Paperboard
Description
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
Physical and Chemical Properties
- Thickness = > 0.012 inches (>30 mm)
- Density = > 0.65 g/cc
- Grammage = > 250 g/m2 (ISO standard)
Working Properties
- Lightweight, Easily cut and formed
- 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