Abstract
Paper-based materials constitute a significant share of
the world packaging market, successfully competing with
plastic packaging. Paper is renewable, recyclable,
sustainable and biodegradable material. However,it is not
as flexible in terms of package design as plastic
materials are. Paper packaging appears in rather simple
geometrical forms while plastics can be formed to great
variety of shapes. This is due to poor formability of
paper. Overcoming of this problem is the key to novel
paper packaging applications. Extensibility is considered
to be of primary importance for the formability of paper
in the processes with fixed paper blanks such as vacuum
forming, hydroforming, hot pressing etc. Where it
determines the maximum depth of the shapes and their
appearance.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 46-50 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | International Paperworld IPW |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
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