Neocarton-Your Reliable Horizontal Case Packer Manufacturer in China
Horizontal case packer pushes products to packaging boxes and bags from a horizontal direction. Compared with vertical ones, their special horizontal structure avoids collision when products fall and can be linearly extended along the production line without renovating the workshop. This makes it an ideal horizontal case packer for fragile products such as glass bottles, vials, and delicate electronic components.
We support customizing horizontal case packers with many functions and offer tape and hot melt adhesive for sealing, to meet your needs of different production environments. They are used in food, pharmaceutical, and daily chemicals industries. As an experienced horizontal case packer manufacturer, we provide stable and precise packing solutions no matter how complex your product shape is.
Product Selection
It pushes products horizontally by push rod and can handle boxes with various specifications. It is the most common purchasing choice, with a low maintenance cost.
It folds the packaging cardboard around the product and makes the packaging compact, saving about 15% of cardboard, used for the food and daily chemical industry with a large output.Â
Features of Horizontal Case Packer
The product is pushed horizontally, avoiding the damage caused by vertical drops and protects brittle and fragile products.Â
The horizontal structure allows for using double vacuum suction cups up and down, which can support uneven boxes and reduce the jamming probability during high-speed production.Â
The transmission components and the product operation routes are in different areas, which means the debris will not affect drive components, helping you pass hygiene audits.Â
The servo motor continuously monitors the torque. Once detecting abnormal resistance, it will stop the operation to protect the expensive mechanical components.
Ultimate Space-saving
The horizontal case packer with a small footprint adapts directly to your existing production line. It has a small floor area and reserves space for later production line upgrades or equipment expansions. It does not need the large upper feeding system of vertical machines and factories with fewer floors can easily equip it.
Clear Side View
As an experienced horizontal case packer manufacturer, we pay attention to the side view when designing. Products are arranged horizontally when entering the box, and their sides are fully exposed. The visual inspection system can directly scan the spray codes, labels, etc., on the side of the product, avoiding missed or incorrect codes and ensuring the traceability of product batches.
Applications of Horizontal Case Packer
Horizontal case packers achieve huge production of over a hundred cases per minute, meeting the large wholesale volume of the food industry. The lateral push prevents damage caused by the drops of brittle food. Its scalability can adapt to various packaging changes of food.
The horizontal case packer for pharmaceutical traceability easily reads code on the box, ensuring 100% inspection before packing and meeting the compliance requirements. The stainless steel frame is easy to clean, helping your products meet standards of GMP and FDA.
The horizontal entering process keeps the products upright and ensures packaging stability whatever shape the product is. The servo motor control ensures the high-quality prints on the outside of the box are not damaged and remain exquisite appearance on the shelves. Â
The horizontal case packer transports electronic products stably to protect their internal precise components, avoiding minor impacts and vibrations. It has a low center of gravity and is easy to install anti-static materials, preventing static electricity from affecting electronic products.Â
- Specification Parameter
| Packing Speed | 30-60 boxes per minute |
| Supported Packaging Materials | Corrugated cardboard and folded cardboard |
| Box Type | RSC and HSC Design |
| Product Range | Paper boxes, soft bags, bottled, canned, irregular-shaped parts |
| Sealing Method | Hot melt glue or pressure-sensitive tape sealing |
| Minimum Size(Length x Width x Height) | 8 inches x 6 inches x 4 inches(can be customized beyond the limits) |
| Maximum Size(Length x Width x Height) | 24 inches x 16 inches x 18 inches(can be customized beyond the limits) |
| Drive System | Full servo drive |
| Power Supply | 220V, 50/60Hz, single phase (or customized according to your standard) |
As a horizontal case packer manufacturer, we use a full servo drive system, with a HMI touch screen equipped with multiple recipes. Operators switch sizes according to the packaging situation. If it is necessary to switch physical components during the process, the molds equipped on our horizontal case packer can be quickly switched without the need for tools.
We offer tape sealing and hot-melt adhesive sealing, and each has different effects on your products.Â
Tape sealing: It can be applied to various types of boxes. It doesn’t have high-temperature processes and can effectively protect products that are sensitive to temperature.Â
Hot melt adhesive sealing: it uses instant pressure bonding and makes the packaging more compact and flat, suitable for brands that pay attention to product appearance.
We optimize two processes below to ensure products smoothly enter the box.Â
The grasping device: We use vacuum suction cups or mechanical arms for grasping to avoid rigid impacts during grasping.
Speed control: We use servo motors to precisely control acceleration, ensuring the pushing and conveying actions are synchronized to the millisecond level, buffering most pressure.
Our horizontal case packers do not have too many requirements for boxes. Common packers have requirements for flatness and indentation accuracy to ensure opening box success rate. To accommodate your production environments and box types, our machine is equipped with an active unboxing structure and two vacuum suction cups, making sure the deformed boxes can be opened smoothly and avoiding machine jams that would affect production efficiency.
Yes. Our horizontal packing machine can seamlessly connect with the filling machines, labeling machines, and palletizing robots on the product production line. It supports the PLC communication protocol. It achieves data synchronization and synchronous control for the entire production line after being connected to other equipment on the production line.
Not high. The main maintenance cost of the horizontal case packer comes from the transmission system. We equipped lubrication devices at the key parts of the transmission system, which prevent wear at the critical parts and reduce maintenance costs. Our technical team provides remote diagnosis services, and 90% operations can be completed with online guidance, without the need for expensive on-site repair fees.
For heavy products, we equip a pressure belt on the side. During the curing period after sealing, the belt provides a steady lateral compressive force continuously to counteract the outward tension brought by the product’s weight, maintaining its square shape.Â
The Packaging Process of the Horizontal Case Packer
Box FormingÂ
The packer uses a vacuum suction device to precisely grasp and unfold boxes. The active unboxing technology ensures that all kinds of boxes can be formed well. The mature box-forming process eliminates the downtime risk caused by box rebound and improves the success rate of box opening.
Box FillingÂ
Based on your production requirements and the automation level, you can choose human box filling or automatic box filling.Â
If you choose manual box filling, we will provide ergonomic horizontal workstations to increase operational comfort and box-filling efficiency. If you need automatic box filling, our servo pusher heads also achieve precise product insertion into the boxes.Â
This flexible box-filling mode can adapt to your later business changes and production needs.
SealingÂ
We use hot-melt glue or pressure-sensitive tape for sealing. We customize the sealing method according to the box material, customer preferences, or product protection requirements.
Box material: If your cardboard has a high grammage or high hardness, we recommend hot melt adhesive, which provides stronger structural support.
Client preference: If you pursue a minimalist appearance or cost-effectiveness, we recommend pressure-sensitive tape for sealing. It has a low material cost and is easy to operate.
Product protection requirements: For cold chain transportation or high-value tamper-proof products, hot melt adhesive achieves a more secure physical seal. This customized configuration ensures that the packaged products remain stable throughout complex logistics environments.
Unloading of The Box
The sealed boxes are automatically discharged through the discharge system. The buffer design at the discharge end prevents the boxes from stacking or colliding when they are discharged at high speed. The equipment can be seamlessly integrated with downstream weighing machines, labeling machines, or palletizing robots, increasing the overall production efficiency.
Customization Solution for Horizontal Case Packer
Continuous Packaging Operation
For some horizontal case packers that need to operate continuously in high-strength environments, we use heavy-duty welded stainless steel frames as the machine body. It has strong seismic resistance and can effectively absorb mechanical vibrations during high-speed operation. This ensures the precision of the equipment and extends the service life.
High Hygiene Standards
For the food and pharmaceutical industry, we offer a flushing function that meets IP65 or higher standards, which supports frequent high-pressure water flushing and chemical disinfection. The packer uses no blind spot design, avoiding cross-contamination and reducing the cleaning time by more than 30%.
Production Line with Limited Space
We recommend horizontal case packers with small floor space and casters, which are convenient for moving and integrating in limited spaces. You can position the packer according to your production needs to avoid long downtime and production losses.
