International Journal of Science, Engineering and Computer Technology

Vandana Gupta ¹, Bijender ¹, Sonam Verma ²

Affiliations
1 Department Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, IN
2 Print & Graphic Communication, GJUS&T, Hisar, IN

Abstract

The global corrugated board packaging market is forecast to grow to 98 million tonnes in 2015 by a compound annual growth rate of 5% between 2010 and 2015. Despite the premier growth, inaccurate moisture control in corrugated board is posing a challenge to production system of whole corrugating industry. Moisture control is a critical issue in production and procession of corrugated boards. Being such a porous material, corrugated board can easily become too wet or dry wasting manufacturers crucial time, money and productivity. At one hand where too much water-content would cause boards to soften and submit to flute exposure after being produced, on other hand lack of water would make them to be crisp and easy to breakdown. The main objective of this study is to understand, analyse and predict various defects that might arise due to unbalanced moisture in the corrugated board such as washboarding and stripping in review of its manufacturing as well as flexographic printing.

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Vandana Gupta ¹, Bijender ¹, Sonam Verma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana

Abstract

Corrugated board has become quite versatile material in today's modern packaging world. The Corrugated board manufacturers and printers need to concentrate more on quality in order to meet higher customer expectation. Moisture content is a parameter which decides the ultimate end user properties and qualities of the corrugated board. This paper highlights the effect of moisture content on corrugated board manufacturing and printing. The work was carried out at Janus Packaging Pvt. Ltd., Baddi and moisture content data was collected on daily basis. The results clearly indicated that 8-12% moisture content is most suitable for corrugated board need to taken into consideration by manufacturers as well as printers.

Keywords

Relative Humidity,moisture,scumming,inkpeeling,crisp,tempature,flute,liner,curling

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