From one to seven: Jinli Packaging installs its 7th AOPACK box making machine

In October 2026, Jinli Packaging (Jinli Printing Co., Ltd.) in Yishui County, Linyi, Shandong, China, put its seventh AOPACK box making machine into production.

The new machine, a BM1800-Mini, was running customer orders on the day it was commissioned. Jinli installed its first AOPACK machine in April 2024. Two and a half years later, the same plant runs seven of them. Here is how that happened, and what the seventh machine is doing.

From a printing factory to a seven-machine box plant

Jinli started in 2014 as a printing business, printing cardboard for box plants around Linyi. In 2024 the owner, Mr. Wu, decided to make the boxes himself instead of only printing for others. He visited the AOPACK factory in Qingdao, ran the machine on site, and bought a BM1800-Mini in April 2024.

Within a few months the machine was fully booked, and in December 2024 Jinli added a BM3000-HD heavy-duty box maker with a vibrating knife for shaped cutting. We wrote about that installation at the time: Second AOPACK Corrugated Box Making Machine Installation at Jinli Printing Factory.

Since then the pattern has repeated. As orders filled each machine, Jinli ordered the next one. All seven machines run in the same plant in Yishui, and the seventh, commissioned in October 2026, is another BM1800-Mini.

What the seventh machine is making

The first job on the new BM1800-Mini was a run of lid-and-base boxes with openings at the front and back, on board close to 3 metres long. The BM1800-Mini takes board up to 1800 mm wide, and board length is not limited, so long blanks like these run through the machine the same way as a standard shipping box.

The operator enters the box style and the inside dimensions on the touch screen, and the machine slots, scores and trims the blank with no cutting die. Changing to the next order takes seconds, which is what makes small and irregular jobs practical.

Why Jinli keeps adding machines

Mr. Wu summed up his experience with the AOPACK machines in three points:

Production is stable. Shaped boxes, lid-and-base boxes, scattered orders and small orders, we can take all of them. That is why we keep adding machines.

Mr. Wu, owner of Jinli Packaging.

For a plant like Jinli, the business case is the mix of orders. Local customers bring short runs, odd sizes and shaped boxes that are not worth making dies for. A die-less box making machine turns those jobs from a nuisance into regular income, and when one machine is full, a second one is the simplest way to grow.

Repeat orders are the best reference

Seven machines in one plant is the largest single-customer installation on our site so far, but it is not an isolated case. Pal-Pak in the UK runs four AOPACK machines, ASC Direct in the UK runs three, and Akarton in the Netherlands added two in one order. A customer who buys a second machine after running the first for a year is telling you more about reliability and after-sales service than any brochure can.

We thank Mr. Wu and the Jinli team for their trust over the past two and a half years, and we look forward to machine number eight.

Planning a box making machine, or a second one?

Whether you are looking at your first box making machine or adding capacity to an existing plant, tell us your board sizes, box styles and typical order quantities and we will recommend the right model. Contact AOPACK for a quote.

This article was originally published by AOPACK.