Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Questions to know cardboard box better

Altough cardboard box are common in our daily life, most people do not know much about it. If your business need to use cardboard box for product packaging or use cardboard box as mailbox what kind of cardboard you need to choose? There're lots of options, in this article we will discuss how to choose the right cardboard box for business.


Difference between carton and box
There's no much difference between the two words since both describe the same thing. Box is probably the most customer and cardboard packaging and related industries in general use of used boxes. What term you use doesn't matter, let the manufacturer know which one you refering.


What is Corrugated?

Corrugated cardboard consists of two elements: flute and liner. The medium is fluted corrugated cardboard sheet sandwiched between two flat sheets. Both are made from paperboard, a paper-like material is often offers the necessary rigidity.




Different walls of corrugated cardboard have different function
There're 3 types of corrugated cardboard wall, single wall, double wall and triple wall.
Single Wall Corrugated Cardboard consists of one fluted medium between two sheets of linerboard. Double Wall  and triple wall as their names imply, has two or more fluted mediums sandwiched between sheets of linerboard. Single wall cardboard box is the most common box we used, double wall and triple wall cardboard box mainly used for heavy load, they are more stronger and dural but they are more expensive cardboard boxes.

FEFCO is the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers. The partnership is an association founded in 1952 and represents the interests of all European manufacturers of corrugated cardboard. Based in Brussels, the Federation is an international association under Belgian law. The code of FEFCO and ESBO (European Organisation advice solids) as a formal system to develop a long and complicated verbal descriptions of cases, replacement, understood the map of the construction and use of simple symbols internationally by all, regardless of other of the language and differences. FEFCO-ESBO code is adopted by the CICA, the International Association for the case of corrugated cardboard, with its partners around the world.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Ways to reuse cardboard boxes

To most people, an empty cardboard box means nothing an empty cardboard box. However,if you look arround and take a little more thoughts, cardboard box would be very useful in our daily life.There are simple ways to reuse them that are quite useful. 


Attract dirt and dust of a small electric appliances, power tools, or the keyboard. Cut the flaps of a cardboard box suitable for embellishing, or cover with self-adhensive paper and use as an attractive coat to make it as a dustcover.
Create a in-box  in the office is very simple. Only scratches the top of the table and a grain size of a cardboard box after the cut surfaces in a magnificent view. Cover with self-adhensive attractive paper.
Cut a lot of 12 x 18 inches (30 x 45 cm), pieces of cardboard and decorated with colored paper, glue or other additional thresholds to make it as a
place mats.

A very good way for safety store
fine crystal glassware is to put them in liquor cardboard box with divider. It can also be used to stack the bulbs, but eventually be able to solve the lamp so it is easy to find the right if you want a replacement.
Put your daily newpapers or magzine into the cardboard box. Remove the top and then burn the box in the top position from one room to another part of the third base. Wrap the box with self-adhensive paper.
If you take the Christmas decorations to cover every paper or tissue and accumulate in a free port on the splitter. Each section of the cardboard box can be a part of the equipment covered by the Festival of Trees.


There're tons of ideas to reuse the cardboard box as long as you wanna be a green man. Although recycling is a good option, reusing cardboard box in the home can be an even better idea. From using them for organizing to making a pet house, consider trying one of the several ways of reusing cardboard boxes.

paper bags for green purpose

Both plastic and paper bags are familiar in our daily life, research shows that the use of paper bags should be better than plastic bags, because plastic bags have unavoidable impacts on environments while paper bags are much more greener.  The diff

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eco-friendly corrugated box

Packing activities consume a disproportionate amount of resources. Artificial materials on an industrial scale to meet these requirements can be made a threat to the environment and its resources. Corrugated cardboard is made from renewable natural r

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Corrugated pizza box design

Pizza boxes are widely used in restaurants, they are ideal for packaging of processed foods. Corrugated pizza boxes help to keep pizzas fresh and in good condition, especially if they are transported from one place to another.
Corrugated pizza box is generally used single wall. In this model, two outer sheets are flat with flute in the middle. Compared to paperboard pizza boxes, it offers considerable stacking strength, protection against heat better and better protection. Corrugated pizza boxes are lightweight and strong. The boxes are equipped with excellent waterproof and resistant to stains and grease.
Corrugated pizza boxes are in different sizes, styles and designs. High quality models very popular print.




In this article I will  introduce steps for corrugated pizza box design with Packmage carton box design software.


step 1> Choose a pizza box template from packmage library to adjust the size.


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2> Check Blank sample with Packmage 3D 


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3> graphic design for the pizza box


pizza box design

Classifications of corrugated box and their advantages

The structure of corrugated cardboard box can be divided into three categories: 
(1) slotted boxes    slotted boxes are the most common type of corrugated boxes for delivering. It's one or a few pieces of the map through the process of composition by means of stapling or a combination of the junction box. It devides the top and bottom of the sheet (on the cover of the next round) are Xiangde and lid. Boxes for transport, storage, folded, with a small volume, easy to use, dust proof seals, internal and external cleaning and so on.
(2)
sets of co-type box  Nest-type carton in a sort of cardboard or cardboard through the process of composition, which is characterized by the Cabinet and the cover is independent of the use of sets, when combined. The advantage of a crate to fall comfortably closed immediately after loading the goods, the supply of cardboard larger than slotted cardboard box. The disadvantage is not so convenient for storage and transport.

(3) Folding cartons It's known as shaped classes , wavy folds form at the bottom, sides, top, without stapling and binding.


In addition, to avoid damage to the goods, according to specifications and product requirements needed to play a rational structure design Schedule a role in the protection of property.



The use of corrugated boxes,  which has many advantages: low weight, structure, good performance. Its inherent structure similar to the structure of the sheet of corrugated cardboard and can play a role in the fight against the shock of red thus has good mechanical properties. A packaged product has a lot of good protection. For example, moisture, heat, easy to transport and so on. Low cost of transport and easy to make mechanization and transport, packaging and automation.

Friday, October 28, 2011

cardboard sleeve templates

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Cardboard sleeves are an optical media packaging widely used for mailing and other distribution. cardboard sleeves are the most cost-effective, low maintenance and eco-friendly option when it comes to packaging optical media. However, these sleeves are not without their shortcomings. Their presentation factor is minimal and less professional when compared against custom printed cardboard sleeves or a plastic case variation. A user may need to rely on the disc’s artwork to make their project stand out in a cardboard sleeve. Packmage carton box design software offer many different kinds of cardboard sleeve templates, visit http://www.packmage.com for more box templates.