Short history of currugated cardboard
1856 | - | Healey and Allen obtain, for the fist time in England, corrugated paper, through a mechanic procedure of passing the paper between two corrugated rolls. This product was used as a strengthening element for the cylindrical parts of hats
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1871 | - | The American Albert L. Jones obtains a patent for wrapping bottles and he is the first to use corrugated cardboard for packaging.
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1874 | - | Corrugated cardboard appears in the USA, in the same time, Oliver Long comes up with the idea to add, by gluing, a layer of paper on nodules. After the method is patented the term corrugated cardboard appears.
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1956 | - | The first corrugated cardboard production capacity is set to work in Romania, in Ghimbav. In the following decades this sector undergoes significant developments. |