We can see a wide variety of honey filling machines on the market (as shown below), including semi-automatic, fully automatic, bag-type, cup-type, and more. Their primary purposes are similar, but there are many differences in detailed design. So, how do you choose the right model for your needs?
In fact, selecting the right honey filling equipment does not begin with comparing the machines themselves, but with a deep understanding of your own products and production needs. This article will follow a clear logical path: first determine the packaging form, then choose the level of automation, guiding you step by step to find the "perfect assistant" that perfectly matches your requirements.
The packaging form of honey directly determines the type of filling machine required. The following are several mainstream packaging forms and their corresponding equipment in the market
Applicable products: The most common bottled honey on the market, which can be in glass bottles or PET plastic bottles.
Equipment features: This is a system solution, typically including bottle sorting machine, honey bottle filling machine, capping machine and labeling machine. The honey filling part is the core.
Selection consideration : Suitable for branded, mid to high end honey products. Bottles can provide the best brand display space and protection. This is the most widely used and technologically mature solution.
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Pneumatic piston filling design
Easy to operate and learn
Semi automatic design requires manual operation
Equipped with a piston cylinder feeding system
Automatic filling, touch screen setting of filling volume, filling speed, etc
Lift type filling head design, suitable for multiple bottle types
Applicable products: Honey seasoning packs, hotel honey, or small capacity honey as gifts (usually 10ml-50ml).
Equipment features: Starting from film rolling, the entire process of bag making, filling, sealing, and cutting is automatically completed. Extremely fast, high efficiency, and low packaging material cost. You can also call this type machine as honey sachet filling machne.
Selection consideration: This is one of the most cost-effective choices, suitable for large-scale production of small capacity items. But the packaging form is relatively simple, and the product's sense of grade is not as good as bottled.
Bag size: L: 40-200mm W: 30-150mm
Maximum mold width: 320mm
Bag type: regular back seal/three side seal/four side seal
Packaging speed: 20-60ppm
Bag size: L: 40-160mm W: 30-110mm
Maximum membrane width: 220mm
Bag type: Irregular shaped
Measurement method: piston cylinder
Packaging speed: 30-60ppm
Applicable products: Thick honey, royal jelly that needs to be picked up with a spoon, or portable honey that comes with a complimentary spoon.
Equipment features: This type of equipment usually completes the integrated operation of filling and sealing (aluminum foil or composite film). The honey cup is often in the form of spoon, so you can also consider this machine as honey spoon filling machine.
Selection consideration: Suitable for products positioned in the convenient and disposable consumer market. By replacing cup molds and material cups of different specifications, the equipment can adapt to various capacities.
Integrated machine design, multifunctional all-in-one machine
Customized design of cup shaped grinding tools: grinding tools can be customized according to the size of honey spoons
Spoon dropping design: manual spoon placement or automatic spoon dropping device
Sealing: Roll film sealing, direct heat sealing
Capacity: up to 1800-2000 scoops/hour
Multi row linear design: ultra high speed filling
Function: Automatic spoon dropping, filling, sealing, and automatic spoon dispensing.
Control method: PLC touch screen control
Automation level: This design is fully automated with low human involvement.
After determining the honey packaging form, the next step is to determine the level of automation based on your production capacity and investment budget. Then we can confirm the suitable honey filling machine for you. You can see the listed features of the semi-automatic and fully automatic types to quickly get the differences of the filling machines. If there is any problem or help, you can directly contact us.
Low investment cost
The initial purchase price is much lower than that of fully automated equipment.
High flexibility
Changing product specifications (such as different bottle types) is very fast, suitable for small batch and multi variety production.
Strong dependence on manpower
Requires the deployment of operators, resulting in long-term accumulation of labor costs.
Applicable customers
Start-ups, small workshops, or R&D stage
Extremely high production efficiency
The production speed can reach tens to hundreds of bottles per minute, suitable for large-scale standardized production.
Better consistency
Excluding human interference, the filling accuracy and sealing quality are more stable, and the product quality is uniform.
Long term low labor costs
Only 1-2 monitoring personnel are needed for one production line. Large investment: High equipment procurement costs.
Applicable customers
Large honey processing enterprises, brand manufacturers, OEM/ODM contract factories
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