folding boxboard

{{Short description|Paperboard grade made of multiple layers}}

[[Image:FBB.png|thumb|300px|FBB construction:{{legend|#de87cd|text=1|Coating}}{{legend|#59a128|text=2|Bleached chemical pulp}}{{legend|#00acd5|text=3|Mechanical pulp}}

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Folding boxboard, also referred to as FBB or by the DIN Standard 19303 codes of GC or UC, is a paperboard grade made up of multiple layers of chemical and mechanical pulp.{{cite web

|author=Iggesund Paperboard

|year=2008

|title=Product Catalogue: General Technical Information

|accessdate=2009-07-18

|url=http://www.iggesund.com/Main.aspx?ID=d3f6ae98-6286-435d-bf6d-99a7ca881cab

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713004736/http://www.iggesund.com/Main.aspx?ID=d3f6ae98-6286-435d-bf6d-99a7ca881cab

|archivedate=2011-07-13

}} This grade is made up of mechanical pulp in between two layers of chemical pulp. The top layer is of bleached chemical pulp with an optional pigment coating.{{Cite journal

|last=Iggesund Paperboard AB

|title=Paperboard the Iggesund Way

|year=2008

|page=11}} This is a low-density material with high stiffness and a slightly yellow colour, mainly on the inside. The major end uses of folding boxboard are health and beauty products, frozen, chilled and other foods, confectionaries, pharmaceuticals, graphical uses{{cite web

| last=Stora Enso

| title=Wide selection of boards for consumer goods

| year=2009

| url=http://www.storaenso.com/products/packaging/consumer-board/Pages/consumer-board.aspx

| access-date=2009-08-06

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701041612/http://www.storaenso.com/PRODUCTS/PACKAGING/CONSUMER-BOARD/Pages/consumer-board.aspx

| archive-date=2009-07-01

| url-status=dead

}} and cigarettes.{{cite web

|author=Iggesund Paperboard

|title=Incada

|year=2008

|accessdate=2009-08-06

|url=http://www.iggesund.com/main.aspx?ID=0515507C-D151-45D5-9627-01F3BADC6ABE}}