The amount of cardboard put out by New Yorkers tends to spike during the holidays. By Joyce Cohen It’s no surprise that buildings these days are burdened by cardboard boxes. “In 2005, the average New ...

Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Discarded boxes and crumpled packing paper have become a permanent feature of modern life, mushrooming ...

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol ...

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting to make an ...

An extended slowdown in sales of cardboard boxes is intensifying concern that this holiday season will be a disappointing one for US retailers. US corrugated box shipments fell to the lowest ...

An extended slowdown in sales of cardboard boxes is intensifying concern that this holiday season will be a disappointing one for US retailers. U.S. corrugated box shipments fell to the lowest ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...

Mount Joy-based Phoenix/Packaging has been acquired for an undisclosed price by Welch Packaging Group of Elkhart, Indiana. Phoenix/Packaging is a maker of corrugated cardboard boxes that was founded ...

Shares in brick manufacturer Ibstock sank on Friday as tough market conditions forced it to cut expected full-year earnings estimates. At 122.8p per share, the FTSE 250 company was down 8.2% and the ...

Many have heard and are concerned about the possibility of the United States economy going into a recession, and some experts are looking at the cardboard box industry to project what may be coming.