Modern tape production
in Muckental
As a system supplier, we not only offer you our high-quality strapping machines, but also the strapping that goes with them. In 2007, we invested heavily in the "strap production" business area and built one of the most modern production facilities in Europe in the Odenwald, just a few kilometers from our headquarters. The entire belt production, including storage, dispatch and order processing, now takes place in the factory halls and office buildings. This will enable us to meet the increasing demand for high-quality strapping with short delivery times in the future.
Several extrusion lines work around the clock, 7 days a week, to produce polypropylenePP and polyesterPET strapping in fully automatic operation. The straps, which are between 5 and 15.5 mm wide, can be used in all strapping machines, regardless of machine type or manufacturer.
The plant meets the increasing customer demand for sustainability in a variety of ways. When building the production facility, we used the potential of the huge flat roof to install a photovoltaic system with a collector area of 2,500 square meters, which feeds electricity into the grid. Energy does not go to waste inside the hall either. Insulated hot parts ensure energy-efficient systems whose remaining waste heat is used to heat the halls on cold days. The energy from braking power is in turn made available to the system as electricity, as parts of the production plant have units with an electronic converter.
PP strapping
These tapes are available in 5 - 15 mm widths. The standard colors are white and black. Other colors and dimensions in the same quality can be produced on request. Please do not hesitate to contact us! Our strapping is also available from qualified packaging dealers.
PET strapping
These straps are available in 9.5 - 15.5 mm widths and are made almost exclusively from recycled material. They are temperature-stable and guarantee high strength and elasticity for optimum load securing. They are therefore ideally suited for many different branches of industry. Our strapping is also available from qualified packaging dealers.
Production process
We have been producing our high-quality strapping on a total area of 4,250 square meters in one of the most modern production facilities in Europe since 2008. Not only the entire facility, but also the special extrusion lines are state-of-the-art. The entire production process is fully automated, from feeding the production facilities with raw materials to palletizing the ready-to-ship material.
The raw materials PP and PET are melted in an extrusion process and pressed through a tool for primary shaping. After subsequent cooling in a water bath, the melt is stretched, relaxed, cooled again and finally wound up as a finished Strap . A transfer carriage picks up the coil fully automatically from the winder and takes it to the labeling station. The production data is printed on the front of the glued-in label. At the same time, this data is stored electronically on a chip. Depending on the production order, the bobbins are then stored or prepared for loading.
Below we explain in detail which stages your Strap goes through until it is available as a stable packaging material. The production processes for PP and PET are 80% similar.
- The pellets or PET are melted in the extruder after internal preparation.
- The molten material is extruded through multi-slot nozzles and the melt is then cooled in a water bath until it solidifies.
Full automation in favor of quantity and quality
By fully automating our belt production, we have succeeded in increasing the quantity and quality of our production. The plant is in operation around the clock, seven days a week, with the exception of a few closing times. This has enabled us to significantly increase our production capacity to more than 10,000 tons of plastic strapping per year - and further increases are still possible.
We have also been able to expand our range: We now produce strap variants between 5 and 15.5 mm. The color can also be selected individually if our customers do not want to use the standard colors white or black for Strap PP and green for Strap PET, but their own "house color". Would you like to have your company name on your strapping? Of course we can help with that too. With our wide range of products, we can respond specifically to your individual requirements and offer the right strapping solution for every application.
One code for all cases
We have introduced RFID labeling to improve production control. Immediately after the winding process, all bobbins are given a label with readable and electronically stored data, a so-called RFID tag. With this code, the origin of each bobbin can be traced exactly and any problems can be traced and solved immediately. Thanks to this seamless control option, we are always able to react immediately to any discrepancies, optimize our production process and thus guarantee the consistently high quality of our strapping.