Corrugated Cardboard History

In 1856, the British Edward Healy and the Edward Allen brothers invented the corrugated corrugations that were pressed on paper as the inner liner of a hat to breathe and absorb sweat. In 1871, American Albert Jones invented single-sided corrugated cardboard for packaging glass lampshades and similar fragile items, and obtained the first patent in the United States. By the end of the 19th century, the United States began to study the use of corrugated cardboard to make packaging and shipping boxes.

Double corrugated cardboard came out in 1920, and its use expanded rapidly. During World War I, corrugated boxes accounted for only 20% of transport packaging. But during World War II, corrugated boxes accounted for 80% of transport packaging. Corrugated box has become the most widely used packaging container in modern business and trade, and it is also one of the most important packaging forms adopted by countries around the world today.