Record Breaking Box
We’re often asked about the maximum dimensions for our large cardboard cartons. So far, the largest we have produced is 40m x 12m, which equated to 40 cubic meters in volume and we haven’t yet had requests for anything larger.
Over the North Sea in the Netherlands, a cardboard box company did get a brief to produce a box measuring 40m x 20m. Rather than meeting the demands of a customer, this was an internal brief, with the goal of breaking the world record. The previous record has been set in America in November 2014 and the boss wanted to set his staff a design and engineering challenge.
Having been confirmed by Guinness, the new record has been set by the Dutch. The large cardboard box weighed 1400kg, much of which could be allocated to the 3000 staples and 100meters of double sided tape that were used in its construction. The box has now been recycled into many smaller cardboard boxes to fulfil customer orders.
Other Cardboard World Records
Having looked into this a little more, we’ve discovered that it isn’t just giant cardboard cartons which have been recognised by Guinness. Matchboxes are in the list of records due to UK resident Steven Smith, who had collected 20,736 in 2013. In a similar vein, Brooklyn resident Scott Wiener’s collection of 595 printed pizza boxes was also certified as record breaking in 2013.
Other cardboard world records include the largest cardboard mosaic, which was set in Germany, the largest cardboard pyramid, which was constructed from 85,853 empty LED lightbulb boxes in India and the largest interactive cardboard sculpture; a castle maze which was built by students in Hong Kong.
So, it would seem that we aren’t the only people with a slightly unusual interest in cardboard. If Roy Castle was right and ‘dedication is what you need’, then maybe we should consider a cardboard box related record breaking attempt of our own?
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