Whether you are packing water, juices, creams, gels, sauces, or even soaps and detergents, choosing the right liquid filling packaging machinery is key to the success of your operation. Whether you are currently packing liquid products manually, semi automatically, or looking to upgrade your current packaging equipment, it’s important to be aware of the different automated liquid packing machinery choices available.
To make your choice of liquid filling machinery, it’s important to first consider what type of packaging would suit your needs best. You will need to decide between rigid packaging materials, such as plastic or glass bottles, or card or plastic cartons, or flexible packaging choices, such as spouted, resealable pouches.
Bottle filling machinery
Bottle filling machines are well suited for bottling and sealing a wide range of different liquid products, including shampoo, soap and detergent, beverages, plant food and other thin liquids, along with gels and pastes. Depending on your bottling and capping needs, automatic bottle filling machines can be fitted with multi-head or linear head weighers and volumetric filling, ensuring that the bottle is filled with the specified volume of liquid.
Some of the most important benefits of bottle filling equipment include:
- Consistency – compared with filling bottles by hand, bottle filling equipment ensures complete consistency when it comes to the volume of liquid product that is packaged, with no error.
- High speed production – Automatic filling machines have the capacity to bottle high volumes of product efficiently. Some machines with multiple volumetric fillers can bottle and cap thousands of containers in a single shift.
- Highly versatile – One bottle machine can be used to package a range of different products, in different size and shaped bottles to suit consumer preferences. Machines can also fill liquids of different thicknesses, which is a great benefit to businesses producing a wide variety of products.
- Scalable machinery – Filling machines can be upgraded as demand for liquid products grows without the need to replace the original machine. Extra volumetric fill heads can be added to a machine.
- Integration with other equipment – bottle filling equipment is designed to be integrated with other automated packaging systems, including conveyors, product sorting and transfer systems, labelling and cartoning/box packing machines.
Spouted pouch packaging machinery
In recent years, flexible packaging materials have been an increasingly more prevalent choice for packing a range of liquid products, including beverages such as water, juice and other soft drinks, as well as household items such as soaps and detergents. Whilst bottles remain in high demand, changing consumer behaviours and trends have seen a rising curve in the popularity of spouted pouches.
There are a range of benefits to choosing spouted pouch filling machinery, including:
- Complete automation – Spout pouch machines can fill pouches with liquid and cap them in a single packaging line.
- High speed output – Pouch filling and capping machines can operate at high speeds, delivering finished pouches at rates of up to thousands of pouches per hour.
- Excellent versatility – Pouch filling machines allow for a range of pouch shapes and sizes, along with different spout and cap choices. Pouches are also well suited for packing a wide variety of drinks, jellies, yoghurts, edible oils and seasonings, ice cream, and even detergents and other chemical products.
- Reducing packaging costs – Flexible stand up spouted pouches require less packaging materials than rigid liquid packaging choices.
- Great shelf impact – Pouches can be printed upon, providing plenty of space for eye-catching branding and product information for high visibility on retail shelves.
- Lower environmental impact – Spout pouch filling machines eliminate waste plastic materials and can use recyclable pouch materials.
- Scalable and suitable for integration with ancillary products – Like bottling machines, pouch machines can be upgraded with more filling heads, and integrated with ancillary equipment for a completely automated packaging line.
- Highly convenient end product – One of the key benefits of investing in spout pouch machinery is that the end product is well suited to consumer convenience. Pouches fit in bags and pockets, can be resealed, and enjoyed on the go.
Liquid Packaging Machinery Suppliers
If you are searching for UK based liquid packaging equipment manufacturers and suppliers, and would like further advice on choosing the best suited machinery to meet your packaging needs, then Intamac Packaging Systems can help.