Translations:Verpakkingsmaterialen/3/en

Why?

Packaging materials protect your archive and collections from harmful external influences such as light, air pollution and moisture. The quality of your packaging materials largely determines how long your archive and collections will survive. Paper always suffers from acidification in the long run (visible as yellow and/or brown discolouration, with increased brittleness at a later stage), so acid-free materials should be used in general. This significantly delays the acidification process, but please note there are some exceptions! Blueprints, for example, must be stored in inert packaging. And photographs, which are already the result of intensive chemical processes, are better stored in inert materials. One example of an inert plastic is polypropylene without plasticisers. In the event of any doubt, please contact a specialist organisation.