Huge Variety Of Cardboard Boxes

Cardboard boxes used to come in just one format, thin single skinned brown boxes in only a few set sizes, yet now you can buy then in any size that you want and in just about any colour that you want. You can have them printed with any logo or colour writing that you want.

They our also now made in a variety of thicknesses, from thin boxes used to package sandwiches up in supermarkets, through to very strong double walled cardboard boxes that feature glued and stapled seams, making them suitable for shipping even heavy machine parts from one country to another.

Boxes now can be bought with air pack linings making them ideal for shipping delicate parts in total security.

They are now widely used in the food industry with many suppliers switching from plastic to cardboard boxes, these are lightweight boxes, and probably nearly just as cheap to produce as the older plastic packets.

Cardboard boxes are now also widely used for transporting hot food in as it keeps the food warm, and is also very durable for shipping food in transit such as pizza deliveries.

They are widely used for producing cereal packaging, indeed one of the earliest known uses of them in the food packaging industry was for Kellogg's Cornflakes.

The cardboard boxes used in food packaging tend to be just made up of thin sheets of cardboard rather than corrugated cardboard.

They are also used to package all cigarettes sold, as well as match boxes.

They are now also widely used to package drinks in, from fruit juice cartons to milk.

They are now widely used in the retail industry for packaging a wide variety of goods from toys to electronic equipment and everything in between with the boxes often having custom made foam inserts in them to keep the goods safe in transit.

In the retail industry the size of them can vary from a box to send a book by post in, through to a box for containing a deep freezer or large TV.

So the cardboard box is now widely used for packaging things that its original inventors would be simply amazed to see, and indeed they would never believe how this form of packaging is now in such widespread usage Worldwide, with millions being used annually.

Undoubtedly this area of the packaging industry will evolve even more in the coming years as technology develops further.

Cardboard Boxes Have Become The Storage Of Choice

These days cardboard is being used more and more for storing a wide variety of goods in, from being used to ship fresh produce such as fruit and vegetables in, through to long term storage of documents.

Where as once only wooden crates were used to ship fruit in such as apples and bananas, a huge amount of fruit is now shipped in cardboard boxes.

The reason for this is they are very easy to recycle as they can simply be folded flat when they have been used, where as older wooden fruit crates had to be broken up, or they would take up huge amounts of space, and many were not re-used, and given the amount of them that were being produced they were using up a lot of trees building them, which is not now classed as very eco-friendly. Cardboard is, as it can be recycled. Indeed fruit and vegetable retailers and wholesalers actually do recycle a lot of cardboard boxes.

Other storage uses for cardboard boxes now include those used by removal firms, who once upon a time used wooden storage crates, but these took up a lot of room as they could not be folded flat. With advent of strong cardboard boxes, they still do the same job as the wooden ones, yet fold flat when not in use. This means the removal firm saves money, as they do not need such a large storage area. Yet the boxes are strong enough to be stored full of goods one on top of the other, either whilst being used to move house, or for long-term storage.

Other long-term storage uses for cardboard boxes are for documents storage, and a lot of companies now using cardboard boxes for long-term archiving purposes.

Suitably strong cardboard storage boxes are now widely available, with very strong ones with glued and stapled seams capable of holding very large weights indeed.

The stronger boxes allow them to be stacked on top of each other to a considerable height.

They are becoming ever more popular as a storage option as when not in use they take up very little room when folded back down flat, and if the box gets damaged it is cheap to replace and the old one can easily be recycled, or even if it goes to landfill it is biodegradable. In addition you can now buy waterproof cardboard boxes, which keep out the damp, making them ideal for storage.