Packaged Foods
High-speed shelf-ready cartoning for packaged foods and beverages.
Cartoning Categories
Carton style and product handling drive the machine choice. Four configurations cover most of what we build.
Load product through the open end of a carton lying on its side. Good fit for rigid products, blister packs, and tubes.
Drop product into an open carton from above. This handles fragile items, pouches, and irregular shapes that resist end-loading.
Feed product laterally. Useful when upstream equipment already presents product on its side and you'd rather not reorient it.
Form the carton around the product instead of loading into a pre-formed carton. Tighter fit, less board per unit.
Motion type is the second decision. Intermittent motion indexes the carton, stops it, loads, then advances. Simpler to service and well suited to moderate rates. Continuous motion keeps cartons moving through load and close, which is how a line reaches higher speeds without jostling product.
Where the Cartoner Fits in Your Line
A cartoner rarely arrives alone. CRG designs the equipment around it: product infeed and orientation, carton magazine and erecting, glue or tuck closing, checkweighing and coding, then case packing, palletizing, and stretch wrapping.
Buying the machine and the integration separately is where projects stall. Two vendors, two schedules, and nobody owning the handoff between them.
We do both. In-house mechanical, electrical, and controls engineers design the cell, our Louisville shop builds it, and one project manager stays accountable from concept through runoff.
Pharmaceuticals
Serialization-ready cartoners with vision verification and audit-trail controls.
Consumer Goods
Fast size changeover across carton footprints for promotional packs and frequent SKU turnover.
Industrial Products
Heavy-duty handling for dense, sharp, or oversized items that chew up standard flights.
Medical Devices
Lot traceability and validation documentation support for controlled environments.
Case Studies
See How Our Solutions Solve Real Problems
Doubling Production Speed For a Frozen Foods Company
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Increasing Speed and Sanitation for a Major Food Company
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Helping a Waste Bags Manufacturer Solve Configuration Challenges
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The C-IMC Cartoner
The Future of Cartoning
CRG engineered the C-IMC as an open-frame intermittent motion cartoner. The open design puts every wear point within reach, and a recipe-driven HMI lets operators change carton size without tools.
It's the most user-friendly cartoner ever built, making downtime a thing of the past.
