Sustainable Banding Machines: Energy-Efficient and Environmentally-Friendly Packaging Solutions
Ultrasonic banding machines can help achieve sustainability goals by reducing energy consumption up to 98% and packaging by 60% compared to shrink wrapping. Banding can help you reduce your environmental footprint in many different ways. From minimizing packaging material to replacing plastic with paper packaging to using the most energy-efficient packaging machines on the market.
Energy-efficient packaging machines - Banding machines with ultrasonic technology are the most energy-efficient packaging machines on the market. Their energy consumption is 98% lower than that of a shrink wrap machine. Ultrasonic sealing delivers energy directly to the materials being sealed, rather than transferring it in the form of heat energy.
Advantages:
- Cold welding
- Immediate readiness for operation
- Low power consumption
- No risk of injury
- No adhesives
Minimize packaging material - Banding always means reducing the packaging material to the absolute minimum. The optionally printed bands replace, for example, poly-tube bags, shrink films, strapping bands, adhesive tapes, cardboard slipcases, and additional labels.
A small calculation example and comparison
Banding with paper or film is an excellent way to reduce packaging to the absolute minimum. But banding has another major advantage: banding machines with ultrasonic technology are extremely energy-efficient.
We compared a commercial shrink wrapping machine with an ATS banding machine with ultrasonic technology by forming identical double packs from small folding boxes for one hour. The shrink machine used 11 µm and the banding machine 50 µm thick recyclable banding film. The preheating time required for the shrink machine, in contrast to the banding machine, was not included.
Banding machine with ultrasonic technology
- Products processed: 680 pcs./h
- Packaging material: 276 g
- Energy consumption: 0.06 kWh
Commercial shrinking machine
- Products processed: 221 pcs./h
- Packaging material (extrapolated to 680 pcs./h): 713 g
- Energy consumption: 3.26 kWh
The result is clear: the energy consumption of the banding machine is around 98% lower than that of the shrink-wrapping machine. The amount of material used for banding is around 60% lower.
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