Cartoning machines are packaging machines which erect, close and erect, fill and close carton blanks or folded and side seam sealed cartons.
Cartoning machines are used in all fast-moving consumer goods sectors but especially in the food, pharmaceutical, toiletry, cosmetic, household product industries. Basic cartoning systems can be semi-automatic machines which close the flaps manually at low speeds, but the most sophisticated cartoners are fully automatic, incorporating pick-and-place product loading or stacking devices, leaflet inserters and coding devices which run at several hundred cartons a minute.