Author(s)

Jannes Roman¹, Gilles Verschueren¹, Ward Nica¹, Peter Slaets², Marc Juwet¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven Campus, Gent, Belgium.
²Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven Campus, Leuven, Belgium.

Due to increasing pressure on brand owners and distributors to avoid single use plastics such as plastic bundle packaging, a new bundle packaging that consists of corrugated board only, has been designed. Obviously this new packaging should equally enable transportability. This study compares the transportability of bundles using corrugated board on the one hand and bundles using plastic collation shrink film on the other. In particular, the resistance to varying horizontal inertial forces is compared experimentally. All tested bundle packagings of corrugated board perform well above expectations and significantly better than shrink film packaging. All additional requirements regarding marketing, durability, consumer convenience, …are met.

Transportability, Collation Shrink Film, Corrugated Board Packaging, Horizontal Inertial Forces, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Transportability

Roman, J. , Verschueren, G. , Nica, W. , Slaets, P. and Juwet, M. (2023) Cardboard Eco-Bundle as an Alternative for Collation Shrink Film. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 13, 94-108. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2023.131009.