Project Background
This tissue manufacturer develops two product lines: boxed facial tissues and soft-pack facial tissues, supplying supermarkets, hotels, catering businesses and e-commerce channels. Traditional production requires two independent folding lines, which brings high equipment investment, large workshop occupancy and inflexible capacity allocation.
Customer Requirement: Deploy only one folding main unit to produce both soft-pack and boxed tissues simultaneously, lower equipment investment, enable flexible order switching and improve overall line utilization.
Production Line Configuration
1 set of facial tissue folding machine matched with a log saw cutter, with a split dual-channel layout at downstream:
Channel ①: Automatic cartoning machine + 3D transparent film wrapping machine (Boxed facial tissue production line)
Channel ②: Automatic soft-packing machine (Soft plastic-pack tissue production line)
Core Advantages of the Solution
- One folding machine feeds two packaging lines, significantly cutting investment：A single folding main unit supplies two packaging lines. Compared with purchasing two complete folding production lines, it greatly reduces equipment procurement costs and saves factory floor space.
- Flexible product compatibility for diversified markets ：One production line can produce gift boxed tissues and standard soft-pack tissues separately. It easily handles hotel boxed tissue orders, household soft-pack orders and e-commerce customized orders. Frequent replacement of the front-end folding host is unnecessary for different orders.
- High automation level to reduce labor ：The whole line runs in linked operation. The full process including folding, cutting, diversion and packaging is automated.
- Flexible capacity allocation ：The tissue flow of two channels can be freely distributed according to order proportion to choose production of boxed tissues or soft-pack tissues.
Customer Benefits After Implementation
- Fixed asset investment reduced by 35%, plant space saved by nearly 30%;
- Convenient line startup/shutdown and specification switching, short changeover & commissioning time;
- Synchronized linkage control of the whole line reduces accumulation of semi-finished products and lowers tissue waste.
Target Customers
Tissue converters producing both boxed and soft-pack facial tissues, with diverse order categories, limited workshop space and demands to control total equipment investment.
