Abstract: A packaging apparatus including a base to pivotable attachment to one or more spindles and rigid attachment to a cutting cabinet and a control device to more efficiently automate the process of wrapping an article with a web material is disclosed. The cutting cabinet includes a pneumatically powered, rotating blade carried by a cylinder positioned on an air cylinder within the cutting cabinet, permitting the blade to displace vertically almost the entire longitudinal length of the cabinet. A pair of powered rollers are also positioned within the cutting cabinet so that the web material may be fed from the larger supply stored on the spindle into the cutting cabinet in a predetermined manner as dictated by the control device so that a predetermined length of web material may be distributed and used to package an article, regardless of whether subsequent articles are the same size or not.

Abstract: A single-face corrugated paper substrate with a polymeric layer formed from polyethylene attached to the corrugated (i.e. fluted) side of a twenty-three/twenty-three (23/23) basis weight substrate which is positioned around an article and between opposingly oriented trays formed from reinforced corrugated material is provided. The article enjoys protection from scratches, scrapes, and abrasions by virtue of the surrounding paper, but the shipper enjoys reduced cost by virtue of the reduction in packaging materials and reduction in total shipment weight. A method of forming and deploying the aforementioned substrate is also provided.