a machine for the production of a web with individually wrapped drinking straws from two separate plastic films is disclosed . the machine includes a rotatable drum around which one of the plastic films is led and simultaneously given a corrugated form . the drinking straws are thereafter placed one by one in the recesses in the corrugated form and the second plastic film is applied and heat - sealed to said corrugated first film so that the drinking straws are completely enclosed in air - tight packages .