Tall slim carton
ECMA A6040
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
Cosmetica, medicijnen, tandpasta, supplementen, kleine elektronica - de kartonnen doos die in het schap staat en waar de print op moet. Gemaakt van massief karton, niet van golfkarton.
How it closes. Flappen die aan boven- en onderkant naar binnen steken. Bij een reverse tuck steken ze tegengesteld in, bij een straight tuck dezelfde kant op - dat laatste geeft een schonere voorkant.
Worth knowing. Reverse tuck is goedkoper omdat het blank efficiënter uitgeschoten kan worden. Straight tuck ziet er beter uit omdat er geen naad over de voorkant loopt. Dat is de hele afweging.
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 A6040): 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?
- A6040 for the reverse tuck and A6050 for the straight tuck in the ECMA folding carton code. Many suppliers also list them under longer numbers like A11.10.03.03; those describe the same family.
- 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
6 parameters on the first screen, 7 more behind advanced settings.
- Dimension mode
- Length (L)
- Width (W)
- Height (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Tuck direction