Very clean balcony-type construction with maximum accessibility to all main parts to facilitate maintenance and cleaning operations. The MS260 stretch banding and shrink wrapping machine has been specifically designed to meet the requirements of a market where demand is growing more and more for extremely compact, easy-to-operate, high production speed machines. The machine can be equipped with a high speed stacking unit (MS260A) or with a carton tilting unit (MS260AM) capable of standing on edge as many as 400 cartons per minute.