A brief guide to distinguish packaging paper products and materials

When it comes to packaging paper, there are many types and a wide range of application scenarios. How to correctly identify the type or material of wrapping paper you need, so that the wrapping paper you purchase can truly meet your needs? Here are some tips:

1.      Grammage

It is used to measure the thickness of paper. The measurement of paper grammage is “gsm”, which is grams (g) per square meter (g/m2). With the grammage of the paper, we can quickly determine the type of paper.

The paper we produce includes 17-28 gsm thin tissue paper, 30-80 gsm non-fluorescent food-grade white kraft paper, 25-40 gsm greaseproof paper and so on.

If you are not sure about the grammage of your paper, you can send us some samples. We have professional equipment and instruments to measure the grammage of your paper, and recommend the same or similar paper to you according to the grammage to meet your needs.

2.      Machine Glazed(MG) / Machine Finished(MF)

Machine glazed, usually refers to the paper, with one side relatively smooth and the other relatively rough.

Machine finished, usually refers to the paper, with both sides relatively smooth. You can touch the surface of the paper with your hand to tell if the paper is smooth on one side or on both sides.

Machine glazed paper and machine finished paper both belongs to thin tissue paper category, with high transparency, uniform pulp distribution, and light touch, which can be printed or directly used as packaging.

3.      Usage

If you are unable to tell the grammage or the type of paper, please directly tell us in which scenario you are going to use the paper. We will provide professional advice based on your needs to help you find packaging paper that suits you the best.

1)      Shoes and hats, clothing, bags

Many luxury brands will choose tissue paper, with their brand logo or pattern printed, which is used for inner packaging, directly touching clothes, shoes or handbags.

If you have your own clothing store and want to package your clothes, tissue paper is a good choice. We can help customize tissue paper with your own logo to make your clothes look more fashionable and elegant, as well as promote your brand at the same time.

2)      Handcraft, decoration

Educational institutions, schools, and individual households often use color tissue paper for handcrafts and decorations. Students use tools to process color tissue paper and create artworks. Here we recommend 17gsm color tissue paper. There are as many as 30 different colors to choose from, they are all in-machine printing and dyeing, no fading, light and thin, suitable for cutting.

3)      Gift packaging, holiday items packaging

During festivals, especially Christmas or New Year, there is always a custom of exchanging gifts with each other. In this case, whether the paper you use to wrap the gift is exquisite or not is very important. Our 80 gsm coated paper, with bright surface, fine texture, good printing effect, also a certain thickness, is the first choice for packaging gifts during festivals, it can protect the gifts well and keep them in shape.

4)      Food Wrapping

With the rapid development of the global fast food industry, the demand for food packaging is also increasing.

Our greaseproof paper is not only food grade, but also has a good greaseproof function. For fast food wrapping such as hamburgers, sandwiches, fried chicken, etc., we first recommend our 38 gsm level-3 greaseproof paper.

Not only fast food restaurants, but traditional restaurants also have demands for take-away packaging after take-away services are launched in the recent years.

Greaseproof paper can also be printed to promote your restaurant brand.

Therefore, whatever size and category the restaurants are, greaseproof paper is always very popular.

Just feel free to tell us your needs! Richer Paper has a professional team who will serve you 7/24, and provide customized packaging solutions for you!