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A Curated Collection of Case Studies: Cartoning

Are you in the market for cartoning equipment and looking for the latest technology and innovations to streamline your packaging operations? Check out our list of case studies featuring cartoners and the unique solutions that these pieces of equipment bring to the companies mentioned here. Learn how the equipment works, what it’s capable of, and which machine is right for your line.
Cartoning
Logitech Ditches Plastic for Paper in Mouse Packaging Overhaul
Logitech is phasing out plastic clamshells in favor of FSC-certified paper cartons for its computer mice, cutting thousands of tons of plastic and carbon emissions in the process.
April 3, 2025
Logitech is nearing the complete transition from a plastic clamshell to a paper carton across its global portfolio of computer mice.
Cartoning
Palm-Sized Carton Delivers 180 Doses of Skin Care
Nwär Skin’s new Seid skin care products are encapsulated in tiny, dissolvable strips packaged in a paperboard carton. While the product reduces overconsumption, the package ensures recycling.
January 24, 2025
Seid Altered Perceptions Facial Cleanser and Seid Conscious Commitments Facial Balm products come in a dainty, palm-sized paperboard carton that’s perforated along the front and bottom panel to allow for easy access to the product strips. Image courtesy of Nwar Skin.
Cartoning
Gift Box for Skin Care is Lightweight Yet Luxurious
Developed for Finnish cosmetics brand HejBuddy, the box is 50% lighter than a traditional rigid box and features an outer sleeve that can be customized for seasonal promotions.
October 26, 2024
The promotional packaged designed for HejBuddy’s skin-care products uses a micro-flute corrugated board with a white kraft liner. Image courtesy of Metsä Board.
Cartoning
Candy Cartoning Gets a Big Boost
Three new cartoning systems bring a whole new level of throughput to Just Born’s headquarters, while corrugated tray packing also gets a makeover.
August 6, 2024
Shown here in the tray packer are one 12-count group of cartons in the flap compression station, another in the tray load station, and a third that is about to be pushed into the tray load station.
Cartoning
Rounded-Corner Carlsberg Multipack Reduces CO2 by 224 Tons
Carlsberg in Poland trials a new multipack format that uses rounded corners to reduce the use of shrink film on a pallet and offers 360-deg branding.
June 25, 2024
Carlsberg Poland is currently trialing Round Wrap packaging for its Carlsberg, Garage, and Somersby beer product ranges.
Case/Tray Packing
Gentle Case Packing Cures Broken Bottle Blues
The ascendancy of contract packaging means that once-neglected bottling lines are coming back strong. Here’s how Yards Brewing switched drop pack operations to pick and place, reducing scrap to the minimum, both for its own and its contract customers.
March 8, 2024
Celebrating its 30th year serving craft beer in Philadelphia, Yards Brewing Co. serves the Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland area with 55,000 barrels/year in all sorts of packaging formats. With a 300,000-barrel capacity, it has room for further growth into the contract packaging space.
Cartoning
Multipack Success at Maui Brewing Leads to New Line
Hawaii’s largest craft brewer installs a new high-speed canning line to complement new cartoning capabilities after a switch from plastic carriers to multipack cartons proves popular with consumers.
March 1, 2024
With its new cartoner, MBC is creating 12- and 24-ct variety packs, a format it learned early on was popular among tourists.
Secondary Packaging
Robotics Brings Big Benefits to Bakery
Two identical monoblock cartoning/case packing systems produce a number of secondary and tertiary packaging formats, while robotic palletizing brings the automated line to a close.
October 4, 2023
For twin-pack cartons, the delta style robot picks bagged pans from the conveyor belt in the foreground, rotates them so that the ponytail is in the 12 o’clock position, and places them into a carton that is erected from a flat blank upstream.
Cartoning
Pasta Packaging Where ‘Flexibility is the Key’
While the cornerstone of Artisan Chef Manufacturing is a passion for artisan Italian cuisine, getting such food to consumers in the supermarket requires absolute packaging mastery.
August 29, 2023
This photo shows the larger tray, which holds four servings, filled and packed on the same line.
Robotics
New Robotics Systems Handle Packaging Customization
Packaging machinery OEMs engineer systems for primary packaging that integrate robotics to speed product customization by eliminating manual processes.
August 11, 2023
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Robotics
Popular Pies Call for Robotic Packaging Upgrade
Faced with growing demand for its delicious hand-held snack pies, JTM Foods, LLC brought in a new line where secondary packaging is fast and versatile yet occupies a very small footprint.
May 15, 2023
Upstream of secondary packaging, the single-serve pies are loaded into cartons on this system.
Controls & Machine Components
Custom Case Packers Employ PC-Based Controls
The CP-30 custom case packer with integrated robotics ensures ultra-fast throughput and reduces changeover times by over 80% using advanced PC-based control technology and EtherCAT.
April 14, 2023
R.A Jones developed the custom CP-30 case packer for a large, multinational CPG manufacturer of coffee products.
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