It belongs to traditional packaging products and occupies an important position in paper packaging. Nowadays, the functionality of the carton has been unprecedented, its high strength and good moisture resistance, printing, carton packaging technology has therefore made considerable progress. Coupled with the recyclability of the easy-to-recycle and recyclable boxes, the carton pack has become a trendy package.

With this trend-packaging, how do end-users look at what kind of cartons can they get? With this question, we interviewed several end-user companies in the three fields of daily chemicals, food, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, we interviewed carton printers and suppliers of automatic cartoning equipment. The application situation of the carton is explained in several aspects such as the need for conversion, common needs and the satisfaction of automatic cartoning. I hope that readers can help in the design and selection of the right carton in the future.

What kind of carton meets the individual needs of the industry?

Daily chemical industry

Keywords: beautifully designed

The results of the survey showed that the daily chemical companies believe that the carton packaging that can fully demonstrate the product appeal point in the design is more conducive to sales, and therefore elements including the color and pattern have become the focus of the product carton packaging. Especially in the cosmetics industry, esthetic and high-end packaging is ubiquitous.

Create "Night Blue" for Nivea Body

Beiersdorf AG, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, is the world's leading manufacturer of innovative and high-quality day-to-day products. It owns many internationally renowned brands such as Nivea.

In order to achieve product differentiation, Beiersdorf's design team incorporated some elegant features in the packaging of Nivea Body's Midnight Blue product. The main ones are: blue-and-white coating with pearl light, which reminds people of the gentle, smooth and comfortable skin that the product promises to bring; silver foil stamping creates a sparkling effect on a clear night sky.

The cardboard used for this project was Crescendo Cardboard supplied by MeadWestvaco. It is a high-end single-sided coated paper designed and developed for luxury packaging. It is an ideal outer packaging material. Crescendo cardboard not only perfectly reflects Nivea's “Midnight Blue” brand image, but also can meet relevant processing needs.

Expensive, luxurious, unique cosmetic packaging carton

This fine carton pack is the result of a collaborative development between Matas, a Danish health care and cosmetics chain vendor, Nrgrd Mikkelsen Advertising, and Pais Design.

The carton is made from the high-grade FRVI pIGHT cardboard from Assi Domn Frvi in ​​Sweden. The positive and negative sides of FRVI pIGHT cardboard are all white, without any odor; its smooth white surface makes it have excellent printing performance; FRVI pIGHT cardboard is strong, and its strength is comparable to unbleached kraft paperboard, therefore, Its smooth appearance is also not easily damaged.

The feeling that this gift wrap gives us is: expensive, luxurious and unique! At first glance, it was like a strapless handbag in the hands of ladies at the party. The surface of the carton is printed in silver or gold and looks fresh and soft. The surface of the carton has only one embossed branchlet as a decorative pattern, and no logo is printed. This small detail also makes this paper The box looks even more upscale.

Food Industry

Keywords: beautiful, easy to put on shelves

The survey shows that: Food companies believe that food carton packaging must be able to make consumers feel refreshed, such as beautiful printing, special box shape, and convenient display of shelves can better serve as promotional products. Enterprises in the packaging design must consider how to combine the characteristics of paper, and through a variety of printing methods to maximize the outstanding packaging effect.

New style easy retail monolithic packaging

The British retail giant TESCO previously used a shelf-friendly container to package dry fruit and nuts. Today, TESCO has switched to a new type of easy-to-retail retail monolithic packaging. The new package is an adhesive carton called Shelfmaster, which has a unique z-fold area where one person can open the carton with one finger. Insert your finger into the small hole in the front of the tray, and gently push it away to open the top of the box and separate from the base, exposing the product in the tray. This process does not use any tools or tools.

This whole-piece design of the new carton is lined with kraft paperboard to ensure the safety of the product and 100% recycling. At the same time, the printing function of the carton has been strengthened and the varnish coating has been applied to make the star-studded. Black and metallic silver designs are possible; anti-wear properties, water-based printing inks and paints are very environmentally friendly.

TESCO found that the cartons were easier to integrate on stretch pallets on pallets and significantly reduced the time for restocking. TESCO liked this product very much and plans to have a total of 12 products in the entire series. Use this new easy retail package.

Six-prism trays facilitate shelf sales

Dove and Golden Emperor's two major chocolate manufacturers have introduced six-prism carton packs, and they have been packaged with two products: “Dover Treasure Hazelnut Filling Chocolate” and “Golden Dim Hazelnut Filling Chocolate”. A number of small strips packed in plastic bags. Take Dove Zhenzang Hazelnuts as an example. The paper box is designed with easy-to-fuse lines on both surfaces of the inverted six prism. Consumers can easily open the carton from the middle along the easy tear line. On the one hand, it is convenient for consumption; on the other hand, it also sells small plastic bags inside the carton for sale in the store. These two types of carton packaging have greatly improved the effectiveness of the product.

Pharmaceutical industry

Keywords: Security, Security, Security

The survey shows that: Pharmaceutical companies believe that the safety of medication is of utmost importance. In terms of packaging, pharmaceutical packaging, including cartons, should be responsible for improving the safety of medications. At the same time, convenient, anti-counterfeit packaging can also arouse consumers' trust in the quality of medicines. With the gradual liberalization of the pharmaceutical market, pharmaceutical companies are demanding more and more pharmaceutical cartons.

The first drug cartons to pre-classify drugs

How to take the right medicine at the right time becomes more and more difficult. In fact, the incorrect use of prescription drugs had caused 125,000 deaths in 2005. In order to solve this problem, the Prairie Stone pharmacy in the United States, the most advocating and innovative pharmaceutical chain retailer, launched the DailyMed package, the first pharmaceutical retail packaging solution for pre-classifying drugs. ”

DailyMed is a carton pack, inside which is a pouch for sorting medicines. There is an opening in the carton to allow the pouch to be exported. The pouch contains medicines that the patient should take. The surface of the package is printed with eye-catching words. When should the patient take this bag (according to morning or afternoon, breakfast or dinner)? . This packaging design greatly improves the patient's medication safety and facilitates patient use.

Beiersdorf's new carton packaging for bandage products

Beirdoff's new Curable Silver products for sale in the United States market are packaged in a new carton. The liner of this new affixed product is coated with a layer of silver powder to inhibit bacterial growth and thus accelerate the healing of wounds. In order to match the new product, the front of the new carton was printed with a silver sheen effect, which echoed the new product silver powder coating and enhanced the high-end and high-quality image of Curad Band Sticker.

In addition, the new carton adopts a unique sealing system to make the opening of the package anti-theft function. There is a perforation on the upper end of the carton, and opening this perforation can obtain the bandage in the package, which is convenient and quick. This unique way of opening has also played a part in anti-counterfeiting.

What kind of carton can meet the common needs of the industry?

Key words: Sticky box is firm

Surveys have shown that there is some common demand for the performance of packaging cartons in the daily chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries. One of them is “adhesion”.

The main factors affecting the firmness of the tray glue box are:

1, glue model, adhesive properties, scope of adaptation: the initial viscosity and sticky glue should be suitable for sticky products, it is important to choose the type of viscose for the product to be glued, the current use of more and more printing companies Water-based viscose, using the wrong variety can cause severe degumming.

2, carton surface treatment features: carton surface treatment process and adhesive to be a good match to play the performance of viscose, usually the surface of the carton covered, over the oil pressure light, printing oil, etc. The surface treatment method outside the film coating should be applied to the surface to improve the surface tension due to the difference in the coating materials, so as to facilitate the infiltration and penetration of the adhesive. If the surface is printed with varnish, the area to be adhered can be “flyed” during printing to make the adhesive directly contact with the paper; for the over-pressure product, “sand” device can be installed on the sticking machine. The sticky edge of the calendered oil layer is destroyed to achieve the purpose of viscose direct contact with the paper.

3. Local climate and storage conditions The storage temperature of viscose has a great influence on the performance of viscose. It should be properly stored according to the storage conditions required by viscose suppliers. Especially in winter, the storage temperature must not be lower than zero degrees. In the following, it is also necessary to use "first-in, first-out" when used, and provide appropriate agitation before use to prevent delamination and must be sealed after use.

4, the glue drying speed and sticking box when the curing time and so on. Pay attention to the pressure on the sticky product after sticking. In addition to the pressurization of the gluing machine itself, some companies have produced pressure devices on their own to pressurize the already viscous products, especially the high quantification of paper, and there is also a counterfeit wine box product. Currently, there are also manufacturers. The use of a new sizing device on a sticky box machine and the use of a hot-melt adhesive dispensing device have achieved relatively good results, but the cost of retrofitting has been correspondingly higher.

In the choice of glue is also specific to the specific analysis of the case, according to different materials and conditions of the carton, glue selection can refer to the following: 1) did not do surface treatment packaging box, sticky box when the choice of paper and paper glue glue; 2 ) The surface of the box is covered with a film and the paper is glued with glue; 3) The surface is an oiled box and the adhesive glued with oil and paper is used; 4) The product is sent to the climate in cold regions to use glue with low temperature resistance; 5) The product is sent to the tropical areas to use high temperature resistant glue; 6) The automatic folder gluer has high speed and short pressing time; it needs to use glue with fast drying time; 7) The manual glue box has slow speed and long pressing time. Can choose glue with slow drying time; 8) In the paste straight box, the curing time can be shortened; 9) When the paste automatically buckles the bottom box, the pressing and curing time should be longer; 10) The drying time is slow in summer. Some of the glue; 11) Choose glue with faster drying time in winter.

Keyword II: Strong compressive performance

The compressive strength of the carton is mainly related to the selected materials, the structure and strength of the paper itself, the box structure, and the processing technology. In general terms: 1) The same material, the higher the weight of paper, the better the compressive strength of the box, but the higher the cost; 2) the same weight of paper, corrugated paper