Stylish Skin Packaging Technique

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Skin packaging, is a kind of carded packaging  in which merchandise is positioned on a piece of paperboard, and a thin see-through sheet made up of plastic is placed and sealed above the product and paperboard. The pieces of paperboards are usually printed. The printed paperboard more often has heat-sealed coating.

The plastic film used to cover the product is always softened by reheating it and then draped over the product on the card. In few cases we can see that vacuum is used to help out in getting a firm fit and neat look. As the layer of plastic binds to the heat-seal covering on the paperboard. The skin-packed piece is then cut into separate pieces.

Skin packaging is also something that resembles a blister pack. The main dissimilarity between both the techniques is that the plastic that closes the product is bent and shaped over the product to give a trendy look instead of being pre-formed.

Skin packaging equipments are made to produce a tight parcel around any given merchandise from a film of plastic. The wrap-up that is created by skin packaging machine will set skin tight and goes along with the shape of the product so well. Packaging tools places the merchandise to be packed on top of a card or tray that will be printed.

The merchandise is over-wrapped with skin packaging film that gives a chic look to the product. Normally the skin lined plastic film will be drawn tight to the merchandise by drawing air out of the package with the use of a vacuum suction tool.

The skin packaging machineries are intended for a range of automation levels in any packaging industry. The easiest skin packaging machines need operators to load the merchandise onto the tray, then drag the skin packaging layer over the merchandise and tray. Then the machine cycle is activated.

Additional automatic skin packaging tools can carry out extra steps in the skin packaging procedures mechanically. The rank of mechanization of the skin packaging essential for the function is dependent upon the function, the productivity necessary of the skin packaging apparatus, and further function qualifications.

What is a skin board?
Skin board is a specifically created paper that is made with infinitesimal pores. These pores allow air to pass through during the process of Skin Packaging. A kind of heat activated bonding agent is applied to the board after the required specifications and packing details are printed on them.

Heated plastic sheets are spread onto the board and pulled down around the merchandise by means of vacuum.  Then when the hot plastic gets together with the glue, a bond is created. These Skin boards are fashionable and come in many sizes and thicknesses.