Neocarton-Your Reliable Soap Cartoning Machine Manufacturer in China
As a packaging machine, a soap cartoning machine can operate on a soap automated production line. Due to its soft texture, it is necessary to avoid wear and impact damage during the pushing process. The soap cartoning machine has corrosion resistance and an anti-sticking structure to resist oils and alkaline ingredients in soap.
Neocarton soap cartoning machine uses high-quality 304/316L stainless steel and a flexible push material design, which solves grease corrosion, surface scratches, and fragrance loss of common soap cartoning machines. We offer a cost-effective customization solution according to your soap characteristics, meeting your budgets while ensuring high quality.
Our Products
Our products can handle all kinds of soaps, including washing soap, toilet soap, handmade soap, hotel soap, etc. They apply to the following box types: double-sided protruding tongue, double-sided adhesive sealing, single-sided tongue insertion and single-sided glue application, box with a transparent window, irregular-shaped box, multiple soap packaging boxes, and self-locking box.
The packaging steps are completed by workers and machines together. It has a low cost and is suitable for small-batch production or start-up brands.
It operates fast and continuously, with an output reaching 120-180 boxes per minute and low noise. It is used in a high-speed production line.
Each workstation operates intermittently, ensuring each step has enough time to shape, and enhancing the aesthetic appeal, suitable for medium and low-speed production.
Features of Soap Cartoning Machine
Precisely control the force and speed of the soap entering the box by a servo motor, ensuring the soap smoothly enters the box.
The feeding device that directly contacts the soap is added with a soft guide rail or a Teflon coating to prevent scratches on the soap surface and avoid affecting soap’s appearance.
The PLC technology enables the packaging actions to coordinate, without misalignment in high-speed automatic packaging.
Support adding new modules according to later business needs, saving you the costs of replacing machines.
Packaging soaps of different properties and sizes by adjusting the mold, and can handle complex packaging with instructions and inner trays.
Using energy-saving motors, it will automatically enter low-power standby mode when the feeding is interrupted, significantly reducing your electricity bill.
The system has three levels of management pages: the super administrator page, the system administrator page, and the operator page. Each page requires the corresponding permissions to view or modify.
Our machine complies with the CE mechanical safety directive. The components directly contacting soaps are certified as food-grade contact materials, meeting GMP production standards.
No Appearance Damage
High-end soaps have high requirements for appearance, and excessive force causes the logo to deform and get scratched. As a Chinese soap cartoning manufacturer, we know the importance of appearance to soap brands. Our pusher device uses soft touch control to avoid scratches during the high-speed box loading process, protecting your brand image.
Intelligent Inspection of Cartons
If the soap cartoning machine still sucks and seals the boxes when there is no soap on the packaging line, it will cause unnecessary losses. Our Chinese factory has an intelligent detection system, which detects whether there is soap on the packaging line and ensures that the sucking and sealing actions will only continue when there is soap. This precise detection saves tens of thousands of yuan in material losses for your packaging line.
Our automatic soap cartoning machine can be connected to the front-end production line or a single packaging machine. The equipped variable speed system adjusts speed according to the soap production line to achieve synchronous operation. This avoids the damage caused by human contact, protecting the appearance of soaps.
For soaps with irregular shapes, we use 3D modeling to design the feeding trough position and vacuum suction cups to enable the soaps to smoothly enter the box and maintain stability. As the custom soap cartoning machine supplier, we achieve a yield rate of over 99.9%.
Our soap cartoning machines use a modular design, and operators in factory can adjust them according to the scale indications. It only takes less time to replace the packaging of different sizes.
Some high-end soaps need anti-counterfeiting labels and QR codes to add a high-end feel and promote their brand. Our soap cartoning machines have a reserved workstation and can be installed with a laser engraving machine and an automatic labeling machine to print anti-counterfeiting labels and QR codes before sealing boxes.
Our soap cartoning machine is equipped with wireless module, ensuring you can remotely monitor the machine and we achieve remote fault diagnosis and program upgrade through network connections.
An automatic soap cartoning machine can replace 4 to 6 packaging workers. By calculating the production capacity improvement, packaging consistency improvement, and error rate reduction, you usually can recover your cost within 6-12 months.
The specific recycling period depends on your local labor costs, order volume, and shift scheduling. Welcome to contact our engineers and provide your production line scale, and we will calculate the specific return on investment data for you.
Main Components of Soap Cartoning Machine
Product Conveyor
The product conveyor is connected to the upstream soap production line and transports soaps to the soap cartoning machine smoothly. We can customize the chain plates of the conveyor according to your requirements, such as anti-static and wear-resistant, to ensure your soaps are conveyed along a fixed track without deviation. Meanwhile, we control the conveying speed to control the production efficiency.
Storage Tank
The storage tank stores box materials and cooperates with the opening process. A scientific storage compartment ensures a smooth opening and reduces waste rate. As a professional soap cartoning machine supplier, our storage tank has a large storage space and does not require frequent replenishment.
The guide rails on the side of the storage compartment can be compatible with packaging boxes of many sizes and thicknesses. Under the high-pressure suction cup, the machine precisely grasps the paper box from the storage compartment and expands it to avoid the deformation of the box.
Pushing Device
The pushing device pushes soaps into the boxes. We polish the parts that directly contact soaps and add a soft guide rail. This reduces the friction when pushing and prevents scratching the soap surface. The high-precision feeding system pushes gently and precisely.
PLC Plate
The PLC plate controls many functions of the soap cartoning machines. Operators can monitor parameters such as the output and speed of the soap packaging line remotely and adjust them immediately according to the speed of the production line. It avoids errors caused by human operation.
Hot Melt Glue Machine
The hot melt glue machine offers hot adhesives to seal soap boxes. Compared to traditional socket packaging, hot melt glue machines have better sealing performance and prevent the corners from warping during transportation.
Some high-end brands have high requirements for sealing and aesthetics. Our hot melt glue machines achieve precise application, avoiding glue drawing to affect the image of the soap packaging box.
Working Steps of The Soap Cartoning Machine
Box Retrieval and Box Opening
The soap cartoning machine takes out the paper boxes through a negative pressure vacuum suction cup and feeds them into the opener. To prevent the box from deforming when being picked up, we optimize the dynamic trajectory of the suction device to enable it to be stably picked up even when running at high speed.
Push The Soap
The pushing device pushes the soap into the box when the box is opened by the machine. Our push rod structure undergoes mirror polishing and anti-static treatment to ensure the soap smoothly enters the box. As the box moves evenly along the conveyor belt, sensors monitor the position of the materials in real time, ensuring the movement trace of soaps and boxes is synchronized.
Folding The Soap Box
After the soap is pushed into the packaging box, the side and bottom of the packaging box will be folded. We control the operation of the machine according to the thickness of the box to ensure clear lines and square outlines.
Sealing
After folding, the glue and adhesive are sprayed on the bottom page. Our glue spraying technology does not need to contact the packaging box, ensuring uniform distribution of the glue without any fraying or overflow. After spraying, an even pressure is applied to the sealing area to quickly cure the adhesive. This prevents the soap paper box from warping during long-distance transportation and protects the quality of the soap.
How to Choose The Right Soap Cartoning Machines?
| Semi-automatic Soap Cartoning Machine | Continuous-auto Soap Cartoning Machine | Intermittent-auto Soap Cartoning Machine | |
| Advantages | Low cost
Flexible space Manual folding box |
Durable structure | Avoid scratches |
| Soap Types | Handmade soaps with large sizes, large weight, and irregular shapes | Soaps with regular shapes
High rigidity |
Soaps with irregular shapes
Flexible soap packaging |
| Personalized requirements | Limit budget
Startup brands |
High daily production demand | High requirements for model change speed
Small and medium-sized manufacturers |
How Our Soap Cartoning Machines Reduce The Waste Rate?
The scrap rate of soap packaging directly affects your material costs and production efficiency. Soap packaging involves raw materials, anti-counterfeiting, etc, and a high scrap rate causes huge losses in long-term accumulation.
During the waste-generating process, the soap cartoning machine will get stuck and need to be adjusted, wasting your time. We make adjustments to reduce the scrap rate for the following reasons.
Insufficient Equipment Accuracy
The feeding equipment requires high precision and alignment with the center line of the opening to avoid the soap hitting the edge of the box. We equip sensors in the equipment, and they will automatically stop sucking the box if there is no soap detected. This reduces the waste rate caused by deviation to <0.1%.
Low Box Quality
If the paper made for boxes is light or has uneven fibers, the box will be squeezed and deformed during packaging, resulting in jamming. The pusher device will automatically alarm if the sensor detects that the box is not fully opened. This avoids downtime and production time extension.
Unstable Soap Properties
If the soap does not cool down completely, it will deform or stick to the box during packaging, which causes 3%-8% production waste. The servo motor in our soap cartoning machine can be set with a pressure curve to adjust the pushing force according to your soap properties. If the resistance exceeds the threshold, the push device will retract. This ensures most soaps are packaged without damage and reduces your soap waste rate.
Services We Offer
Pre-sale Service
Free Soap Packaging Test
Soaps have different shapes, textures, and packaging materials. Free soap packaging test can inspect whether your soaps will maintain appearance, smoothly enter the box, and seal well when packaged with our machines.
Free Production Line and Factory Layout Planning
We use CAD to simulate the production process, enabling you to clearly plan the placement of the machine to maximize space utilization. We also provide ground reinforcement suggestions based on precise dimension drawings.
ROI Calculation Report
ROI provides the investment payback period, total annual savings, and internal rate of return. The ROI comparison table makes the costs, returns, and risks of the soap packaging machine visual.
On-purchase Service
Customized Development
We customise the picking hand according to special shapes of soaps, ensuring the soap surface will not be hurt when picking. For irregular-shaped boxes, we customise the suction and support device to ensure the suction cup can precisely hold the irregular force-bearing points.
Regular Production Progress Reports
After you place your order, we will clearly inform you of the entire process of material procurement, mechanical processing, assembly and debugging, along with real-time pictures and videos from the factory. When the production is hindered, we will note the reasons in the report and adjust the production plan.
Production Line Integration Service
We assist in connecting upstream and downstream equipment to form a coherent, synchronized system. This enables you to monitor the output and faults of the entire production line through a unified control system.
FAT Factory Acceptance Test
It ensures the machine has undergone performance and safety tests before leaving the factory, Â avoiding huge maintenance costs during its use in your factory.
After-sales Service
On-site Installation, Commissioning, and Operation Training
Our after-sales engineers position the machines, connect the wires, establish the linkage, and conduct sample production in your workshop. Immediate debugging enhances the efficiency of the machines. The operation training will enable your employees to operate safely.
Inventory of Spare Parts Guarantee
We offer core wear-prone components of the soap cartoning machine in stock and guarantee the delivery time. This prevents the entire machine from being scrapped due to the lack of matching components.
Remote Diagnosis Support and System Upgrade
When your machine breaks down, our engineers can directly connect to the machine’s PLC via a computer and complete the maintenance within a few minutes, avoiding long production downtime caused by off-site repairs.
Regular Maintenance Reminders and On-site Servicing
We will automatically send you an email to remind you to maintain your machine based on the running time. This achieves a longer service life at a very low maintenance cost, preventing your machine from suffering losses of tens of thousands of yuan due to insufficient maintenance.
