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Why Your Maintenance Strategy Might Be Costing You a Fortune (and How RCM Can Fix It), Paper360º January/February 2026

IDCON Shutdown Turnaround Optimization Program

TAPPI partnership with IDCON

Corrugated Packaging

The latest Corrugated Packaging focused events, news, educational resources, publications, standards and conference documents.

Riddle Me This!

Riddle Me This! Riddle Me This! What do the year 1934, Audio Oscillators, a “Mickey Mouse” type company, a coin toss and $530 have in common with a very well-known 76 year old company that employs

You Never Know

You Never Know We had a wonderful CorrExpo2013 in the great city of Indianapolis, Ind., USA, last month. More than 900 of the corrugated industry’s best attended this gathering. I tried to speak to

Is more foreign boxboard finding its way into the US market?

By Dustin Jalbert, economist, paper packaging The unprecedented growth in global boxboard capacity has understandably generated some concerns about how effectively the marketplace can absorb these volumes in the near term, particularly in a weak global economic environment. China’s aggressive expansion into virgin boxboard has been well in excess of both domestic and even global demand growth for virgin boxboard over the last several years, and now market players await the impact of another salvo of capacity from Europe. The European projects alone will add roughly 1.2 million metric tons of folding boxboard capacity (FBB) capacity through 2017. We have explored these and other global trends in our recent World Boxboard Study.

Assessing variation in package modeling, TAPPI Journal April 2021

ABSTRACT: Predictions from empirical models are affected by variability in the input parameters for the data set used to build the models. For corrugated boxes, the difference between actual and modeled compression strength creates a real cost associated with box production, often resulting in boxes that may need to be over-designed to compensate for a lack of model precision. No work to date has attempted to assess the limitation in these compression estimates due to input parameter testing variability. In this paper we approach that problem, initially for the McKee equation and then conceptually for other box models. For our industry to do a better job at meeting the needs of our corrugated packaging customers, we need to reduce the variation in the tests we all rely on, particularly for evaluating material strength (edge crush test [ECT]) and package compression performance (box compression test [BCT]).

Rapid comparison of mineral oils vapor transmission rate through paper and board packaging materials, TAPPI JOURNAL June 2012

Rapid comparison of mineral oils vapor transmission rate through paper and board packaging materials, TAPPI JOURNAL June 2012

Effect of ink and paperboard characteristics on flexographic

Effect of ink and paperboard characteristics on flexographic print quality based on print density, TAPPI JOURNAL September 2011

Effects of flame and corona treatment on extrusion coated paper properties, TAPPI JOURNAL October 2011

Effects of flame and corona treatment on extrusion coated paper properties, TAPPI JOURNAL October 2011