Corrugated boxes are a significant material for current transport packaging today.The production of corrugated cardboard and corrugated cartons begins in the late 19th century, and it developed in the early 20th century.
The corrugated carton is light; the price is low, the structure is diverse. We can produce corrugated boxes in various sizes in large-scale production. We can fold the box to transportation before use, the storage space is small, and multiple patterns can be printed, so corrugated box is widely used in product packaging transportation.
In 1871 Americans, Albert. Jones first studied the packaging of fragile products such as bulbs, lampshades, glass bottles and cans, and the first one.
The United States obtains patents for corrugated packaging technology. After the improvement of Oliver, Double-sided corrugated cardboard similar to now has good flexibility and greatly enhances strength and versatility.
With its manufactured cartons and carton packaging goods, transportation, storage, reliability, compared with traditional wooden boxes, metal buckets, exhibited much superiority, so it is increasingly widely used.
Corrugated boxes are widely used as packaging materials because it has the following advantages over conventional packaging materials:
1 .The quality is light.
Only 1/5 ~ 1/4 of the same size of wooden boxes, and its cost is only 2/5 ~ 2/3 of the same volumetric box; the structure is good.
2. The packaging item has a booster, buffer and other protection, which can effectively protect the goods from collision and impact.
3. corrugated box specifications, dimensional changes are easy to implement, can quickly adapt to the packaging of all kinds of items.
4. With a large number of iron nails, wire, metal straps in the wood box, the metal used in the production process is only 5% of the former.
5. The production process can be automated and easy to process.
The production of corrugated boxes can achieve high mechanical and automation, and the packaging operation of the product can also be mechanized and automated. It is easy to hand unloading, handling and stacking. Exquisite printing can be performed to meet the needs of hierarchical users.
6. The waste tank is easy to recycle, no public hazard, in line with environmental protection requirements. Especially when the world wood resources are generally inadequate, the application of corrugated boxes is particularly significant.
At present, many products are properly and beautifully packaged through three or five-layer corrugated cardboard, printing bright, colorful graphics and pictures on the surface of corrugated boxes or corrugated cartons, but also promotes and beautifies inner products. Therefore, the function of the corrugated carton has gradually developed from the original packaging protection to enhance the direction of the value of the commodity value and gradually becomes a sales packaging.
In addition, with the improvement of multi-layer cardboard technology, seven-layer or eleven-layer corrugated cardboard made of cartons produced high-priced, flue-cured tobacco, furniture, motorcycles, large appliances and other high-priced packaging.
