How Cardboard is Made | Factory Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 เม.ย. 2019
- This is one of our final factory tours, and shows the end of the supply chain with cardboard box manufacturing. This cardboard box factory tour shows start-to-finish.
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Cardboard box manufacturing is a long process -- literally, the machine to do it is several hundred feet long. The process involves steaming, heating, drying, gluing, crinkling, and cutting, and is heavily automated.
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Host: Steve Burke
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This is one of our last ones, if not our last one for a while. We will be back to regular reviews and news after this. Thank you for your interest in this series! We wanted to go hard like we do with all GN content, and so we tried to explore the entire supply chain.
Find our factory tour playlist here: th-cam.com/video/NUme6FXkw24/w-d-xo.html
The factory tours are made possible by your GN store purchases! Thank you for buying our shirts, modmats, and mugs to help fund these efforts: store.gamersnexus.net/
I've really enjoyed all these factory videos! thank you so much for this amazing content! I wish I had money to support you guys, I really love your channel, GN and LTT are the only channels that I never miss watching a new video. Keep up the amazing work!
Awesome series!
I cant believe you went to a box factory and didnt make a single Simpsons joke XD
Nice video, Steve!
I actually work at such a factory in Germany and it's funny to see that we have the exact same type of conveyor in our plant.
I guess there's only so many suppliers for this kind of machinery.
Those videos were all very interesting! Thank you!
How a factory is made pls
That'd be a good one!
a factory factory ofc
As an engineer and surveyor, it is kinda cool. To go from open field >> to making stuff :: it is so very impressive the intricate and level of craftsmanship. There may be a lot of proprietary legal hurdles to jump through but if you can cover that somehow it would be engaging. @@GamersNexus
Get lots o' munnies and you can make one
Should ask Elon Musk
Never knew I wanted to know this, but now cardboard is a bit more impressive.
For aluminium sheet in the car industry: th-cam.com/video/REMDJ0YKxsU/w-d-xo.html
Gamers Nexus can make anything interesting! What's next? How dirt is made?
and is also the reason why pc parts cost so much 😂
@@CaveyMoth depends on what kind of "dirt" you want.....there is actually all kinds of different dirt/sand. Dirt normally consists of soil with vegetation matter in it and other impurities.
This is nothing, you should see high tech "cardboard".....some of it is supposedly as strong as aluminum.
I worked for a display company and when we quoted on a project we'd have to include the cost of the box to ship it in. I learned more than I ever wanted to! lol Z folds, kiss cuts, one way bends, flaps, lock tabs, seamless/flat seam. Then the size and shape of the fold overs.....it was freaking endless (I've forgotten a LOT of the terminology).
This was an awesome trip. That must have been an insane recording schedule. Some great content
this is what was missing to complete my Saturday
Not boring at all. Boxes are really important. The right box for the right item for the right use case.
The right box in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Hey! So I work at a corrugated board production and printing facility in the US and it was fun to see some of the things I do featured on your channel. The only thing I'd like to add is that, technically, that's not cardboard but corrugated board. Any paper sheets produced with flutes is corrugated board. Examples of cardboard would be things like cereal boxes or any other boxes made with a solid card stock like wall.
@@ViperB5 different company, but it seems like I'm not the only one who knows the difference, haha.
@@DDRmassa Nope, I was headed in here to post it as well. RockTenn in ohio for me.
Foldcote solid Cal 15 versus giant thick brown sandwiched corrugated boards.
lol I was hoping someone would comment on this. International Paper employee from Ohio
BCI guy here, Im a structural designer. We dont make the cardboard, but the boxes.
Nintendo labo better be made with the 20$ cardboard
I like how they got away with selling a $60 game with $20 cardboard to play the game. Any other company would get metaphorical shit thrown at them
Only the highest quality cardboard for the vr bird butts.
@Samurai Shampoo For the cardboard part of it, it's actually simple to make. I work at a factory that has machines that punch shapes out of flat materials using dies of various kinds. Nintendo simply pays someone to print on the cardboard, then use a die to cut the shapes. Each sheet is probably one operation, just like using a cookie cutter.
The hard part is probably the design. They have to design it to not just fall apart without being covered in tape to hold it together. That means, for all the weird shapes they make, Nintendo engineers have to figure out what will slot into what in a way that causes it to lock together and still be easy to build.
HolyDevilKing the way they do that is with origami, then scale it to cardboard. Not that hard to make if you know what you’re doing.
I work in a cardboard factory in the UK last year our corrugator made 124.9 million square meters of corrugated! We are getting some upgrades to our BHS corrugator and are hoping to get this up to 150 million in a few years. I work on a machine that takes boxes that have been printed and cut on another machine before ours and we fold and glue it.
Hardware Unboxed wants to know your location.
I think they had enough boxes this week
Don't do it! They just wanna put you in a box!
That's thinking out of the box.
Unboxing box factories!
haha :D What a dream trip, would have loved to join Steve on that one!
I didn't expect a gaming channel to produce some of the best “how it's made videos". Keep it up!
I really enjoy these how it's made videos, quite an eye opener as to how much goes into stuff we all take for granted.
Yeah, just think about what a tiny part of a finished product this step is. They are just gluing together the cardboard (that was made elsewhere) and cut it into rectangles. It then needs to be printed, cut into shape, folded, and so on.
Damn, you guys went to a lot of places while you were there.
What gave it away?
This makes me remember the episode of The Simpsons where all of the elementary school children go on a field trip to their local box factory.
I love watching these videos as an industrial mechanic. This is probably the most automated factory of all the factories you've gone to during your china tour and it still required manual labor even for simple tasks, just goes to show that automation is not as near as we think and only low skilled jobs will be replaced in the foreseeable future
"only low skilled jobs will be replaced"
More like anything relatively delicate but that needs to be cheap won't be replaced, the guy operating that modified fork list could be replaced but it would cost too much to buy a robot that could reliably pick up and not crush the paper reels and a same cost replacement would rip through paper on a daily basis.
That is the human worker's niche (handling weird shaped things gently) that and setting up the machines.
as someone who often watches how its made, i quite liked this
$20 for a GPU box? WFT?
I bet way more, probably like $50 for my Titan Xp Star Wars collectors edition (then add another $15 for the acrylic display case, but just the super premium and fancy cardboard was probably $50, not counting Disney royalties either). I like my boxes to look absolute barebones, it means you got a better deal typically, like an upgraded cooler (and obviously with the Titan sounding like a jet, we can deduce where that money went... the box...)
Most expensive PC case I’ve ever bought was $20... Sad when the soon to be trash costs more than that!
$10 for special shaped, high quality cardboard. $5 printing. $5 for soft edges
@@jakegarrett8109 wait... you spent $1200 for a special edition Titan and put it in a $20 case? Did it at least have good airflow?
@@UnsweetIceTea
I've had more than one computer mounted on a makeshift open-air cardboard wall mount. :P
@@UnsweetIceTea Airflow in a $20 case. lol
This was actually fascinating - thanks for taking the time to put it together!
I really appreciate your factory tours showing how things are made. I learned a lot by watching your videos. Good job overall.
Love the Asia tour series, thanks for taking us along for your trip.
I really appreciate this kind of content. Really sheds some light on an otherwise seemingly uninteresting, not often thought about aspect of tech. Keep up the great work GN!
Now, THAT's a factory. Gotta love automation like this. This thick "cardboard" is what is known in the industry as corrugated paper. Usually there is no card stock in there. Loved the series BTW.
Makes me feel better about keeping every box for every component or higher-end product that I buy lol. Thanks for taking the time to make these factory tours, absolutely loving them.
That’s so cool... love seeing factory tours, thanks! Fell in love w/ factory machinery young, as my uncle was an engineer who designed some of the machines used in factories today....
Cheers✌🏻
I used to watch the assembly line/factory tours on the Discover channel as a child, and they still intrigue to this day. Thanks GN.
I work at a recycling plant where we ship out the cardboard to get recycled at another plant, and I have always wondered about the process of making cardboard, so I am glad to see you cover it!
Crazy to think after the H500p review cooler master seemed to not like you guys but now show you factory's and sending you cool places. Respect
Even something as simple as cardboard implies a significantly complex production process. This is fascinating, like all the other videos. Excellent job guys!
This looked like one of the better factories to work in. Lots of space, new and advanced machinery. Most of the people working in these shots seems to be skilled too. Looks a bit nicer than the cramped manual assembly lines.
All praise box factory!
The complexity and engineering of factory’s like that are amazing to me. Awesome content.
This channel has always been great, but this series has upped the level. Excellent videos from start to finish. The production value is outstanding.
Thank you for your in depth, international factory tours!
As someone who works for UPS, this is actually useful stuff.
Never in my life would i thought i watch a video on how card board us made life is sumthin boy i tell ya 💯
Springfield Box Factory next, please.
This was interesting. It looks very different than most factories I've seen.
These recent factory tour videos pushed me to buy some GN Merch. Keep up the great work!
"What do you mean you lost him!? He might've fallen into one of these machines! Oh my God that's his lucky red hat! He's a box! My boy's a box! Damn you, a box!"
I love this "How its made" series. Its so interesting
This is amazing. It’s moving so fast!
i run a large format box making machine at my work we get paper from suppliers like this, the amount of automation in this vid is amazing also i really like those conveyor floors we have a few at my poe
Absolutely LOVE these videos!!! THANK YOU!!!
Fascinating to see how much thought has to go into even the most mundane parts of a product.
Way to wrap this episode. Only GN thinks outside the box to make these type of tours. Good job, very educational and informative.
I have friends whose family wealth is derived from their grandfather, who made boxes. Lots of boxes. Cardboard boxes. Investment in packaging is a vital part of the business->customer supply chain.
This was really awesome and unexpected! Will have to check out the rest of the Factory Tour videos, this is the first one I saw
Yay another episode of How it's made with Tech Jesus. Seriously love these and I would watch hours apon hours of modern Marvel's and how it's made. So thank you and also for being indepth about it and not giving it 3 mins and boom done
I used to work in designing the boxes for various companies, and then designing the die that would be used to turn the sheet into a ready-to-fold box. It was an oddly enjoyable job.
I used to work in a cardboard factory. This brings back memories. The first few months, oh so many paper cuts, until you learned how to handle the cardboard properly. The corrugator was generally accepted to be the worst job in the plant because it was the hottest working environ, especially when you were the one taking a hot stack that was all convex sheets like @ 7:30 and inverting half the stack in handfuls so that the sheets flatten out, like @ 8:06. This was 15 years ago so tech may have changed to make it more bearable now.
This was pretty freaking cool to learn about.
How it's made (Gamers Nexus edition) love it!
awesome work guys
This is actually something interesting I never thought I would find interesting.
Surprisingly , great content yet again guys =)
That. Was really interesting - way more interesting than I thought it would be. More pls 😀
Single handedly responsible for the unboxing experience
These are so much fun for me.
How It's Made...Gamers Nexus style...love it
this too was interesting, always fun to see big industrial machinery and a peek behind the process! :)
My Wife - “They’re reviewing cardboard now?”
this factory is so clean for such a large production facility
That was my first thought too!
The more you know.
Knowledge is power!
Steve can tour ANY factory and it'll still be interesting
Fascinating !!
Time to buy some Cardboard at the GN store to support these tours
These "How it's Made" episodes are great!
The quality content that we all subscribed for, thanks
"how's made" are trembling
Binge watching these "how its made". Very nice.
Cardboard is love, Cardboard is life!
that was a very good video on how cardboard is made.
Should have posted this one on April 1st! It would have been extra confusing
Interesting change of pace. Looks like a well run factory.
Thank you, this is going to be extremely useful. After the apocalypse, when humanity will have lost the art of making screws and cardboard, I will be as a king to them.
Sarcasm aside, I love that you can get so in-depth about things we take for granted.
Thank You...
G'day Steve,
I was a printer for 26 years so this video was close to home,
I will miss these types of videos when you go back to regular content, maybe you could see what American PC Tech manufacturing is available to be toured like these plants
These series of videos has got to be the best "tech" videos I have watched in a long time... damn you dive deep! Woo!
Yay, it's finally here!
Factory tours are cool !
pretty cool man
Jesus 20 dollars per box... I gotta appreciate my boxes a little more.
I wonder if a used gpu box market is an untapped market
@@Tallnerdyguy Yes, there is a GPU box market here, for anyone throw away their box for some reason and want the box for better resale value.
Usually to disguise mining card as a normal uses card.
If you notice a LOT of boxes do away with padding inside and instead have a custom cutout to hold the part suspended internally. Those are really expensive because they require a lot of operations to achieve the desired shape. For eg: you have a flat sheet of cardboard and to form it into a 4 sided tube requires 4 kiss cuts or scoring to create the bends then the glue tab needs to be cut and glued. Now you have to cut out the flaps, the fold overs and tabs. Just to create a square box with bottom and top requires 14 operations.
Wow, hopefully this motivates people to recycle, because as we see here, cardboard actually isn't just some random thing, but carefully manifactured product.
And it can be efficiently recycled and made into new cardboard and paper, which reduces the rate we have have to cut down trees, as well as adds an pleasing element of efficiency which just makes the whole engineering process beautiful.
A single box shipped with a GPU can cost upwards of US$20 !! I had no idea, I would have thought $1 or $2 ... now I'm very glad I always keep the packaging for resale a few years down the road after I no longer need components!
Super interesting. Keep 'em coming!
that's so cool!!!Although I am a carton packaging machine salesman, but I also shocked
This is actually one of the more interesting ones. Maybe because the machines are so large
Very interesting, thanks!
Waiting patiently for the thermal grizzly carbonaut review...
Waiting patiently for them to ship us a final retail sample. It's out of our control. We've tried asking several times.
@@GamersNexus Thanks for the comment. That stuff has me really excited.
The video i never knew i needed.
Very fascinating, those factory tours! I like it, all of 'em! I recently watched a lot of the Japanese "The Making" videos …of course, i don't understand a single written explanation, and gTranslate (AR-cam overlay) regularly fails, but i still enjoy it somehow.
There have been more than a few products I've bought where the packaging was so unnecessarily nice, I couldn't help but wonder how much it cost. Definitely a few GPUs, mainboards, and cellphones come to mind, but the sheer volume of packaging a full PC case needs against the $20 ballpark for a fancy GPU box really helps put it all in perspective. Seeing behind the curtain a little is really cool!
Seasonic PSU velour bag factory tour next?
Love to see the factory which makes the machines for these factories. And also the factory which makes the machines for the company who makes the machines which makes the machines for the components. I don't think we're ready for this level of Inception.
That guy was so excited to show you how hot that stack of cardboard was! 🙂
These videos are awesome
next on GN: how humans are made
Might have to upload that to a different site.
@@GamersNexus Now that really tickled me. 😂
@@GamersNexus ...after Congress approved child tax credit deductions from the IRS.
Seriously, If you actually knew my parents: There's a reason Mom&Dads wedding day is April 16th!
That reason is in the United States Tax Code.
I think PornHub already has that documentary.
@@filanfyretracker They practice, they dont make humans in PornHub
I've been wondering this for a while actually.
Love it
Very interesting, and way more expensive that i would've initially thought.
you come to gamers nexus for in depth reviews now you learned how the companies that supply your pc parts get there cardboard boxes the circle of life at work
I thought you did reviews and factory tours on computers and components, now we're doing factory tours on how cardboard is made, oh the humanity
Good Stuff... how its made series :)
@GamersNexus
If you ever have the chance to take a look at how sheetmetal (or steel im general) is made, I highly recommend, you do! It's very interesting.
Wow, all those identical cardboard containers!
Talk about a "boxing match"