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The packaging industry in India has been battling severe problems following the rise in input costs faced by SME corrugated box manufacturing units. A large number of small-scale corrugated box manufacturers are facing the imminent threat of closure as they struggle to meet the hike in prices of essential raw materials. Large-scale closure of SME corrugated box manufacturing units is anticipated to hamper the growth prospects of the domestic packaging sector.Rising input costs posing problemsPrices of kraft paper, which is the key raw material for the corrugated box manufacturing sector, have shot up substantially in the recent past.


Paper mills, producing kraft paper, are planning further hike in prices, which is expected to add to the existing woes of SME corrugated box manufacturers and suppliers."Steady increase in the price of kraft paper is leading to huge losses for corrugated box manufacturers. It is also resulting in the erosion of competitiveness of the SME corrugated box makers as they are struggling to keep their prices low in view of the rising overall manufacturing costs," said D Shah, proprietor of Bhagirath Boxes Private Ltd, a small-sized corrugated box maker in Ahmedabad.Besides the sharp hike in the prices of kraft paper, price of other inputs such as starch and galvanized wire have also increased manifold. Furthermore, the collective shutdown of plants by the paper mills is also affecting the SME corrugated box manufacturing units.

According to the different shapes of goods and weak parts, design a variety of pads, for a fixed commodity, to ensure that the process of transportation of goods will not move, while the role of a buffer. The advantages of corrugated box Is the use of corrugated paper packaging made of corrugated cardboard containers, it has a lot of little: 1, light weight, better structural performance. Similar structure inside the corrugated arch, can play a role in erosion control shock absorption, good mechanical properties.

Corrugated paper Board material First, trees Pulp and paper, you can use a variety of plant Fiber Made, but as the raw material of paper or use most of the trees are non- Timber Class. Second, the chemical composition of wood Table for the softwood and hardwood typical chemical composition. It is difficult to accurately write the chemical formula of wood, because wood is composed of a combination of molecular formula compounds the natural product of the complex and uneven.

 The main components of wood are cellulose (40-50%), hemicellulose, wood and Solvent The dissolved substances (3-3,5%). But it does not occur in the chemical composition of these structural changes and decomposition under the conditions of sorting out, it can be said is impossible.