodegradable material into the recycling system degrades the whole process.
Bio degradable bags are made with non renewable plastics, sometimes with small metals which help it degrade in oxygen and sunlight. The time it takes for this process to take place under the correct conditions is about 2-5 years. A landfill site which is where most end up is generally void of oxygen and light and this make the process much longer. Also as they degrade they release fossil carbon into the earths atmosphere which in turn has a negative environmental impact. It is also unclear what harmful effects the resulting residue and plastic fragments remaining in the soil and environment will have after bio-degradation, especially to wildlife and earth dwelling species such as worms and insects.
The plastics industry does not want to see any of its products in the marine environment. This problem is on a global scale, with many root causes that need to be addressed at all levels from the individual up to the government and policy. The BPF/ British Plastics Foundation has created a website marinelitterthefacts.com to outline important and often overlooked facts surrounding how marine litter is created, as well as what the industry is doing to help address the issue.
BRITISH PLASTICS FEDERATION: Why plastics are important
It’s the way in which we use plastic that needs to be improved: reducing, re-using, recycling, disposing of and burning it for energy.
PRINTED POLYTHENE HAS ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE MANAGEMENT OF PLASTIC WASTE IS A GROWING GLOBAL CONCERN AND IT IS ALREADY TAKING ITS STEPS TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY. On one hand we are focusing on the production of films containing recycled materials obtained from post-industrial and post-consumer waste. On the other hand the commitment of PRINTEDPOLYTHENE to a more sustainable future for plastic flexible packaging is put into practice by the development of materials made using bio-based feedstocks.