A box is a container with rigid sides used for the storage or transportation of its contents. Most boxes have flat, parallel, rectangular sides. Boxes can be very small or very large and can be used for a variety of purposes, from functional to decorative.
An empty corrugated fiberboard box
An elaborate late 17th to early 18th century box (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
A box or carton of cereal
Corrugated fiberboard, corrugated cardboard, or corrugated is a type of packaging material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards. It is made on "flute lamination machines" or "corrugators" and is used for making corrugated boxes.
The corrugated medium sheet and the linerboard(s) are made of kraft containerboard, a paperboard material usually over 0.25 millimetres (0.01 in) thick.
Corrugated board
Main flutes for corrugated fiberboard
Regular Slotted Container (RSC)
A box maker's certificate is typically printed on what will become the underside of the box