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With the increasing trend of pet humanization, the market share of paste, cream, and mud-like wet pet foods (including staple wet foods, meat paste snacks, nutritional pastes, mousse, etc.) continues to grow. Based on product characteristics, Salinovate provides food manufacturers with three professional filling solutions: bag filling machines, tube filling and sealing machines, and cup filling and sealing machines. This article will conduct an in-depth analysis of the technical features, application scenarios, and investment cost for different wet pet food filling machines.
There are three common packaging forms for wet pet food in the market. The first type is bag type packaging, such as small sachet bags or spout pouch bags. The second type is tube package, such as soft tubes or laminated tubes. The third type is cup packaging, commonly made of plastic or aluminum-plastic cup materials. The following solutions are classified and described based on packaging types.
As above mentioned, bag package is one of the popular wet food package forms. We discuss sachet bag packing machine and spout pouch bag filling machine here for wet pet food.
SLBF series long sachet small bag packaging machine is suitable for pet snacks(cat strips/dog strips) packing into bags. Such type is often for small volume(10-30g) packaging use.
SLXF series spout pouch bag filling machine works for filling wet pet food into spout pouch bags. This packaging form is usually for 50-200g wet pet food packaging.
Packaging speed: About 10-150BPM(single sachet or multi-lane design).
Packaging material: Generally, aluminum-plastic composite film.
Common bag types: Three sided sealing is often used for pet food bag.
Application products: Pet meat puree, nutritional supplement cream, liquid snacks.
Investment cost: The package film cost is relatively low, and the equipment cost is at a medium to high level, depending on the speed requirements.
Technical parameters: Filling range: 50-200g, speed: 20-100 BPM(different machine design).
Innovative design: Self standing nozzle bag, easy for pets to lick or squeeze directly.
Value added: Increases product premium by 30-50% and enhances user experience.
Investment cost: Package cost is relatively high. The machine cost is of low, medium and high level(Various design, huge cost difference).
Tube package has very good air insulation performance. The SLPF/SLAF series tube filling and sealing machine can be used to fill creamy type pet food into aluminum tubes and laminated tubes.
Working steps: Tube feeding(automatic type or manual type), color mark positioning, automatic filling, heat sealing/tube folding, tube cooling, automatic tube discharging, etc.
Filling pump: Pneumatic type piston or servo control piston system.
Tube type: Plastic tube/laminated tube/metal tube.
Automatic degree: Semi-automatic and automatic types are both in supply.
Speed: About 30-50BPM for semi-automatic type; About 60-110BPM for the automatic type.
Application: Suitable for functional nutritional creams (joint care, hair care cream, etc).
Flexible design: Heating, and mixing.
Working functions: Tube feed, automatic filling, tube seal, etc.
Investment cost: Tube package cost is relatively high. The machine cost is a bit high.
Cup packaging is also currently one of the mainstream packaging forms for cat and dog food, our SLCF series cup filling sealing machine is very suitable for this type of packaging.
Accurately controlling the proportion of pet meals in a cup, cup package is very suitable for the staple food filling use.
Flexible design: The cup mould is made based on the real cup size, either small cup or large cup, we all have the filling solutions.
Applicable products: Meat puree staple food, mousse, etc.
Filling System: Volumetric piston filling or rotor pump filling.
Filling capacity: 100-500g, suitable for staple food consumption.
Filling speed: About 10-150 cups/minute
Sealing technology: Aluminum film heat sealing, easy to tear film or full flip cover design.
Working process: Automatic/manual cup loading → filling → scraping → vacuuming/nitrogen filling → film sealing → capping → coding
Differentiation advantage: Not only for paste type, this type filling machine can also be used for the wet pet food with big particles.
Investment cost: Relatively high cost for the cup package and both low, medium and high cost design for the cup filling sealing machine.
Choosing the appropriate wet pet food filling machine is not only a production technology decision, but also a market strategic layout. The small sachet bag packing machine is suitable for the rapidly growing pet snack market, the tube filling machine meets the professional needs of functional nutritional cream, and the cup filling machine corresponds to the large-scale production of wet staple food. It is recommended that manufacturers choose the optimal filling solution based on their product positioning, financial strength, and development plan(see the eight dimensional evaluation below to analyze).
Applicable Products
Cat and dog snacks, high-end nutritional cream, liquid staple food. Professional nutrition cream, pharmaceutical ointment, etc.
Product Expansion
Is there a demand for large particle or bulk pet wet material packaging?
Packaging Type
Is there a clear requirement that it must be packaged in bags, tubes, or cups?
Shelf Life
Is there a clear requirement for the shelf life? There are differences in shelf life for different packaging.
Production Speed
Is there a clear speed requirement to match the front pet wet food production line?
Special Production Requirements
Nitrogen filling, vacuum pumping, etc.
Equipment Investment
Is there a clear investment cost and budget control requirement?
Market Positioning
Mass market, whether to follow the cat and dog product route or the high-end pharmaceutical cream and mousse route?
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