Intermittent cartoner for flexible packaging solutions
Enhance your production line’s efficiency with a versatile cartoning solution designed for delicate handling and precise packaging, ensuring seamless integration into various manufacturing processes while accommodating a vast range of carton sizes and styles.

Handles and Secures Cartons Efficiently
The AI50 from IMA Group is an intermittent side-loading cartoning machine, designed to expertly handle a variety of carton formats with precision and care. Distinguished by its open frame design for superior accessibility, the AI50 integrates seamlessly into packaging lines across industries like confectionery, food, dairy, pharma, and e-commerce. Its feathering pusher mechanism utilizes a 2-axis design, allowing easy access for changing pusher heads and ensuring reliable product loading with minimal manual intervention. Operating at speeds up to 70 cartons per minute, this machine adeptly closes cartons using glue or tuck-in flaps. The AI50’s touch screen controls facilitate straightforward operation and step-by-step changeovers, guaranteeing dependable and repeatable processes. With automatic adjustments and customized format kits, it offers efficient format changeovers to accommodate diverse packaging needs. Additionally, the machine operates with a total installed power of 21 kW and requires a compressed air pressure of 6 bar. Built with sustainability in mind, the AI50 supports the use of recycled cardboards, aligning with eco-friendly production goals.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with seamless integration into existing lines.
- Minimizes operator intervention through easy-access design and touch screen controls.
- Accelerates format changes with automatic adjustments and customized kits.
- Supports sustainable practices by using recycled cardboard materials.
- Offers flexibility for future needs with adaptable carton size range and closing methods.
- Applications
- Food,Home care,Nonwoven,E-commerce,Tobacco,Confectionery,Beverage,Coffee,Tissue,Pharma,Personal,Tea,Dairy
- End products
- Biscuits,Vitamin tablets,Facial tissues,Small electronics,Shredded tobacco pouches,Dairy creamers,Hand sanitizers,Chewing gum,Candy,Coffee pods,Toilet paper rolls,Medicine blister packs,Cigarette packs,Personal care kits,Yoghurt cups,Bottled beverages,Tea bags,Chocolate bars,Crackers
- Steps before
- Product preparation,Carton selection,Carton folding
- Steps after
- Carton sealing,Labeling,Packing
- Input ingredients
- carton formats,products,recycled cardboards
- Output ingredients
- packaged cartons
- Market info
- IMA is known for its expertise in manufacturing automated packaging machines and solutions, particularly for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, tea, and coffee industries, offering innovative, high-quality equipment and comprehensive customer service.
- Speed
- 70 cartons/minute
- Size (min)
- 35x100x25(h) mm
- Size (max)
- 350x300x80(h) mm
- Power required
- 21 kW
- Compressed Air
- 6 bar
- Automation
- Touch screen controls
- Carton carrying lugs
- Guarantees carton quality
- Packaging style
- Glue or tuck-in flap closing
- Machine Layout
- Open frame design
- Machine pitches
- Multiple
- Automatic adjustments
- Customizable format kits
- Working Mechanism
- Intermittent cartoning
- Loading Type
- Side loading
- Flap Closing Type
- Glue or tuck-in
- Automation Level
- Automatic loading system
- Changeover Process
- Touch screen for step by step changeover
- Speed
- 70 cartons/minute
- Carton Format Handling
- Wide range of carton formats
- Carton Size Range
- Size min 35x100x25(h),Size max 350x300x80(h)
- Accessibility
- Open frame design
- Pusher Mechanism
- Feathering pusher using 2-axis design
- Production Speed
- Medium-low speed
- Format Changeover
- Quick and reliable format changeover with automatic adjustments
- Recycled Cardboard Compatibility
- Yes
- Glue Compatibility
- Yes
- Tuck-in Flap Compatibility
- Yes
- Feed/Discharge Method
- Side loading
- Control panel type
- Touch screen controls
- Automatic adjustments
- Customized format kits
- Loading system
- Automatic loading system
- Closing method
- Glue or tuck-in flap closing
- Machine execution
- Left or right hand execution