ColdCor-flex: A cold corrugating process enabling a disruptive business model for sheet converters and box makers with significantly reduced carbon footprint, capital and operating costs.

生产瓦楞纸板的传统制造方法非常浪费能源和水。它们也是资本密集型企业，缺乏满足现代B2B和零售供应链复杂需求所需的灵活性。随着在线零售的整体需求不断增长，纸板市场的年复合增长率为4.4%。然而，由于现有制造技术的资本和运营成本负担，纸张转换器(瓦楞包装生产商)仅限于极少数供应商，他们自己执着于使用最大幅面的纸张原料，无法以具有成本效益的价格向客户提供少于满载数量的纸张。由于现有的电路板生产商分布稀疏，储存和运输一种电路板产品的环境和经济成本是不可持续的，这些产品中约有50%是空气，有时是100英里。这些繁琐的传统技术缺乏灵活性，无法高效、经济地满足当今客户的需求，并将对环境的影响降至最低。我们已开发出一种革命性的瓦楞纸机技术原型，该技术不需要工艺水，使用的能源明显更少，占用的空间更少，所需资本支出仅为现有资本支出的一小部分。在此之前，板材转换器永远无法考虑现场板材制造的灵活性，而有了Interpac瓦楞纸机，ColdCor-Flex**，**经济高效和灵活的板材生产现在可以成为现实。为了开发我们的解决方案以向利益相关者演示生产前原型，我们有一些关键的技术挑战需要克服。由于长期的合作关系，项目的两个合作伙伴已经组建了一个强大的团队来交付这项精心规划的工作。18个月项目的总费用预算为475,031 GB，其中我们申请了332,521 GB的赠款资金。该项目将输出安装在我们现有试验线上的原型干燥和瓦楞纸板技术，以及纸板和纸箱测试的结果，以及正式的影响和效益分析

Legacy manufacturing approaches for the production of corrugated board are hugely wasteful of energy and water. They are also extremely capital intensive, and lack the flexibility required to meet the complex demands of modern B2B and retail supply chains.With increasing overall demand from online retail, the cardboard market is growing by a CAGR of 4.4%. However, due to the capital and operating cost burden of existing manufacturing technology, sheet converters (corrugated packaging producers) are limited to a very few suppliers, themselves wedded to use of the largest format paper feedstock, and unable to offer their customers less-than full lorry load quantities at cost effective prices. With existing board producers thinly distributed, the environmental and economic cost of storage, and shipping a board product, consisting of ~50% air, sometimes 100s of miles is not sustainable. These cumbersome legacy technologies lack the flexibility to meet today's customer demands efficiently, cost effectively and with minimal environmental impact.We have developed to prototype stage a revolutionary corrugator technology which requires no process water, uses significantly less energy, occupies much less space and requires a fraction of the existing capital expenditure. Where before a sheet converter could never contemplate the flexibility of on-site board manufacture, with the Interpac corrugator, ColdCor-Flex**,** cost-effective and flexible production of board can now become a reality. In order to develop our solution to a pre-production prototype for demonstration to stakeholders, we have some key technical challenges to overcome.With a long-standing relationship, the two partners of the project have assembled a strong team to deliver this carefully planned work. Total costs for the 18-month project are budgeted at £475,031 of which we are requesting £332,521 of grant funding. The project will output prototype drying and corrugating technology, installed on our existing pilot line, together with the results of board and box testing, and a formal impacts and benefits analysis