RE: Pricing for folding box board5 Apr 2022 22:54
100,000 boxes annually is a small volume. A Heidelberg XL105 will print a 100,000 B1 flat sheets up to 650gsm in under 6 hours running at 18,000 per hour. The big users need vast volumes and they can wait 3 weeks or 3 days or 3 hours.
If your producing bespoke packaging you will be using niche packaging products like Ecofoil etc not folding box board.
DS Smith product product for companies producing millions of boxes a year in this market there a real shortages.