How to distinguish the corrugated box (mailing box or mailer box) from the carton box?
May 23,2022 Cindy
What’s the difference between the corrugated box (mailing box or mailer box) from the carton box? The corrugated box is one type of the carton packaging, and now has been used by merchants to deliver the goods, such as, Taobao. The corrugated box can protect the products from damage.
Despite the corrugated box is one type of the carton box, but people often asked what’s the difference between the corrugated box and carton box. Let’s see the difference of the two products as follows.
1. Different materials
Mailer (or mailing or mailer box) boxes are made of corrugated paper, and generally have three layers and five layers. There are three layers and five layers commonly used in cartons, and seven layers are used less often. Each layer is divided into lining paper, corrugated paper, core paper, and face paper. The color and feel of the paper are different, and the paper produced by different manufacturers is also different.
2. The price is different
Now the corrugated box on the market is generally more than one yuan, but the price of the carton on the market is different according to different thickness materials, generally 3.5 yuan.
It can be seen that the price of the carton is more expensive than that of the corrugated box, but according to different materials and specifications, the price of the two is different. If you want to know the current market price of corrugated boxes and cartons.
3. Different designs
According to the international carton box type standard, the carton structure can be divided into two categories: basic type and combined type.
The basic type is also the basic box type. There are legends in the standard to check. Generally, it is represented by four digits. The first two digits represent the box type, and the latter represents different carton styles in the same box type.
Compared with carton boxes, the styles of corrugated boxes are more complex and diverse, such as tube folding corrugated boxes, disc folding corrugated boxes, tube-and-reel folding corrugated boxes, and non-tube non-disc folding corrugated boxes.
Through the above comparison, we can know what is the difference between the two.