A package of a strip of material is formed by slitting or perforating a web to
separate the web into side by side strips and fan folding the web to form a plurality
of side by side stacks of the strips. The strip of each stack is spliced to the
strip of the next stack to form a continuous strip through the package which can
be unfolded for supply continuously to an end use machine. The package while compressed
is wrapped by a packaging material which includes a bottom rigid plate, a top header
and heat shrink bag wrapped around the package and under the bottom plate and heat
sealed to a plastic layer covering a bottom surface of the bottom header plate.
