It's skin packaging

Paul Hutch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Forrest W Christian
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:45 PM
> 
> I regulary get products (often circuit boards) which are packaged in an 
> apparently vacuum or heat-shrink shrunk package which has usually 
> bubbles on the bottom and a fairly heavy plastic on the top.   I seem to 
> recall seeing a video of one of these in operation at one point where 
> you put the product to seal on the bottom layer, lower the top plastic 
> into place, and then press seal, and the whole thing vacuums (or 
> shrinks) the whole assembly together.   A variation on this is the 
> packaging where you have cardstock on the back and plastic is basically 
> glued to the cardboard around the product.
> 
> I've googled 'vacuum packaging' (end up with food stuff), 'heat shrink' 
> (end up with tubing), 'product sealers'
> 
> I'm not looking for the type where you have to put your product in a bag 
> and then it sucks the air out and seals...  I'm specifically looking for 
> the type which operates quite a bit like a vacuum former..  that is, you 
> sit your stuff on a flat surface (bottom bubbles or card), and then the 
> top plastic goes over all of it and is shrunk and sealed.
> 
> Any ideas what these are even called?
> 
> -forrest
> 
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