Materials
Packaging Materials
The board decides how a box performs before any print goes on it. Compare greyboard, folding boxboard, kraft, corrugated board and speciality papers, and see where each one belongs.
Materials
Corrugated board
Corrugated board is made from a fluted paper layer glued between flat paper liners. It is graded by flute size (E, B and C flute, typically around 1.5 mm, 3 mm and 4 mm…
Read the guideFolding boxboard and SBS
Folding boxboard (FBB) is a layered carton board with a bulky mechanical-pulp core between bleached outer layers; SBS is bleached chemical pulp throughout. Both are…
Read the guideGreyboard
Greyboard is a stiff, unlined board, usually made from recycled paper fibre and typically 1.5–3 mm thick, used as the structural core of rigid (set-up) boxes. It is cut…
Read the guideKraft board
Kraft board is unbleached board made from kraft (sulphate) pulp, which keeps its natural brown colour and long, strong fibres. It is used for cartons, mailer boxes,…
Read the guideSpeciality papers
Speciality papers are decorative papers used mainly to wrap rigid greyboard boxes: textured and embossed papers, dyed-through coloured stocks, metallic and pearlescent…
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