In the workshop, the roar of mechanical operation and the crisp sound of paper boxes colliding are intertwined. Operator Li Ming wiped the sweat from his forehead and his eyes fell on the high-speed carton packaging machine at the end of the assembly line - this machine is accurately folding, gluing and packing gift boxes printed with lotus patterns at a speed of 80 per minute. This is a little-known factory in Taizhou, Zhejiang, but it has contracted 30% of the world's religious holiday gift box orders. "Customers value efficiency and details the most." Factory Manager Wang Haitao stood on the second floor of the workshop, overlooking the production line and said. The carton packaging machine of this factory is not a general model on the market, but is customized and developed for the special needs of religious holiday gift boxes. For example, Buddhist gift boxes need to be embedded with scripture card slots, while Islamic gift boxes require the edge error of the hot stamping pattern to be no more than 0.1 mm. Director Wang revealed that last year they invested 5 million yuan to upgrade the intelligent recognition system of the carton packaging machine, and now even the most complex three-dimensional relief patterns can be formed in one go.
Amir, a customer from Malaysia, just signed an order for 2 million pieces last month. He admitted that he was initially impressed by the "flexibility of the carton packaging machine" of the Taizhou factory. "It takes two weeks for other manufacturers' machines to change a production line, but they can debug it in 48 hours." Amir pointed to the Eid al-Fitr gift box being packaged as an example. The crescent pattern on the box cover needs to be covered with a special coating. Ordinary carton packaging machines are prone to paper jams, but the equipment here is modularly designed, and only one mold component is replaced to solve the problem.
In fact, the rise of this factory is closely related to the outbreak of the religious festival gift box market. In recent years, the demand for customized holiday gift boxes in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other places has surged, and traditional packaging companies are limited by rigid equipment and find it difficult to cope with small batches and multiple batches of orders. The carton packaging machine in Taizhou Factory can not only undertake large orders worth millions of yuan, but also produce thousands of special packages for niche religious festivals with the feature of "one machine for multiple uses". Technical Director Zhang Li mentioned that their equipment can even automatically adjust the materials according to the customer's religious taboos. For example, Hindu gift boxes are prohibited from using kraft paper, and the system will screen alternatives in advance.
The setting sun shines through the workshop glass on the assembly line, and a carton packaging machine is stacking the finished Christmas gift boxes neatly. These boxes printed with snowflakes and stars are about to be sent to a church in Europe. "Many people think that religious holiday supplies are a 'cold business', but our carton packaging machines can create hundreds of millions of output value every year." Director Wang smiled and turned to the R&D department, where a new model compatible with bamboo fiber environmentally friendly materials is being tested and is expected to be put into production next year.
