Neocarton-Your Reliable Horizontal Cartoning Machine Supplier In China
The design of horizontal cartoning machines can solve a variety of issues, such as low packing efficiency and poor stability. The horizontal cartoning process allows your products to be smoothly fed into the boxes manually or automatically. The machine then will perform high speed sealing and closing operations to quickly complete the retail packaging of your products.
Neocarton’s horizontal cartoning machines are better suited for products with regular shapes, ensuring they are neatly arranged inside the packaging boxes. The advantage of horizontal cartoner is that they maintain smooth transport and packaging of both products and boxes even at high speeds, reducing the risk of product jams.
Our Products
Our continuous cartoner ensures uninterrupted operation and offers advantages in both speed and productivity.
An intermittent cartoner pauses at each stage of the cartoning process, allowing for more precise handling of your product packaging.
Features of Neocarton’s Horizontal Cartoning Machine
Our automated horizontal cartoner can package over 300 boxes per minute.
The machine automatically arranges your products before packaging, ensuring a smooth and orderly cartoning process.
We will equip the machine with adjustable components, allowing you to customize settings based on specific product dimensions.
Our machine reduces repetitive manual labor, therefore minimizing human error and increasing productivity.
The horizontal cartoning method helps protect your products from falling or rolling, particularly for small bottled items.
Our machines support various box styles, including end-flap, slip-on, and lock-bottom boxes.
It can be controlled by a PLC system and a touchscreen, making it easy to adjust or switch the parameters.
Through thoughtful customization and design, our machines can seamlessly integrate with filling machines, capping machines, and other equipment on your production line.
Safe and Reliable Machinery
You can rest assured that we have equipped your horizontal cartoning machine with safety features such as safety doors, automatic shutdown, and overload protection to ensure safe operation. If a malfunction is detected during automatic operation, the machine will immediately shut down and trigger an alarm, helping you quickly identify the issue to minimize the downtime.
Replaceable Parts Available
We can provide customized parts according to your horizontal cartoning machine’s needs, allowing you to easily replace worn components at any time to maintain its performance, as well as extending its service life.
Additionally, if you require modifying your devices , our online customer service team is always available to respond. . Once the machine has been refurbished, our professional engineers will recalibrate it for you.
Materials Meeting Hygiene and Safety Standards
Neocarton’s horizontal cartoning machines are manufactured using easy-to-clean and corrosion resistant materials, including stainless steel (304/316L). They can be equipped with sterilization capabilities and support CIP (Clean-in-Place) to meet the requirements of the food and pharmaceutical industries. To further ensure your satisfaction, we can also provide certification of compliance with cGMP standards.
Applications of Neocarton’s Horizontal Cartoning Machine
In the food industry, horizontal cartoning machines are widely used for secondary packaging of hard foods such as cookies, chocolate, and pasta. These products normally have regular shapes and can be neatly arranged or fed into boxes. Additionally, the operating mechanism of horizontal cartoning machines effectively minimizes the product breakage during the process, ensuring efficient and smooth conveyance.
In the pharmaceutical area, horizontal cartoning machines are used to package medications in tubes and bottles. At the same time, the machine can also fold and insert the instructions. The processes of forming and sealing the cartons are completed in a single operation to ensure safety and airtightness.
Products in the electronics industry such as batteries, headphones, and electronic components can also be packaged by using horizontal cartoning machines. The automated packaging process of horizontal cartoning machines ensures consistency across multiple batches, guaranteeing that products, instruction manuals, and other accessories are neatly arranged inside the boxes.
Daily necessities such as toothpaste and jarred cosmetics need to be packaged by horizontal cartoning machines, too. During the packaging process, it is essential to maintain their appearance and prevent scratches or deformation. Horizontal cartoning machines meet these requirements, helping to increase your brand image.
- Product Specifications
| Products name | Horizontal cartoning machine |
| Material | Stainless steel |
| Types | Continuous/intermittent |
| Cartoning Speed | 45-320 boxes per minute |
| Customization Aspects | Functions, size, materials, sterilization function, safety design |
| Lead Time | 10-30 days |
When faced with a wide range of products requiring packaging in cartons of varying sizes, you can adapt to different dimensions and shapes by adjusting the workstations and changing the dies, while also adjusting the control system parameters for more precise packaging. Due to its thoughtful design, you’ll find this process to be extremely convenient and efficient in practice, meeting your packaging needs for a wide variety of products.
Our horizontal cartoning machine offers sealing methods such as tuck-in sealing and adhesive sealing. Additionally, we can provide pre-glued cartons to complete the cartoning process.
During the daily operation of a horizontal cartoning machine, you should regularly clean and lubricate the drive system to ensure smooth operation. If your machine is exposed to corrosive environments for extended periods, you are better to select equipment made of corrosion-resistant materials and shorten the period of each cleanings and inspections.
Yes. Neocarton understands how important the appearance is to the market image of your products. Therefore, we offer adjustments to the cartoning machine, such as using gentler feeding mechanisms to prevent scratches on the surface of glass packaging. Additionally, the servo system and the movements of the box-folding mechanism are designed for greater precision to prevent damage to your packaging.
Neocarton’s horizontal cartoning machines are designed to prevent box jams and material jams. We use a flexible feeding mechanism that ensures the smooth conveyance of products and cartons of various sizes and shapes during operation. Additionally, carefully adjusting the suction force and box-opening angle effectively prevents box jams.
What is a Horizontal Cartoning Machine?
A horizontal cartoning machine is a type of packaging equipment that performs product packaging in a horizontal orientation. Based on the feeding method (manual or automatic), these machines are divided into semi automatic horizontal cartoning machines and fully automatic horizontal cartoning machines. Each type can automatically perform operations such as folding, sealing, and labeling of cartons, significantly enhancing the level of automation in production and ensuring processing efficiency.
Compared to vertical cartoning machines, horizontal cartoning machines are better suited for retail packaging of strip shaped, bottled, or canned products, offering the advantages of stability and high efficiency.
How Does a Horizontal Cartoning Machine Work?
The operating principle of a horizontal cartoner is quite straightforward. First, it picks up the cardboard from your blank stock. As it moves along the conveyor, a box-forming unit folds the cardboard to create an opening on the side, so that you can continue the loading process.
In the loading process, the machine will put the products in the boxes by pushing it. Finally, the cartoner will automatically seal the lid by using either an inward fold or adhesive.
Horizontal Cartoning Machine Structure
Control System
The control system is a critical component that coordinates the movement of the entire cartoner. Through precise control via the PLC and touchscreen interface, your cartoner can accurately perform a series of operations, such as opening boxes and feeding materials. The stability of the control system is the foundation for the smooth operation of the entire machine.
Conveyor System
The conveyor system is the key mechanism responsible for transporting products and cartons to each workstation. When selecting a model, you should focus on whether its movement is smooth and whether the workstation design is reasonable to avoid issues such as product jams. This ensures a reasonable production rhythm during subsequent use.
Box Forming Mechanism
The box forming mechanism is primarily responsible for opening and folding the boxes. A well designed forming mechanism can achieve neat, sealed results and create a stable opening to support the subsequent insertion of products. Good forming results are also a key factor in ensuring the efficiency of your production line.
Comparison Between Horizontal Cartoning Machine And Vertical Cartoning Machine
| Comparison factors | Vertical cartoning machine | Horizontal cartoning machine |
| Feeding method | vertical drop feeding | Horizontal push feeding |
| Level of automation | Semi automatic or fully automatic | |
| Foot print | smaller | Larger |
| Applications | Powdered products
Higher bottled products |
Strip-shaped, and regularly shaped products |
In general, if your product has a regular shape, or it is packaged in sturdier materials and requires high packaging speed and stability, you should choose a horizontal cartoning machine. On the other hand, products in powder, granular, or flexible packaging are better suited for vertical cartoning machines.
In terms of box shape, horizontal cartoning machines are better suited for flat or rectangular paper boxes, while vertical cartoning machines are better suited for deep-body boxes that open upward.
