Sideload Cartoner

Maximize your output with space-efficient secondary packaging for blisters, parenterals, and devices. Our solutions ensure reliable, high-speed throughput to keep your production lines moving. 

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Optimize output for uniform SKUs while maintaining compliance and reducing total cost of ownership. 

Continuous motion at speed and compact line layouts help manufacturers standardize, scale, and run reliably with excellent OEE and predictable uptime.

Benefits

Consistent performance

High-speed, continuous packaging for consistent, rigid product formats with stable, repeatable performance.

Compact linear footprints

Linear architectures fit straight-line plant layouts and minimize conveyor complexity to maximize output per square meter.

Strong OEE and maintenance

Simple, robust mechanics enable fast maintenance, predictable changeovers, and high OEE for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Efficient training and management

Standardized HMI concept and change parts for efficient training and rapid size change management across SKU families.

Seamless system integration

Seamless integration with Track & Trace, leaflet/booklet insertion, and vision systems for compliant pharmaceutical operations.

Modular GMP-compliant platforms

Our machines are designed to be fully modular and GMP-compliant, with a special focus on fast line clearance and easy maintenance.

Gentle handling and packaging of pharma containers

Körber offers secondary packaging solutions for all primary pharma containers, keeping compliance and safety during handling and transportation processes.

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Ampoules

Gentle and high-speed handling for delicate glass containers to prevent breakage and preserve product integrity.

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Pens

Careful loading and packaging for complex multi-dose injection pens, safeguarding mechanical dosing systems.

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Syringes

Highly precise orientation and secure handling for pre-filled syringes.

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Safety syringes

Controlled feeding engineered to protect sensitive built-in safety shields and needle mechanisms.

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Vials

Stable, flexible packaging solutions designed to safeguard cap, label and glass stability.

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Autoinjectors

Gentle handling of autoinjectors, protecting delicate spring and casing out components for self-dose systems.

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Capabilities

Strategic placement in the production line 

Sideload cartoners are used in secondary packaging, after primary packing (such as blistering or bottling) and before case packing or palletizing.

These systems interface with leaflet feeders, printers and inspection systems. They are designed to operate within existing MES, EBR, and intralogistics systems, ensuring a compliant and connected factory environment.

High-speed blister cartoning

Streamline production with integrated leaflet insertion and code verification for blister card packaging. 

Bottled solid-dose cartons

Secure products with tamper-evident closures and integrated serialization or aggregation for bottled medications.

Medical device packaging

Use product specific trays to allow for rapid, repeatable changeovers for inhalers and diagnostic devices.

Multi-pack retail cartons

Efficiently package oral solid dose (OSD) portfolios using common carton families for retail distribution.

Integrated line layouts

Create compact, straight-line layouts by connecting upstream blister wrappers with downstream case packers.

Contract packaging

Support multiple standardized customer SKUs with predictable mechanics and quick-change size parts.

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Get in touch

Speak to our specialists about our range of flexible, scalable, end-to-end solutions—tailored to you.