Today is International Box Day. Here are ten things you might not know about cardboard boxes:
Cardboard boxes were first made in China about 3,000 – 4,000 years ago, during the Han dynasty. They used leaves, treated mulberry bark, Hemp, cloth, vegetable fibre and mixed these with Water to make a paste.
The first commercial cardboard box in England was produced by Sir Malcolm Thornhill in 1817.
Cardboard boxes were developed in France in about 1840 for transporting the Bombyx mori moth and its eggs from Japan. For more than a century the manufacture of cardboard boxes was a major industry in the Valréas area.
Today, there is a museum in Valréas called Musee Du Cartonnage et de Imprimerie, which is basically a museum dedicated to cardboard boxes.
Most cardboard boxes are made from softwood trees with long fibres, such as Pine, spruce and Fir. The type of tree used affects the colour of the box. Trees from Scandinavia produce a darker Brown cardboard than those from Brazil. Chinese made boxes are more Yellow.
The production of cardboard boxes generates more revenue globally than the film and music industries combined.
Why do Cats love cardboard boxes? Ethologist Claudia Vinke of Utrecht University has done a study on it and found that cats in a shelter were less stressed when they had a box to hide in.
There are cardboard boxes which are collectors items and can sell for thousands of pounds. What you need to look for in your attic is an early 1900s Kellogg’s cereal box with a heat sealed wax bag wrapped around the outside.
Cardboard boxes are generally made out from re-used materials, as 70-80% of boxes are recycled.
The biggest cardboard box ever made, at time of writing was made in 2016 by Dutch firm Smurfit Kappa. Their mega box measured 40 metres by 20 metres and a volume of 3264.42 Cubic meters. It weighed 1400kg, and used 3,000 staples and 100 metres of double sided tape.
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