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Hand stretch wrap, by the case

Hand film is the roll you can lift with one hand and walk round a pallet with. It is short enough to wrap by hand or from a dispenser, it comes four or more to a case, and it is what a dock without a wrapper uses on every load. The common roll is 18 inches wide and 1,500 feet long at 80 gauge on a 3 inch core.1 Narrower rolls tie bundles; wider ones cover a tall stack in fewer passes.

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A part-wrapped pallet of cartons by a loading door, a hand roll on its dispenser still trailing film to the load
A load part-wrapped by hand, the roll on its dispenser still trailing film to the palletIllustrative image, generated; not a photograph of our stock

The hand range

Four pages, each a roll or a way of buying it.

  • Two machine rolls side by side: a glossy, clearer cast roll and a hazier blown roll

    Stretch wrap rolls, by spec

    12 · 15 · 18 · 20 in wide · 3 in core

    Every hand roll written as width x length x gauge, so a reorder matches the roll on your shelf.

  • A single roll of clear hand stretch film standing on end on a workbench, its brown core showing at the top

    18 in x 1,500 ft hand roll

    18 in x 1,500 ft x 80 ga · 4 rolls a case

    The roll most shipping docks start with, cast or blown.

  • Cases of stretch film on a pallet, one case open to show four hand rolls inside

    Pre-stretched hand film

    Sold by equivalent gauge

    Stretched at the plant, so it goes on with less pull and a lighter roll.

  • Narrow bundling rolls of stretch film on a bench beside a bundle of tubes wrapped with it

    Banding and bundling film

    Narrow rolls · extended cores

    For tying cartons, pipe, tube or lumber together rather than wrapping a whole pallet.

Wrapping by hand

What changes when there is no machine.

A person stretching film by hand gets nowhere near what a powered carriage does: roughly 25 to 100 percent against 150 to 350 percent on a machine.2 So hand film is usually a step thicker than the machine film on the same load, and the gauge chart is the place to start.3 If the arms ache by the tenth pallet, a pre-stretched roll is worth a look.

Cast hand film is quiet and clear; blown hand film clings harder and shrugs off a carton corner. Cast film suits even stacks of boxes, blown suits mixed or sharp loads.

Sources

  1. Interplas, 18 in x 1,500 ft x 80 ga blown hand stretch wrap (product listing) (reviewed 2026-11-13)
  2. Colony Packaging, "4 differences between stretch film and shrink film" (reviewed 2026-11-13)
  3. AAA Polymer, "A guide to buying stretch wrap film" (reviewed 2026-11-13)

Facts on this page last reviewed 2026-11-13.

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Give the width, gauge and cases a month. If you only know the roll by its label, copy the spec line off the case.

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  • Step 2 asks the film, the width and the gauge; skip what you don't know