Types and differences of cardboard boxes and cartons

What are the types of cardboard boxes and cartons?

（1） Type of cardboard box

A cardboard box refers to a paper container with a relatively large capacity, mainly made of materials such as yellow cardboard, cowhide cardboard, corrugated cardboard, grass cardboard, etc. Its main purpose is for storage and transportation.

Paper boxes are usually classified based on the corrugated pattern of the cardboard. There are four main types of corrugated cardboard ribs, namely A ribs, B ribs, C horizontal ribs, and E ribs.

The cardboard boxes commonly used for outer packaging are mainly made of A, B, and C corrugated cardboard; The middle packaging adopts B and E corrugated shapes; E-corrugated cardboard is often used for small packaging.

（2） Type of paper box

(1) According to the type of paper, it can be classified into corrugated cardboard boxes, whiteboard cardboard boxes, cardboard cardboard boxes, tea board cardboard boxes, and so on.

(2) Classified by material thickness: thick cardboard box, thin cardboard box.

(3) According to the shape of the paper box, it can be classified into square, trapezoidal, polygonal, triangular, and special shaped boxes, etc.

(4) According to the structure of the paper box, it can be classified into folding paper box and fixed paper box.

(5) According to the form of the paper box, it can be classified into drawer type, shake cover type, cover type, handheld type, open window type, display type, and combination type.

(6) According to the purpose of paper boxes, they can be classified as food paper boxes, textile paper boxes, chemical product paper boxes, cosmetic paper boxes, and so on.

What is the difference between cardboard boxes and cartons?

Paper box and cardboard box can be collectively referred to as paper box. Generally speaking, paper box is a smaller box packaged in paper, and cardboard box is also made of paper, which belongs to the corrugated cardboard paper pair and is a larger volume paper box.

The volume of a cardboard box is slightly larger than that of a cardboard box, and there is no clear boundary, it's just a difference in people's customary names.