More and more manufacturers all around the world produced stretch wrap for products security purposes. Stretch film processors are being used in markets and every five years these have been doubled. The demands of stretch films developed in the mid of 1985 to 1990 with 250 million lb/yr up to 500 million lbs. In the following years after 1990, the orders puffed up to one billion lb until the end of 1995. During these years, the five-layer film was the most popular even in recent times, but the demands still continued to grow in binary digits. For the past two years, the demand for stretch film resin has cut out to 1.4 billion lb. Stretch wrap reached 65% to 70% cast film and most of these are for machine packaging, and for blown film it has 30% to 35% generally for product hand wrap and a little extremely pierce-resistant specialty films.

In the mid '90s when five-layer stretch wrap were launched, the hexane or octane LLDPE with one and three-layer films became a replacement. This requires a five-layer feed-block and fourth extruder with the use of low-cost butane LLDPE that supported with thin layers of metallocene LLDPE. A regular five-layer composition is A-B-C-B-A having 10% hexane LLDPE exterior skins, 20% metallocene LLDPE as subsurface layers, and 40% butane LLDPE interior. This means that mLLDPE has a little content percentage and somehow this makes the stretch wrap fragile and substandard.

The demands have started depending on the variety of stretch wrap. Other manufacturers do not use mLLDPE as the main component of the films because they believe it is pricey. This perception of some manufacturers is actually the reason why the demands for stretch films have been stalled down for the past years. Others have been using different chemical-based components that are less expensive in the production of stretch films. It is then found out that most films made of these kinds can be easily broken because these are not as durable as the mLLDPE.