Paperboard

Drawing of Copley Square
MFA# 39.803

Yosemite painting by Bierstadt; MFA# 47.1236

Description

A generic name for a heavy Paper that is at least 0.012 inches thick. Some paperboards, such as Millboards or Mat Boards, are made from thick paper pulp castings that are milled or pressed into a hard, stiff sheet. Pasteboard is made from several laminated sheets adhered together. The term Cardboard is ambiguous and more often used for a paper product formed with a central corrugated sheet laminated with smooth exterior sheets.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Cardboard; Binder board; Millboard; Pasteboard; Corrugated board; boxboard

Applications

Packaging
Signage, printing
Book and magazine covers, postcards

Environmental Risks

Biodegradable
Paperboards made solely from paper fibers may be recycled. Many however, are muti-layer with coatings or adhesives than prevent recycling
Paper and paper boards can be made from recycle papers mixed with virgin pulp

Physical and Chemical Properties

Thickness = > 0.012 inches (>30 mm)
Density = > 0.65 g/cc
Grammage = > 250 g/m2 (ISO standard)

The following is the DIN standard for Paperboard - Terms and grades

First letter (surface treatment)	Second letter (main furnish)	Number
A = cast-coated G = pigment coated U = uncoated	Z = bleached virgin chemical pulp C = virgin mechanical pulp N = unbleached virgin chemical pulp T = recycled/secondary fiber with white, cream or brown reverse D = recycled/secondary fiber with grey back	All except D grades: white reverse side cream reverse side brown reverse side D grades only: bulk ≥ 1.45 cm³/g 1.3 cm³/g < bulk < 1.45 cm³/g bulk ≤ 1.3 cm³/g

Working Properties

Easily cut and formed
Lightweight and strong

Resources and Citations

Boise Cascade Paper Group, The Paper Handbook, Boise Cascade, Portland OR, 1989
Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
The Dictionary of Paper, American Paper Institute, New York, Fourth Edition, 1980
Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000
Wikipedia: Paperboard Accessed Nov 2024