MEMBER'S QUESTION:

We have the opportunity to secure a substantial piece of business.  The customer's specifications reference box dimensions, ECT, and basis weight combinations.  I will submitt selected box samples to a third party lab for evaluation so that you will be able to offer suggestions as to alternative containerboard combinations that will give us both an environmental and economic sustainability advantage.

ASKRalph! Responds:

Below is an assessment of the five different samples you submitted for testing verses what the ECT potentials that could have been developed given the basis weights of the board combinations discovered during the evaluation.

Basis Weight Combinations all C Flute

Converted ECTs Actual Results by Testing

Potential ECT Ranges By Ralph Young at 12/29/2008 - 17:45 ECT Basis Weights Box Compression Combined Board Converting Losses ECT Login or register to post comments Read more

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