Coated Paper & Board
A coated paper with gloss and matt finishes with good ink hold out. Often used for advertising, glossy books, annual reports, labels and general commercial printing.

Carton Boxes
A box, its most common form, is manufactured from containerboard - layer of linerboard and one layer of medium. The layers are combined on a corrugator, a machine that presses corrugations into the medium and laminates a layer of linerboard to each side. The sheets are folded, printed and glued or stapled to make a finished box. There are four common types of corrugated containerboard: single face, single wall, double wall and triple wall.

Containerboard
Solid fibre or corrugated and combined board used in the manufacture of shipping containers and related products. Also the component materials used in fabrication of corrugated board and solid fibre combined board. The raw material used to make containerboard may be virgin cellulose fiber, recycled fiber or a combination of both.

Coated Board
Any paper, which has been coated. This term covers a wide range of qualities, basis weights and uses.

Corrugating Medium
A paperboard used by corrugating plants to form the corrugated or fluted component in making corrugated combined board, corrugated wrapping and a like. It can be made of recycled material or wood pulp.

Duplex Paperboard
Grey or Brown industrial board on one side with a glossy coated paper finish on the other side for printing. Principally used for notebook covers and packaging materials such as boxes for facial tissues and cereal boxes, etc.

Die Cut
Die Cuts are corrugated that has been processed through a machine that uses flat or rotary steel rule dies to perforate, cut and otherwise stamp out a part that cannot be produced by a conventional slotting press.

Folding Box Board
A paperboard suitable for the manufacture of folding cartons, this can be made from a variety of raw materials on either a cylinder machine or a fourdrinier machine. It possesses qualities that permit scoring and folding and has variable surface properties depending upon the printing requirements.

Flute
One of the wave shapes pressed into corrugated medium.

Ivory Board
One side coated paper with creamish shade for packaging, folding cartons, set up boxes

Linerboard
Paperboard used for the flat outer facings of combined corrugated board.

Manila and Ivory Board
One-side coated boxboard with a white or cream-colored uncoated back surface commonly used for folders, folding and cigarette boxes and other specialty packaging.