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A carton factory, not a trading desk

We print, die-cut, glue and inspect in one building in Ningbo. Nothing is subcontracted, which is why we can give you a firm date instead of a hopeful one.

18
Years in folding cartons
42M
Cartons per year
3
Press lines, all in-house
14
QC checkpoints per run

How we got here

We started in 2008 as a two-press shop supplying local supplement fillers. The first export order came in 2013 — a 6,000-piece run for a supplement brand in Ohio that had been let down by a supplier who shipped cartons 2 mm out of square and would not reprint.

That order shaped how the company works. We rebuilt around three ideas: hold the tolerance, document the material, and answer the same day. Everything since — the in-house finishing, the testing budget, the English-speaking account team — comes from those three.

Today roughly 70% of our output goes to North America, mostly supplement cartons between 1,000 and 50,000 pieces per SKU. We are deliberately not the cheapest quote in your inbox. We are the one that does not need a second run.

Heidelberg Speedmaster five-colour sheet-fed offset press in the press hall
The press hall — Heidelberg Speedmaster, five-colour sheet-fed. A 1,000-piece run and a 50,000-piece run go through the same machine.

Equipment

Everything on this list is on site. If a supplier cannot tell you the model of their press, ask what happens when your colour drifts on run three.

StageCapacity
Offset press6-colour + coater, 1020 × 720 mm
Offset press5-colour, 740 × 520 mm
DigitalHP Indigo class, sheet-fed
Die-cutting2 × automatic platen, 750 × 550 mm
Folding-gluing3 × auto folder-gluer, straight and crash-lock
FinishingLaminator, hot-foil, emboss, window patcher

Quality control

Four gates, every run. The report ships with the cartons.

  1. Incoming board. Caliper, moisture content and brightness checked against the mill certificate.
  2. First-off approval. First 50 sheets measured against the approved proof — colour, register, die position. Production does not start until signed.
  3. In-run sampling. Every 500 sheets pulled and checked to ISO 2859-1, level II, AQL 2.5.
  4. Pre-shipment. Carton count, glue bond, flat-pack dimension and a photographic report sent before the container leaves.
On the floor

Six stages, one building

Board comes in at one end and palletised cartons leave at the other. Printing, die-cutting, gluing and hand assembly are all under this roof, so the date we give you is a date we control.

Wrapped pallets of printed carton sheets staged beside the presses
01 · Board in — printed sheets are wrapped and palletised between stages. A job ticket travels with the pallet, so two runs never get mixed.
Multi-unit offset press line in the printing hall
02 · Printing — the long colour bar, for jobs that need extra spot colours or an inline coating.
Sheet feeder end of an offset press with pallet of board
03 · Sheet feed — board is fanned and checked for doubles before it enters the first unit.
Automatic platen die-cutting machine with pallet at the delivery end
04 · Die-cutting — automatic platen, 750 × 550 mm. The die is checked against the drawing before the first sheet is cut.
Automatic folder-gluer running folding carton blanks
05 · Folding & gluing — straight-line and crash-lock. Glue bond is pull-tested every 500 cartons.
Workers hand-assembling rigid gift boxes at the finishing benches
06 · Hand assembly — rigid boxes are wrapped, lined and fitted by hand. Slow, but it is the only way a lid still sits flat a year later.

Before the container

Finished cartons are counted, strapped and photographed on the pallet before the truck is loaded. The count sheet and the photos reach you the same day — not after the container has cleared customs.

If a pallet is short, you hear it from us while there is still time to reprint it, not six weeks later when you are short of cartons in the middle of a production run.

Pallets of finished folding cartons stacked in the warehouse
The finished-goods floor — every pallet photographed and counted. The report goes to you before the truck leaves.

Certifications

Copies available with any quotation.

ISO 9001:2015Quality management, audited annually
FSC® Chain of CustodyCertified fibre on request
FDA 21 CFR 176.170Supplier DoC for food-contact board
TPCH / CONEGHeavy metals under 100 ppm
Swiss Ord. 817.023.21Low-migration ink positive list
Sedex memberEthical trade audit available
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