Low Quality Control leads to Brown Box Wastage at Corrugation Plants

Corrugated box manufacturers and firms in India are at peak of their success with increased sale and high demand production. The growing curve of the e-commerce industry has been a vital player in recent times. Companies such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra etc. have been largely using corrugated board boxes for their primary packaging.

Corrugated box packaging is a versatile and cost-efficient product that delivers maximum protection, security while delivering a wide range of products. Features like light weighted, biodegradable properties, and recyclability makes it the foremost choice in the packaging industry.

However, a basic mistake the corrugated plants are doing is not focusing on their quality control. Lack of required quality testing is leading to increase in material wastage bringing potential product loss.

How the lack of efficient quality control leads to rise in corrugated box waste?

Lack of knowledge or equipment whatever it may, the poor quality control practices in industries can lead to increased wastage in manufacturing companies. If the raw material has a poor or dropping quality and the same are used to manufacture end products, they will get caught at the level of client inspection. Once rejected by multiple customers, the product range will never be taken or used anywhere and thus are wasted. These products will be either discarded or sold at a terribly lower price.

In case of corrugated boxes due to delamination of the board, improper quality of printing, and poor material handling, the brown boxes can lead to product wastage.

In an industry like packaging, where paper has the biggest cost, it makes sense that the manufacturers would look forward to track its proper use, or more specifically, its wastage and sale. The wastage percent at any ordinary corrugated box firm in India is near about 14-15%. And the major cause behind this higher wastage is the low quality of cardboard material available to Indian corrugators.

Box Compression Strength, an essential quality factor

In order to flip this situation and bring your wastage lower than before, one must produce high quality cardboard boxes. Compressive strength of brown box is one of the major quality factors that can help the producers in keeping the quality standards high and aid in clearing the inspection audit.

Box Compression Strength is the resistance capacity of corrugated boxes against vertical compressive load. Higher compression strength leads to better packaging outcomes by delivering strong structural properties. And low strength quality in boxes can result in a falling curve in sales and bring loss to manufacturers.

To ensure that your product has the best compression strength available in the market or is as per the set industry standards one needs to evaluate a product’s quality using the precision based quality control equipment.

Box Compression Tester brings high-end quality inspection for corrugated boxes. The machine is used to test a wide range and different size and shaped boxes under application of external load. The equipment can recreate the real-time load exertion a product can experience in its expected end use.

The machine is equipped with features like load cell that ensure uniform load application, strong rugged structure that drives long run performance and microprocessor based digital display screen that is highly sensitive to force application and records any change in the test. The Uniform application of vertical load ensures highly precise test values. The box is pressed with a compression plate until the product deforms and develops a change in its shape.

Equipment like corrugated box compression testers can not only help manufacturers ensure that they deliver the best but also support lower wastage and more sales and profit.