Though several materials like wood, steel, and plastic are available for making containers;
moving boxes are almost exclusively made of cardboard. Corrugated cardboard, of which
moving boxes are made, may of single wall, double wall, or triple wall.
Manufacturers of
moving boxes give details like wall thickness, and edge crush test result of the at the bottom of the boxes. Users should ideally check these values to confirm whether the chosen boxes are suitable for their purpose. The words
moving boxes and cardboard boxes, though they may not literally mean the same thing, are more or less synonymous. There are steel and wooden shipping containers, and steel drums that are used to transport heavy materials that require unbreakable sealing. But somehow, no local parlance has a usage of steel boxes or wooden boxes for moving.
In the same way, though cardboard boxes can be used for storing things, they are rarely, if at all, used as storage containers. It is almost as if cardboard boxes are born just to do the job of
moving boxes and then vanish into the recycle bins. The cardboard that goes into the making of the boxes is corrugated cardboard. This is differentiated from the flat cardboard, in which cereals come packed, by the presence of a layer of ruffled material in between the two flat layers on the outer and inner side. The flat layers are known as linerboard while the ruffled material is known as medium. The ruffled material, that forms arched columns around the box, is important in helping the
moving boxes support heavy loads.
These boxes could be single walled, double walled, or triple walled. A single wall in corrugated cardboard is where two layers of linerboard are glued to a fluted layer of medium in between. This pattern is also referred to as 'double face'. The terminology differentiates it from a simpler cardboard pattern known as 'single face' where just one layer of linerboard is glued to a fluted layer inside it. 'Single face' cardboard is not used for
moving boxes.
With double walled
moving boxes, there will be three layers of linerboard, with two layers of fluted material in between, like a double-decker sandwich. With a triple wall, there will be four layers of linerboard, with three layers of fluted material, or medium, in between. The medium will be glued to the linerboard on both side, and in some cases both glue and staples are used for affixing the layers together. The bottom flap of the
moving boxes will give the information as to whether it is single walled, double walled, or triple walled.
Besides wall thickness, the flap will also contain the ECT, or edge crush test value, of the
moving boxes. 32 ECT, which is the minimum requirement for these boxes, means that the box can withstand 32lb pressure on one square inch. Regular slotted carton, or RSC, is the more common pattern among cardboard boxes used as
moving boxes. Other cardboard box patterns like HSC, or half slotted carton, and SBC or snap bottom carton, are comparatively less used for moving. And Flexo Folder Gluer machines, the machines that produce
moving boxes, do a very fast job, meeting the industry's needs.
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