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Trees

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Paper Mill Kraft Paper Rolls

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Recovered Fiber from Recycling Center

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Corrugator

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Dryers

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Slitting/ Scoring Recycling Center Corrugator Detail

Flutes

Liner

Medium

Combined Board

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Cut Sheets

To Recycling Center

Liner

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Flexo Folder/Gluer (includes Direct Printing) (OR)

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Rotary Die Cutter

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Bundled & Palletized

The production of corrugated boxes begins much like any other paper product. Wood (1) from trees harvested from paper recycling centers are processed into pulp and made into paper at a paper mill (3). In this process, two different types of brown paper (kraft) are produced:

liner and medium. (4) These two special papers are fed into a corrugator (5) which presses utes into the

or triple wall product. The corrugated board is then fed through a dryer (6) to remove moisture and set the

will be in the nished box. After converting, trimmings and scrap are recovered and sent to the recycling center are bundled (11) and delivered to the customer.

from responsibly managed forests and ber (2) recovered medium and adheres liner to either one or both sides of combined board or corrugate. Additional sets of uted medium and liner can be added to create a double wall

adhesive. The dry corrugated board can then be trimmed, for processing. In the nal step the converted products converting (9-10). Often the corrugated sheets are printed to label, brand or promote the products that

that medium with starch-based glue adhesive, producing slit, scored (7) and cut into sheets (8) for printing and

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