The Feasibility of increasing production of corrugated paper for packaging application

Fluting paper is one of the most important paper grades in packaging industries. Demand of paper products has increased dramatically in recent years because of population growth and increasing development of different industries. In the past decades, Considerable volume of annual consumption of packaging paper from other countries were provided, So in this regard to provide part of the country's need, many factories were contemplated in order to compensate a part of paperboard needs by fluting paper and newspaper production. But apparently, this is not the rate of production needs. Therefore, in this research, in addition to evaluating the feasibility of increasing production capacity of Fluting paper by paper machine number one and Qualitative properties of the resulting paper Fluting paper in comparison to paper machine number two, Physical characteristics and mechanical pulp (hand sheet paper) and paper after paper machine were measured. The results show that the mechanical properties of paper from paper machine 1 particularly in the Tensile index, Tear index, Burst index, Folding, Stiffness, RCT, CCT, CMT are superior to that of paper from paper machine 2. The Results also show that there are significant differences between the paper properties of two lines in 95 percent level except tear index.