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Case erector from China

A case erector forms and tapes the bottom of shipping cases, and it runs well only on blanks that stay flat and square: warped, damp or recycled board is where a good machine starts to jam.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Size change

A hand crank and scales, or servo axes that reset from the screen. Servo costs more and pays back only if you change size often.

Magazine capacity

How many flat blanks it holds decides how often someone must reload it.

Bottom closure

Tape, hot-melt glue, or a self-locking bottom that needs no tape but needs a case designed for it.

Forming

Suction cups on a vacuum pump or an air venturi. A venturi runs on compressed air; ask the consumption.

Guarding

Interlocked doors on the magazine and the folding area, not open sides.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Case drawings and flat blanks for every size, from your real box supplier.
Cases per minute you need, and at which hours.
Tape type and width, or glue.
Floor space and who reloads the magazine.
What follows: a hand packing table or a case packer, and the conveyor height.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run a full magazine of blanks stored in your own warehouse.	Every case comes out square, tape centred and pressed, with no jam.
Change between two case sizes.	Your operator does it from the manual, timed, and the first cases are square.
Open a magazine door while running.	The machine stops and restarts only after the door closes and is reset.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027.
Manual with the pneumatic diagram.
Spare list with tape knives and suction cups.

The one people forget. The box specification the machine was accepted on: flute, board grade, blank size. A new box supplier is the first change and the first thing blamed.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You form a few cases an hour.

Hand forming and a semi-automatic carton sealer for the bottom tape.

You also want the product loaded automatically.

A case packing machine that erects, loads and seals in one frame.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 11Eleven priced listings for automatic case erectors, checked September 2026, advertised from US$2,850 to US$30,000. The lowest-priced one included a sealer in the same frame. These are asking prices, not landed cost.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Case packing machine. Choose it if the product must go into the case automatically too.
Carton sealing machine. Choose it if you form cases by hand and only need to tape them.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Packaging page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European case erector?+

The frame is simple steel either way. Compare the tape head, the vacuum system and parts delivery to your site. A used European erector is often a fair buy.

What goes on a case erector inspection checklist?+

Squareness, tape position, magazine reload while running, size change, guard interlocks, and air consumption measured.

What CE documentation does a case erector need?+

The Declaration of Conformity and the technical file behind it. The CE mark on a brochure proves nothing.

Who is the EU importer of a case erector?+

Usually you, when you buy from China. Your name and address go on the machine or its papers, and you check the declaration and that the technical file exists.

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