When expanding production capacity in the initial stage, some beauty factories consider purchasing general cartoning machines to reduce equipment investment. However, in actual mass production of beauty products, there are obvious gaps between the two in structural design, material protection and expansion capability, and the comprehensive cost is not cost-effective in the long run. The primary difference lies in the design logic of material adaptation. General cartoning equipment is mostly designed for ordinary daily necessities, and more adopts rigid clamping positioning for hard bottle bodies. Beauty categories include a variety of scratch-prone and impact-prone materials such as glass bottles, thin-walled plastic jars and hose makeup products. The dedicated cosmetic cartoning machine adopts adjustable flexible clamping and buffer pushing structures to reduce surface scratches on bottles and jars and glass breakage during high-speed conveying and cartoning.
The second difference is the expansion capability of multi-accessory gift sets. Gift sets are very common in the beauty market. In addition to the main jar or bottle, a set of products usually contains samples, makeup tools, paper instruction cards and other items. The dedicated cosmetic cartoning machine natively reserves multiple expansion feeding stations, which can be quickly equipped with corresponding mechanisms to complete the loading of all materials of the whole gift set at one time. Most general cartoning machines are only designed for single material feeding, and it is difficult to retrofit and add accessory stations in the later stage. After modification, the positioning accuracy becomes poor and the failure probability increases. In many cases, manual auxiliary feeding has to be adopted, which fails to realize real fully automatic production.
The third difference is the friendliness to high-end packaging processes. Beauty outer packaging widely uses bronzing, embossing and special film-coated cartons. The folding and conveying parts of the dedicated cosmetic cartoning machine are all treated with smooth edges and corners to reduce the risk of scratching and damage to the printed layer of the carton. General machine parts are designed for ordinary cartons, with some sharp edges and corners. Continuous high-speed production is easy to wear out exquisite outer packaging, which is very unfriendly to the production of high-end makeup and fragrance gift boxes. In terms of specification switching efficiency, the dedicated model supports process parameter storage and is equipped with quick-change tooling, which takes less time to switch products; general machines require manual adjustment of multiple mechanical parts one by one, which takes a long time and has high requirements for operator skills.
For beauty processing plants with multiple SKUs, the dedicated model can effectively reduce the capacity loss caused by production changeover. Although the initial investment of general equipment is low, the later defective rate is high, the efficiency improvement is limited, and the adaptability to new products is poor. For medium and large beauty enterprises with stable output and high requirements for packaging appearance, the dedicated solution has higher comprehensive cost performance. For on-site equipment comparison, customized scheme design and official quotation, you may contact our team via wzleadwing@163.com, cangyuan60@gmail.com or phone number 86-18958842178.