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What is the Horizontal Case Packer

The horizontal case packer is an automated device that packs products into boxes quickly and orderly in a horizontal manner. It is widely used in such areas as food, beverages, medicine and consumer goods, greatly improving packaging efficiency while ensuring product safety and packaging accuracy.

What is a Horizontal Case Packer Used For

A horizontal case packer handles one of the most repetitive but important jobs on your packaging line: putting products into cartons. Instead of doing this by hand, the machine automatically pushes items, like pouches, bottles, or cartons, into ready-made cases from the side.

This helps speed up your whole packing process, keeps things running smoothly, lowers the chance of product damage, and cuts down on labor costs. It’s a go-to choice for fast-paced production in industries like food, personal care, and pharmaceuticals.

How a Horizontal Case Packer Works

A horizontal case packer automates the process of loading products into cases from the The horizontal cartoning machine that actually helps you automatically put the product horizontally into the box, which makes the packaging fast and stable. The general process is as follows:

• Products are Sent to the Machine

The products first come from the conveyor belt or upstream equipment, and will be sorted for the next packaging.

• Prepare Empty Boxes

The machine has a box warehouse, automatically takes empty boxes from it, and then opens the box.

• Put the Product Into the Box

The machine will push the product horizontally into the box, and can pack several at a time.

• Seal the Box

After the product is packed, the machine seals the box and prepares for the next step, such as labeling or palletizing.

• Send the Packed Box Out

Finally, the packed box is sent to the next link of the production line via the conveyor belt.

In short, this machine helps you save time and manpower, and can also ensure the quality of packaging, and the work efficiency is very good.

Why Choose a Horizontal Case Packer

• It Keeps Up When Things Get Busy

Let’s be honest—manual packing can’t keep pace when your line’s running full speed. That’s where this machine shines. It packs fast, and it doesn’t get tired. You’ll see dozens of cases filled every minute, without the stress or slowdown.

• Switching Products? No Big Deal

If your line handles different SKUs or mixed product formats, this machine won’t complain. It adapts quickly—with just a few tweaks—and doesn’t need a full retool every time you switch boxes or pack styles.

• You Don’t Need a Warehouse-Sized Space

Not every production floor has room to spare. We’ve seen facilities where every inch counts, and that’s exactly why we built this machine to fit tight layouts. It’s compact, but still delivers full-speed performance.

• Everything Goes Where It Should

You’ve probably seen messy packs before, products turned sideways, crammed in wrong, or just looking off. This packer avoids all that. It lines things up properly, gets the orientation right, and keeps everything looking neat inside the case.

• Grouping That Just Works

Before packing, items need to be grouped—and grouped right. That’s a step many systems struggle with. Ours doesn’t. Whether it’s single items, pairs, or a mix, it lines them up fast and gets them ready to go, no operator intervention needed.

• Changeovers in Minutes, Not Hours

Time lost during changeovers is time you don’t get back. We made sure your team can switch formats fast, no tools, no fuss. That means less downtime and more boxes out the door.

What Makes Up a Horizontal Case Packer

• Mainframe and Enclosure

The structure holds everything together tightly. From the heavy-duty frame to the sealed electrical enclosures, every part is built to handle the demands of nonstop industrial packaging. You get strength, stability, and protection, all in one compact footprint.

• Construção

The frame is the foundation of a machine,  and it plays a key role in long-term durability. Therefore, Jochamp usually uses carbon steel as its frame, and sprays a layer of anodized aluminum profiles or powder-coated sheet metal on the surface, making the entire horizontal packaging machine easier to clean and more hygienic and safe.

• Enclosures and Electrics

All electrical equipment meets NEMA standards. The standardized Jochamp meets NEMA 12 standards. This horizontal case packer is suitable for use in dry factory workshops to achieve dust, drip and oil resistance.

If you have higher requirements and need to use it in a highly corrosive place, such as you need to package some seafood, dairy products, etc., you can customize electrical equipment that meets NEMA 4 and 4X standards.

• Sistema de controle

Let’s be honest, without a solid control system, even the best-built machine won’t get far. That’s why we rely on a responsive PLC paired with a smart, operator-friendly touchscreen to keep everything in sync, from case forming to sealing.

This setup isn’t just for automation—it’s designed to give your team better visibility, faster changeovers, and fewer headaches.

• Controlador PLC

Jochamp uses an industrial-grade PLC that handles real-time logic and motion coordination without delay. Every movement(case erecting, loading, sealing) is tightly synchronized. Need to change a pack pattern or tweak the cycle time? It’s all programmable.

No complicated re-coding needed, just update a few settings, and you’re back in production.

• Tela sensível ao toque HMI

Forget cryptic buttons or hard-to-navigate menus. Operators work with a clean, touch-based interface where they can view machine status, adjust key parameters, or troubleshoot with plain language.

Multilingual support is built in, and the screen layout can even be customized if your production requires different levels of access.

• Product Infeed System

The feeding system is controlled by servo motors and photoelectric sensors, realizing ±2mm pitch accuracy and adapting to 60m/min line speed. Even if the product size fluctuates or the incoming material is uneven, it can still match the loading beat stably and avoid collision.

Conveyor belts are designed to dampen vibration and ensure that bagged, boxed and bottled products are conveyed with precise orientation and spacing. Multi-stage sensors monitor flow and position in real time, dynamically coordinating downstream movements to eliminate the risk of clogging at the source.

• Correias Transportadoras 

Our servo-driven conveyor system transcends basic material handling. It actively regulates product spacing, orientation, and timing through synchronized motion control, critical for seamless integration with downstream grouping/loading stations. The vibration-damped belt structure eliminates product shift during transport, maintaining ±0.5° alignment accuracy even at 60m/min speeds. Compatible with pouches, rigid cartons, and unstable bottle geometries, its adaptive friction control prevents slippage while minimizing noise below 75dB(A).

• Sensores

They’re not just counting things. These sensors, lined up along the infeed conveyor, are constantly watching, detecting every product as it comes in, measuring the gaps between items, and kicking off the next step exactly when it should happen.

Why does that matter? Because in real-world production, things speed up, slow down, and sometimes get a little messy. The sensors make sure each group lands in the right spot before loading, no matter what.

When sensors talk smoothly with the motion controls, the whole system runs cleaner, faster, and with fewer headaches. It’s the kind of coordination that keeps jams from happening in the first place, not just fixing them after the fact.

• Case Erecting Unit

Flat cartons go in, fully formed cases come out. Simple as that.

This unit grabs RSC-style blanks, pops them open, and gets them into position without missing a beat. It runs up to 12 cases a minute, and it’s all powered by servo arms and forming molds that don’t need much babysitting. Once it’s set, it just works.

Need to switch case sizes? You’re looking at under 5 minutes, tops. Whether you’re running something as small as 5.5 x 5.5 x 6 inches or as big as 21 x 16 x 22, it handles it without fuss.

Vacuum cups make sure each blank is picked up cleanly and formed square every time—no warping, no jamming, just smooth operation that keeps your line moving.

• Pusher System

This is the part that gets your product where it needs to be—neatly, safely, and fast. The servo-driven pusher can move up to 15 times a minute, and depending on what you’re packing, the stroke length is fully adjustable—anywhere from 200 to 600 mm.

But speed isn’t everything. What really matters is how it moves. Instead of slamming products forward, the system uses a controlled acceleration curve—gradual in, gradual out. That means less impact, no damage, and better placement every time.

• Product Handling Mechanisms

This part is actually quite important – after all, no matter how strange or heavy your products are, the packaging line must be able to move them around steadily. We use servo-controlled robotic arms, coupled with soft silicone suction cups, which are gentle and precise.

Whether you need small parts or large packages, no problem, they can handle them. The suction force of the suction cups can also be adjusted to prevent things from being damaged or slipping, which is quite practical.

Overall, this set of things is to help you reduce the error rate and ensure smooth packaging, without the trouble of moving things or placing them in the wrong position.

• Suction Cup Head

Speaking of suction cups, this thing is actually very important. We use soft silicone suction cups, which can gently grasp products of various shapes and materials without damaging or leaving marks.

The suction force can be adjusted, which is quite important – sometimes the product is relatively light, and adjusting the suction force too much will damage the surface, but adjusting it too little will prevent it from slipping. You can adjust it according to the actual situation, which is quite flexible.

Under normal circumstances, the suction cup can grab about 15 to 20 times per minute, which is fast enough for most packaging needs.

• Electro-Pneumatic Devices

This part can be understood as the “brain plus muscle” combination in the machine. The electronic control is responsible for issuing instructions, and the pneumatic device uses air power to complete various actions, such as pushing, forming and sealing.

The action response speed is very fast, generally less than 50 milliseconds, and the air pressure can be adjusted to a maximum of about 6 bars. After adjustment, it basically does not need to be adjusted every day, and the operation is very stable.

But don’t forget to maintain it regularly, especially the air filter. If it is blocked, the action will become slower or inaccurate, affecting efficiency.

• Mechanical Arm

The mechanical arm is mainly responsible for moving the product from one point to another. The movement is accurate and the repeatability error is about ±1 mm, which is sufficient for most packaging needs.

Its speed is generally 6 to 10 movements per minute, depending on the size and shape of your product. The mechanical arm is designed with flexibility in mind and can adapt to products of various shapes and sizes.

However, if your product is particularly light or has an odd shape, you may need to adjust the suction cup or add a buffer to avoid jitter or position deviation.

• Former’s Mould

Although the forming mold is not very conspicuous, it is very critical. Our molds are made of hardened steel, which is durable and accurate.

It is easy to adjust the size by hand wheel adjustment without tools. The accuracy can generally be controlled to ±1 mm, and you basically don’t need to move it often after adjustment.

As long as it is properly maintained, it can change specifications quickly without slowing down your production line.

• Sistema de vedação

When it comes to sealing, Jochamp’s sealing system is quite flexible. It can use hot melt glue or self-adhesive tape, depending on your packaging needs.

It can accurately adjust the amount of glue to ensure that each sealing is firm and not wasted, and avoid rework due to poor sealing, which saves a lot of trouble.

Moreover, this system was designed with easy maintenance in mind. It is also simple to install and basically does not need to be monitored every day, ensuring that the production line runs steadily.

• Case Discharge Conveyor

This outbound conveyor belt frame is assembled from stainless steel, and the width can be adjusted to accommodate various box sizes from 150 mm to 600 mm. In terms of speed, it can be adjusted to 10 to 60 meters per minute, which is quite flexible and can match different production line speeds.

It is equipped with a high-precision photoelectric sensor that can monitor the flow of boxes in real time to help you prevent jams or traffic jams. The conveyor rollers are relatively strong, and the design also takes into account low noise and easy maintenance, ensuring stable and quiet operation.

In addition, safety guards and emergency stop buttons are standard to protect the safety of operators and meet industry standards.

• Características de segurança

This horizontal case packer is equipped with a number of safety protection measures to ensure that the operator is not in danger and complies with relevant safety regulations.

For example, as soon as the safety door is opened, the machine will automatically stop to prevent accidents. The emergency stop button is arranged very reasonably, and the operator can stop the machine immediately with one press, and the response is very fast.

There are also light curtains and safety sensors that monitor the working area. Once an obstacle appears, the machine will automatically pause to avoid accidents.

Overall, the safety performance of this system meets or even exceeds industry standards such as CE and ANSI/PMMI B155.1.

Complementos opcionais

To meet diverse production needs and ensure seamless integration with your existing packaging line, we offer a range of optional modules:

• • Inspection and Quality Control

• Product Inspection Systems

You may not notice this small part when no fault occurs, but if you really remove this part, you will find that the situation is very different. It can help you check whether there is any problem with the appearance quantity before packing. Through detection, the rework rate can be greatly reduced and the waste of materials can be avoided.

• Barcode Readers

Nowadays, many industries, such as food and medicine, have strict product traceability requirements. Therefore, it is necessary to add a barcode reader to the horizontal packaging machine. When a problem occurs, the corresponding box or product can be found according to the barcode to retrieve and troubleshoot the problem.

• Checkweighing

If you are very strict about the quality of your product, I highly recommend installing a checkweighing on your horizontal case packer line. After the packaging is completed, checkweighing will check the weight of the box for you, to ensure that the weight of each box in the set error range, the minimum error can reach ± 1g per box, so that each box of products will not be lower than the target weight resulting in a number of complaints, but also because of the overweight resulting in a waste of materials.

• Case Inspection Systems

In addition to inspecting the product, the case must also be properly inspected to see if there are any missing parts wrongly loaded. This time, a case inspection system can help you solve the problem!

• • Product Handling

• Case Discharge Orientation Systems

In each case, you will find that the case can be oriented in the same direction every time. This is not a coincidence, but through the case discharge orientation systems, he can automatically rotate according to the angle you set, and control the pusher arm to change the direction of the case.

• Sistema de transporte

The conveyor system, this part of the whole packaging machine is very inconspicuous, and it seems that every link you can see its figure, but you can not ignore its role. He can help you transport your products to the horizontal packaging machine smooth and high-speed transportation to each packaging link, to ensure the smooth operation of the packaging.

• Laner

If you are a large-scale manufacturer and want to pack more efficiently, laner is the ideal choice for you. he can help you to separate the products into different tracks, so that multiple cases can be completed at the same time, and the packing efficiency is greatly improved.

• Palletizing Module

In order to further reduce labor costs and improve the packaging process, the work of stacking the boxed products in the designated location can be entrusted to the palletizing module. It first picks up the boxed products, inserted into the partition. Your operators only need to poke a poke on the screen, the packaged product boxes will be stacked in the designated location waiting for the warehouse.

• Servo Downstacker

If you want the entire packaging line to be more complete and efficient, the servo downstacker can deliver the boxes to the packaging line one by one without manual operation, and work together with the palletizing module to make the connection between each operation of the packaging line smoother.

• • Rotulagem

• Labeling/Coding/Marking equipment

If your production line requires product traceability, branding, or regulatory compliance, we can integrate optional labeling, coding, or marking systems into the case packer. Whether you need to print barcodes, batch numbers, expiry dates, or QR codes, we support a wide range of printers, such as inkjet, thermal transfer, and laser coders.

These systems can be mounted on the conveyor, case flap, or finished package, depending on your layout and product type. Integration is seamless and fully synchronized with the packaging speed to ensure accurate, non-stop printing.

• • Comunicação

• Automatic Changeover System

When switching between multiple products or packaging specifications, you no longer have to endure long downtime and repeated adjustments. The automatic format change system provided by Jochamp can achieve one-click adjustment, including key parameters such as product channel, carton size, arrangement method and push position.

The system is driven by a servo motor and combined with a preset recipe. Users only need to select the product specification on the touch screen to complete the precise format change. The whole process does not require tools and avoids human errors.

• Smart Visual Alert System

In the packaging process, occasionally some faults occur, if not found in time, may cause big economic losses. A smart visual alert system can let you have no worries.

You do not need your operators to take turns in each operation room, just a screen on the handle, it will be through the light, color images, real-time alert your operators throughout the horizontal packaging machine running status and operating conditions.

• Up and Down Stream Signal Handshaking

To ensure stable integration into your automated production line, Jochamp cartoners support handshaking with upstream and downstream equipment. Whether it is upstream filling machines, cartoning machines, checkweighers, or downstream sealing machines and palletizing robots, they can all communicate and work together in real time.

The equipment can be interlocked and controlled through standard I/O interfaces or industrial communication protocols (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, etc.), ensuring automatic start-stop and tempo matching according to the status of front and back-end equipment, avoiding congestion, downtime or product waste.

• • Segurança

• Intrinsically Safe Electrical Package

If your production involves flammable substances or operates in areas with a potential risk of explosion, electrical safety is not just an option, it’s a necessity. Jochamp offers Intrinsically Safe Packages (ISPs) with ATEX and IECEx approvals, designed for high-risk environments.

The system ensures that no gases, vapors or dusts are ignited during normal or fault conditions by limiting electrical energy and heat in the circuit. Key electrical components such as control boxes, sensors, cables and touch screens are explosion proof and certified for safe use in controlled hazardous areas.

Types of Horizontal Case Packer

• Empacotadora horizontal de carga lateral

Jochamp’s Side Load Horizontal Cartoner is designed for efficient, flexible secondary packaging needs. The machine pushes the product into the carton in a sideways manner and is particularly suitable for regular products such as bags, strips and boxes.

The whole machine adopts a servo pushing system, the packing process is smooth and precise, which can not only ensure the products are not damaged, but also take into account the high-speed running requirements. The equipment integrates the functions of automatic opening, loading and sealing, the whole line is linked and the rhythm is synchronized, which significantly improves the packing efficiency.

Compact structure, small footprint, quick changeover, especially suitable for factory environments with high capacity and flexibility requirements.

• Empacotadora horizontal de carga inferior

Bottom loading is the safest option when products cannot be turned, pushed or dropped, Jochamp’s bottom load horizontal case packer lifts the case to the bottom of the product by means of a lifting structure to achieve a smooth loading of the product from below into the box, especially for products that need to be kept in an upright position or prevented from breakage, such as bottles, cans, boxes, or palletized items.

Different from the traditional pushing method, this machine completes the carton loading by the way of “the carton rises and the product does not move”, which effectively reduces the force of the product and improves the precision and stability of the carton loading.

The whole machine realizes the integrated control of automatic feeding, opening, bottom loading and sealing, which is suitable for the industries with high requirements for packaging protection, such as food and beverage, cosmetics, personal care and medicine.

• Empacotadora horizontal de carga superior

The Jochamp top load horizontal case packer uses overhead vertical cartoning to neatly place products into preformed cases by means of a robot or pick and place system. It is suitable for products that need to be customized, minimized contact or kept in an upright position, such as boxes, bags, bottles, flow-through packs, etc.

The equipment has a modular structure, which makes it easy to integrate with upstream collating system or downstream palletizing system; it also supports quick changeover of multiple specifications and varieties, which is ideal for coping with high-mixed SKUs and small-volume flexible production.

The top-loading method also leaves room for future line upgrades and expansion, helping you realize long-term sustainable investment.

Horizontal Case Packer vs Vertical Case Packer

Parameter Reference of Horizontal Packing Machine

To help you assess production compatibility, here is a general reference for the technical specifications of the horizontal case packer:

• Dimensões da máquina: Approximately 3500 mm (L) × 1200 mm (W) × 1800 mm (H)
• Peso da máquina: Around 1500 kg
• Velocidade de embalagem: Up to 20–30 cases per minute, depending on product type and case configuration
• Case Size Range:

– Length: 200–600 mm

– Width: 150–400 mm

– Height: 100–350 mm

• Compatibilidade do produto: Suitable for a variety of grouped products, including cartons, bottles, bags, and tray-packed items
• Fonte de energia: 220V / 380V, 50 / 60 Hz
• Consumo de energia: Approximately 3.5–5.5 kW, based on selected options
• Air Pressure Requirement: 0.6 MPa
• Consumo de ar: 50–100 L/min
• Sistema de controle: Equipped with a programmable logic controller and touchscreen interface, supporting recipe storage, real-time diagnostics, and format changeovers
• Estrutura da máquina: Carbon steel with surface treatment; stainless steel available for hygienic environments
• Optional Features: Automatic changeover, labeling or coding units, reject system, remote monitoring, and other integration-ready modules

Specifications may vary depending on the final configuration. Custom options are available upon request.

Conclusão

Whether you need to case cartons, bottles, bags or pallets, this horizontal case packer provides the flexibility, efficiency and precision control your production line needs. Its rugged construction and adjustable parameters support multi-SKU, high changeover frequency production environments, as well as the integration of a variety of automation modules as required.

Jochamp is committed to creating smart packaging solutions that are line-ready and scalable.