Walk through any furniture factory, glass supplier or electronics warehouse in Malaysia and you'll see rolls of wavy brown corrugated paper being wrapped around products. That material is single facer — one of the most cost-effective protective materials in packaging, and one most buyers don't know by name.
What exactly is single facer?
Corrugated board is normally a sandwich: a wavy fluted layer glued between two flat liners. Single facer (or single face corrugated) stops halfway — it's the fluted layer glued to just one liner. The result is a flexible, cushioned sheet that can wrap around curves, roll up for storage, and crumple into void fill.
It comes as rolls (continuous lengths, wrapped around products or cut on the line) and sheets (pre-cut for interleaving between stacked items).
Single facer vs bubble wrap
| Single facer | Bubble wrap | |
|---|---|---|
| Cushioning | Good crush protection, excellent surface protection | Better for shock/drop protection of fragile items |
| Cost per m² | Generally lower | Higher, especially anti-static grades |
| Recyclability | 100% paper — goes in the same stream as your cartons | Plastic film — separate stream, often landfilled |
| Surface finish | Breathes; no trapped moisture marks | Can trap moisture against lacquered surfaces |
| Best for | Furniture, doors, frames, aluminium profiles, stacked panels | Electronics, glassware, items sensitive to drops |
Where it saves money
- Furniture and joinery — wrap table tops, doors and frames straight off the line; the flutes absorb strapping pressure
- Metal and aluminium profiles — interleave and wrap without plastic film sticking to coatings
- Glass and ceramic tiles — sheet interleaving between stacked units
- E-commerce void fill — crumpled single facer holds shape better than kraft paper alone and looks tidier than plastic pillows
How to order it
Specify three things:
- Width — we produce rolls up to 1.2 m and can slit narrower widths to match your line
- Length or sheet size — continuous rolls, or sheets cut to your dimensions
- Grade — heavier liner papers for heavier products; tell us what you're wrapping and we'll match it
Because we corrugate single facer in-house at our Telok Panglima Garang factory, custom widths don't carry the long lead times you'd get from a trading house.