Patent ID: 7820260

Claim:
A package, particularly for horticultural products and food products in general, which can be manufactured with automatic packaging machines, the package being made from a sheet-like element in reel form, which is constituted by a biaxially-stretched polyethylene net which has a first plurality of filaments arranged substantially parallel to the longitudinal unreeling direction of the reel and a second plurality of filaments which are substantially perpendicular to said first plurality of filaments, and after a biaxial stretching of said polyethylene net said first and second plurality of filaments intersect one another in nodes which have a thickness of less than 0.25 mm and which are thicker than said first and second plurality of filaments by an amount ranging from 15 to 40%, and said biaxially-stretched net subsequently being subjected to a flattening step so that the net has uniform thickness at said nodes and at said first and second plurality of filaments, and a coverage surface of said first and second plurality of filaments and of said nodes ranges from 20 to 35% of a total surface of said polyethylene net, said sheet-like element being folded and welded to itself at least at portions of edges of the sheet-like element to form the manufactured package.