The future of Corrugated and it’s advantage

Corrugated has a great advantage over other packaging mediums as it comes from a renewable source – wood. It is one of the best examples for sustainability, the perfect loop, because theoretically all corrugated board can be recycled and turned back into paper. You lose some of the fibers during the process of paper recycling because they become shorter, and they eventually enter the environment as a natural biodegradable material. Across Europe as a whole corrugated has 82% going back into paper production.

Customers can tend to think that they are destroying valuable trees when they use corrugated boxes which is Europe at least is definitely not the case, because Europe plant more trees than cut down. If you look at the balances in the Scandinavian Countries, they are achieving a completely sustainable forest economy. Another ideology is that one way corrugated box use is worse than returnable. This statement is false as a generalisation. Each case has to be viewed on its own. Sometimes returnable systems are better; sometimes one way is, depending on the circumstances. Corrugated is excellent in cost effectiveness. It is lightweight and easy for staff to handle, and there is unlimited scope in terms of size & design. Corrugated is easy to print and is a natural, renewable, recyclable, biodegradable product.

Corrugated is the ideal material for Transport packaging. The input-output relationship is excellent. With clever construction you can save a lot of waste & material. There is constant development in this respect. The paper industry is now producing standard 90g already, which is achieving the same performance as heavier papers did in the past. Over the years you can observe a constant decrease in the average weight of corrugated packaging which can only help the environment. Corrugated is also ideal for RFID with chips easily integrated into the box.