With packaging worth over £50 billion worth of packaging produced worldwide each year, the corrugated cardboard industry is one of the largest segments in the packaging industry. Corrugated cardboard is produced from cellulose and consists in its simplest form of a thin corrugated sheet of cardboard between two smooth layers of cardboard. The secret of the material’s strength is stability through distribution of pressure. There are also versions that have two, three, or more corrugated layers. Various types provide customised packaging for products of all kinds, from extravagant champagne flutes to diesel engines.

Corrugated cardboard is produced on cutting-edge high-output machinery that can produce 1,000 square metres per minute. tesa offers the corrugated cardboard industry a full assortment of high-performance adhesive tapes that can be integrated into the production process and can be handled at high run speeds, from splicing for roll changes to professional solutions for closing, reinforcing, and opening cardboard packaging using tear tape.