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Custom Corrugated Boxes: A Useful Guide to Select Best Boxes for Your Retail Products
There is top 3 material in the world of packaging reigning supreme, cardboard, Kraft and corrugated. Each of these has its own quirks and unique traits making their package forms special for specific items. Corrugate boxes often have the impression of being used in storing heavy or bulk load or protecting fragile items from humidity, heat or any physical damage.
Some of its special traits are Durability, Strong Built, Customizable, Cost- Effectiveness, Environmentally Responsible, Protectiveness, Sustainability & Versatility.
Notice the first and last traits, that two are the core feature that renders the corrugated boxes are the stronger packaging type. From shipping across the world to storing different items as the packaging box.
This blog will be guided about the Corrugated Packaging Boxes for you to know what is the better choice. We are going to look at different types, styles and internal structures of this material.
Types of Corrugated Boxes
Single Wall Corrugated Box: The standard variant used all over, its strength and reliability vary based on the EDT where it determines the maximum limit of its durability before getting destroyed. At most this type has 23 ECT to 56 ECT only carrying up to 20lbs to 120lbs at tops only.
Double Wall Corrugated Box: This type of box become more durable with having another layer of the sheet the ECT ranging from 40 to 85, this one carries from 80lbs to 180 lbs, the downside of this types not being enough flexible however it is suitable for carrying the heavier loads in shipping process.
Triple Wall Corrugated Box: It is just a more durable version in comparison to a double wall box, with three stacked corrugated shields & four liner board facings, it can carry at the maximum limit 300lbs. The ECT lies within 70 to 115.
Custom Corrugated Boxes: Unlike the previous three which are often available in standard-setting, custom corrugated boxes have to stylized according to the customer’s specifications. In almost several possible customization options available, packaging specialists and manufacture take time to create elegant, top-grade packaging boxes that are durable and eye-catching. You can have it either single or multiple walled boxes. It all depends on your choice.
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Styles of Custom Corrugated Boxes
Aside from the types, the company often uses them a different style that benefits them in securing their items.
The common corrugated box style is as follows:
Regular Slotted Containers (RSC) is a commonly used corrugated box style, it is for shipping small singular items like book, crockery or small electronic etc. One can easily identify it but its structure and even flaps on all sides.
Half Slotted Containers (HSC) while similar to RSC consists of a single flap on one side and open from the other allowing the item to slide in without any hassle, Items like TV, washing machine, computers, air conditioners use this style of a corrugated box.
Die-cut custom boxes are manufactured to the exact details per the consumer’s request. Often in customized, they are used for cosmetics, gifts or promotional items.
Full-Over Lap box has the full width of its outer flap that allows it overlap makes it resistant for rough handling especially for items that require extra handling.
Corrugated Trays are designed to hold objects. The items displayed on the tray prioritize their importance like food or beverages.
Telescope boxes are two-piece boxes where the lid telescopes over the body of the box items like mobile phone, subscription service packaging etc.
There also other types like Folder boxes, Wraparound bank and Auto-bottom with and RSC top. Each of these can be found everywhere in all industries one way or the other.
The big question everyone wants to know is how to measure the strength of the corrugated packaging boxes, there are two ways to do so. One is the Edge Crushing Test(ECT) and another thing is fluting.
ECT measures the strength by stacking and crushing a piece of a box, the maximum weight tolerated will be considered as its ECT point as mentioned above. Fluting, on the other hand, are paper board arranged in a wavy form often resembling a sine wave, it not only strengthens the box but provides insulation against temperature.
