Safety Keeping workers safe is critical. Keeping your customers safe is important too, and many customer are requesting a switch into non-metallic strapping. Boeing said 1/3 of their work related plant injuries were caused by steel strapping, allegedly during the removal and disposal of strap. Other large companies like Caterpillar and GE have similar programs in place.
Cost switching to poly strap can cost 1/2 of steel strapping. There are several areas of savings: Banding cost per foot, eliminating seal, faster to apply (labor savings).
Does not damage product Steel strapping tends to pull in and cut corners. Poly strapping is much softer, and most people can stop using corner protectors when they switch to polyester strap.
Does not rust product If your product will spend any time out doors, you have to worry about metal strap rusting and leaving a red line on your product. This used to be a big problem with lumber. There were always the top deck boards with a red rust strapping line on them. Go through Lowes or Home Depot today, and everything has plastic strapping on it!
Weight A coil of poly strapping weights around 50 pounds. A coil of steel strapping is about 100! Which would you rather lift? The poly coils also have about double the footage, meaning you will change coils much less!
