Four qualities of box are offered in the Timecare Ringbinder System and are distinguished by different levels of protection offered by the combination of materials used in their construction. They are all designed to take four hole punched paper or a variety of polyester album sheets, for the safe storage and display of negatives, prints, postcards and ephemera.

The Timecare Museum Box

This box is the top of the range offering maximum protection for the storage of especially sensitive material, such as photographic negatives, where the safest possible micro climate is called for. It is constructed using high quality acid free conservation board. Fully specified for photographic applications, this board contains less than 5 parts per million reducible sulphur and passes the ANSI PH 1.35 Photographic Activity Test. The box is covered in high quality black library buckram which is moisture and vermin resistant and extremely hard wearing. It is also the sturdiest of the three boxes because of the slightly thicker and more compressed board used in its manufacture.

The Timecare Archive Box

This box is designed for less sensitive material but where a high degree of protection is still required. On the outside, identical to the Museum Box, the Timecare Archive Box is covered in the same hard wearing black library buckram but is constructed from our regular boxmaking board lined with a special laminate of paper and pure polyethylene designed to ensure a safe environment within the box.

The Timecare Box Populi

This box is designed to stand alongside the Museum and Archive boxes both in looks and performance but was specified to offer the best possible protection at the lowest possible price yet still maintaining a strong, durable, good quality construction that would satisfy the needs of the mass user and offer a degree of conservation protection for the archivist or collector on a tight budget. The box is lined with a white barrier paper and covered in cloth textured, strengthened black paper with a black library buckram spine which gives it strength and makes it indistinguishable from the Museum or Archive Timecare boxes when standing side by side.

This range of boxes is die cut from our sturdy Premier grade 1300 micron Grey / White Archival Boxboard. This board is acid free, lignin free, elemental chlorine free and has a very low reducible sulphur content as is required for the safe storage of photographic prints and negatives. The Timecare Library range of boxes has been designed as a low cost alternative to the range of cloth covered ringbinder boxes. They offer ideal storage for Archives and Libraries on a tight budget without sacrificing the highest standards of archival protection. The Timecare Library range now makes it possible to use archival ringbinder boxes for the storage of large collections of photographs, letters and ephemera.