I'm sorry that you aren't getting serious answers. I'm thinking of giving this up because it has become a stupid video game instead of the general help forum that was once intended. You may also receive better answers by selecting a more appropriate category. While a significant percentage of people in the business of cardboard manufacturing may play cards, I don't think that the opposite is true.
Cardboard (corrugated) is made from two different types of paper, but both are generally known as kraft paper - the same sort of paper used in paper grocery bags, but a little bit heavier stock. The flat stock on the top and bottom is called liner board. The curly part in the middle can be made at a paper plant and shipped to the cardboard plant for assembly, or the cardboard assembly plant may handle both corrugation and gluing to the liner board. The reason that some plants handle it and some don't or, rather, the reason that small kraft paper producers only produce flat corrugation stock and liner board and small cardboard producers only glue corrugated stock between liner board is that the corrugation machine is as long as a football field and you have to be a pretty big business to purchase, house, and maintain a machine that big.
The only other component of standard corrugated cardboard is the corn starch based glue that holds the sheets together. Once the kraft paper is wetted with this glue, it adheres to the other kraft paper sheets just like paper mache. Not exactly waterproof, but that is why cardboard can be easily recycled (and why it comes apart in the rain).
Most kraft paper today is made from recycled newsprint and old corrugated cardboard (called OCC by recyclers). As you can imagine, every time that you recycle paper, you break more fibers. Fiber length is what gives paper strength. So how do you introduce new fiber into 100% recycled material? You don't. But you can introduced some fairly new fibers by accepting paper other than the OCC. Newsprint has a little bit of new pulp in it. You can accept office paper, which is often 100% new pulp, and let's face it; your OCC stream is a source because there are plenty of kraft paper manufacturers out there that are only using virgin pulp. I live in a desert, so we just don't see many pine trees here. If you manage your receiving dock well, you never have to introduce new pulp because you get plenty of nice long fiber that has only been used once and, as the old fibers get too short to be useful in the end product, they slip through the paper screen with the water, corn starch, and other contaminants.
2006-12-30 04:47:16
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answered by Bo Peep 3
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3 table spoons vinager, 8 cups smegma and a pinch of salt. mix it all together . put it in the oven at 400 degrees for 45 minutes and then take out and cool before using.
2006-12-30 12:40:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Card board is made out of giant toenails.
2006-12-30 12:39:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Paper, paper made from trees, trees made by God.
2006-12-30 12:41:07
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answered by Conrey 5
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its made from paper witch is made from wood
2006-12-30 12:41:22
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answered by Anonymous
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paper pulp
2006-12-30 12:40:16
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answered by Bryan C 2
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trees
2006-12-30 12:40:07
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answered by Delicious! 2
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