VERIFIED REQUEST / FIRST ORDER
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FREE basic specification and sourcing-requirements review
Eligible first orders may receive up to 3%
Eligibility applies to qualified business buyers and is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements. Final savings depend on supplier confirmation, product type and order value.
Translate a project application into purchase requirements for paperboard carton packaging. Fill, line speed and shipping use change the brief even when the board grade stays the same. This page lists buyer rows, not a ranked industry roster and not a factory appointment.
Dry goods, secondary sleeve or window display. Intended contents decide whether a food-contact file is required.
Manual pack, carton erector or high-speed glue. Opening style and paperboard caliper must match the equipment.
Destination state, pallet height and whether inner cartons travel inside a corrugated shipper.
Die line, board sheet and any migration testing file the buyer will actually review.
A cereal or tea carton usually needs a named SBS or CCNB grade, paperboard caliper in the 16-24 pt range when that is the intended board, and a closed glue flap. Oxygen transmission rate and water vapor transmission rate matter only when a barrier coating or liner is specified; they are not implied by the word carton. If the fill is food-contact, request the migration testing file for that board and ink lot. Do not treat a site-wide badge as the file.
Secondary cartons around bottles or tubes often run on a different die line from the primary pack. Print registration, foil or spot UV, and whether the sleeve is a fifth-panel or a simple wrap should sit on the quote line. Flexographic printing or offset can both be quoted if plates are itemized. A lower piece price that drops a foil stamp is a different construction.
Window film, patch size and food-contact status of the film are separate from the paperboard. A tuck-end price cannot absorb an unnamed PET window. Ask each factory to quote the window as its own line, including waste allowance on the die. Sample path should be a struck carton, not only a digital mock.
US destination state or postal code, carton count per pallet and any broker paperwork change freight even when paperboard caliper stays fixed. Edge crush test and flute profile belong to the outer corrugated shipper, not to the inner folding carton, unless the buyer has asked for a combined pack-out. Mixing those units hides the real order size.
Limitations: this desk does not promise US contract filling, does not publish a savings percentage, and does not treat a supplier preference as a verified factory grade. Continue to inquiry options or send the requirement.
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