Neocarton-Your Reliable Vertical Case Packer Manufacturer in China
The vertical case packer drops the product by gravity and places it into the carton. It avoids lateral friction and reduces the rate of defective products. Compared with a horizontal case packer, it has a smaller floor area; your factory frees up space to place other machines or expand production lines.Â
It supports quick specification switching to handle various packaging to reduce expensive downtime, including pillow bags, block bottom bags, and clip bags, and is widely used in food, daily chemical, pharmaceutical industries. As a custom vertical case packer manufacturer, you will receive customized the layout of the machine according to your specific products and integrate modules such as automatic manual placement, online weighing, and visual inspection.
Product Selection
It packs after the carton stops, providing high packing precision and supporting stacking and placing partitions, suitable for production lines with frequent specification switching.Â
The product is packed when the carton is moving. It can produce at high speed without pause, making it suitable for large-scale, single-category products.Â
Features of Vertical Case Packer
It has a compact structure and saves 30%-50% of the horizontal space, allowing you to upgrade the factory building in the existing space without expansion.
By replacing different grippers, it can handle products with different shapes and you adapt to the rapidly changing market demands.Â
By manually turning the knob or changing the module, the scale can be switched within 10 minutes, eliminating profit loss caused by excessive downtime.
It can be seamlessly integrated with unpacking and sealing machines, without machine downtime and material accumulation.
High Packing Stability
As a vertical case packer manufacturer, the machine packs products by gravity without shaking and toppling caused by horizontal packing. It does not need to be squeezed by the pushing device, avoiding friction with the box wall. Your production line can produce continuously for 24 hours, achieving high production efficiency without frequent unpacking and reassembly.
Operational Intuitiveness
The vertical case packer has a simple structure layout and uses a transparent safe door, which allows operators to clearly see the entire process of product feeding, arrangement and loading. Operators can quickly identify machine malfunctions, reducing maintenance downtime to a few minutes, thereby significantly enhancing production efficiency.Â
Applications of Vertical Case Packer
The machine uses a mechanical hand to precisely grasp the product and place it vertically into the carton, reducing collision and fragile food damage. The vertical grasping ensures the bottle labels face the same direction, enhancing the brand’s professionalism.
The vertical grasping avoids friction from horizontal pushing, protecting the exquisite outer packaging from scratching. It can lock the product from above and stably handle slender bottles and irregular makeups, which prevents appearance damage and protects the brand image.
Vertical case packers for the pharmaceuticals industry use full stainless steel and no blind spot design. This achieves a high surface finish making it easy to clean, meeting the GMP standards. It reviews the barcode of medicine packaging, ensuring 100% compliance.Â
Vertical case packers for the medical industry use a heavy mechanical structure, ensuring the center of gravity of lubricating oil and paint remains down during packing, preventing them from overturning and leaking. This reduces material loss and lowers the security risks.Â
- Specifications
| Packing Speed | 10-25Cases/min |
| Carton Size Range | L: 200-500, W: 150-400, H: 100-450 mm |
| Supported Product Types | Bottled, boxed, soft bagged, special-shaped items |
| Gripper Types | Pneumatic gripper / Vacuum suction cup / Servo manipulator |
| Production Switching Time | < 15 min |
| Feed Method | Automatically or manually (depending on production requirements) |
| Drive Type | Full servo motor drive |
| Sealing Method | Tape sealing of boxes or hot melt adhesive sealing of boxes |
| Safety Devices and Operational Safety | CE Certification (Compliant with EU Directives) |
Our machines can handle different types of cartons and have no strict requirements for cartons. Our device uses a vacuum suction cup and support device to stably handle thin cartons. If your cartons have special coatings, we can customize an anti-slip conveying belt for you.Â
We customize vertical case packers according to the floor height of your factory. If the height of your factory is limited, we optimize the vertical structure into a sloping structure while maintaining its small floor area.
The quick-wear parts of vertical case packers include the vacuum suction cup and the suction filter. Considering their vulnerability, we optimize their design, enabling them to be replaced without tools within 30 seconds. We also offer general-standard original factory parts, significantly reducing your long-term maintenance costs.
Our machines support ERP and MES production management systems. They are equipped with an industrial Ethernet interface and are compatible with mainstream communication protocols. They upload production efficiency, fault diagnosis, and energy consumption in real time, enabling you to analyze data and manage the production workshop digitally.
Before packing, the visual sensor accurately counts products and the negative pressure feedback judges if the product is captured truly, avoiding empty or missing cartons. After packing, once the waste removal system detects a load less or more, it will automatically direct the boxes to the rejection path, ensuring the consistency of the production line.
We offer remote technical support services. Our after-sales engineers can remotely log in to the PLC interface to troubleshoot and adjust parameters. You can also remotely monitor the devices.
Working Process of Vertical Case Packer
Pre-treatment of CartonsÂ
The suction cup grabs the carton, the mechanical arm opens and folds it, and seals the bottom.Â
Your machines use double-sided suction cups to pull both sides of the carton, enabling cardboard of different hardness to be 100% stretched to the standard 90 degrees, avoiding jamming.
Conveying CartonsÂ
The formed cartons are conveyed to the packing position. When the conveyor belt pauses, the carton is fixed to ensure no movement of products during emergency stops and product drops. The lifting mechanism protects your products by bringing the carton up to meet them without drop damage.
Product InputÂ
The product passes through the production line and enters the packer. During this process, it is crucial to strictly control the conveying speed to prevent uneven speed from causing the products to be compressed and deformed during transportation.
Sort and StackÂ
The system stacks and groups the products according to a preset arrangement. Some irregular-shaped products, such as slender bottles, are easy to tip over when stacked. You get smooth, jerk-free starts and stops with servo motor control.
During stacking, products easily collide with each other and cause scratches. Our pusher plates and baffles use nylon or silicone buffer materials and are designed with curved side push paths to prevent impacts during pushing, thus protecting your packaging appearance.
CasingÂ
After the formed cartons reach the inspection device, the sorted products are packed vertically into the boxes from above.
Before products enter the carton, the mechanical guiding device will first push the four flaps outward and fix them in place. This prevents products from hitting the flaps and avoids packaging damage and machine jamming.Â
The servo control system picks up the products and lowers them together, compensating for the gravity when the products fall. This protects fragile products and enables you to handle high-value fragile products with ease.
SealingÂ
The sealing device automatically folds the top cover and seals the carton with tape or hot melt adhesive.
Tape sealing: The tape-selling device easily causes tape to break or wrinkle under improper control, affecting appearance and sealing performance. Before the tape is sealed, the lateral synchronous belt will align the carton, allowing the tape to seal linearly without wrinkles or tears.
Hot melt adhesive sealing: Hot melt adhesive sealing is prone to stringing or broken adhesive. We adjust the temperature and shorten the time from applying to pressing, so that the sealing is completed before the adhesive fully solidifies, avoiding stringing and broken adhesive.
How to Choose the Right Vertical Case Packer?
Machine DesignÂ
The design of the vertical case packer directly affects service life and maintenance cost. We recommend choosing machines with a sturdy and durable structure, which can resist external forces and vibrations without screw loosening and position deviation. It can adapt to harsh production environments and maintain a repeat positioning accuracy of ±0.5mm in 24/7 high-intensity conditions.
When designing, we use high-quality components from famous brands to reduce the failure rate. Even if there is a malfunction, these components are easy to purchase.Â
Production Workshop Layout
Linear production workshop: the entire product packaging process is arranged in a straight line. We recommend an inline vertical case packer with a simple structure and a low failure rate. It is suitable for factories with sufficient height and that pursue the maximum production speed.
L-shaped production workshop: The vertical case packer with lateral feeding can fully use the corner space, separating the packaging area from the finished product area.
U-shaped production workshop: We recommend vertical case packers with a rotating path design, which allows operators to operate many machines within the same area, thereby helping you save labor costs.
Limited Space: an integrated model packer integrates the unpacking, packing, and sealing processes within a single framework, saving 30%-50% of the horizontal length compared to separate models.
Production Line RequirementsÂ
When purchasing vertical case packers, you need to consider how often your production line switches specifications. If you produce wide varieties, the machine should be able to switch without tools and within 10-15 min. The machine also needs to be modifiable to handle different cartons and products.
Industry ComplianceÂ
Food / Pharmaceutical Industry
The food and pharmaceutical industry has high requirements for hygiene standards. We recommend vertical case packers made of full stainless steel with an anti-rinse rating of IP65 or above, which supports direct flushing from a high-pressure water gun and meets GMP compliance design.Â
Chemical IndustryÂ
For chemical solvents with corrosion and risk, we recommend customizing explosion-proof grades or special coatings resistant to strong acids and alkalis, or anti-static conveyor belts, to ensure safe operation in hazardous environments.
