Breakthrough work: The automatic mold adjustment and edge rolling machine of Dongguan Zhongneng Machinery has an efficiency of 1,200 cups per minute

Dongguan, July 2, 2025 – A major breakthrough has been achieved in the domestic food packaging equipment sector. Dongguan Zhongneng Machinery Co., Ltd. announced that it has successfully developed and launched the first automatic mold adjustment plastic cup edge rolling machine in China. With its revolutionary “four-axis three-channel” design and intelligent automatic mold adjustment technology, this equipment has pushed the speed of plastic cup edge rolling to an unprecedented 1,200 pieces per minute, setting a new industry benchmark in terms of efficiency and stability, and injecting strong impetus into the packaging process of fast-moving consumer goods such as milk tea, beverages, desserts, and sauces.

The core competitiveness of this edge curling machine from Zhongneng Machinery lies in its unique mechanical structure:

Four-axis high-stability architecture: Compared with traditional equipment, the four-axis linkage design significantly enhances the rigidity and stability of the equipment during high-speed operation, effectively suppresses vibration, ensures the accuracy and reliability of long-term continuous production, and reduces the rate of defective products.

Three-channel parallel acceleration: The innovative three-channel flanging design enables parallel and efficient operations, which is the key to achieving an astonishing speed of 1,200 per minute. This significantly enhances the single-machine production capacity and meets the demands of large-scale production.

The industrial-grade human-machine interaction display (HMI) and automatic mold adjustment technology equipped on the equipment have completely revolutionized the production operation mode:

Intelligent automatic mold adjustment: Say goodbye to the cumbersome manual mold changing and debugging. The operator can easily switch the production parameters of different cup types (such as cup mouth size, curling speed, temperature, etc.) with just one click through the touch screen. The system automatically completes precise adjustments, significantly reducing line changing time and enhancing equipment utilization.

Parametric precision control: All key process parameters (such as edge rolling speed and heating temperature) can be intuitively set and precisely regulated on the human-machine interface, ensuring highly consistent edge rolling quality and meeting the strict requirements of plastic cups made of different materials (PP/PS, etc.).

This automatic mold adjustment and edge rolling machine features excellent compatibility and high efficiency

Wide application: Perfectly compatible with various plastic containers on the market, such as milk tea cups, beverage cups, dessert cups, and sauce cups, meeting diverse packaging needs.

Ultra-fast production: With a top-notch curling speed of 1,200 pieces per minute, it far exceeds the industry average, providing solid support for packaging enterprises to significantly increase production capacity and reduce the cost per cup.

Stable and reliable: The four-axis design combined with industrial-grade components ensures the equipment’s long-term stable operation in high-speed and high-intensity environments, reducing downtime due to faults.

Industry observers point out that the launch of this equipment by Zhongneng Machinery directly addresses the pain points of the current plastic cup packaging industry in terms of efficiency improvement, flexible production and intelligent upgrading. The “four-axis three-channel” design has solved the stability problem at high speeds, while the “automatic mold adjustment” has significantly enhanced the flexibility and intelligence level of the equipment. The speed of 1,200 per minute is not only a breakthrough in numbers, but also represents a solid step forward for domestic high-end packaging equipment in core technological innovation. A senior expert from the Guangdong Packaging Industry Association commented, “This is expected to significantly enhance the production efficiency and market response speed of downstream enterprises.”

Dongguan Zhongneng Machinery Co., Ltd. is a leading enterprise in China that focuses on the research and development and manufacturing of high-end food packaging automation equipment. The company has always adhered to technological innovation and is committed to providing customers with efficient, stable and intelligent automation solutions to facilitate the transformation and upgrading of the packaging industry.

At present, this domestically pioneering automatic mold adjustment plastic cup edge rolling machine has been put into mass production and has begun to serve well-known domestic and foreign food and beverage brands and their packaging suppliers.