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.