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.

传统的生产瓦楞纸板的方法是巨大的能源和水的浪费。它们也是极度资本密集型的，缺乏满足现代B2B和零售供应链复杂需求所需的灵活性。随着在线零售需求的增长，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，他们自己也坚持使用最大格式的纸张原料，无法以具有成本效益的价格向客户提供少于满载的数量。由于现有的纸板生产商分布不均，储存和运输纸板产品的环境和经济成本，由~50%的空气组成，有时100英里是不可持续的。这些笨重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，并且对环境的影响最小。我们已经开发出一种革命性的瓦楞机技术，该技术不需要工艺用水，使用更少的能源，占用更少的空间，只需要现有资本支出的一小部分。在板材转换器从未考虑过现场板制造的灵活性之前，使用Interpac瓦楞纸机，coldco - flex **，**具有成本效益和柔性的板生产现在可以成为现实。为了将我们的解决方案开发成用于向利益相关者演示的预生产原型，我们需要克服一些关键的技术挑战。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策划的工作。这个为期18个月的项目的总成本预算为475,031英镑，其中我们要求拨款332,521英镑。该项目将输出干燥和瓦楞技术的原型，安装在我们现有的中试生产线上，连同板和箱测试的结果，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