5. Packaged in cardboard boxes
In all cases, the idea here is to fill a parallelepiped case or cardboard box with a variety of products: granules, powders, pasta, rice, but also with shaped objects, bottles (of perfume, for example), cookies, potato chips, and so on.
Machine speeds (cartoners or cartoning machines) vary widely, depending on whether the products are everyday foodstuffs or expensive perfumes packed in luxury cartons.
All the techniques are described below, with the emphasis on high-speed automatic machines.
5.1 Semi-automatic vertical cartoners
The carton, delivered flat, is expanded, i.e. opened on the conveyor; the bottom of the carton is closed, either by gluing or by folding the tabs, then arrives in front of the operators...
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Packaged in cardboard boxes
Trays with sealed pouches for dry products
Bibliography
Reference works
Manufacturers, constructors
This list is not exhaustive.
We would like to thank the manufacturers who provided us with information and illustrations of their equipment.
The list below is neither exhaustive nor restrictive; its sole purpose is to help readers find the machine manufacturers they are looking for.
Packaging machines for bottled liquids
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Organizations
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), Packaging market
Exhibitions
(non-exhaustive list)
Emballage World Packaging Exhibition
November 20-24, 2006
Paris-Nord Villepinte (France)
FachPack 2006
September 26-28, 2006
Nuremberg (Germany)
Other trade shows in Italy and the USA in 2006
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