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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,...
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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)...
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Uniqueness and versatility of Bubble Wrap

Bubble wrap is a light weight, transparent plastic material used for packing fragile and breakable things. It is a plastic sheet with regularly spaced bubbles. These bubbles are actually air filled hemispheres which are spaced at regular intervals. These bubbles provide a cushioning to the items packed and prevent them from breaking. Bubble wrap was invented by accident. Engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes were trying to make plastic textured wallpaper. Their idea was to have wallpaper which will be easy to clean and light in weight. They came up with bubble wrap which is used for packing. The product was then trade marked and sold everywhere. Bubble wrap is basically used to give padding while packing. During the shipment of the boxes in which the things are packed, there could be some movement causing damage. The boxes may be manhandled and picked up and dropped by cranes. This will cause the things inside the box to undergo damage. To avoid this bubble wrap is used. The bubbles in a bubble wrap are air filled and acts as a cushion. It helps to pack breakable and fragile things like glass, crockery, mirrors and even electronic goods. They prevent the items...
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Aromatherapy Bottles

By aromatherapy bottles, most of us will construe the packaging for aromatherapy products. Is packaging as important to be written about? Nevertheless, the aromatherapy bottles are different and are more than just packaging. By going through the following section, you too will agree that aromatherapy bottles have a role to play. The bottles serve two purposes. Firstly, they ensure protection of the oil or absolute. Secondly, they add a style element to the simple looking oils. First, let's discuss the protection that bottles provide to aromatherapy products. Aromatherapy products are largely made of essential oils. Essential oils become adulterated when exposed to sun or exposed to direct air for a longer time. Therefore, choose the bottles for storing the aromatherapy products and essential oils with care. Not any bottle will do. Particularly, clear glass bottles must be avoided when storing the oils. Clear glass bottles allow sun rays to come in and thus accelerate the process of adulteration. This makes it important to use the aromatherapy bottles, which are cobalt blue or amber green bottles. These allow very little sun to come inside through diffusion. Therefore, one can store his/her essential oils for longer. Are plastic bottles appropriate to keep...
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