Study on the Physical Property of Stretch Film for Wrapping of Roughage

조사료 래핑용 스트레치 필름의 물리적 특성에 관한 연구

Recently more dairy farmers are interested in the utilization of stretch film for wrapping silage material. Most of stretch film are imported from abroad and one domestic product was developed, but its quality has not yet been tested. Therefore this study was executed to offer basic data on this material to the farmers. Measured items were tensile load, extension ratio, and tear propagation strength of stretch films. Comparisons were made among the white color of domestic product(Kw), and white(Fw), black (Fb) and green color(Fg) of foreign products. The result were summarized as follows: 1. Tensile loads of lengthwise direction in stretch films were 557.4, 377.4, 282.6 and 398.4kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ in Kw, Fw, Fb and Fg, respectively, and tensile loads of width direction were 415.9, 418.1, 360.2 and 433.0kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ in Kw, Fw, Fb and Fg, respectively. 2. Extension ratios of lengthwise direction were 650, 462.5, 512.5% and 537.5% in Kw, Fw, Fb and Fg, respectively, Extension ratios of width direction were 930, 962.5, 950 and 1,000% in Kw, Fw, Fb and Fg, respectively. 3 Tear propagation strength of lengthwise direction 187.9, 148.9, 157.3 and 142.8kgf/cm, and tear propagation strength of width direction were 141.4, 129.8, 140.4 and 106.6kgf/cm in Kw, Fw, Fb and Fg, respectively. 4. In the light transmittance, there was no difference between white and green color stretch film, but it was very low in black one. Therefore, it is thought that research on quality of roll bale silage treated with each stretch film would be needed.