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Packaging, Containerization, and Materials Handling
Published in John M. Longshore, Angela L. Cheatham, Managing Logistics Systems, 2022
John M. Longshore, Angela L. Cheatham
A substitute for the pallet in the flexible device’s category is the Slip sheet. Slip sheets are thin pallet-sized sheets made of plastic, heavy laminated craft paperboard, or corrugated fiberboard used in commercial shipping. Often, these replace the use of traditional wooden pallets. The unit load is usually stretch-wrapped or shrink-wrapped for stability. There are several types of slip sheets that can be used for the transportation of a unit load depending upon the desired use of the sheet. They are shaped and dimensioned to the size of the product or unit load. The primary advantages of slip sheets in comparison to pallets are cost and weight. Slip sheets are less costly than pallets and are virtually insignificant from a weight and cube perspective.
Taking Control of Logistical Packaging: Pallets, Corrugated Boxes, Stretch Wrap
Published in Norman J. Crampton, Preventing Waste at the Source, 2018
“For the last 80 years,” Twede writes, “almost all approved packages have been made from corrugated fiberboard. The effect has been to create a virtual monopoly in the logistical packaging industry for corrugated fiberboard shipping container suppliers.” Most of the packages, she adds, “use more material and are more expensive than they need to be.”
Experimental analysis of corrugated fibreboard cutting with movable cutting disc during large-sized package manufacture
Published in Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2022
I.I. Rehei, S.V. Ternytskyi, N.M. Kandiak, T.V. Koval
The paper and paperboard has orthotropic structure with different mechanical properties in three main directions. The machine direction (MD) and the cross direction (CD) are the two main directions, which characterise this material. MD is the direction of material manufacture while CD is transverse direction. However, corrugated fibreboard has one more direction – ZD that characterises the thickness of material. Corrugated fibreboard typically consists of two flat layers – liner and one corrugated middle layer – flute. Corrugated fibreboard consists of more layers that depend on needed mechanical properties of packaging. Constructive performance of corrugated fibreboard packaging depends on numerous factors, which include quality of raw cellulosic fibre, mechanical properties of liner and flute layers and structure properties of combined paperboard.