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ITW Mima Packaging Systems is the Europe
Europe
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an marketing
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 division of ITW's
Illinois Tool Works
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 Specialty Systems businesses, manufacturing fully automatic stretch wrap
Stretch wrap
Stretch wrap or stretch film is a highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items. The elastic recovery keeps the items tightly bound...

ping machines in Finland
Finland
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, semi-automatic and automatic machines in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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 and manufacturing film in Belgium
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 and Ireland
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Overview

Mima was founded in 1976 in the United States of America, to manufacture stretch wrapping machinery it was acquired by ITW in 1986. Alongside this, Matti Haloila started his own company in Finland and manufactured Haloila
Haloila
Oy M. Haloila Ab is one of the world's leading companies in the manufacture of pallet-wrapping machines. Haloila's factory is located in Masku, Finland. Approximately 10% of its products are sold in Finland and the rest are exported, mainly into Central Europe....

Haloila - Etusivu semi-automatic stretch wrappers from 1976. In 1983 Haloila launched an automatic, rotating ring stretch wrapper with the brand name Octopus.
Haloila became part of the Illinois Tool Works (ITW) in 1995, shortly after this, ITW acquired the stretch film
Stretch wrap
Stretch wrap or stretch film is a highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items. The elastic recovery keeps the items tightly bound...

 business from Mobil
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and ITW Mima Packaging System was formed. ITW Mima Packaging Systems manufacture stretch films in Belgium and Ireland and stretch wrappers in Bulgaria and Finland.

In 2006 Mima launched the Octopus Twin a wrapping machine capable of wrapping 150 pallets per hour. ITW Mima delivered their 3000th Octopus stretch wrapper in 2008.


The Octopus is also currently being manufactured for the US market in Canada by ITW Muller.
Other Haloila’s wrapping machines include the Cobra, Ecomat and Rolle.
ITW Mima Packagings Systems is a member of the Process and Packaging Machinery Association (PPMA)
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