Packaging Materials - Basics, Paperboard & Corrugated Fiberboard Boxes or Cartons

Hello Everyone,

Today we are going to discuss about Paperboard and Corrugated fiberboard boxes  or Cartons

It is really a interesting and one of my favourite topic to discuss. Basically paper box is one of the oldest packaging material & type. Generally it can be categorized into two types.

 The first one which is formed out of paperboard (usually paperboard is having grammage more than 250 GSM) and the other one is made up of combination of various paper/plies and commonly called as corrugated fiberboard box (CFB).

Paperboard box or Carton:

Paperboard boxes are generally used for small size and less weight object/product,  for examples -Breakfast Cereals , Cookies, Chocolate, Toothpaste, Soap etc. and in these packs maximum weights are within 2kg.

Various designs/types of paperboard cartons are available in all over the market depends upon the customer needs for examples- Reverse tuck-in, Crash lock bottom or Glue end etc.

Corrugated Fiberboard Box (CFB Box) or Carton:

CFB boxes are mostly large in size and generally use to carry heavy weights & use for foods, chemicals, glass and small to medium size electronic items etc. Usually maximum weight of these CFB boxes should not be more than 20kg (In certain case, it may go up to 25kg), If  weight is less than 20kg then it's fairly good for manual handling.

Various CFB box designs/types are available in the market such as Regular slotted container (RSC), Central slotted container (CSC) etc. but most common is regular slotted containers (RSC) in the industry. Addition to this, due to development of advance packing  machinery " wrap around boxes" have been introduced and it is also used very frequently across the industries like UHT milk, cheese, creams etc. and  mostly it is of 3 ply.

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