by Dennis Salazar | Dec 11, 2008 | Sustainable Products
Both materials can be excellent eco-friendly packaging. Paperboard packaging is what you see on a FedEx or USPS style flat mailer envelope, or a typical cereal box. By comparison corrugated board has fluting and is what a standard brown box is made of. The line used...
by Dennis Salazar | Dec 9, 2008 | Sustainable Products
Image via Wikipedia The world of packaging is changing very rapidly and what was not green a year ago may be very sustainable today. A recent customer project has motivated me to do some research in an effort to update my knowledge base in this rarely used but usually...
by Dennis Salazar | Oct 28, 2008 | Sustainable Products
Somewhere along the line, corrugated (and chipboard) partitions fell out of favor as an inner packing material. A lot of it had to do with a desire to reduce corrugated usage and unit cost – both good objectives. However, corrugated partitions can sometimes...
by Dennis Salazar | Oct 7, 2008 | Sustainable Products
Most industries have a standard for measuring or describing the construction of a particular material. However, in the corrugated industry, there are two standards – the Mullen Test and the Edge Crush Test. This leads to quite a bit of confusion in the...
by Dennis Salazar | Sep 16, 2008 | Sustainable Products
If you are looking for an inexpensive and effective way to advertise your company – and who isn’t, these days – consider printing your logo and a sales message on any or all of the following. Corrugated boxes Reinforced paper carton sealing tape...
