Neocarton: Your Reliable Continuous Cartoning Machine Manufacturer in China
Continuous cartoning machines keep a uniform and continuous movement, simultaneously completing picking up, opening, feeding, and sealing steps, saving human labor. They have a fast production speed and produce on a large scale.
Compared to intermittent cartoning machines, they do not need to stop and start frequently, so they undergo less vibration, which extends their service life.
We offer custom continuous cartoning machine solutions for daily chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, and electronic products. To adapt to the changing packaging stream, we customize continuous cartoning machines according to your production situation, like irregular-shaped boxes, Â production line speed control, etc.
Our Products
Use a synchronous feeding device to push products into the box without damage, suitable for products with regular shapes.
Use cardboard to wrap around the product, saving molding and gluing cost. This tight packaging avoids the damage caused by shaking, suitable for beverage and carton packaging.
Can be connected with the production line and achieve automatic operation, avoiding quality fluctuation caused by human operation and achieving product consistency.
It needs human operation in some special steps and is suitable for factories with a high frequency of order turnover, solving multiple varieties and irregular shapes of packaging.
Features of Continuous Cartoning Machine
It completes all steps synchronously, with a standard speed of 150-300 boxes per minute, it can deal with large-scale orders in short delivery cycles.
Use a multi-head rotary case suction that can pick up and open boxes at a fast speed, avoiding uneven box creases or deformation and reducing the production capacity loss caused by jams.
They can monitor if products are missed or the printed barcodes are incorrect to pass products that are not good, enabling the production line to operate effectively without stopping.
The pushing rod is parallel to the box and operates synchronously. It avoids scratches and damage during pushing because there are no frequent stops during pushing.
Extreme Synchronization Precision
The continuous cartoning machine operates at a stable speed, which ensures products have a consistent time, ensuring each box has consistent packaging, without skewing and delamination.
The movement of the spraying glue system is synchronized with the cartoning machine, achieving smoother sealings than intermittent cartoning machines. As a professional manufacturer, we ensure packaging consistency to meet the aesthetic requirements of brands.
Damage-Free Packaging
Since continuous cartoning machines operate continuously at a uniform speed, they avoid the inertial impact caused by instant acceleration and sudden braking. Products are pushed gently into the box, which is important for some fragile products, like high-end daily chemicals and electronics.
According to our high-end daily chemical packaging cases, the continuous box-filling machine has reduced the number of transportation damage complaints by 70%.
Applications of the Continuous Cartoning Machine
Plug-in continuous cartoning machines can smoothly push daily chemical products with regular shapes into the box, avoiding jams and collisions. They belong to fast-moving consumer goods and have large production needs, which continuous cartoning machines can easily handle.
Continuous cartoning machines for drug packaging can detect QR codes and expiration dates. It will automatically remove defective products to meet the high compliance standards of drug packaging. The uniform speed ensures clear marking on packaging boxes.
It can change speed to adapt to the food-filling production line, avoiding food piling up. Continuous cartoning machines prevent food damage caused by vibration when stopping, often used to package cookies, bagged instant drinks, frozen foods, etc.
Continuous cartoning machines for electronics are equipped with antistatic aids in parts that directly contact electronic products, avoiding the influence of static electricity on electronic components. They also handle large-volume orders for the best-selling electronic product.
- Specification Parameter of Continuous Cartoning Machine
| Production Speed | 120-300 boxes per minute |
| Box Opening Structure | Three/ Four-head rotating continuous box opening machine |
| Pushing Method | Servo-synchronous sine curve feeding |
| Sealing Method | Plug sealing or hot melt sealing |
| Power | 5.5 – 7.5 kW |
| Weight | 2500 – 3000 kg |
| Noise Standard | ≤ 75 dB |
| Common Applications | Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food, electronic products, etc. |
We use a folding machine to fold product manuals. It can cooperate with continuous cartoning machines and maintain synchronization between the folding and grasping of the manuals during box production. Our packaging line is equipped with sensors to detect whether the production manuals are missing.
Continuous cartoning machines have a fast speed, and paper boxes need to have a certain stiffness. We use a multi-head rotating box opening structure to increase the opening success rate and prevent different elasticity of paper from affecting the opening process. We also keep a dry factory environment to lower the influence of humidity on paper box materials.
Compared to an intermittent cartoning machine, a continuous cartoning machine does not have frequent stops and impact sound. If your production workshop has high requirements for noise reduction, we provide closed safety guards and add lubricating oil to the transmission system, ensuring the operating noise is below 80 decibels.
A high-humidity environment causes the paper box to become damp, soft, and stiffness decreasing, thereby influencing the opening process. Our rotary multi-head suction box structure has a pre-opening step and can adjust the opening force according to the resistance of the paper fibers to prevent bursting. Continuous cartoning machines for damp environments undergo anti-slip treatment at important parts to prevent slippage during packaging.
Our standard continuous cartoning machine is equipped with an Ethernet interface and supports mainstream industrial communication protocols. You can monitor packaging speed, output, and energy consumption through your mobile phone in real time. This helps you increase production efficiency and build a digital workshop.
Working Principle of Continuous Cartoning Machines
Box Preparing
Good pre-treatment of paper boxes greatly enhances the efficiency of a continuous cartoning machine, avoiding the material loss and production efficiency caused by inefficient opening. Our box opening device pre-opens the paper box, enabling the inner space to form a regular rectangular structure and achieve a box opening success rate of over 99.5%.
Add Products
The feeding device operates in parallel with the paper box. It feeds the products into the box smoothly and precisely aligns the products within milliseconds. Â This continuous sinusoidal trajectory prevents immediate impacts and protects fragile goods.
Add Supporting Materials
Some products need supporting materials like inserts and instructions, and they are inserted into the boxes through a pushing device. This process often encounters dust, paper curling and static electricity problems. Â
We optimize the vacuum suction device to effectively overcome electrostatic attraction and allow it to catch only one piece at a time. This error-free guarantee is very suitable for packaging for pharmaceuticals and electronic products.
Sealing and Coding
The reliability of the sealing is related to the box quality and the setting consistency of the sealing service. We control the sealing temperature and the trace of the sealing device to ensure each sealing is dense and aesthetically pleasing. Based on your needs, we can customize the snap-on, lock, or adhesive method.
For products requiring coding and labeling, the inkjet coding and labeling devices keep millisecond-level synchronization with the box to ensure the precise printing position and clear characters. During the process, the box is tightly locked on the conveyor and will not move under high-speed operation.
Testing
Before products leave the factory, we use sensors to detect the condition of the paper boxes, products, and seals. Once defective goods are detected, the system will remove them using a pneumatic device while maintaining the operation speed. This ensures a high pass rate when shipping.
How to Choose Suitable Continuous Cartoning Machines?
Production Capacity Demand
The production capacity demand should be compatible with the speed of the continuous cartoning machine. The most suitable operation speed of a continuous cartoning machine is 80% of its rated speed. Blindly pursuing high speed and high production capacity will cause the failure rate to increase, while a low-speed machine can not handle the explosive orders in the market.
If your daily demand is over 100,000 pieces, we recommend the machine with a speed of 150 to 200 boxes per minute. If your daily production capacity is less than 100,000 pieces, we recommend the low-speed model.
Physical Properties of Product
Products with Oils and Fats
Products containing grease, such as soap and industrial grease, can cause corrosion to machines, and they can easily seep into the connection gaps, leading to slipping during operation.
Common machines will experience lag after three months, while our continuous cartoning machines for grease products use regular stainless steel in their surface and medical-grade stainless steel in product-contacting parts.
The anti-corrosion property of stainless steel enables the machine to resist oil and water. Its smooth surface is convenient for cleaning and the time can be shortened to 10 minutes per week, avoiding grease accumulation.
Products Easy to Generate Dust
Food and medicine packaging is easy to cause debris. When debris enters the transmission system, it will increase the wear of gears and bearings, causing operational jamming and a reduction in accuracy. This increases your maintenance cost.
For these products, we recommend using a fully enclosed transmission system. Even extremely small particles are difficult to enter. It protects the traditional system of the continuous cartoning machine and extends the cycle to over 3 years, saving you expensive equipment replacement costs.
Fragile Goods
Precise electronic components and high-value fragile goods are easy to break, causing huge compensation. The need to avoid impact during packaging. For a continuous cartoning machine that packages fragile goods, our pushing device ensures there is no instant impact force between the product and the pusher head. This avoids the damage risk and lowers the defective rate.
