Durable carton is a must for line-haul from factory to importer, distributor, wholesaler, and retailers…

We move on talking about the shipping cartons and looking at the corrugated board types.

Category: Inner carton and Master carton

Grab a carton from your warehouse, peel the top layer off, and take a look at it and see what carton your vendor used.

The raw material of Shipping cartons (inside carton & outside carton):

The raw paper includes Cattle Card, White Card, Core Paper and Liner Paper.

Cattle Card is Kraft paper, the color known as in brown, as hard as cowhide, 4 types of it commonly used:

A: 175g/m²

B: 150g/m²

C: 127g/m² (Liner Paper, too squashy to use for cartons)

K: 250g/m², best used for shipping carton.

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Layers of Shipping Cartons:

One layer: normally used for inner carton

Double layer: for master cartons, e.g K2K, inside and outside are all Kraft paper K, durable enough for heavy goods.

Three layers: for master cartons, e.g. A3A, inside, middle and outside are all paper A. gauge is good but not as durable as K paper.

Shipping marks:

Main Mark (long side):

Side Marks (short side):

Top Mark:

Bottom Mark:

Just drop a question to your vendor before you placed them official PO next time:

What Master carton is applied for my order?

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