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Improving paper specs in China

Anheuser-Busch and Eastman Kodak have found that Chinese corrugated paper needs to yield better performance.

Mankovich
Mankovich

Primarily because of raw materials, corrugated paper in the Far East and especially in China doesn’t measure up to the specs U.S. companies demand. But there are signs that companies in China are working on the problem. For more details on this topic see Packaging World, April ’99, p. 52 or packworld.com/go/corrugated.

This was the conclusion from comments by participants in a roundtable discussion held last year by Boxboard Containers Intl. with the assistance of PW. The members talking about corrugated paper specifications in the Far East were Leo Mankovich, senior packaging engineer at Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, and Andrew Kerr, packaging technician with Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY.

“One of our major problems in China involved securing the proper paper for corrugated board,” Mankovich reported. “In some cases we are having paper shipped from the U.S. to China, but that becomes quite expensive.

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