Changing the board flute type offers two key benefits; performance and logistics. Both offer a commercial benefit. Read More…

To help establish the required Box Compression Strength of a case, there are a number of questions to answer which can assist with calculating an appropriate board grade; Read More…

We all know corrugated board serves a lot of purposes, making it the ideal packaging material. Once a board grade is assigned to a specific job it is rarely reassessed unless it is not performing sufficiently. Read More…

Paper has numerous characteristics including Short Span Compression Test (SCT), tensile strength, burst, moisture to name but a few. Read More…

In an ideal world, every box would be the same size and would carry the same weight, to the same places in the same climatic conditions throughout the length of the journey. This would also happen without any vibrations or movements in transit. Read More…

BCT is used to access the compression strength of a glued corrugated case and to determine a maximum load a box can withstand when palletised. Read More…

Performance, runability and convertability of corrugated packaging are to a large extent defined by paper properties. Paper properties are broken into three elements, optical, surface and physical properties. Read More…

Grammage of paper and paperboard – BS EN ISO: 536:2012/FEFCO No 2/T410

The process involves cutting a circle, delaminating the papers, drying the papers and weighing them before and after: Read More…