Corrugated packaging materials are paper-based materials made from a combination of fluting (the wavy middle layer) and liners (the outer layers). Together, they provide strength, protection, and durability for transport and distribution. Billerud’s corrugated materials combine high-performing fluting with strong, printable liners to deliver reliable and sustainable packaging solutions.
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Containerboard is the collective term for the paper grades used to manufacture corrugated board. It is converted into sheets and boxes used for shipping, e‑commerce, retail-ready packaging, and industrial transport. Billerud produces containerboard engineered for demanding supply chains and consistent converting performance.
Billerud’s corrugated materials are designed around True Performance - a science-based approach that evaluates how packaging performs under real-world conditions such as long transport times, varying humidity, temperature changes, and continuous load. This enables stronger, lighter, and more efficient packaging than solutions designed only to meet standard lab tests.
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True Performance is Billerud’s method for optimizing packaging based on how it behaves throughout the entire supply chain. It focuses on performance over time - considering climate variations, stacking pressure, transport duration, and handling - to ensure packaging arrives intact, functional, and visually appealing at its destination.
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Billerud Flute® is a semi-chemical fluting material made from 100% primary fibres. It is known for its high strength, endurance, and lightweighting potential. Its performance allows packaging producers to reduce material usage without compromising box strength, helping improve both cost efficiency and sustainability.
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Billerud offers a range of liners designed for strength, printability, and appearance. These liners can be uncoated or coated and provide a bright, smooth surface that supports high-quality printing while maintaining strong surface and structural properties for reliable converting and distribution.
Billerud’s liners offer excellent printability, strong colour reproduction, and a bright surface. They help reduce washboarding, folding cracks, and bulging, resulting in packaging with a consistent, premium appearance that enhances shelf impact and brand visibility.
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Yes. The high strength of Billerud’s fluting and liners enables lightweighting, meaning packaging can be engineered to use less material while maintaining performance. Optimized constructions help reduce fiber usage, transport weight, and overall environmental impact without compromising protection.
Key performance drivers include compression and stacking strength, stiffness, puncture resistance, surface strength, and performance under varying humidity. Billerud’s corrugated materials are engineered to balance these properties for stable converting, efficient logistics, and reliable protection.
In long or complex supply chains, packaging must withstand constant load, climate changes, and handling stress. Billerud’s corrugated materials are developed to maintain strength and shape over time, reducing the risk of damage, returns, and packaging failure in real transport conditions.
Yes. Billerud’s corrugated materials are made from pure, 100% fresh fibres and comply with relevant FDA and BfR requirements for food contact. This makes them suitable for applications where hygiene, safety, and material purity are essential, such as food and beverage packaging.
Yes. Billerud’s corrugated materials are fiber-based and recyclable through established paper recycling systems. They are designed to work within circular material flows and support efficient fiber recovery.
Billerud’s corrugated materials are made from renewable, responsibly sourced fresh fibres. By enabling lighter packaging designs and reducing material usage, they help lower resource consumption and environmental impact compared to conventional packaging solutions.
Billerud’s corrugated materials are optimized for industries where strength, purity, and appearance are critical. These include Food & Beverage, Fruit & Vegetables, Household & Gardening, Consumer and Industrial Electronics, Automotive, and other industrial applications.
Billerud provides technical support and consulting to help customers optimize packaging design, material selection, and performance. This includes guidance on converting, logistics, and structural optimization to improve productivity and packaging efficiency across the value chain.
The right choice depends on performance requirements such as stacking strength, transport conditions, humidity exposure, print quality, and sustainability goals. Billerud works with customers to match material properties to real-world use cases, ensuring reliable performance with optimized material use.
Start with your distribution reality: stacking load, transit time, humidity exposure, and handling intensity. Then align material choice to the required performance (compression/stiffness/puncture) and print needs. Billerud’s True Performance approach helps validate choices under real supply-chain conditions, not just standard tests.
Edge Crush Test (ECT) measures the stacking strength of the raw, corrugated board material itself, while Box Compression Test (BCT) measures the final stacking strength of the assembled, fully constructed box. One can predict BCT utilizing for example the McKee Formula [BCT = f (ECT & Bending Stiffness)].
Paper-based packaging can lose stiffness and compression strength as humidity rises. That’s why performance should be validated under realistic climate conditions - especially for long journeys, refrigerated distribution, or seasonal variation.
Yes, but the material and design must be selected for condensation risk, humidity exposure time, and required stacking strength. A performance-focused validation (lab conditioning + transport trials) helps ensure boxes hold up through the full route.
Washboarding is an uneven surface appearance that can affect print quality. It’s influenced by board structure, material properties, and process settings. Using liners designed for good printability and optimizing corrugator and printing conditions can reduce visible patterns.
Folding cracks can result from material stiffness, scoring settings, and print coverage; bulging can result from construction and load conditions. Selecting liners with strong surface properties and aligning converting settings to the board construction improves appearance and performance.
Lightweighting can lower fiber usage and transport weight, and it can reduce damage rates when performance is optimized for real conditions. The best programs balance cost, performance, and sustainability - validated through testing and logistics data.