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Corrugated shipping container, one type of cardboard box. Cardboard boxes are industrially prefabricated boxes, primarily used for packaging goods and materials. Specialists in industry seldom use the term cardboard because it does not denote a specific material. [1][2] The term cardboard may refer to a variety of heavy paper-like materials ...
Corrugated box design is the process of matching design factors for corrugated fiberboard (sometimes called corrugated cardboard) or corrugated plastic boxes with the functional physical, processing and end-use requirements. Packaging engineers work to meet the performance requirements of a box while controlling total costs throughout the system.
Folding carton. The folding carton created the packaging industry as it is known today, beginning in the late 19th century. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The process involves folding carton made of paperboard that is printed, laminated, cut, then folded and glued. The cartons are shipped flat to a packager, [ 4] which has its own machinery to fold the carton ...
Box. A wooden box with a hinged lid. An empty corrugated fiberboard box. An elaborate late 17th to early 18th century box (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) A box (plural: boxes) is a container with rigid sides used for the storage or transportation of its contents. Most boxes have flat, parallel, rectangular sides (typically ...
Corrugated board. Corrugated fiberboard, corrugated cardboard, or corrugated is a type of packaging material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards. [1] It is made on "flute lamination machines" or "corrugators" and is used for making corrugated boxes. The corrugated medium sheet and the linerboard (s) are made ...
Optical disc packaging. Stacks of compact disc jewel cases. Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs. Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure damage.