Automated case erector for cardboard boxes
Enhance your packaging line with seamless box forming and efficient case erecting, ensuring minimal downtime and lower operating costs with reliable bottom flap sealing for consistent carton packaging.

Forms and Seals Corrugated Cardboard Boxes
The Case Erector CE-31 from Pattyn Packaging Lines is an automated solution crafted for seamless integration into your packaging line. This machine efficiently forms and seals corrugated cardboard boxes, supporting production in food, packaging, and manufacturing industries. Utilizing hot melt or tape execution, it ensures stable case transport and reduced running costs. With the capacity to handle boxes up to 730mm in length, the CE-31 operates at up to 16 cases per minute, adapting easily to various carton qualities with minimal adjustments. It’s designed for high-speed, continuous operations, ensuring squareness and preventing carton damage. For enhanced packaging line automation, combine it with Pattyn’s bag inserters, weigh fillers, and palletizers, achieving a fully automated bulk packaging system.
Benefits
- Improves production efficiency by minimizing carton crushing and ensuring precise box squareness.
- Lowers operational costs with continuous production capabilities using hot melt sealing.
- Enhances flexibility with quick format changes requiring only five adjustments.
- Streamlines operator interface and reduces errors with a 15-inch HMI.
- Ensures reliable operation even with thin or poor-quality cartons.
- Applications
- Packaging,Cardboard boxes,Cartons,Bulk packaging
- End products
- Consumer goods cartons,Bulk packaged cereals,Pre-packed industrial materials,Palletized packaged goods,Corrugated cardboard boxes
- Steps before
- Case forming preparation,Material handling setup
- Steps after
- Bag insertion,Weigh filling,Bag closing,Case closing,Palletizing
- Input ingredients
- cardboard boxes,corrugated cartons,thin cartons
- Output ingredients
- erected boxes,formed cases
- Market info
- Pattyn is known for its expertise in designing and manufacturing industrial packaging solutions, specializing in ETO equipment for bulk packaging automation, with a strong reputation for innovation, quality, and customer-focused service in the industry.
- Automation
- Fully Automated
- Case size
- Min
- Case length to height relation
- D/L < 1.3
- Speed
- Hot melt
- Control interface
- 15” HMI
- Box closure method
- Hot melt or tape
- Changeover adjustments
- Only 5 adjustments
- Machine type
- Case Erector
- Material compatibility
- Corrugated cartons
- Box forming method
- Automatic
- Case erecting speed
- 12–16 c/min
- Case closing method
- Hot melt / Tape
- Changeover time
- 5 adjustments
- Automation level
- Fully automated
- Size change flexibility
- Quick format change
- Handling of poor corrugated cartons
- Accommodated
- Operator interface
- 15” HMI
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Carton Closure Type
- Hot melt / Tape
- Case closing method
- Hot melt or Tape
- Control panel type
- 15” HMI
- Integration possibilities
- Bag inserter,weigh filler,bag closer,case closer,palletizer
- Closure method
- Hot melt / Tape
- Format changeover
- Easy format changeover
- Carton size compatibility
- Min
- Max
- L.730 x W.500 x H.400