Compared with the traditional manual tape sealing method using hand-held tools, the can and box tape sealing machine has significant advantages in efficiency, quality, and cost, making it particularly suitable for mass production scenarios:
- Semi-automatic models can achieve a production speed of 10-30 units per minute, while fully automatic models can increase the speed to 30-60 units per minute. Moreover, they can operate continuously for 24 hours (regular maintenance is required).
- Taking "moon cake box sealing" in the food industry as an example, one fully automatic machine can replace 3-4 manual workers, greatly reducing reliance on labor.
Manual sealing is prone to problems such as "tape misalignment, weak adhesion, and uneven cutting edges". In contrast, the machine, through its positioning system and pressure control, can achieve a tape centering deviation of ≤1mm and a pressing pressure error of ≤0.5kg. This ensures consistent sealing tightness and appearance for every can or box, which is particularly in line with the strict requirements of "aseptic packaging" and "leakage prevention" in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Reduced consumable waste: The machine precisely controls the length of the tape, avoiding tape waste caused by over-application or missing application during manual operation (usually reducing tape loss by 15%-20%).
- Reduced labor costs: Calculated based on an average monthly salary of 5,000 yuan per person, one fully automatic machine can save 100,000-200,000 yuan in labor costs annually, and the equipment investment can be recovered within 2-3 years.
Its application scenarios focus on can and box products that "require sealed storage and improved packaging integrity". It covers four core industries and is compatible with containers of various materials and shapes:
- Food Industry: Mainly used to ensure food freshness and prevent moisture or contamination, such as moon cake boxes, chocolate tins, tea cans, cookie tins, milk powder cans, nut gift cans, and takeaway foam boxes.
- Pharmaceutical Industry: Applied to pharmaceutical packaging that requires dustproof and leak-proof features, such as health product cans, ointment boxes, Chinese herbal medicine slice cans, and medical consumable storage boxes (e.g., syringe packaging boxes).
- Cosmetics Industry: Adapted to meet the sealing and aesthetic needs of beauty products, such as face cream jars, lipstick gift boxes, perfume packaging boxes, and facial mask boxes.
- Chemical/Daily Necessities Industry: Used for preventing volatilization and leakage of chemical raw materials and daily necessities, such as small paint cans, detergent packaging boxes, washing powder cans, and stationery storage boxes.
- Materials: Compatible with tin boxes, aluminum boxes, plastic boxes, paper boxes, foam boxes, wooden cans, etc.
- Shapes: Supports round, square, rectangular, oval, polygonal (e.g., hexagonal, octagonal) and other special-shaped cans and boxes. Some models can be adapted to different shapes by replacing positioning molds.
The core of efficiency depends on the "automation level" of the equipment. It is usually measured by the "number of sealings per minute" and divided into two major grades: semi-automatic and fully automatic, to meet the needs of small-batch to large-scale production:
- Efficiency Range: 10-30 units per minute.
- Operation Method: Manual assistance is required for loading and unloading (workers place the cans/boxes into the conveying station, and after the machine completes sealing, workers take out the finished products).
- Applicable Scenarios: Small-batch production (e.g., daily output of 500-2,000 units), small workshops, and scenarios involving frequent switching of multiple product types in small batches, such as sealing handmade soap boxes and small tea cans.
- Efficiency Range: 30-60 units per minute (some high-speed models can reach 80 units per minute, which needs to match the size of the cans/boxes and the type of tape).
- Operation Method: Can be connected to a production line to realize the fully automated process of "automatic loading - conveying and positioning - tape sealing - automatic unloading" without manual intervention.
- Applicable Scenarios: Large-batch and continuous production (e.g., daily output of 2,000-10,000 units), such as moon cake factories, milk powder can production lines, and mass packaging of cosmetic gift boxes.
