What Is The Corrugated Cardboard?
What is a Corrugated Cardboard Box?
Due to the fact that its raw material is paper, it can be explained as a packaging material with the highest level of environmental compatibility, since it is a raw material that can be reproduced, reused, recycled again. Corrugated cardboard was first used in the world in the USA in the 1870s. albert Jones corrugated paper in 1871, G in 1874. Smyth managed to produce single-faced corrugated cardboard and Oliver Long corrugated cardboard again in 1874 and they received a patent. In our country, the corrugated cardboard factory was first put into operation by SEKA in 1954. The first private sector corrugated cardboard factory started its activities in 1968.
Today, about 150 companies in our country are producing corrugated cardboard in about 250 factories.
To the extent that attention is focused on the costs of agricultural and industrial products, the use of corrugated cardboard will also increase. Because packaging made of corrugated cardboard is not a cost element, it is a cost reduction tool. The product that comes out with great effort loses its value and even disappears because it is not packaged well; it disappears with a well-designed, well-produced and used packaging on site.
Corrugated Cardboard Boxes and boxes by reducing the distribution costs, Decoupling between production and consumption, the areas where corrugated cardboard packaging is used, which undertakes the task of keeping, protecting, transporting, promoting the products it packages together in the best way, are multiplying Decoupling day by day. All products, liquid, solid, granular, soft, hard, durable and sensitive, can be safely packed with corrugated cardboard. Each corrugated cardboard box and parcel is designed in accordance with the product specifications it is packaged in, and is produced taking into account its suitability for filling conditions, pallet, stacking, storage and transportation. Corrugated cardboard boxes and boxes, which used to be usually used as transport packaging, packaging many products such as books, shoes, souvenirs, vegetables and fruits that we buy today, are a material that is very close to the user as promotional packaging, food packaging, picture frame, gift box, movie sets and display decor, especially in recent years when environmental sensitivity has increased.
In Turkey, 70% of the production of the necessary papers, which are the raw material of corrugated cardboard, is covered by the paper obtained from recycling. The remaining 30% is obtained from imported papers. A large part of the imported paper is obtained from certified, that is, trees cut in accordance with certain principles without disturbing the ecological balance from forest management countries. New trees are being planted, which will reach adulthood after 8 to 14 years, depending on the location of the felled trees and their genera. Therefore, tree cutting is not carried out for the production of corrugated cardboard boxes and boxes in Turkey.
We Kolici.com as a company, starting our activities in 2003, we are carrying out studies to promote and encourage the use of corrugated cardboard boxes and boxes, which are environmentally friendly, hygienic, economical, visually carry the product's advertising on them in the most effective way, are natural, protect food and are a sustainable product.