Cartoning

An end-load cartoner pushes product horizontally through the open end of the carton. A top-load cartoner drops or places product vertically into an open carton. End load reaches higher rates and suits rigid product; top load suits jumbled, bulk-dumped, fragile or multi-line product.

Up to 60 cartons per minute on our own end-load builds and up to 50 on robotic top-load, with high-speed horizontal platforms we integrate reaching up to 200. The determining variables are carton style, products per carton and loading method.

From around 50 × 19 × 102 mm on a small-format high-speed platform up to 340 × 100 × 380 mm on our own machines, with extended ranges available. Because machines are purpose-built, the size range you need matters more than your largest carton.

Yes. We fit leaflet and pamphlet feeders with bypass mode, around 20 minutes of magazine capacity, a low-level warning ahead of empty, and leaflet presence confirmation including for UV-coated leaflets. It’s recipe-selectable, so leaflets can be batch-dependent.

Yes, as standard. No product, no carton erected; no carton, product load skipped. Bottle presence, fallen bottle, leaflet presence and seal failure detection with automatic reject are all available on top.

Yes. We build for human and veterinary medicines and healthcare, with documentation and FAT/SAT protocols written to support installation qualification, operational qualification and process validation, plus 21 CFR Part 11 compliant coding, serialisation and tamper-evident sealing.

15–20 minutes on a fully manual-adjust machine, and 20–25 minutes for one operator on a robotic-loader build. Adding automated adjustment points brings it toward 10 minutes, and those points are priced individually so you buy only what your SKU mix justifies.

Yes — full overlap flap with perforated tear-off lid, crash-erect shelf-ready, and shelf-ready wrap-around shippers accepted by the major Australian retailers, with the erect-fold-seal sequence engineered so perforations aren’t damaged.

Yes. For low volume or a high SKU count we build a hot-melt erector, manual load and hot-melt top sealer at up to 15 cartons per minute, optionally on castors, and retrofittable to automatic loading later — so you can automate in stages.

Usually you’ll need to. Moving from a crash-lock bottom with push-in tabs to automation generally means a top-and-bottom glue seal. That’s a board conversation worth having at quote stage with your supplier in the room, rather than at Factory Acceptance Test.