The Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering recently archived online through the publisher's subsidiary ISORJournals (Uttar Pradesh, India), a study (2014) titled Review on Paper Corrugated Box Manufacturing used in Goods Packaging, explaining several market trends of the past decade and how they relate specifically to the detailed properties of corrugated box board.

This study summarizes the reducing principle of design of corrugated box used in the goods packaging. Then it makes a term-by-term analysis on the selection of raw materials for paper boxes, the optimization of prism types, and the overall design of paper box, with special emphasis on the method to realize moderate packaging of goods. 

In China, where growth has traditionally been heavy over the past few decades, according to the summary, with the constant rise of resource and manufacturing costs in this national region, many manufacturers at home and abroad are considering increasing the income while decreasing expenditure, especially the reduction of packaging expenditure in physical size and weight. This is not only a response to the recent domestic and international financial crises, but an indication of the shift in priority from cutting down the cost of the product itself to the cost of the external packaging when taking into account of products cost. It is indeed progressive. This includes smaller and light-weight packaging.

More information is available in the full text study Review on Paper Corrugated Box Manufacturing used in Goods Packaging.