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As per estimates nearly 95% of all products in India and in any developed or developing nation are being shipped or stored inside corrugated boxes.

So you must get familiar with this little known but important packaging material.

What is Corrugated Box?

Well, a corrugated box is made using corrugated paperboard. What is a corrugated paperboard you ask? Well, it is a specialized paperboard that is several layers of think and comes with several rows of air columns.

These columns make the paper strong and in turn the box stronger. Furthermore, the air inside the columns acts as a form of cushioning material for the item that needs to be transported or stored.

How are Corrugated Boxes Manufactured?

Here is a brief about the processes corrugated box manufacturers use to manufacture corrugated boxes –

• Corrugated paper is fed into the corrugators.
• The corrugated cardboard is then glued with multiple layers (three to be exact, which is the standard thickness) of the same material using corn starch glue.
• The cardboard is then fed to preheating rollers set at a temperature of 350-365 degrees Fahrenheit, then into the corrugating rollers. Steam is forced through each set of these rollers at a pressure of 175-180psi.
• The corrugated rolls thus formed are then covered with IO flutes.
• Next, the corrugated rolls pass through a single-facer glue station. Here, one layer of glue is added to the medium. The medium is then sent to the double backer glue station. Here a layer from the bridge is added. Then the cardboard is sent through steam-heated plates, in a bid to cure the glue.
• Now the cardboard is trimmed into large sheets, otherwise known as box blanks, and then stacked.
• Then the box blanks are sent to fabrication machines where printing dies prepare patterns on rubber or tin sheets. These dies are then loaded onto a roller through which the box blanks will be passing though thus getting the desired pattern or logo.
• Then the box blanks are cut, scored and folded, to form a box.

What are Corrugated Boxes Used For?

Corrugated boxes are used for storage and shipping purposes by all known sectors of the industry including –

• Pharmaceuticals
• Sensitive machines manufacturers
• Consumer electronics manufacturers
• Automotive spare parts manufacturers
• Processed food manufactures, etc.

What is the Difference Between the carton box and corrugated box?

A cardboard carton is made of thick paper stock hence it provides little protection to the material stored within.

Corrugated boxes, on the other hand, are made using several layers of corrugated paperboards. It is a resilient and lightweight material that offers protection to the content inside it even when the box is being exposed to –

• Shocks
• Moisture and
• The elements.

Advantages of Corrugated Box

Corrugated boxes offer the following advantages among many others –

• Corrugated boxes are biodegradable
• They are easy to customize
• They offer maximum protection especially to food products and fragile items

Conclusion

Corrugated boxes have become the part and parcel, literally speaking, of the modern-society. They are widely used, not only for transporting fragile items, but also food products as well as consumer electronics and sensitive components. In the end, thanks to the efforts of renowned companies like Kanika Packaging, India and its industrial sectors can meet their demands all the while offering protection to their finished goods, fragile or not, with ease.