ABSTRACT
One fundamental end use property of a carton or corrugated box is its ability to protect the contents against compression forces during packing, storage, and distri bution. A numerical link has been established between the properties of the material and the stacking strength of the final package. It is generally accepted that the two most important material properties for carton board and corrugated board are the bending stiffness and the compression strength [49,51]. These properties of the cor rugated board can further be related to the properties of its individual plies, that is, the linerboard faces and the corrugated medium [34,35,39,40,44].
