Packaging Articles

Printed Cardboard Containers

Printed Cardboard Containers

What is Cartonboard?

Cartonboard is a multilayered material, typically incorporating three or more layers or plies, derived from wood. The main variants of printed cardboard containers are solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, folding boxboard and white lined chipboard. Cartonboard usually has a white, pigmented coating on one or both surfaces.

Product Specifications

Product specifications vary with respect to the pulp composition of the various layers and by the grammage (weight per sq. metre in grammes) and thickness. It can be combined with other materials to vary the visual appearance and to extend the protective properties. Typical additions would include laminations, coatings and impregnations. The various layers of the printed cardboard containers are combined in a wet state on the board making machine, and might consist of one or several different types of pulp. The top layer of the board generally has a smooth white pigmented coating based on china clay or calcium carbonate. The reverse side may also be coated or it may be white, brown, cream or gray in colour depending on the grade of fibre used.

Papers and cardboards are classified by their fibre composition, the processing, manufacture and treatment at the mill,...
Read more

Make Effective Impression With Quality Product Packaging

Packaging is essential for storage, sale and shipping supplies. The demand of packaging increases with increase in industries. In contemporary world, packaging has become a complete science that study all features of product to be packaged such as air, moisture, sensitivity of light, chemical reaction, degree of fragility and many more. It also tries to search the solution to increase protection and decrease cost. The role of packaging goods has changed with the time. There are numerous types of packaging that includes industrial packaging, hazardous material packaging, transport packaging, etc. Packaging helps to protect your products from damages during transportation. Today, packaging is expression at its finest, shapes, colors, etc. Packaging mainly used in telecom, automobiles, ware houses, factories or any other industry. There are lots of packaging companies that offer reliable packaging services as per the needs of customer. They offer lightweight, collapsible and customizable packaging services for all sorts of products. Packaging is the requirement of every business to export their products from one place to another. There are lots of benefits of packaging: 1) Save products from damages 2) Suitable for almost every type of products 3) Increase protection and decrease cost 4) For long duration 5)...
Read more

Packaging Articles

Plastic Foams

Nowadays, when you are thinking about accomplishing your hobbies generally consisting of model building, you couldn’t have missed the basic materials for it, which are called foam plastics. They can be used even in boat modeling, yet there are many things you should not forget when thinking about using them because there are several types, each one having different characteristics. We can name three types of these foam plastics: the rigid Styrofoam, the rigid polyurethane foam and the beaded Styrofoam. The rigid Styrofoam and the rigid polyurethane foam have similar properties and can be given many shapes, while the beaded Styrofoam can be used only to shape angled and squared forms. You may recognize it whenever you buy an electrical device as this comes covered in the third type of the foam plastics: the beaded Styrofoam. The second type of the foam plastics, the rigid polyurethane is a material of a light-brown color; it is alike the Rigid Styrofoam ,yet there are two main differences between them: this one will not dissolve whenever coated with polyester resin, and the second difference is that it is impossible to be cut with a hot wire cutter( a specific tool used by modelers...
Read more

Why is packaging so important?

Packaging is important because it is what your customer sees just before they make their purchasing decision. It is generally accepted that 70-80% of a consumer's purchasing decision is made at the point of sale. In supermarkets, for example, shoppers spend an average of less than 10 seconds in any single product category. These numbers apply to just about any retail situation. Things that trigger us to stop and look at products are the look and feel of the product, colour, a message on the label, price, or the name of the product itself. Most of these 'triggers' either are, or can be influenced by the packaging - packaging is your last minute advertising! Packaging attracts attention, provokes, and communicates volumes about the product it contains and your brand. Think about a bottle of wine, would you purchase one with 'bargain booze' printed on it if you were taking it to a dinner party - even if the contents were just as good as those at twice the price? So packaging is important but most companies make the same common mistake with packaging and forget how important it really is. They only ever think about packaging when they launch a...
Read more