Corrugated box and packaging guides

Choosing a corrugated box manufacturer: 10 details to prepare before comparing quotations

How to choose a corrugated box manufacturer: prepare these 10 details first

If every supplier receives the same complete brief, their quotations can be compared line by line. If each receives something different, you get sever...

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Three cost factors to check before comparing corrugated box quotations

What determines the price of a corrugated box

Quotations for the same box often come back far apart. Before deciding which is cheaper, check whether each supplier priced the same box. Different sp...

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A pin on a calendar, representing planning for corrugated box production lead times

How long corrugated box production takes, and how to plan your order

At Auto Boxes, a new corrugated box order takes 10–14 business days to produce. A repeat order in the same specification takes 7–10 business days, and...

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Measuring a corrugated box: internal dimensions (ID) compared with external dimensions (OD) along length, width and height

How to measure a corrugated box: internal or external dimensions

When you order custom boxes, the manufacturer needs to know how much space your product will take up inside the box: the internal length, width and he...

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Corrugated board with a golden-yellow KA liner beside board with a light-brown KI liner

KA vs KI paper: how the two liner grades differ and which to choose

In the paper we use, KA and KI liners have the same burst strength. The differences that matter to a buyer are moisture resistance, color, print sharp...

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Golden-brown KA kraft liner used as the facing of corrugated board

What is KA paper: grammages, specifications and typical uses

When KA appears on a box specification, it refers to a kraft liner on the face of the corrugated board. KA is the liner grade used most in the Thai ma...

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Strip of single-wall corrugated board changing from a pencil sketch into brown kraft board above a blue timeline marked 1856, 1871, 1874, 1890 and 1903

Five turning points in corrugated board history that still shape box specifications

Corrugated board started out in 1856 as a liner for top hats. By the early 20th century it had become three-layer board, cut and creased into flat box...

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Corrugated board structure: linerboard bonded to a corrugating medium in a single sheet

Corrugated board structure: how E, B, C, BE and BC flutes differ

Our plant produces five flute types: E, B, C, BE and BC. They run from E flute at 1.0 mm high to BC board at 7.0 mm thick. The heights differ by only...

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A forklift lifting corrugated boxes stacked on a corrugated paper pallet

Corrugated paper pallets: how much they carry and when they can replace wood

Export goods shipped on corrugated paper pallets skip the fumigation or heat treatment that wooden pallets must go through, and the cost that comes wi...

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Examples of custom corrugated boxes from the four groups: slotted, die-cut, insert-packed and printed retail boxes

Corrugated box types: four groups and how to choose

Custom corrugated boxes fall into four groups according to how they are formed: slotted boxes, die-cut boxes, protective inserts and complex packaging...

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Three stacked regular slotted corrugated boxes with handling symbols

RSC and FOL boxes: how to choose

For most shipping boxes, the right starting point is the regular slotted container (RSC). A full overlap (FOL) box is worth its extra cost only when t...

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A stack of corrugated boxes with the lower boxes crushed, examined for the cause of transit damage

Crushed boxes and transit damage: finding the cause

When boxes at the bottom of a stack start crushing, the first instinct is to order a thicker box. It sometimes works and always costs more, and the cr...

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Sustainability

FSC corrugated boxes: how to order boxes that qualify

For a corrugated box to count as FSC in your report, the order it came from must carry an FSC claim on both the invoice and the delivery documents. Th...

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Five corrugated board grades, KA, KH, KK, KI and WS, compared by liner color

Corrugated paper grades: what they are and how to choose the right one

Box specifications describe the paper with a short code of letters and numbers. The letters name the grade, and the number after them gives the gramma...

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