PAPER AND BOARD - GENERAL


Base paper or board
Paper or board intened to be converted for example by a coating process or, by impregnation. In certain countries, this term is also used for papers to which a layer of other material (aluminium,plastics, etc.) is added.

Carbon paper
Paper coated (generally on one side), with  a pigmented layer transferable by pressure, or impact used for making copies at the same time as an original manuscript or typescript is made.

Carbonless copy paper
Paper other than carbon Paper or carbonized forms coated on one or both sides with, or otherwise containing,a substance for obtaining simultaneously one or more copies of an original manuscript or typescript by localized pressure without interposing carbon paper

Chipboard
Board made on a continuous machine from waste paper mainly of a low grade.

Coated paper
Paper that has undergone a coating process on one or both sides.

Corrugating medium
Paperboard that is made from chemical and semichemical pulps sometimes mixed with straw or recycled paper stock that is to be converted to a corrugated board by passing it through a corrugating machine

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Drawing paper
Numerous grades of paper used for pen and pencil artwork. It has fiber compositions depending on the type of work for which it is intended.

Embossed paper
Paper on which raised or depressed design has been produced generally by pressure from an engraved roll or plate.

Folding boxboard
A board intended for the manufacture of cartons, and having good scoring and folding properties.

Kraft liner, Kraft linerboard
A liner board made on a cylinder or fourdrinier machine from a furnish containing 80% or more virgin kraft woodpulp. Nominalgrade weights range from 26 to 90 Ib/1000ft2 and thicknesses from to 9 to 30 points.

Kraft paper
A paper made essentially from woodpulp produced by a modified sulfate pulping process. It is a comparatively coarse paper particularly noted for its strength, and in unbleached grades is used primaliry as a wrapper or packaging material. Its natural unbleached color is brown, but by the use of semibleached or fully unbleached sulfate pulps, it can be produced in lighter shades of semibleached or fully bleached sulfate pulps, it can be produced in lighter shades of brown, cream tints and white. In addition to its use as a wrapping paper , it is also converted into a wide variety of products such as:grocers’bags, envelopes, gummed sealing tape, multiwall sack, as well as all types of specialty bages and sacks.

Light-weight paper
Papers of low grammage generally less than 40g/m

Liner
A generic term for any paper or board intended for covering an other paper or board material, for example, by adhesion to become a part of the finished product.

Linerboard
A type of Kraft paperboard, generally unbleached, used to line or face corrugated core board (on both sides) to form shipping boxes and various types of containers.


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Napkin
A grade of tissue made especially for converting into paper dinner napkins.

Newsprint
Paper intended for the printing of newspapers. The furnish is largely mechanical wood pulp, with some chemical wood pulp.

Sanitary tissue
Highly absorbent, bulky types of lightweight tissue papers used to make sanitary, disposable items such as napkins.

Test linerboard
A term used mainly in Asia for linerboard manufactured from recycled or secondary fiber from a furnish containing 20% or less of virgin kraft pulp.

Tissue paper
Thin, low weight, gauze-like types of paper made from virgin and/or reclaimed pulp,used to manufacture such items as sanitary products, wrapping material, protective packing paper, stock for waxing and twisting, etc.

Uncoated
A term used in conjunction with types of paper and paper board that have been manufactured without the use of coating materials.

Uncoated Wood free
Paper suitable for printing or other graphic purposes, where at least 90% of the fibre furnish consists of chemical pulp fibres.Uncoated wood free paper can be made from a variety or furnishes, with variable levels of mineral filler and a range of finishing processes such as sizing, calendering, machine glazing and watermaking. This grade includes most office papers, such as business forms, copier, computer, stationery and book papers. Pigmented and size press “coated” papers (coating less than 5gper side) are covered by this heading

Woodfree paper or board
Paper or board having in principle only chemical pulp in its fiber composition; in practice, however, it may accidentally contain a small amount of other fibers or pulps.

Wrapping paper
General terms used to indicate papers intended for containing, protecting or decoratively presenting products.


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