Our Products
At Excelothene, we offer a comprehensive range of high-quality polythene products designed to meet the diverse needs of businesses across various industries.
Our selection includes durable polythene sheeting, bags, tubing, and customised solutions, all engineered to enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs. Each product is sourced and manufactured to the highest standards, ensuring reliability and performance in every application.
Backed by over 25 years of industry experience, our expert team provides tailored advice to help you select the most effective solution, supported by services such as stockholding, recycling programmes, and staff training to maximise the value of your polythene use.
Stretch Wrap
Stretch wrap is a key product in load containment, helping to secure pallets and items during storage or transit. Whether applied by hand or machine, it offers flexible, durable protection while minimising movement and damage. Excelothene provides a comprehensive range of stretch wrap solutions, each tailored to specific applications and offering opportunities for savings, sustainability, and performance optimisation.
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Hand pallet wrap is ideal for low-volume or mobile operations. It's easy to apply, cost-effective, and doesn’t require any equipment.
Specifications: Available in blown, or cast film. Widths typically 400mm–500mm. Thickness ranges from 5 to 34 microns.
Recycled Content: Excelothene offers hand wrap films with up to 30% post-consumer recycled content, complying with current regulations.
Savings with Excelothene: Our high-strength films allow you to use less wrap per pallet, reducing both cost and plastic waste.
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Machine pallet wrap is suited for high-volume operations, providing consistent tension and load stability.
Specifications: Supplied in standard and power pre-stretch formats. Thicknesses range from 6 to 35 microns, with stretch capabilities up to 400%.
Recycled Content: Machine films are available with recycled content without sacrificing performance.
Savings with Excelothene: Our machine wrap solutions help cut wrap usage per pallet by up to 40% through improved film technology and application efficiency.
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Spiral wrap is used for bundling or securing elongated items such as piping, furniture parts, or irregular loads.
Specifications: Narrow-width film from 50mm to 250mm. Typically 12–34 microns thick.
Recycled Content: Excelothene spiral wrap is available with recycled content options while maintaining puncture resistance.
Savings with Excelothene: We offer tailored film dimensions to reduce waste and increase efficiency in bundling applications.
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Excelothene supplies a full range of pallet wrap machines, from semi-automatic to fully automated systems.
Recycled Content Compatibility: Our machines are optimised to work with high recycled-content films without jamming or film failure.
Savings with Excelothene: By pairing the right machine with the right film, we help reduce wrap usage, lower energy costs, and improve cycle time.
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For every product category, Excelothene provides:
High-Strength Films: We supply advanced films engineered for maximum strength, allowing you to secure loads with fewer wraps while maintaining or improving stability.
Down-Gauging Opportunities: By using stronger, more efficient film types, we help you reduce film thickness without compromising performance—cutting down plastic use and cost per pallet.
Increased Load-Holding Force: Our films are designed to optimise tension and cling, ensuring tighter, more stable loads even with less material.
Sustainability & Waste Reduction: Using less film not only saves money—it also reduces waste, improves recycling outcomes, and supports your environmental goals.
Shrink Film
Shrink film is a versatile packaging material that conforms tightly around products when heat is applied, providing tamper-evidence, weather resistance, and load stability. Excelothene offers a wide range of shrink film options to suit different applications and machinery. Our focus is on helping you reduce costs, improve pack integrity, and lower environmental impact through advanced materials and expert advice.
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Hand shrink film is suitable for all volume work or where machinery may not be practical.
Specifications: Supplied in multiple formats up-to 14mtrs in width. Common thicknesses range from 55 to 300 microns.
Recycled Content: Available with up to 50% recycled material, maintaining load stability and shrink performance.
Savings with Excelothene: We help reduce film thickness without sacrificing pack strength, using high-performance materials that shrink faster and tighter with less heat.
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Used in high-speed lines, automatic shrink film works seamlessly with shrink tunnels for consistent packaging.
Specifications: Engineered for various machines—Our films are plug and play with little to no changing of machine settings.
Recycled Content: Excelothene films include sustainable options with recycled content while maintaining machinability.
Savings with Excelothene: We match the correct film type to your equipment, improving throughput and reducing downtime, waste, and film use per pack.
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Shrink hooding is used primarily for pallet containment in industries such as construction materials, beverages, and bagged goods
Specifications: Customisable sizes and strengths. Thicknesses typically 80 to 150 microns, with high shrink ratios for tight pallet coverage.
Recycled Content: Excelothene offers shrink hoods containing up to 50% recycled content, maintaining tear resistance and shrink integrity.
Savings with Excelothene: We optimise shrink performance and film size to minimise excess material and improve load security, even in harsh transit conditions.
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Heat shrink guns are used for manual shrinking of film, especially for pallet covers and large or irregular loads. They are ideal for sites without shrink tunnels or where flexibility and mobility are key.
Specifications:. Designed for use with polyethene shrink film, our shrink gun can handle any task.
Recycled Content Compatibility: Our shrink films with recycled content work seamlessly with heat guns, offering consistent shrinkage and secure load containment.
Savings with Excelothene: our shrink gun can speed up shrink time, and minimise rework due to poor film performance.
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Excelothene delivers cost efficiency and pack performance through smarter shrink film strategies:
High-Strength Films: Our films are engineered for stronger shrink force and puncture resistance, allowing thinner gauges to perform like thicker ones.
Down-Gauging Opportunities: We identify where you can move to lower micron films while maintaining pack quality, reducing raw material costs.
Improved Shrink Performance: Our films shrink faster and tighter at lower temperatures, saving energy and increasing throughput.
Trials & Analysis: We conduct practical tests on your machinery to prove performance and cost savings in your actual environment.
Sustainability & Waste Reduction: Using less film and incorporating recycled materials reduces your environmental footprint while supporting circular economy goals.
Polythene Tubing
Polythene tubing is a versatile and cost-effective packaging material used for wrapping, protecting, or sealing items of varying lengths and sizes. Supplied on rolls, it allows for custom-length packaging, ideal for long products or batch packing. Excelothene offers a full range of tubing options, including printed, gusseted, recycled-content, and high-strength grades to meet diverse industrial and commercial needs.
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Layflat tubing is used for creating custom-length bags using a heat sealer—perfect for packing items of varying or awkward lengths.
Specifications: Available in rolls with internal widths from 25mm to 2,900mm+. Various thicknesses from 10 to 300+ microns.
Recycled Content: Layflat tubing with recycled content is available for both industrial and general-use packaging.
Savings with Excelothene: We help match your product dimensions with the ideal tubing roll, reducing waste and sealing time.
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Gusseted tubing features expandable side gussets, allowing it to open into a wider form to accommodate bulky or irregularly shaped items. It's ideal for pallet covers, furniture, textiles, and large components.
Specifications: Available in a wide range of blends, with widths from 100mm up to 4800mm+. Thicknesses typically range from 10 to 300 microns.
Recycled Content: Offered with up to 95% recycled content while maintaining strength and shape retention.
Savings with Excelothene: We tailor gusset sizes and film thickness to your exact requirements, reducing excess material and improving pack efficiency.
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Printed tubing offers all the flexibility of standard tubing with the added benefit of brand visibility, handling instructions, or traceability.
Specifications: Custom print in 1–8 colours on clear, tinted, or opaque films. Suitable for manual or automated packing processes.
Recycled Content: Printed tubing available with up to 95% recycled material, with excellent print finish.
Savings with Excelothene: We design for print efficiency and reduced waste while ensuring film strength and visual impact.
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Excelothene helps customers get more value from polythene tubing through smart material and packaging strategies:
High-Strength Films: Our advanced formulations allow for thinner gauges while maintaining durability—ideal for down-gauging and waste reduction.
Down-Gauging Opportunities: We analyse your current tubing usage and recommend more efficient options that maintain pack integrity.
Right-Sizing & Roll Optimisation: We provide custom roll sizes and tubing dimensions to eliminate over-specifying and excess film.
Usage Reviews: Excelothene offers full usage assessments to show real savings in material use, storage, and packaging time.
Sustainable Materials: All tubing options are available with recycled content and can support your sustainability goals and compliance needs.
Printed Polythene Packaging
Printed polythene packaging combines product protection with branding and communication. Whether you need eye-catching retail bags, branded pallet wrap, or printed mailing films, Excelothene delivers high-quality print and material performance. We help you reduce packaging waste, elevate your brand, and comply with sustainability goals—all while keeping costs under control.
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Printed bags are used widely in retail, industrial, and e-commerce settings to promote brand identity while protecting contents.
Specifications: Available as food grade bags, packing bags, and mailing bags. Thicknesses range from 10 to 250 microns, in LDPE, MDPE, and other blends.
Recycled Content: Options available with up to 95% recycled content, including post-consumer waste.
Savings with Excelothene: We help down-gauge where possible and optimise bag dimensions to reduce plastic use and cost per unit, all while achieving crisp, high-resolution printing.
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Shrink film with print offers both containment and advertising.
Specifications: Polyethene shrink film printed in up to 8 colours. Thicknesses typically 25–200 microns, suitable for automated or manual shrinking.
Recycled Content: Printed shrink films can include up to 50% recycled material without compromising print clarity or shrink performance.
Savings with Excelothene: By matching print design with optimal film thickness and shrink performance, we reduce both raw material costs and waste from misprints or poor film behaviour.
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Printed pallet wrap enhances brand visibility and security, preventing tampering and unauthorised viewing during transit.
Specifications: Blown and cast stretch films printed in 1–3 colors, suitable for both hand and machine application. Thicknesses range from 17 to 35 microns.
Recycled Content: Excelothene offers printed pallet wrap containing recycled content, compliant with current legislation and suitable for use on modern pallet wrappers.
Savings with Excelothene: Our high-performance films allow for down-gauging even with print, maintaining load security while reducing film use and cost.
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Excelothene helps customers enhance packaging performance and brand impact—without increasing cost:
High-Strength Printed Films: We use advanced polythene blends that support high-quality print and strong packaging performance, even at reduced gauges.
Down-Gauging Without Compromise: Our films maintain print integrity and strength even in thinner thickness’s, cutting material usage and costs.
Efficient Print Runs: We optimise print layouts, repeat lengths, and ink coverage to reduce waste and setup time.
Packaging Reviews: We evaluate your current setup and show how printed films can perform better while reducing material input.
Sustainable Materials: We offer recycled-content films and sugarcane blends that support circular economy and packaging compliance.
Polythene Bags
Polythene bags are a reliable, flexible packaging solution used across retail, industrial, medical, and logistics sectors. Excelothene supplies an extensive range of polythene bags tailored to your exact requirements—whether it’s custom sizes, prints, film blends, or recycled content. Our bags offer protection, presentation, and performance, while helping reduce material waste and packaging costs.
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Ideal for general-purpose use, plain polythene bags offer cost-effective protection and containment for a wide variety of items.
Specifications: Available in LDPE, MDPE, and HDPE. Sizes range from small parts bags to large liners. Thicknesses from 9 to 250 microns.
Recycled Content: Supplied with up to 100% recycled content where applicable.
Savings with Excelothene: We help select the right gauge for your product—avoiding over-specification and reducing plastic use and costs.
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Printed bags enhance your brand image, communicate product information, and improve traceability.
Specifications: Printed in up to 8 colours, available in multiple formats. Options include tinted, clear, or opaque films.
Recycled Content: High-quality print can be applied to films with recycled content, supporting sustainability without compromising appearance.
Savings with Excelothene: We streamline print designs and optimise print coverage to reduce costs, waste, and lead times.
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Made in BRC-approved factories, these bags are suitable for direct food contact and sensitive applications in the food, pharma, and agriculture sectors.
Specifications: Available as liners, sheets, or flat bags. Supplied in virgin LDPE or MDPE. Sizes and thicknesses customised for bins, trays, or ingredients.
Savings with Excelothene: We offer size and thickness-optimised liners to reduce overuse, avoid double-bagging, and improve packing speeds in high-volume operations.
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Built for heavy-duty applications, our industrial bags and liners protect goods during storage, transit, or processing—ideal for powders, components, textiles, and scrap.
Specifications: Available in large formats, flat or gusseted, up to pallet-sized. Thickness from 9 to 300 microns. Suitable for manual or automated use.
Recycled Content: High recycled-content options available, including 100% recycled blends for non-food use.
Savings with Excelothene: We help reduce material use by specifying high-strength films that perform at lower thickness’s—cutting cost and waste, while maintaining toughness and durability.
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Designed for high-speed packing, these bags are ideal for food, clothing, or light industrial items packed on automatic lines.
Specifications: Perforated or pre-punched for mounting on wickets or bagging machines. Custom sizes, vents, and film blends available.
Recycled Content: Automation-friendly bags can still incorporate recycled content while maintaining seal and clarity performance.
Savings with Excelothene: Our fit-for-purpose bag formats reduce downtime, film waste, and machine misfeeds—improving productivity.
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Excelothene brings together customisation, efficiency, and sustainability to make your bag packaging work harder:
Right-Sized Bags: We help you select the correct size and thickness for your product, reducing excess material and bag cost.
Down-Gauging Opportunities: High-strength film blends allow thinner bags to do the job of thicker ones—cutting plastic and cost.
Sustainable Options: We supply bags with high levels of recycled content, as well as recyclable sugar cane solutions.
On-Site Packaging Reviews: We assess your usage and propose smarter, leaner alternatives that reduce consumption and improve packing time.
Custom Packs & Print: We tailor supply formats (boxed, loose, on rolls) and print designs to your workflow and branding needs.
Bespoke Polythene
Bespoke polythene packaging is tailored to meet your exact product, process, and branding needs. Whether you require custom sizes, special film blends, unique print designs, or technical performance, Excelothene delivers precision-engineered polythene solutions. Our focus is on helping you reduce waste, enhance efficiency, and meet sustainability goals through packaging designed specifically for your application.
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We supply polythene products in custom widths, lengths, gauges, and formats to suit your packing process and product type.
Specifications: Made to order in layflat tubing, gusseted tubing, pallet covers, sheeting, and bags. Thicknesses from 5 to 300 microns.
Recycled Content: Custom products available with up to 95% recycled content, including PCR (post-consumer recycled) and PIR (post-industrial recycled) materials.
Savings with Excelothene: By supplying packaging that exactly fits your product, we reduce over-specification, cut plastic use, and lower your packaging costs.
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Our technical team can create bespoke film blends for specific load types, environmental conditions, or equipment.
Specifications: LDPE, MDPE, HDPE, and co-extruded blends. Tailored for strength, stretch, puncture resistance, or specific sealing properties.
Recycled Content: Custom blends can include recycled content without compromising performance, and meet regulatory requirements.
Savings with Excelothene: By tailoring film performance to your use case, we reduce failures, increase throughput, and allow for down-gauging.
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From branding to barcodes, we provide high-quality print on bags, sheeting, wrap, and film.
Specifications: Up to 8-colour print on clear, tinted, or opaque film. Suitable for food-safe and industrial use.
Recycled Content: Printed films available with recycled content while maintaining excellent print quality and film strength.
Savings with Excelothene: Smart print design and layout reduce waste, setup time, and over-ordering—cutting costs while enhancing presentation.
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We develop bespoke packaging for technical applications including food, pharma, furniture, and construction.
Specifications: Available with anti-static, UV, VCI (corrosion-inhibiting), or food-grade additives. Can be supplied in sheet, tube, or bag formats.
Recycled Content: Where compatible, we offer these specialist films with recycled content options that still meet application requirements.
Savings with Excelothene: Targeted performance reduces product damage, improves packing efficiency, and extends storage life.
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Excelothene takes a consultative approach to bespoke packaging—delivering more than just film:
Right-Sizing & Fit-for-Purpose: Custom sizing and properties ensure you use the right amount of film—no more, no less.
Down-Gauging Through Testing: We trial new film blends to achieve the same or better results using less material.
Process Optimisation: We align film design with your machinery or manual process for smoother packing, less downtime, and higher output.
Sustainability Built In: Customisation allows us to integrate recycled content and reduce waste at source, helping you meet eco-targets.
Assessment: From 1st contact we understand your needs, recommend solutions, and provide samples for real-world testing.