Douglas Machine Cartoners and Packers

Douglas Machine is a US maker of cartoners, box and tray packers, shrink wrappers, multipackers and variety pack systems, based in Alexandria, Minnesota.

Vectra continuous motion cartoner

Vectra is the Douglas horizontal continuous motion cartoner: up to 300 cartons per minute, with Allen Bradley servo control from infeed to discharge. Flaps are tucked or glue sealed (FOL, POL, Econoseal), and the open hygienic frame suits washdown.

Up to 300 cartons per minute
Blank magazine: 1828.9 mm
Optional magazine: up to 3657.6 mm
Power: 480 V, 50/60 Hz, 3 ph

Vantra IM carton and tray machine

Vantra IM is a mid-speed intermittent motion cartoner that handles cartons and trays on a single platform and takes cans, bottles, pouches and flow-wrapped products. It has a walk-in frame, a servo positive drive system and Allen Bradley CompactLogix control.

Up to 50 cartons per minute
Up to 45 trays per minute
Blank magazine: 1219.2 mm
Air: 90 PSI (6.2 bar)

Spectrum multipacker and Apex sleever

Spectrum forms and seals knockdown and accordion-style multipack cartons with cycle-stop flap closing. The Apex sleever packs single, multi and multi-tiered products in wraparound, drop-through or neck-through paperboard sleeves.

Spectrum: up to 325 cartons per minute
Apex: up to 300 sleeves per minute
Apex: up to 800 products per minute
Air: 80–100 PSI

Axiom wraparound and tray packers

Axiom machines load products into corrugated boxes and trays from the side. The IM runs intermittent motion for complex pack patterns and wraparound blanks, the DL loads straight onto blanks in continuous motion, and the ARC keeps unstable products steady. Glue: Nordson ProBlue Flex.

Axiom IM: 45–60 boxes per minute
Axiom DL: up to 55 boxes per minute
Axiom ARC: up to 80 boxes per minute
Flight chains: #2060

CpONE wraparound packer

CpONE simplifies wraparound, knockdown and tray packing with SCARA robot technology and automated changeovers. It has up to 40 per cent fewer change points, and open access reduces adjustments and maintenance. Drives are Rockwell VPL with Wittenstein TPM.

Up to 45 boxes per minute
Up to 40% fewer change points
Wraparound, RSC, HSC, trays
Air: 90 PSI (6.2 bar)

TriVex top-load packers

TriVex machines top-load bags, pouches, cartons and other products into boxes and trays, including retail-ready displays. The SL/SLi uses a Douglas-designed SCARA robot, the DL uses Delta robots with 3D vision, and RL spreadable pick heads load several boxes at once.

TriVex SL: up to 30 boxes per minute
TriVex SL: up to 180 products per minute
SL payload: 45 lb
TriVex DL: 3D infeed camera

OPTX shrink wrappers and tray packers

The OPTX S wraps trayed products in film and shrinks it in the XACT 360 heat tunnel, the OPTX T forms trays and loads cans, bottles or cartons, and the OPTX SPS combines both. Compact VS-25/40 wrappers run film up to 686 mm wide.

OPTX S-60: up to 60 cycles/min
OPTX T-80/105: 80–105 cycles/min
Gas tunnel: almost 30% faster heat-up
VS-40: up to 40 cycles/min

Prisma variety pack system and NEXClip applicator

Prisma unloads trays of cans and bottles in different flavours and feeds them to a Douglas packaging machine for variety packs, re-routing the emptied trays for repacking or recycling. NEXClip applies recyclable paperboard clips to cans and bottles instead of plastic rings.

Prisma: up to 150 packs per minute
Prisma: 2 to 8 flavour lanes
NEXClip: up to 90 cycles/min
NEXClip magazine: 1,000 clips

Selecting a Douglas Machine packaging system

Douglas Machine builds secondary packaging equipment for corrugate, paperboard and shrink film. The Vectra (up to 300 cartons per minute) and Vantra IM (up to 50 cartons or 45 trays per minute) cartoners, the Spectrum multipacker and the Apex sleever run paperboard.

Axiom, CpONE and TriVex packers load products into corrugated boxes and trays from the side or from above.

Douglas mid-speed lines run 45–60 boxes per minute, and the continuous motion Axiom ARC reaches 80. OPTX and VS shrink wrappers wrap trayed products in film, and the OPTX SPS combines tray packing and shrink wrapping.

Prisma builds variety packs, and NEXClip replaces plastic rings with paperboard clips.

Spare parts and wear kits

Douglas parts are selected from the bill of materials and drawings of each machine, and some are made in its own machine and finishing shops. PartsPlus wear kits are built for the machine model with a floor plan of worn areas.

Servo motors and drives, gearboxes, electrical and pneumatic components are the parts most often made obsolete.

Douglas Machine manufacturing

Douglas Machine Inc. was founded in 1964 in Alexandria, Minnesota, USA, and has been 100 per cent employee owned since 2000, with more than 700 employee owners.

Douglas Finishing provides anodizing, electroplating and powder coating, and the sister company INSITE makes standard box erectors, loaders and sealers.

Douglas Machine and model names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify the equipment for which we source parts. SpareX is not an official dealer, distributor or representative of Douglas Machine and is not affiliated with the trademark owner. Origin, documents and warranty are stated for each item in the quotation.