Shipping pallets with sensitive products, confidential value, or prolonged sun exposure requires a film that seals, conceals, and protects without compromising load stability. This black manual stretch film—also known as black stretch film or security stretch wrap—is manufactured by Fortemo from virgin LLDPE polyethylene with black pigment and UV additive, 80 gauge (20 µm), designed for logistics requiring discretion and additional light protection beyond conventional palletizing.
Key Benefits
- Total Opacity: The black pigment blocks visibility of the pallet's contents, providing an additional layer of security useful for consolidated shipments, exports, and long transits where goods pass through multiple hands.
- Light Protection with UV Additive: The film blocks direct solar radiation, extending the life of light-sensitive products (some chemicals, electronics, packaged dry foods) during storage or outdoor transport.
- High Stretch Capacity: The LLDPE formulation maintains holding strength even on heterogeneous or irregular loads, without losing grip due to the color's opacity.
- Cling to Itself Without Residue: The inner surface adheres to its own film layer and not to the product, keeping the primary packaging intact upon unwrapping.
- Professional Grade Virgin Polyethylene: 20 µm on a 305 m roll with specific UV treatment, standard format for manual dispensers in serial palletizing operations.
Typical Applications and Uses
- Export shipments, inter-island transit, and consolidation of sensitive value cargo.
- Outdoor pallet storage in covered yards, where sun and indirect light degrade sensitive products.
- Batch differentiation by color in warehouses with multiple SKUs in visual management.
- Moving and furniture transport packaging where opacity prevents scratches from dragging and conceals product trademarks.
Quality and Durability
An inexpensive black film shows its quality in two ways: poorly dispersed pigment leaves semi-transparent areas, and the lack of a UV additive makes the roll brittle under the Caribbean sun in a few weeks. Fortemo controls pigment dispersion and UV formulation in every batch, which distinguishes a serious logistics film from one that fails at the first real exposure.
Black film has three clear advantages over clear film: content discretion (useful for consolidated shipments or items sensitive to opportunistic theft), light protection for UV-sensitive goods and better roll performance under prolonged sun thanks to the built-in UV additive. The trade-off is that you lose visual reading of the pallet (barcodes, quick content ID) and you have to label the pallet on the outside. For general logistics, clear film does the job just as well.
No. The polyethylene pigment is integrated into the bulk of the polymer, not applied on the surface like ink or a painted coat, so it does not transfer by contact, pressure, moisture or condensation. The film's inner side keeps cling against itself and never touches the product. That's the difference from poorly pigmented opaque films that can leave marks on light-colored boxes or textiles.
Yes, within the intended use range. The UV additive built into the formulation significantly slows degradation from solar radiation, which keeps the wrapped pallet intact for weeks outdoors — far longer than untreated clear film. For months of exposure under direct sun the film still works, but it's worth inspecting the pallet periodically, since no polyethylene is immune to UV radiation indefinitely.
The difference comes down to three points: the quality of the base polyethylene, pigment dispersion and the actual presence of the UV additive. A generic film advertises 20 µm and opacity but delivers uneven gauge, patches with poorly dispersed pigment (semi-transparent) and no verifiable UV additive. This roll uses virgin LLDPE polyethylene with mass-integrated pigment and a controlled UV formulation, which shows the first time a pallet holds up three weeks in the sun without going brittle.
Worth keeping in mind: black film hides the contents, and many customs inspections require direct visual access to the pallet, which forces you to cut the film and re-wrap at the end. For exports to destinations with frequent visual inspection (regulated markets, random customs checks), it's usually better to go with clear film or reserve black only for products where opacity is critical. For inter-island or domestic transit without regular visual inspection, black works without restriction.
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| UV protection | Yes (high) |
|---|---|
| Color | Black |
| Spool width | 45 cm (18 in) |
| Spool length | 305 m (1000 ft) |
| Thickness | 20 µm (80 gauge) |
| Roll net weight | 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) |
| Presentation | Box of 6 spools |
| Material | LLDPE |
| Mandrel material | Cardboard |
| Mandrel diameter (internal) | 76 mm (3 in) |
| Box: Width | 49.0 cm (19.29 in) |
|---|---|
| Box: Height | 28.0 cm (11.02 in) |
| Box: Depth | 40.0 cm (15.75 in) |
| Box: Weight | 18.2 kg |
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