by mickparkes | Feb 26, 2020 | Packaging, Paper, Profit
You should know about box ratios…. It’s a guess but I’d say 80% of cardboard boxes produced and used are FEFCO 0201 style, sometimes known also as the American Box due to its origins. Well, there is a golden ratio to using the least amount of board...
by mickparkes | Feb 18, 2020 | Margin, Packaging, Paper, Profit
Welcome to another post of my blog, Cardboard Conversation. This is an opinion post based on recent personal experience in a high volume plant, so always up for banter…. One of the most common styles of cardboard box in e-Commerce is the FEFCO 0427. Its a...
by mickparkes | Feb 10, 2020 | Oceans, Packaging, Paper, Plastic, Seal-End cartons, Trigger Sprays
Continuing on the millimetre story In my last blog I made a point about how much more you can ship on a pallet if the size of the primary pack is truly evaluated. Now its not easy to do on a plastic bottle due to tooling costs etc. But to emphasise….. Most...
by mickparkes | Feb 7, 2020 | Packaging, Plastic
With the current wave of material development, every millimetre counts…. Why? you ask. Well its a fair question. Take trigger spray bottles for instance. This material development is due to sustainability and scientific pressure on the packaging world to find...
by mickparkes | Oct 23, 2019 | Oceans, Packaging, Paper, Plastic
The current panic and alarm is about plastic appearing in the oceans and therefore killing marine life or getting in our food chain. Quite understandably we should use what’s going do the job with least harm or CO2 etc. You don’t see paper based items in...
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