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More Information About POF Heat Shrink Film

What Does POF Mean?

POF is an abbreviation for polyolefin and generally refers to heat shrinkable shrink film.


What Equipment Is Needed To Shrink POF?

Various machines are used, from simple heat guns to conveyor driven heat shrink tunnels. The product, volumes and purpose dictate the appropriate solution.


How Is the Shrink Film Sealed?

There are many ways of sealing the pack from a simple bar sealer, an L sealer and on to the automated machines like continuous side seal and flow wrappers.


What Is a Centerfold Roll?

Shrink film is often folded and then rolled so that when the roll is unwound, it has an open and a closed side. This is done to improve the packing efficiency when using an L sealer.

centerfold shrink film


What Is Single Wind Or Lay Flat?

This is simply a roll of film wound in a single layer. This is used for flow wrapping machines or many other automated machines.


Can I Print On POF?

The simple answer is yes. It is advisable to do this on volume lines,however.


What Temperature Does POF Shrink Film At?

Generally POF shrinks at around 150 degrees C. It is important to understand that the heat of the tunnel, the length of the tunnel, the speed through the tunnel and the type of pack being covered all need to be controlled to get the perfect shrink.


Di I Need Special Ventilation for POF?

Not because of the film. The ventilation needs to be appropriate for the heat tunnel though.