TITLE:
Cardboard Eco-Bundle as an Alternative for Collation Shrink Film
AUTHORS:
Jannes Roman, Gilles Verschueren, Ward Nica, Peter Slaets, Marc Juwet
KEYWORDS:
Transportability, Collation Shrink Film, Corrugated Board Packaging, Horizontal Inertial Forces, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Transportability
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.13 No.1,
January
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: Due to
increasing pressure on brand owners and distributors to avoid single use
plastics such as plastic bundle packaging, a new bundle packaging that consists
of corrugated board only, has been designed. Obviously this new packaging
should equally enable transportability. This study compares the
transportability of bundles using corrugated board on the one hand and bundles
using plastic collation shrink film on the other. In particular, the resistance
to varying horizontal inertial forces is compared experimentally. All tested
bundle packagings of corrugated board perform well above expectations and
significantly better than shrink film packaging. All additional requirements
regarding marketing, durability, consumer convenience, …are met.