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You may have noticed we use the term cardboard a lot
where really the real technical term for our packaging
material is corrugated cases, or corrugated board. The
trouble with these terms is this is only for people
in the trade of corrugated board, most people only know
a corrugated case as a cardboard box, or a box carton
or cartons, so whatever way you know a cardboard box
you will know which cardboard boxes we make, as there
is a big difference with an actual cardboard carton.
These cardboard cartons have no corrugated fluting in
between the papers and are solid cardboard used mainly
in the cereal, frozen food, packet foods market.
These boxes offer little transit packaging protection
and you see them on any supermarket shelf. These inner
cardboard boxes are Flutings the inner corrugation of
a cardboard corrugated board are usually supplied in
gram mage paper weight of 112 billerrud, the term billerrud
is for a fluting made of 100% waste material, which
is very eco friendly, and the cheapest way of buying
corrugated cardboard. The trouble with this sort of
fluting it offers no packaging protection for the corrugated
cardboard box if it is being stored in a cold room or
freezer room as when there is any chance of moisture
then this attacks the fluting and the box starts to
lose its stacking strength. To combat this we use a
fluting made from semi chemical which has chemical additives
to strengthen the fluting. The extra cost for this can
be 10%, the corrugated cardboard flutings are done in
standard paper weights such as 112,150,171,210. The
corrugated cardboard box industry prefers us all to
have 112 or even 105! corrugated flutings as it makes
the big multinationals much more money in running their
corrugators in all the same flutings without any machine
changes, and also the cheaper type corrugated flutings
can be made in the eastern block at knock down prices.
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