Procédé : Carton
Nom technique : Corrugated board box {RER}| production | Cut-off, S - Copied from Ecoinvent U
Localisation : RER
Catégories : food
Unité : kg
Source : Agribalyse 3.2
Coût environnemental (points d'impact) : 93.406
AGRIBALYSE v3.2 dataset, 2024.
original ecoinvent name: Corrugated board box {RER}| corrugated board box production | Cut-off, S

Corrugated Board is manufactured from several specially conditioned layers of recycled or virgin papers, with the Fluting Medium being the middle layer and Linerboard used for the outside layers. Reels of Fluting Medium and Linerboard are fed into a machine which is called a Corrugator (FEFCO, 2018). In integrated plants such as the ones represented here, the finished board is further folded into boxes.

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The data on corrugated board production are based on 389 plants (mostly integrated plants with corrugated board and box production on the same site) in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Together they produced 12,100,000 tonnes saleable product, which is 54% of the total annual production of corrugated board products in Europe. Each of the production sites produces on average 31.100 tonnes of corrugated sheets, ranging from 5.000  500.000 tonnes each. Reference(s): https://www.fefco.org/sites/default/files/documents/LCA%20Report%202019_revised_%20p%2037.pdf, accessed September 2022.

For this dataset the European average of recycled and virgin paper inputs (wellenstoff, semichemical fluting, kraftliner, testliner) was used.

The following air emissions were reported in the study: CO2 (fossil), CO, NOx (as NO2), SOx (as SO2), particulates (all sizes).

For a more complete air emission profile, additional air emissions (beyond the ones listed above) were added for the combustion of the external fuels and internal using LCI datasets for combustion of different fuels as proxy. The air emissions were calculated based on the mix of the external fuels in the study and more information about the fuel mix and the proxy are provided under "Extrapolations".

The production volume is valid for the year 2018. Inventory data were collected for the year 2018.

Production volume: 24306999296 kg
Included activities start: The process starts as reels of Fluting Medium and Linerboard are fed into a machine called a Corrugator.
Included activities end: This activity ends with folded corrugated board boxes ready for delivery.
Energy values: Undefined
Geography: The inventory is modelled for Europe
Technology level: Current
Technology: Average of present used technology

The Fluting Medium paper is conditioned with heat and steam and fed between large corrugating rolls that give the paper its fluted shape in the Single Facer. Starch is applied to the tips of the flutes on one side and the inner liner is glued to the fluting. The corrugated fluting medium with liner attached to it is called single face web and travels along the machine towards the Double Backer where the single face web meets the outer liner and forms corrugated board. A number of layers of single faced web may be built up to produce double and triple wall corrugated board. The corrugated board is slit into the required widths and cut into sheets which are then stacked or palletised. The final stage of the process consists of printing and then slotting, folding and gluing the corrugated board to manufacture a corrugated box.
Start date: 01/01/2018
End date: 31/12/2022
Is data valid for entire period: True
Time period: 
Macro-economic scenario name: Business-as-Usual

Version: 4.3.0.0
Created: 5/31/2022 8:55:02 AM
Last edited: 8/15/2022 1:20:58 PM
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