PAPERBOARD PACKAGING

PAPERBOARD PACKAGING – CARTONING

Many food and consumer products in their primary packaging or raw are packaged into a paperboard carton for presentation to the consumer or end user. Using printed paperboard (no corrugated construction) manufactured into a scored and sealed flat blank that are then loaded into a carton magazine at the infeed of the machine. Caron blanks are stripped one at a time from the magazine, erected using a vacuum/mechanical device and placed in a flight chain. A parallel or right angle product infeed system presents the single or collated multiple products to the open end of the carton where a mechanical system transfers then into the carton. Mechanical flap forming devices then close the flaps using either a tuck system or hot melt glue to seal both open ends of the carton. The most common configuration for cartoning is horizontal but some products are more suited to a vertical design. Production rates of up to 600 cartons per minute.

For slower speed operations, the automatic loading of products can be replaced with an operator who loads the product manually into the unsealed carton. This is referred to as “hand load”. Hand load designs can achieve production rates of up to 60 cartons per minute depending on product formats and pack pattern configurations.

PAPERBOARD PACKAGING – SLEEVING

Similar to cartoning using the same paperboard material, a sleever is functionally a carton without end flap closures.  

For more on our paperboard product packaging sleeving and cartoning offerings visit our partners sites Douglas Machine or RA Jones.