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Corrugated paperboard is heavyweight sheets of paper better know as containerboards. The containerboards consist of linerboard (puncture resistant paper) and medium (fluted paper). The majority of linerboard is created with softwoods. Softwoods contain the best fibers, and make the strongest paperboard. The fluted corrugating paper helps the linerboard stay in place.

Strength:

Weather you are packing personal valuables or shipping products across the globe, You want to make sure that what’s inside the box stays inside the box. Corrugated Boxes will give you that peace of mind. Corrugated Boxes provide a structural strength, firmness for stacking, and secure closers when needed for security. They withstand top and side pressure; are crush resistant; and pass burst strength tests.

Convenience:

For your convenience, Corrugated Boxes range in size. This makes it possible for Corrugated boxes to hold many products, from miniature to the very large. Corrugated boxes are lightweight and can be broken down for easy transport. Printing can be applied to the boxes’ surface and is reasonably inexpensive. Corrugated Boxes help protect your products or personal valuables from outside forces and rapid temperature changes.

Environmental Impact:

Did you know that Corrugated Boxes are made from a renewable resource? Corrugated Research shows that in 1995 over 60% of corrugated containers were recycled. In 2002, almost 75% of corrugated containers were recycled. Corrugated containers are “Mother Earth” friendly.

Corrugated boxes are made from what is called corrugated paperboard. When you examine the sides of a corrugated box carefully, you will see rows of air columns in the walls. The air is a cushion, but it is the columns that give corrugated boxes their strength and durability. This strength, along with light weight, is why corrugated boxes are used to ship virtually everything.

The process by which corrugated boxes are manufactured is interesting. First, paper, heat, adhesives, and pressure are combined to make the corrugated paperboard, or “board” as it is referred to in the industry. Corrugated board may be made up of one, two, or three layers of flutes (the columns) and liners (the walls).

Once a web of continuous corrugated board is made, it is cut into flat sheets for making corrugated boxes. Converting machines take the flat corrugated board and form it into corrugated boxes. Then, a flexo-folder gluer prints, creases, slots, trims, folds, and glues the box so that it can be shipped flat. Once the flat box arrives at its destination, it can be easily formed into a box. Then, die-cut machines will cut the corrugated board into a pattern. This leaves the box in a shape that the customer will be able to fold into the box shape.

Once the process is complete, you have ready-to-use corrugated boxes. These boxes are able to carry, contain, and cushion products sent virtually anywhere in the world.

Corrugated “cardboard” is a strong, versatile packaging material that is universally accepted for recovery and recycling. Corrugated packaging material is generally referred to by the general public as “cardboard” and by the industry as Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC). The term “OCC” is used in this document.

OCC is made from two strips of flat cardboard on the top and bottom, and a wavy “corrugated” or fluted strip running through the center. It is most commonly found in boxes used for packaging and shipping items.

Paperboard (flat, pressed, stiff paper used in cereal boxes, for example)–also often called cardboard by the general public–does not have flutes, is of a lower quality paper, and is often coated. Paperboard, by definition, is not OCC and, therefore, should be kept to a minimum in an OCC collection program.

Examples of common OCC include cases or ream boxes (cardboard shipping containers for reams of copy paper, products, stationery, supplies, equipment, or publications) and are roughly 10”Hx10”Wx12”L. Some OCC boxes have matching lids, while others have flaps that are sealed shut. Gaylords are larger, heavy-duty shipping container versions of these boxes, often with lids and on pallets. OCC comes in other sizes and shapes depending on their requirements, including non-box form, for packing, cushioning or other uses.

• Over 90% of all products in the U.S. are shipped in corrugated cardboard boxes.
• 70% of all corrugated is recovered for recycling—the largest source of waste paper collected for recycling.
• Corrugated is often made of recycled content and almost always made of post-consumer material.
• Corrugated packaging allows significant source reduction by eliminating the need for over wraps and secondary packaging. It also can be engineered for increased strength using less raw materials, a process called “light weighting”.
• Corrugated is more environmentally friendly than ever, able to accept non-toxic water-based inks and also to be processed without bleaching.
• After it’s recycled, paper (including OCC) is used to make chipboard, paperboard (i.e., cereal boxes), paper towels, tissues, and printing and writing paper.
• Ozone-depleting chemicals have been virtually eliminated from the manufacture of OCC; the use of heavy metals has been dramatically reduced; over 97% of inks on boxes are now water-based and non-toxic; and virtually all box plant trimmings (waste from manufacturing) are recycled.
• Even raw materials used to make OCC—lumber industry byproducts such as sawdust and wood chips—are renewable resources.
• Making the pulp from trees for use in corrugated cardboard creates sulfur dioxide pollution.
• Recycling corrugated cardboard into new products cuts the pollution generated by half.
• Corrugated cardboard manufactured from recycled pulp uses about 75% of the energy used in the manufacture of corrugated cardboard made from virgin pulp.
• Corrugated packaging is a $17 billion per-year industry—the largest segment of the entire packaging industry.
• In 1999, 45% of all the paper Americans used, including corrugated cardboard, was recovered—47.3 million tons, an all-time record. Americans are well on the way to meeting the American Forest & Paper Association’s (AF&PA’s) goal of recovery of 50% of all paper used in the U.S.

Over 90% of all products in the United States are shipped in corrugated cardboard boxes. The industry calls it “old corrugated cardboard” or “corrugated cardboard” while most people call it “cardboard.” No matter what you call it, cardboard is the most environmentally friendly packaging material and it is one of the most widely accepted packaging material for recycling. Plastic and glass packaging materials are
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