• Bundling items together for handling and shipment: newspapers, pipe, lumber, concrete block, etc. Attaching items to pallets, skids, and crates.
• Reinforcing wooden boxes, crates, and corrugated boxes.
• Attaching items to flatcars, flatbed semi-trailers.
• Securing a unit load of bricks, packaged glass, metal parts, etc.
• Closing corrugated boxes and shipping containers.
• Securing coils of steel or paper.
• Holding bales of agricultural products or textiles.
• Load securing items within intermodal containers, boxcars,and semi-trailers.