Gateway Packaging – Built for the Demands of Warehousing At Gateway Packaging, we understand that the warehousing and logistics sector runs on precision, speed, and protection. While large-scale systems and equipment get most of the attention, it’s the everyday consumables—tapes, films, wraps, and edge protectors—that quietly hold the system together. In this blog, we explore […]
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Every industry has that one process that looks simple from the outside but quietly determines whether everything else runs smoothly. In timber, pallet manufacturing, and steel production, that process is strapping. Get it right and loads arrive securely, your team stays safe, and your compliance record stays clean. Get it wrong and the consequences show […]
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Running a logistics operation without proper pallet strapping is a bit like stacking groceries in the back of a ute and hoping for the best on the freeway. It works fine until it doesn’t — and when it doesn’t, everything is suddenly very expensive very quickly. What are pallet strapping machines? Pallet strapping machines are […]
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Steel strapping does not forgive mistakes. It holds loads that plastic cannot and when it fails, it fails fast. A snapped strap under tension moves like a thrown blade. That is why the right tools, the right process, and the right safety practice matter every single time your team works with steel. What Is Steel […]
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Now here is a question worth asking on any Australian manufacturing or logistics floor. If your operation is strapping pallets manually, what is that actually costing you not in the price of the strapping material, but in time, labour, consistency, and the occasional load failure in transit? The global strapping machine market is valued […]
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So here is where most operations get confused. The term “strapping tape” is used to describe two very different products. The first is a polypropylene adhesive tape available in narrow widths, applied by hand or machine, and closed with buckles that bundles, reinforces, and secures lighter loads quickly without needing tensioners, sealers, or strapping machines. […]
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So here is the question that comes up on every heavy industrial operation that has tried everything else. When the load is too heavy for composite strapping, too rigid for PET, too exposed for poly woven what do you reach for? Steel strapping. The global steel strapping market is projected at USD 1.338 billion in 2026, […]
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Walk any construction site and steel is doing double duty, as beams, as mesh, as the strap holding a scaffold bundle on the back of a ute. Here is the thing your foreman already knows: steel strapping bites. It rusts. It recoils. When a load shifts on a rough track, steel can part suddenly and […]
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Composite Strapping: Your Questions Answered Ask ten different site supervisors about composite strapping and you get the same handful of questions every time. Here is the thing: that is not because the answers are hard, it is because nobody explains system breaking strength properly the first time somebody asks. So before your crew orders another […]
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The Tenoso TS-464 is a battery operated poly-strapping tool that is suitable for heavy applications across industry.
We sat down with our sales director, Craig Phillips, who demoed the new Tenso® TS-464 Strapping Tool for our new podcast…
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