Classification of carton packaging

Carton packaging have a variety of relatively different classifications according to different prespectives:

1. Based on carton packaging design and production management point of view, it generally classified according to the structure of the carton, there are two classes of folding cartons with fixed cartons..

The folding carton is the use of cardboard (including cardboard) according to the specific design of the box template structure, it's a kind of carton by die cutting, creasing, folding, mating or bonding forming. It can be folded into slices stored when it doesn't load material and converted into a box can be loaded objects, use the pull, with the easy production of large quantities of machining stacked to facilitate storage and transportation, save spaces, suitable for decoration printing and easily recycle. Folding cartons are most widely used carton in modern cartons and it has the largest share of all cartons. The folding carton can be divided into buckle style folding carton and adhesive folding carton based on morphology can be divided into two kinds of tube carton and tray carton. The inadequacies of the folding carton with lower intensity and generally can not packing too heavy goods, the biggest box template size is the best control in less than 40cm.

.Fixed carton is also called adhensive cartons or glued cartons, it uses the cardboard and paper, according to a certain box template design, fixed forming through adhesive or glued technology, it can not be folded into a flat-panel sheet. The surface can be laminating a variety of veneer material, such as coated paper, glossy paper, color paper, imitation leather, paper, silk, leather, plastic and even woolen fabrics, and printing, embossing and gilding, so it can be made into a variety of fine box-shaped, when used directly loaded items, and protective properties with excellent strength, the drawback is that the empty cartridge storage and space occupied. The structure forms can be divided into set-up box, shake-covered box, drawer boxes, shaped boxes suitable for gift packaging, it mainly used for proprietary chinese medicines, tonics, wine, tea, cosmetics, or jewelry and other products packaging, generally produced by pure manual or semi-mechanized production, low productivity with high cost./p>

2. According to the classification of carton material, it can be divided into commonly whiteboard carton, tea board tray, white card carton, glass card tray, color board carton, corrugated cardboard box, decorated paper glued carton and specialty cartons (used along with paper and plastic materials). Which corrugated boxes are made ​​of corrugated cardboard cartons, it has great strength, strong ability of anti-extrusion, in some cases can be replace of wooden packaging.

3. Accorrding to paperboard thickness it is generally divided into two kinds of thin paperboard carton and thick paperboard carton. the former one is a thin cardboard cartons, include cardboard cartons, whiteboard carton, tea board carton, direct printing pattern of the carton surface to be decorated. Thick carton include cardboard boxes, yellow board cartons and corrugated boxes.

4. According to morphological the carton can be divided into a tubular and tray boxes. Tube carton is a rectangular cardboard, folded along the edge of a good stick. The upper and lower ends with a cover sheet, cap inserted tongue, shake-wing lock closure, which the full range of protection products usually are widely used in the bottled product, daily necessities, cosmetics, medicines and other. The tray carton has a solid bottom of the box, edges and faces to constitute a fixed tongue, locking connection with the end with a dust cover. Such tray, the lid, the structure can be one of the roll cover tray box and split the cover tray box, widely used in the market to textiles, grocery goods from food, snacks etc.. Tube and tray carton can also be made ​​of a special shape, the shape of triangle, trapezoid, rhombus, regular polygon, barrel-shaped or even simulate the natural and unusual shapes.

5. According to the carton structure, it can be divided into shake covered box, the cover box, drawer box, handling box, window boxes, combination boxes, hanging boxes, display boxes (or POP carton), the proposed state boxes, the special structure of carton (such aseasy to open, within the compartment lining structure).

6. According to processing method it can be divided into manual carton and mechanism carton, it also can be divided into a series cartons, supporting the combination of cartons, portable carton according to carton combination of applications and supporting relationship.