Paper board is one of the most popular packaging formats and retail grocery. It’s your silent salesperson. Your first brand and product impression. The primary vehicle for consumer use and influences shopper behavior and decision making, But when you get down to the details, there are many differences from board to board. When you talk with paper board vendors, you’ll notice significant price fluctuations and options across the paper board.
So how do we gain certainty?
Scientists understand the paper board grades when designing with the paper board and educated packaging. Understanding paper board grades are essential. Each grade features different strengths. Most importantly, rates can fluctuate in price by up to 50 percent. The purpose of this lecture is to introduce you to the six most common grades. Their properties and applications you’ll find in the marketplace. So let’s get into it. Let’s start with a solid bleach sulfate. The word sulfate comes from the chemical used in the Kraft pulping process. It’s made from premium virgin hardwood. It usually has a mineral or synthetic coating on the top and reverses sides.
It's approved for direct food contact. The best grade for surface consistency, it has the best printability better than average die-cutting and foldability and works well in frozen applications. It’s also a reasonably strong SBS. It is sanitary and the ideal substrate to use in aromatic products. Like fine teas, SBS is the most expensive substrate widely available in North America, Canada, and Nordic countries. You’ll find SBS frequently in the average US grocery market. So take those hundred percent virgin fibers, hold the bleach and apply a thick printable coating to one side and you have us solid unbleached sulfate. Now, this most excellent popular is less expensive than SBS. It’s the strongest of all the grades, and it’s naturally resistant to moisture, and when enhanced with some coatings, it’s a winner in the fridge and freezer.
You‘ll see SUS in many applications, but most certainly, as a beverage holder, it got some heavy glass bottles and paperboard in a wet environment. Better use SUS. This grade goes by many names WES truck registered. The name CNK coated with natural Kraft is also called UCK coated. Unbleached Kraft, whatever the term, the composition is the same. So the next grade is the UK. Everything we’ve discussed so far, SBSs and SUS, is usually made from virgin hardwood fibers, and that’s expensive. UUK is a natural grade. Both sides are brown and traditionally made from a blend of softwood like pine trees and heartwood.
The UK may contain recycled fibers as well. The benefit of UUK is that you get a high strength at a lower cost, but if you want a crisp and bright print application, you’re not going to see that with the UK. The UK is a popular choice for heavy-duty hardware and even wet environments, where Chris print and high cost are not desired.
You may see a thirty to forty percent discount on UUK compared to. SBS s its worthy of your consideration, so do you need a non-food contact versatile board with a hundred percent recycled content, then you need some CRB. Coated recycled board aka CCN aka CCB aka duplex aka WLC aka GB, there’s a lot of variation. This grade and its reasonably low strength, but if you have everyday weight items like a bag of cereal chips or snacks, you’ll find CRV an ideal choice. So you need a paper board that isn’t in plain views like a setup box or dividers so that a setup box would have a wrap around it and coding. You can see material like that or in terms of a divider material like this, where you don’t see it, but it has a function. So URB encoded recycled board is your pick by far. URB is the least expensive paper board grade. And most likely provides the highest value when you need it.
So I’ve saved the most exciting paper board grade for the last FBB folding boxboard. FBB is a multiply grade and is made up of one or more mechanically pulp layers. Leveraging the strength and it’s sandwiched between two layers of chemical pulp which leverages printability smoothness of brightness, so it’s the best of both worlds compared to SBS. You’ll sacrifice strength, but you’ll gain usability depending on coating and composition. You’ll see high-end FBB priced competitively with SBS and up to 35% fewer costs for more economical grades.
One thing about FBB that I think is cool because it’s just opened and closes so nicely, and you’re not going to see a lot of creasing and damage to your scores. It also makes a lot of sense if you will be opening and closing many things. And it can take a lot of premium enhancements. You can see this gloss on here. There is a nice emboss on this Band-Aid. It’s engineered to be great. For more details, visit us here: https://www.printingcircle.com/paper-....
Информация по комментариям в разработке