Atlantic Stretch Film Packaging Overview

Atlantic Packaging, based in Wilmington, North Carolina, is a leader in the packaging industry due to their investment in equipment, product, materials, inventory, engineering, and overall expertise.  As Senior Vice President, Wes Carter, explains in this Stretch Film Methodology video, Atlantic Packaging is a strategic blend of the 3 major components of the packaging industry: the manufactures of packaging materials, the distributors of those materials, and the consulting companies who help streamline the process. Also featured here are Stewart Whitmore, Senior Vice President of Sourcing; Eric Farmer, Senior Vice President of Sales; and John Cook, Film Lab Director.

Atlantic Stretch Wrapping Methodology from Atlantic Packaging on Vimeo.

Atlantic carries a full line of films specifically tailored for all kinds of applications.  In addition to this inventory, we have invested heavily in technical and human resources to ensure that we are staffed with engineers and people who understand the equipment.  Together, this provides a real value to our customers.

Atlantic has a stretch film lab designed to test the product according to a customer’s specific use.  There are many variables when it comes to how a customer is using the film, how their equipment is monitored, how their equipment is set up, and more.  Often, our customers come to us with limited specifications about what they need.  The lab is here as a resource to help us refine the films to more closely reflect each customer’s specific applications and to broaden the range of choices for them.  It also allows us to capture lots of data on film performance and film application setup so our customers can have full confidence that they are getting the best product for their needs.

Our stretch film lab not only provides testing, data, and confidence in the product, it also helps our customers understand the properties of the film they’re buying.  We train customers on the materials, the application, and the monitoring process.

One of the first things our Atlantic Packaging does with a new customer is to perform an on-site audit to establish benchmarks.  Often, we are able to find cost savings opportunities this way where we can recommend adjustments to their equipment, standardize settings, and establish consistency with processes across the board.  This is where customers can realize a cost savings of up to 20-30%.  Plus we use our patented M.U.S.T. System for tracking and monitoring to keep them where they need to be.

Contact the experts at Atlantic Packaging today to learn more about our Stretch Film Packaging Products, Testing, and Usage Monitoring: 1-800-722-5841

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Atlantic Printing and Graphics Quality Control Process

Our interview with Terie Syme, Director of Operations for Atlantic Printing and Graphics, reveals the Atalntic Advantage when you choose us for your printing and packaging needs across the board.

Why APG? Color Consistency & Quality Control from Atlantic Packaging on Vimeo.

We understand that our customers are protective of their brand identity which is exactly why our Printing and Graphics division offers such an important value. Not only do we offer a variety of printing processes, including Digital Printing, Flexo Printing, and Offset Printing, but we also print on materials as diverse as films, pressure sensitive material, cartons, and 60 lb stock.

Our QC process ensures that a customer’s brand will remain consistent between promotional and packaged materials through any kind of printing process. Labels, cartons, and folded inserts will have a uniformity of color and brand identity throughout. We employ stringent testing across all materials to make sure the customer is getting the same look regardless of the variety of printing processes and substrates.

Using Atlantic Printing and Graphics for your complete commercial printing needs results in consistency across the board – and that is a value worthy of your investment.

Contact us today to learn more: 1-800-722-5841

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Commercial Paper Sheeting and Converting Services

The video below features an interview with Geoff Searcy, Vice President of our Commercial Paper Converting division based in Charlotte, NC. Listen as Geoff provides a glimpse into the history of Atlantic Packaging and our paper converting services which have expanded exponentially since our start in 1946 as a small town newspaper.

Commercial Paper Converting Interview from Atlantic Packaging on Vimeo.

We purchased our first precision sheeter in the mid-1980′s and in 1990, demand had grown enough that we purchased our second sheeter at that time. In 1992, we added 2 more and growth in our paper converting division has continued since then.

Commercial Paper Converting services a broad customer base. We work with regional paper merchants to convert product, primarily bleach board, and provide quick turn service as well as carton and skid inventory.

We also work directly with customers on folding carton accounts, providing custom sizes, quick turns, and expansive inventory programs.

Aside from our rapid growth in terms of equipment and production ability, we have also expanded our product offerings with value added equipment. Atlantic Packaging Commercial Paper Converting now offers a number of products and services that most mills are not able to provide:

  • Digital Sheeting
  • Long Format Sheeting
  • Embossing
  • Laminating

Our laminating and embossing capabilities allow us to produce casino grade playing cards.  Our laminating services cover Paper to Paper, including an opaque sheet from StopLight, Paper to Board, and Board to Board.

We feel that Atlantic Packaging stands out among the competition through the following qualities:

  • Service- we work to make things easy for our customers
  • Capacity – we maintain a large inventory on-site for quick turnarounds
  • Versatility – in addition to paper sheeting, we also offer digital sheeting, large format sheeting, embossing, slitting, rewinding, carton packing, and laminating.

We invite you to contact the experts at Atlantic Packaging to learn more about any of the services offered in our Commercial Paper Converting division under the leadership of Geoff Searcy: 800-722-5841

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Stretch Film Packaging – Puncture Test

Atlantic Packaging performs extensive testing on all their packaging products, including stretch film packaging.  The video below demonstrates a typical test done on stretch film. The test is used to determine how much we can down gauge as compared to the film a customer might currently be using. In this test we are measuring the ability of film packaging stretched under certain conditions to withstand a puncture or tear hazard.

Contact Atlantic to learn more about our stretch film packaging or our testing and design processes: 800.722.5841

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Atlantic Packaging Paperboard Converting in Summerville, SC

Atlantic Packaging features a state-of-the-art paper converting facility in Summerville, South Carolina. The video below demonstrates our equipment at work performing the core functions of precision sheeting, rewinding, and fourside guillotine trimming.

Our commercial printing customers as well as tag & label and folded carton customers benefit from our extensive first quality board inventory, not to mention our dedicated transportation network that delivers skids on time, every time.

Atlantic offers MeadWestvaco’s SBS product as well as Kapston’es uncoated Kraftpak and Graphic Packaging’s coated unbleached board (SUS). Our most recent capability addition is a laminating system designed for paper to paper, paper to board, and board to board grades up to 48pt.

Learn more about our Paperboard Converting services or call our converting experts today at 1-800-722-5841.

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Atlantic Packaging Converting Facility in Greensboro, NC

Get an inside look at Atlantic Packaging’s paper converting operation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Our advanced technology, efficient operations, and dedicated engineers and staff in Greensboro provide an enormous advantage to our customers in terms of quality, precision, and cost.

Atlantic Packaging is committed to providing the best service, products, and delivery possible. We offer MeadWestvaco’s SBS product, Kapston’es uncoated Kraftpak, and Graphic Packaging’s coated unbleached board (SUS). We also recently incorporated a laminating system designed for converting paper to paper, paper to board, and board to board grades up to 48pt.

We invite you to learn more about Atlantic Packaging Paper Converting products and services or to simply pick up the phone and find out how we can help you improve efficiency and reduce costs with our paper converting services: 1-800-722-5841.

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Commercial Paper Converting – Charlotte, NC

Our Commercial Paper Converting facility in Charlotte, North Carolina features extensive on-site materials and capabilities as well as some of our best engineers to ensure that our standards are met and exceeded for efficiency, quality, and service.

Commercial Paper Converting – Charlotte, NC from Atlantic Packaging on Vimeo.

Our Commercial Paper Converting service focuses on paperboard and fine paper grades. Our 250,000 square foot facility in Charlotte, NC carries a vast on-site roll inventory and full caliper range. Our state-of-the-art equipment includes the Maxson Digital Sheeter and the Jagenberg Synstar Sheeter and allows us to offer the following features and services:

  • Slitting and Rewinding
  • Dual Fly Knife Precision Sheeting
  • Quick Turns
  • Special Sizes
  • Dust Free Trim Removal System
  • Guillotine Trimming
  • Embossing
  • Laminating

Our commercial converting materials and service feature paper to paper converting, paper to board, board to board, rigid boxboard, heavyweight SBS, and casino grade palying card. Every Atlantic Packaging client benefits from our unequaled service platform while our environment benefits from our unwavering commitment to sustainability.

Contact our expert team today to learn more about how our commercial paper converting materials and services can benefit your business: 1-800-722-5841.

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Material Usage Standards Tracking M.U.S.T.

MUST, Material Usage Standards Tracking, was developed by Atlantic Packaging to address the excessive cost of pallet wrapping due to the inherent variability and waste in stretch film application.

Material Usage Standards Tracking (M.U.S.T.) from Atlantic Packaging on Vimeo.

Our objectives are to drive load consistency, optimize standards, improve sustainability and maximize load integrity. When monitored correctly, these standards virtually eliminate damage and loss during shipping.

Load shifting and damage occur not only from under application of stretch film but also from the improper stretching and improper application of adequate amounts of film.

Atlantic’s MUST program accomplishes these objectives through a monitoring and communication system that continuously audits film application for improved product protection at significantly lower unit costs.

Material Usage Standards Tracking
MUST hardware is also retrofittable to virtually every brand of stretch wrapper available today so our customers can get the full value out of their existing equipment.

For manufacturers utilizing automatic stretch wrapping equipment in high volume, MUST delivers immediate value and consistency in stretch wrapping like never before in the industry.

Over application of film leads to increased costs and under application can result in load failures. These problems emerge from day to day operator changes and deteriorated film carriage performance.

Damage Due to Inadequate Stretch Film Packaging

When operators reduce force levels to avoid film breaks during the wrap cycle, they use more film and compromise load integrity. Deviations from optimal wrap pattern settings contribute to further complications.

The film carriage is the main component on a stretch wrapper that manipulates film, and as with all mechanical devices, its performance degrades over time. When the rollers become smooth and out of alignment, the prestretch values begin to wane.

In order to deliver maximum holding force at the lowest cost, high performance stretch films should be pre-stretched 250-300%. Unfortunately, to the naked eye, a load wrapped at these percentages is indistinguishable from a load wrapped with much lower percentages. As pre-stretch diminishes on a wrapper, there is no way to measure this issue without physical testing. These “sub-par” conditions can exist for days, weeks or months before they are corrected. UNTIL NOW.

MUST hardware is also retrofittable to virtually every brand of stretch wrapper available today so our customers can get the full value out of their existing equipment.

For manufacturers utilizing automatic stretch wrapping equipment in high volume, MUST delivers immediate value and consistency in stretch wrapping like never before in the industry.

The MUST system monitors every load that is wrapped on a given stretch wrapper, and the amount of film applied to a load is recorded and graphed in real-time. If a load is wrapped out of the engineered benchmark, production knows immediately. MUST Monitoring gives plant personnel the necessary tool to ensure that no load ever leaves their facility with improper stretch film application.

MUST Monitoring

For the first time procurement departments and manufacturing managers conclusively know the unit film costs of every pallet wrapped. The true stretch wrapping cost has previously been the only unit unknown in the supply chain. With MUST this is no longer a mystery.

So what is the true value of MUST?

It identifies variations in film usage and application, then initiates a response to resolve the problem. When this program is implemented correctly, it virtually eliminates waste and variability in stretch wrapping pallets of goods. The MUST System significantly reduces total film cost, eliminates substantial amounts of plastic in the waste stream, creates standardization , and reveals the true unit cost to stretch wrap your product.

MUST ends the unknown.

Contact the experts at Atlantic Packaging today to see how your operation can benefit from MUST Monitoring: 1-800-722-5841

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Atlantic Caribbean

Atlantic-Caribbean, located just outside the Dominican Republic capital city of Santo Domingo, services a variety of trade zone and local market companies.

The Atlantic Packaging Dominican Republic facility distributes packaging equipment and materials, and also has extensive converting capabilities for medical and electronic foam packaging, textile paperboard insert converting and up to 10 color label production capability.

Atlantic-Caribbean is highly focused on the pharma-medical device, textile, electronic, and food packaging businesses on the island.

Contact our Caribbean office directly with inquiries regarding our operations in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico or learn more about our other locations in the U.S. and Central America:

Atlantic Caribbean Products
Santo Domingo, DR
Zona Franca Industrial Atlantic
San Andres, Boca Chica
Dominican Republic
809-523-9047

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Atlantic Printing & Graphics

A look behind the scenes at the printing process at Atlantic Printing & Graphics. See the industrial tools members of our team use to efficiently create professional, high quality printed products for a huge variety of uses and industries.

Watch as raw materials are transformed into labels, folded cartons, product inserts, and much more.

Atlantic Printing & Graphics’ state of the art manufacturing floor allows the flexibility to handle quick turnaround projects, as well as high volume printing orders. By integrating several technologies we can handle all aspects of complex print jobs such as multi-color folded cartons, all under one roof. This shortens production time and keeps costs down.

Atlantic Printing and Graphics also offers full service design services. Turn to our talented graphic artists to design high quality packaging for just about any product. Cut down on confusion between design and production by working with our closely integrated teams. We make use of the latest technology for color calibration, quality control, proofing, and more to improve efficiency and the finished product.

To learn more about the printing capabilities of Atlantic Printing and Graphics simply call 1-800-722-5841.

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