paperboard
Definition
Non-standard term for heavyweight grade of usually recycled paper (such as boxboard and containerboard) which, in general, is thicker than 300 micrometers (0.012 inch) or weighs more than 250 grams per square meter (51 pounds per 1000 square feet). Used mainly as packaging material.
paperboard is in the Printing, Packaging, & Publishing subject.
paperboard appears in the definitions of the following terms:
carton,
caliper,
chipboard,
Mullen burst test,
coated stock,
mechanical,
fiberboard,
corrugating medium,
packaging,
boxboard
and
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