This is a heavy duty steel strapping kit, featuring USA tools and our heavy duty ribbon strap dispenser.  This setup is a 2 piece strapping tool kit requiring a tensioner to tension the steel strapping and a sealer to crimp the seal to the steel strapping.

Melbourne packaging are the industry leaders when it comes to high quality tools and strapping and this setup is no exception featuring our USA made AS100 steel strap tensioner and AS-150-19 Sealer.

Applications

The applications for this type of setup are many, they include, timber packs, wall frames and truss, palletising goods, lighter loads of steel.

Break load and system strength

The steel strapping has a break load of 798 kg, when the seal (crimp) is applied. The system strength of the setup is approximately 558kg as you lose approximately 30% of the strength at the seal.

Items required in Setup kit.

Code	Description
As100	Standard steel strapping setup
AS150-19	19mm Steel strapping sealer
ABB3	19mm SO Seals
AAK3A	19mm x 0.56mm Ribbon steel strapping
ADL60	Steel strapping dispenser

Advantages

• Heavy duty tools
• Simple to use
• Steel lays perfectly flat, easy to pass under pallets or goods.
• High strength 798 kg break load steel
• Highly reliable seal joint
• heavy duty dispenser cart, superior to a frame dispensers.

It’s a great setup for low volume users with a single station or high volume users that require multiple stations setup throughout their yard or warehouse. Its also an ideal setup for onsite teams packaging up pallet racking or scaffolding as the thin roll can easily fit behind a truck seat or in a storage compartment.

Limitations

• Requires flat or straight surface to mount the tensioner.
• PET(Polyester) price per Meter is somewhat cheaper.
• Slow speed compared to Seal-less or battery tool, but still one of the fastest manual setups to apply per strap.

Video demonstration

Example of a strapped load

Additional information

The AS100 and AS15-19 are USA Made tools, imported by Melbourne packaging supplies and distributed to our end user and reseller and distributor network. The AS100 tensioner uses  the “chisel” style feedwheel with flat teeth which gives them longer life over teeth with with the typical trigangle or diamond style point.

The AS100, also known as the ENCORE EP-1425 tensioner Suits steel strapping 12-19mm wide and from 0.40mm to 0.60mm in thickness. It uses a ratchet mechanism with pawls to hold tension and has manual pawl release to release the handle while keeping the strap under tension.

The AS150-19  is capable of sealing 19mm steel strapping upto 0.60mm with the use of SO seals. It should only be used to seal the SO seals and no other steel seals. Its not suitable for plastic strapping seals etc. The AS150-150 has the longest handle on the market and are made with a curved design to make sealing easier.

Info on the strapping

The steel strapping is Australian Made using Bluescope steel, its has an approx. breaking strain of 798kg. there is approximately 16kg Per roll. Melbpack sells by the KG so you get exactly what you pay for every time. A lot of our competitors operate on a roll price, but you will find their roll weights to be only 10-12kg.

The steel strapping is what we call “Ribbon wound” where the width of the roll is the width of the strapping, in this case its 19mm. The strapping is designed to fit in an a frame type dispenser or a bucket style trolley dispenser with the plates approximate 25mm apart.

Info on the seals

The seals are also Australian made with Bluescope steel, the or snap on or “SO Seals” are design to be clipped on after tensioning the strap easily. They’re relatively thin and therefor very cost effective.

Info on the dispenser

This ADL160 ribbon steel strapping dispenser is our most heavy duty model with wheels and large tool tray, for users wanting a heavy duty dispenser to get around the watehouse.

Availability

Melbpack stocks all the above items for this steel strapping kit If you would like a demo in Victoria please get in Contact with us. Also if you are interested in reselling or distributing our tools or straps we can offer discounts for larger purchases.