Benefits of Kraft Paper Packaging for your Supply Chain

There are many instances to make you recall what we call kraft paper. You may think about your mom rolling up your lunch sandwiches into those crunchy pieces of paper, or you could think of the last thing you ordered from Amazon for your ‘’craft’’ project. But, to explain to you in the simplest terms_ Kraft Paper is nothing more than Cardboard!

Mostly, Custom Kraft Boxes come as layers of brown wrapping paper laminated together to make the traditional corrugated cardboard boxes. But, they also come as thin and flat sheets. This ‘’one shoe fits all’’ has a platitude of uses, and so has a bundle of names: Wrapping Paper, Brown Paper, Butcher Paper, Recycled wrapping paper, etc. 

It would be very unfair to mention its uses in daily life but not to discuss how it bequests your business or its logistics operations to be more precise. In this post, we aim to discuss what kraft paper is, how we manufacture it, and how recycled kraft paper helps your business’s branding and product packaging.

What is a Kraft Paper? 

Kraft is a German word, which translates to ‘’strength’’, or ‘’power’’. What gives it this strength is the chemical process for its manufacturing called the ‘’kraft process’’, or ‘’sulfate process‘’. This process involves extracting cellulose fibers from the wood pulp and transforming it into that ‘’woody’’ looking texture.

This process was discovered due to a growing necessity to have a strong paper material, and back in the late 1800’s Carl F. Dahl, a chemical engineer found out that treating wood chips with a solution of caustic soda and sodium sulfide made the final product high in strength, and hence ‘’kraft paper‘’ or ‘’strong paper‘’. As this ultra-strength material got famous in the market due, it quickly became a staple for the packaging manufacturing industry_ especially, the food industry.

Types of Kraft Paper 

Broadly, there are two types of kraft paper:

• Virgin Kraft Paper

• Recycled Kraft Paper

• Mixed Kraft Paper

Virgin  Kraft Paper

Virgin Kraft Paper is made from raw wood pulp. This wood has come straight from the tree after it has been cut down with no wood processing involved. This is the strongest type of Kraft Paper and is greatly useful if structural integrity is important to maintain. For example, Custom Mailer Boxes.

Recycled Kraft Paper

As the name suggests, this kraft paper is made from wood pulp which is recycled back into its natural form using materials like cardboard boxes, books, envelopes, or any other material. This is great for those brands who are obsessed with ‘’going green‘’, and ‘’sustainable packaging‘’. This type of Kraft Paper is used for making paper bags, shopping bags, product packaging, etc.

Mixed Kraft Paper

The mixed Kraft Paper is made from both_ virgin wood pulp and recyclable wood pulp. This type of Kraft Paper has the advantage of being strong like virgin kraft paper, but environmentally ethical and cheap like its recycled counterpart. They are used in cardboard envelopes and in the postage industry.

Advantages of Kraft Paper

• It is exceptionally strong

• It can be made from any type of wood like oak, bamboo, or pine

• As there is an abundance of trees available from which raw material can be extracted for their production, their production costs are lower

• This stronger packaging material has a lot more durability and offers excellent protection to the inner content

• As wood pulp retains its natural color and texture, a bleaching step is not required and the total production costs are reduced

• This packaging material is eco-friendly, recyclable, and reusable

• Any type of wood that is not fit for any other purpose can be used to create Kraft Paper

Advantages of Kraft Paper Packaging for your business’s supply chain

To cut the long story short_ Kraft Paper Boxes are used across every type of industry due to being an ultra-strength packaging material and offering unparalleled resistance and protection. Secondly, they can be customized in an enticing way to grab the attention of the customer and form the base for all of your branding efforts. See here

Custom Kraft Paper and Boxes for Packaging

Kraft Paper is great for filling up the inside space of the box and containing the inside object from thrashing with the walls of the box hence, it drastically reduces the chance of breakage. Furthermore, cardboard packaging requires no introduction, keeping in view its vast application_ order anything from a local brand or order from Amazon, most likely you would get your product delivered inside them. They are great for wrapping things and a great addition to your packaging supplies.

Custom Kraft Boxes for Branding

This humble brown paper can be adapted into the various brand and elegant visual designs when it comes to branding and using it for marketing purposes. Its unbleached pulp retains the natural texture of the raw wood and thus, you get a blank canvas with the full freedom, to choose any designing pattern, color, and logo identity, which you think would best represent your brand’s identity. 

Final Words

From the local nearby grocery shops to the business giants like Amazon, no one can exempt itself from the packaging use of Kraft Paper Boxes due to their exceptional strength and content protection abilities. On top of that, market leaders are fully aware of the huge and decisive role of Custom Kraft Boxes in branding and marketing despite their affordability and easy procurement.