Mingguo

About Mingguo

Ruian Mingguo Machinery Co., Ltd. is a Chinese maker of paper container machinery in the Feiyun Industrial Park of Ruian, Zhejiang Province. The company reports a factory of about 20,000 m² and a workforce of more than 150. It names customers in Germany, Egypt, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and India among its export markets. Its website does not state a founding year.

Mingguo's range centres on paper cup and paper bowl forming machines, with related equipment for paper buckets, cups with handles, double-wall cups, paper lids, paper straws and paper tubes. The company states ISO 9001 quality system certification, CE marking and a number of utility patents. CE is a European mark, so a machine bound for a Canadian plant still needs the CSA or field evaluation route.

From Mingguo we list the MG-HC800, a sleeve machine that adds an outer paper wall to cups that are already formed, producing insulated double-wall and corrugated hot-drink cups. It works downstream of a single-wall former, so it is usually planned alongside one of our paper cup machines. Our comparison of single-wall and double-wall cup machines explains the trade-offs.

A good fit for

• Cup makers that already run single-wall formers and want an insulated product
• Converters supplying cafes and take-out chains with hot-drink cups
• Plants adding ripple or double-wall cups without buying a new former