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Stick pack machine from China

A stick pack machine is several narrow packers sharing one film and one knife, so the headline output hides whether each lane doses the same weight, and one weak lane can reject a whole row of sticks.

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

Lanes and cuts per minute

Output is lanes multiplied by cuts a minute. Listings ran from two lanes to twenty. Ask for cuts per minute on your product; a total figure with no lane count cannot be compared.

Dosing per lane

Each lane needs its own auger, cup or pump and its own adjustment. Ask whether lanes can be trimmed one by one while running, and how a lane is stopped when it misdoses.

Film width per lane

One reel is slit into lanes, and each back-sealed stick uses a little over twice its width in film. Stick width therefore fixes film width, lane count and frame size together.

Cutting and separation

Single sticks, strips of joined sticks, straight or zigzag cut, tear notch. Ask which knives come with the machine and what each change costs in time.

Intermittent or continuous motion

Intermittent frames stop the film to seal; continuous frames seal on the move and are faster but harder to set. Ask which, and on what product the speed was measured.

Decode the model code.

Codes vary. One listing, MLP-480-06, ended in the lane count: 06 for six lanes. The listing did not state film width, so ask whether 480 means film width in millimetres.

180 to 270 sticks a minute / 6 lanes = 30 to 45 cuts a minute.
If 480 is film width, 480 / 6 = 80 mm of film per lane, enough for a stick of the listed 16 to 35 mm width.

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.

Stick width, length and fill weight for every product.
Powder, granule or liquid, with bulk density or viscosity.
Sticks per hour needed; divide by cuts per minute times sixty to get lanes.
Singles or strips, cut shape and tear notch.
How sticks are counted and loaded into boxes after the machine.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run a counted batch and weigh sticks from each lane separately.	Every lane sits inside the contract tolerance, and no lane's average drifts away from the others during the run.
Force a misdose in one lane, for example by blocking its dosing unit.	The machine detects it and rejects that lane's sticks without stopping the whole row, or stops as the quotation describes.
Leak test sticks from every lane, including the outer two.	No leaking back seals or end seals on any lane.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 for delivery from 20 January 2027.
Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 declaration for all dosing units and contact parts.
Manual, wiring diagram and the spare knife and slitter list.

The one people forget. Lane-by-lane weight records from the acceptance run. They are the baseline when one lane starts drifting months later.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You need fewer than one lane's worth of output.

A single-lane sachet packing machine, simpler to set and clean.

Your product is sold in jars or tins by the scoop.

An auger filler over a container line.

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 · 3Three manufacturer listings, checked September 2026: one six-lane machine claimed 180 to 270 sticks a minute for sticks 16 to 35 mm wide; one maker offered four to twenty lanes at up to 50 cuts a minute; one described a ten-lane powder machine at 350 sticks a minute.
Listings · 9Nine marketplace listings titled stick pack machine, checked September 2026, asked US$2,000 to US$30,000. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Arithmetic180 / 6 = 30 and 270 / 6 = 45 cuts a minute; 350 / 10 = 35 cuts a minute.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Sachet packing machine. Choose a sachet packing machine for flat three or four side sealed portions on one lane.
Auger filler. Choose an auger filler when powder goes into jars, tins or bags instead of sticks.

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.

What is the best stick pack machine from China?+

The one with the fewest lanes that meets your hourly volume at the cuts per minute proved on your product. Every extra lane is another dose to control.

Chinese vs European stick pack machine?+

Compare lane-by-lane dose control and rejection, not total speed. A used European machine can suit if its stick width and lanes match.

What goes on a stick pack machine inspection checklist?+

Per-lane weights, the forced misdose test, seal tests on every lane, a timed knife change, guards and nameplate.

Who is the EU importer and what CE documentation is needed?+

Buying direct, you are. Check the Declaration of Conformity and technical file exist and put your name on the machine or its papers.

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