Tall slim carton
For bottles, tubes and long products.
- Example size
- 60 × 60 × 220 mm internal
- Blank
- 260 × 401 mm
- Pieces
- 1 blank
- Board choices
- 12 boards, 0.45 to 7 mm
Free to design and to check in 3D. €2.50 for the PDF, €3.50 for the DXF or SVG.
What this box is, in other words
Cosmetics, medicines, toothpaste, supplements, small electronics: the printed carton on a shop shelf. Made from solid board, not corrugated.
How it closes. Tuck flaps close the top and the bottom. On a reverse tuck they go in from opposite sides, on a straight tuck from the same side, which keeps the front panel unbroken.
Worth knowing. A reverse tuck is cheaper because the blanks nest closer together on the sheet. A straight tuck looks better because no flap edge runs across the front.
Also called
folding carton tuck end box reverse tuck end RTE straight tuck end STE cosmetic box pharma carton product box retail box bottle tube slim
Same construction, different trade. If you came looking for one of those, this is it.
How this one is built
- Reverse tuck (ECMA A20.20.03.01): the top closes from the back, the bottom from the front. Nests more economically on the sheet.
- The tuck flap is 1.90 mm narrower on each side than the closing panel - a full caliper plus clearance - so it slides past the side walls and the glue seam.
- Closing order: dust flaps in, closing panel over them, tuck flap behind the wall.
Board options
The drawing changes when you change the board: thickness compensation is built into every fold, so a 4 mm C-flute blank is not the same shape as a 0.45 mm carton blank.
- F-flute corrugated (0.8 mm)
- E-flute corrugated (1.5 mm)
- B-flute corrugated (3.0 mm)
- C-flute corrugated (4.0 mm)
- EB double wall (4.5 mm)
- BC double wall (7.0 mm)
- SBS / GC1 board 350 gsm (0.45 mm)
- FBB / GC2 board 400 gsm (0.55 mm)
- Kraft / GD2 board 400 gsm (0.50 mm)
- Greyboard 1.0 mm (rigid)
- Prototype board 1.0 mm
- Prototype board 2.0 mm
Questions about this box
- What is the difference between a reverse tuck and a straight tuck?
- Which way the flaps go in. On a reverse tuck the top flap tucks in from the back and the bottom from the front, which nests efficiently and uses less board. On a straight tuck both go in from the same side, so the front panel stays unbroken - better if the front is the printed face.
- What is the ECMA code for a tuck end carton?
- A20.20.03.01 for the reverse tuck and A20.20.03.03 for the straight tuck. The A means a carton glued along one side seam, the two 20s mean tuck flaps at the bottom and the top, and the last two numbers say which panel each tuck flap is attached to: different panels for a reverse tuck, the same panel for a straight tuck.
- What board is used for a folding carton?
- Solid board, not corrugated: SBS/GC1 at around 350 gsm for a white printed face, FBB/GC2 at 400 gsm for something stiffer, kraft/GD2 where the recycled look is wanted.
- Is this dieline free?
- Designing it and folding it in 3D are free and need no account. Downloading it is paid: €2.50 for the PDF to print and measure on paper, and €3.50 for a production file - DXF or SVG - because those are the ones that go to a cutting table.
- What is a dieline?
- The flat drawing a box is cut from. It shows where the knife cuts, where the board is creased to fold, and where it is perforated. A die maker turns it into a steel rule die; a plotter or laser cuts it directly. It is also written as "die line" or "die cut template".
- What file format does a die maker need?
- DXF, almost always. Ours is R12 DXF at 1:1 in millimetres with cut, crease, reverse crease and perforation each on their own layer, which is what a cutting table expects. The SVG is the same geometry for Illustrator, Affinity, Inkscape and laser software.
- Can I use it commercially?
- Yes. The files are yours: modify them, print them, make any number of boxes from them. No attribution and no licence fee, ever.
What you can change
12 parameters on the first screen, 8 more behind advanced settings.
- Dimension mode
- Length (L)
- Width (W)
- Height (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Top
- Gable rise — Height of the roof above the walls. The height (H) is the wall height.
- Handle panel height
- Hand hole
- Bottom
- Tuck direction
- Tuck flap corners