Cardboard boxes are used by many companies for getting their products safely to their destination
October 20, 2011
Cardboard boxes are used by many companies for getting their products safely to their destination. Cardboard boxes are used for shipping due to their strength. Despite its strength it is light-weight and consists of three layers of kraft paper. From the paper mills, the kraft paper is shipped to a corrugating plant. The plant then crimples and glues the kraft paper to make corrugated cardboard. It is then cut to the desired size, undergoes the printing of text onto the cardboard box, is folded and glued, which results in the cardboard boxes that we see every day.
The machine, called a corrugator, is around 300 feet. Some of the rolls of kraft paper are used as liners while others are used as the corrugator medium. After the machine has done the job of heating, gluing, and pressing the paper into cardboard, the large sheet of cardboard that results is then sent to machines that can take care of printing the writing on the cardboard box, cutting it, and gluing it to form a complete cardboard box. The finished cardboard boxes are then banded together and shipped to the companies that will be shipping products in the cardboard boxes. Such companies that receive these cardboard boxes are food processors, toy makers, auto parts distributors, and any company that must ship goods to other locations around the world.
As for the raw materials in which the cardboard boxes originate, pine trees are the raw material used in the creation of corrugated cardboard boxes. The companies that make corrugated cardboard usually own the land in which these trees are grown so they can harvest the trees and initiate the process of converting the trees into kraft paper. There are chemicals that are used to create a fibrous pulp from the wood chips of the trees. This is called the sulfate process. After the pulp is made, the remaining fibers are then placed into a paper machine that forms them into the large rolls of kraft paper through a process that presses, dries, and rolls the fibers.
However, recycling is another great way to make cardboard boxes. Boxes are broken down and the process is quite similar to that of making a cardboard box from scratch. Recycled cardboard boxes provide the same strength and quality. The only difference is that another tree doesn't have to be harvested in the construction of the cardboard box and energy is conserved. Recycling cardboard boxes also makes it cheaper to create a new cardboard box because the tree harvesting and various other steps such as pulping are left out of the equation. This cost-efficient way of making cardboard boxes makes it cheaper on the manufacturer, on the distributor receiving the cardboard boxes, and that reduction in cost also trickles down to you, the consumer.
Recently out is the ability to have coloured custom made cardboard boxes made in a multitude of colours. Black, Blue, Green and Red are all now available to make your custom made cardboard boxes in. These cardboard boxes can add value to your product, therefore increasing the price you can sell your product for and also the amount of sales you can make.
Most local authorities have schemes to collect cardboard and recycle the cardboard boxes, alternatively you can take your cardboard boxes to a local recycling bank. If you collect your cardboard to recycle in cardboard boxes then you will not have to separate it later.
Cardboard is also biodegradable and decomposes when sent to landfill unlike plastic. All this helps you when your clients demand to know what you are doing to become green.
The machine, called a corrugator, is around 300 feet. Some of the rolls of kraft paper are used as liners while others are used as the corrugator medium. After the machine has done the job of heating, gluing, and pressing the paper into cardboard, the large sheet of cardboard that results is then sent to machines that can take care of printing the writing on the cardboard box, cutting it, and gluing it to form a complete cardboard box. The finished cardboard boxes are then banded together and shipped to the companies that will be shipping products in the cardboard boxes. Such companies that receive these cardboard boxes are food processors, toy makers, auto parts distributors, and any company that must ship goods to other locations around the world.
As for the raw materials in which the cardboard boxes originate, pine trees are the raw material used in the creation of corrugated cardboard boxes. The companies that make corrugated cardboard usually own the land in which these trees are grown so they can harvest the trees and initiate the process of converting the trees into kraft paper. There are chemicals that are used to create a fibrous pulp from the wood chips of the trees. This is called the sulfate process. After the pulp is made, the remaining fibers are then placed into a paper machine that forms them into the large rolls of kraft paper through a process that presses, dries, and rolls the fibers.
However, recycling is another great way to make cardboard boxes. Boxes are broken down and the process is quite similar to that of making a cardboard box from scratch. Recycled cardboard boxes provide the same strength and quality. The only difference is that another tree doesn't have to be harvested in the construction of the cardboard box and energy is conserved. Recycling cardboard boxes also makes it cheaper to create a new cardboard box because the tree harvesting and various other steps such as pulping are left out of the equation. This cost-efficient way of making cardboard boxes makes it cheaper on the manufacturer, on the distributor receiving the cardboard boxes, and that reduction in cost also trickles down to you, the consumer.
Recently out is the ability to have coloured custom made cardboard boxes made in a multitude of colours. Black, Blue, Green and Red are all now available to make your custom made cardboard boxes in. These cardboard boxes can add value to your product, therefore increasing the price you can sell your product for and also the amount of sales you can make.
Most local authorities have schemes to collect cardboard and recycle the cardboard boxes, alternatively you can take your cardboard boxes to a local recycling bank. If you collect your cardboard to recycle in cardboard boxes then you will not have to separate it later.
Cardboard is also biodegradable and decomposes when sent to landfill unlike plastic. All this helps you when your clients demand to know what you are doing to become green.
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