Boxboard Beat is a bi-monthly e-newsletter that serves the folding box and corrugated
containers market for the global box and container industry. The readers are
the owners, plant managers and senior engineers who directly control the
production of the boxes and corrugated containers. The industry is global,
with most boxes designed to ship specific industrial manufactured goods.
Recent advances in the industry have led to increasing use of multi-color
graphics on the boxes to enhance customer appeal and their value as a point
of sale display item.
The industry is segmented into two primary components, both of which Boxboard Beat
serves editorially. The segments include the
folding box industry, which is mainly focused on high-quality printing and
graphics and is directly connected to the retail customer. The other segment
is the corrugated container business which is still primarily focused on
creating shipping containers, but is moving rapidly towards the use of
high-quality graphics on the outer liner.
Primary consumables for the industry are liner, medium, inks and glues. The
primary equipment is flexo-folder gluers, flexographic die cutters and
digital printing equipment.
