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Moisture Content: A Key Issue for Manufacturing and Printing of Corrugated Board


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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.

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Relative Humidity,moisture,scumming,inkpeeling,crisp,tempature,flute,liner,curling
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Vandana Gupta
Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana
Bijender
Department of Printing Technology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana
Sonam Verma
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