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Technology Innovation
April 1, 2007 By: Packaging online staff Paperboard PackagingEdgeboards and Cornerboards: Protecting and Stabilizing
Damage caused during transport and handling is a problem for manufacturers and distributors. Many traditionally used packaging materials do not give enough protection for hard impacts, and even a small scratch can lead to a claim for compensation. This is why a number of producers and packaging experts have chosen compact edge protection as a solution.
 Eltete's machines make U-profiles that are compressed using specially selected, plain kraftliner with water-soluble glue. These constituents make the U-profiles 100 percent recyclable. |
Edgeboards are delivered already cut to the correct length. They can be combined with stretch foil, shrink wrap and strapping. The quality, size and strength are chosen individually for each use.
Bio-quality edgeboards are laminated with water-soluble PVA glue, while heat-sealed quality edgeboards are suitable for humid conditions.
Eltete TPM Engineering (ETPME) offers edgeboards and cornerboard machine lines for meeting the demands of reliability, productivity and efficiency. By manufacturing edgeboard and cornerboard packaging profiles locally, board converters can replace and reduce wood in many transport packaging solutions.
 The ESM1600 slitter-rewinder is designed especially for edgeboard plants. It can handle all kinds of paperboard in reels. |
Edgeboard/cornerboard manufacturing with the EBM is a part of the transport packaging material manufacturing concept of Eltete TPM Group. The complete product and manufacturing technology line includes: edgeboard and corner-board machine lines; U-, C-and I-profile (flatboard) machine lines, pallet runner machine lines, paper pallet machine lines, and detach box machine lines .
All the manufacturing processes and products are in connection to each other, and the production technology could be easily connected to tube manufacturing, honeycomb manufacturing and to the general sales and marketing of transport packaging materials.
Eltete has sales organizations in more than 50 countries. With production sites in 12 countries, Eltete TPM is one of the leading producers of edgeboards and packaging solutions in the world.
Eltete edgeboards are in compliance with the European standard EN 13393-specification for edge protectors.
This article was contributed by Jan Akerlund of Eltete TPM Engineering Ltd. For more information, email
jan.akerlund@eltete.com
or visit www.eltete.com.
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