This Liquid Filling Production Line is an integrated automated bottling system engineered for high-speed liquid packaging operations across food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. This complete liquid bottling line delivers precise volumetric filling with stepless volume adjustment from 50ml to 5000ml, achieving filling accuracy of ±0.5% while processing 1,200 to 6,000 bottles per hour depending on container size and liquid viscosity. Designed for manufacturers requiring turnkey liquid packaging solutions for edible oils, beverages, detergents, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals in glass bottles, plastic containers, and metal cans.
Product Overview
The Liquid Filling Production Line integrates multiple automated packaging stations into a synchronized production system including bottle unscrambling and orientation, precision liquid filling with anti-drip nozzles, automatic capping with torque control, induction sealing for tamper-evident closures, labeling with front-back-wrap configurations, online inspection for fill level and cap presence, and case packing with robotic palletizing. This complete liquid bottling system operates through PLC-controlled automation with variable frequency drives enabling speed synchronization across all stations, touchscreen HMI for recipe management and production monitoring, and servo-driven filling heads ensuring accurate volumetric dosing across viscosity ranges from water-thin liquids at 1 cP to thick syrups and oils up to 10,000 cP.
The filling station utilizes precision piston fillers, time-pressure fillers, or gravity fillers depending on liquid characteristics and production requirements, with anti-drip valve systems preventing product waste and maintaining clean bottle exteriors. The cylinder-based positioning system accommodates multiple container formats from 100ml bottles to 5-liter jugs through quick-changeover tooling requiring minimal downtime between production runs. Stainless steel 304/316L construction throughout liquid contact areas ensures chemical compatibility with acidic beverages, alkaline detergents, and corrosive chemicals while meeting sanitary design requirements for food-grade and pharmaceutical applications requiring CIP (clean-in-place) capability.
Unlike standalone filling machines requiring manual bottle feeding and product transfer, this integrated production line automates the complete packaging workflow from empty bottle input to finished case output, reducing labor requirements by 60-80% compared to semi-automatic operations while improving packaging consistency and production throughput. The modular design enables configuration flexibility from basic fill-cap lines for startup operations to comprehensive systems incorporating nitrogen flushing for oxygen-sensitive products, hot-fill capability for shelf-stable beverages, and aseptic filling for pharmaceutical applications requiring sterile processing environments.
Technical Specifications
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Production Capacity: 1,200 to 6,000 bottles/hour (dependent on container size and filling volume)
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Filling Volume Range: 50ml to 5,000ml (stepless adjustment via touchscreen)
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Filling Accuracy: ±0.5% of target volume (±0.3% with servo piston fillers)
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Viscosity Range: 1 to 10,000 cP (water to thick oils and syrups)
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Container Types: Glass bottles, PET/HDPE plastic bottles, aluminum/tin cans
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Container Size Range: 100ml to 5,000ml (customizable for larger formats)
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Number of Filling Heads: 4 to 16 heads (dependent on production capacity requirements)
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Filling Method: Piston filling, time-pressure filling, or gravity filling (product-dependent)
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Power Supply: 380V/220V AC, 50/60Hz, 3-phase
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Total Power Consumption: 8-25kW (dependent on line configuration and auxiliary equipment)
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Air Pressure: 0.6-0.8 MPa (6-8 bar), consumption 0.8-1.5 m³/min
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Control System: Siemens/Mitsubishi PLC + touchscreen HMI with recipe storage
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Material Construction: Stainless steel 304/316L (liquid contact), carbon steel with powder coating (frame)
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Conveyor Speed: Variable frequency control, 5-30 meters/minute
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Dimensions: 8,000mm × 2,500mm × 2,200mm (L × W × H, configuration-dependent)
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Weight: 2,500-4,500kg (dependent on line configuration)
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Protection Rating: IP54 standard, IP65 available for washdown environments
Key Features and Machine Characteristics
Integrated Automation with PLC Control and Touchscreen Interface
The advanced PLC control system with variable frequency drives synchronizes all production line stations including bottle infeed, filling, capping, labeling, and discharge conveyors, maintaining consistent bottle spacing and timing throughout the packaging process. The color touchscreen HMI enables recipe storage for different products and container sizes, allowing rapid changeover between production runs of different beverages, oils, or chemical formulations with saved filling parameters, speed settings, and quality control limits. This intelligent automation reduces operator training requirements, minimizes setup errors, and supports efficient multi-product manufacturing in beverage bottling plants, edible oil packaging facilities, and pharmaceutical liquid filling operations requiring frequent product changes.
Precision Volumetric Filling with Stepless Adjustment
The servo-driven piston filling system or electronically-controlled time-pressure filling mechanism delivers ±0.5% filling accuracy with stepless volume adjustment from 50ml to 5,000ml through touchscreen parameter entry, eliminating mechanical changeover parts and reducing format change time from 2 hours to 15 minutes. This precise volumetric control ensures consistent fill levels meeting regulatory requirements for food labeling accuracy, pharmaceutical dosing compliance, and chemical product specifications while minimizing product giveaway that reduces profitability in high-volume bottling operations processing cooking oil, motor oil, liquid detergents, and beverage concentrates.
Anti-Drip System with Leakage Collection for Clean Packaging
The pneumatic anti-drip valve system with spring-loaded nozzle seals prevents liquid dripping after filling completion, maintaining clean bottle exteriors and reducing product waste in viscous liquid applications including cooking oils, syrups, liquid soaps, and pharmaceutical suspensions. The integrated leakage collection tray captures any spillage during filling operations, preventing contamination of conveyor systems and maintaining sanitary conditions in food-grade and pharmaceutical production environments. This clean-filling capability eliminates secondary bottle wiping operations, reduces cleaning labor, and improves packaging presentation for retail products requiring pristine label appearance and consumer appeal.
Multi-Container Flexibility with Quick-Changeover Positioning
The cylinder-based bottle positioning system with adjustable guide rails and centering mechanisms accommodates container formats from 100ml bottles to 5-liter jugs, round bottles to square containers, and glass to plastic packaging through tool-free adjustment of conveyor width, filling head height, and nozzle positioning. Quick-changeover components including snap-fit guide rails, magnetic positioning stops, and indexed height adjustment enable format changes in 15-30 minutes without specialized tools, supporting flexible manufacturing operations in contract packaging facilities, multi-brand beverage producers, and chemical manufacturers serving diverse customer requirements with varying container specifications.
Sanitary Stainless Steel Construction for Food and Pharma Applications
The stainless steel 304/316L construction throughout liquid contact areas including filling nozzles, product tanks, transfer piping, and valve assemblies ensures chemical compatibility with acidic fruit juices, alkaline cleaning chemicals, and corrosive pharmaceutical formulations while meeting FDA food-contact material requirements and GMP pharmaceutical manufacturing standards. The sanitary design features including crevice-free welding, sloped surfaces for complete drainage, and CIP-compatible components enable automated cleaning cycles using hot water, caustic solutions, and sanitizing chemicals, maintaining microbiological control in beverage production, pharmaceutical liquid filling, and food-grade chemical packaging operations requiring validated cleaning procedures.
Wide Viscosity Range from Water to Thick Oils
The versatile filling system handles low-viscosity liquids including water, juice, and alcohol beverages at 1-50 cP, medium-viscosity products including cooking oils, motor oils, and liquid detergents at 50-500 cP, and high-viscosity formulations including syrups, honey, liquid soaps, and pharmaceutical suspensions up to 10,000 cP through appropriate filling head selection and parameter optimization. This broad viscosity capability enables multi-product manufacturing facilities to package diverse liquid products on a single production line, maximizing equipment utilization and reducing capital investment compared to dedicated filling lines for each product category in food processing plants, chemical manufacturing facilities, and contract packaging operations.
Modular Design for Scalable Production Capacity
The modular line architecture enables capacity scaling from entry-level 4-head systems producing 1,200 bottles/hour for small-scale operations to high-speed 16-head configurations achieving 6,000 bottles/hour for large-volume production, with future expansion capability through additional filling heads, faster conveyor systems, and automated case packing integration. Optional modules including nitrogen flushing for oxygen-sensitive products, hot-fill capability for shelf-stable beverages, UV sterilization for pharmaceutical applications, and inline quality inspection systems can be integrated during initial installation or added later as production requirements evolve, protecting capital investment and supporting business growth in expanding beverage brands, growing chemical manufacturers, and scaling pharmaceutical producers.
Application Areas
Edible Oil and Cooking Oil Bottling
Edible oil producers utilize this liquid filling production line for automated bottling of vegetable oils including soybean oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, and corn oil in PET bottles and glass containers from 250ml to 5-liter formats. The system handles olive oil premium bottling in dark glass bottles protecting light-sensitive products, specialty oil packaging including avocado oil and coconut oil in retail containers, and bulk cooking oil filling in commercial foodservice sizes. The anti-drip filling nozzles prevent oil residue on bottle exteriors, maintaining clean packaging for retail presentation while the stainless steel construction enables CIP cleaning between different oil varieties in multi-product bottling facilities serving retail grocery, foodservice distribution, and export markets.
Beverage Production and Juice Bottling
Beverage manufacturers deploy this automated bottling line for juice filling including orange juice, apple juice, and mixed fruit beverages in glass bottles and PET containers, carbonated soft drink bottling with counter-pressure filling for CO2 retention, bottled water production in various container sizes from single-serve 330ml to family-size 5-liter formats, and functional beverage packaging including sports drinks, energy drinks, and vitamin-enhanced waters. The system accommodates hot-fill processing for shelf-stable juice products, cold-fill operations for refrigerated beverages, and aseptic filling for extended shelf-life products without preservatives, supporting diverse beverage formulations in juice processing plants, soft drink bottling facilities, and functional beverage manufacturing operations.
Pharmaceutical Liquid Filling and Syrup Packaging
Pharmaceutical manufacturers employ this liquid filling system for oral liquid medication bottling including cough syrups, antacid suspensions, and pediatric liquid formulations in amber glass bottles and HDPE containers with child-resistant closures. The system handles antibiotic suspension filling requiring precise dosing accuracy, vitamin liquid packaging in light-protective bottles, and herbal extract bottling for nutraceutical applications. The GMP-compliant stainless steel construction, validated cleaning procedures, and batch traceability through production records ensure regulatory compliance for pharmaceutical liquid filling operations, over-the-counter medication packaging, and nutraceutical supplement bottling serving pharmacy distribution, hospital supply, and consumer health markets.
Detergent and Cleaning Chemical Packaging
Chemical manufacturers utilize this liquid bottling production line for household detergent filling including laundry detergent, dish soap, and all-purpose cleaners in HDPE bottles from 500ml to 5-liter containers. The system packages industrial cleaning chemicals including degreasers, sanitizers, and disinfectants in commercial sizes, automotive chemicals including motor oil, antifreeze, and windshield washer fluid in retail containers, and specialty cleaning products including carpet shampoo, floor cleaner, and glass cleaner in consumer packaging. The chemical-resistant stainless steel construction withstands alkaline detergent formulations and acidic cleaning chemicals while the anti-drip system prevents product waste in viscous liquid soap and thick detergent applications serving retail consumer markets, industrial supply distribution, and automotive aftermarket channels.
Cosmetic and Personal Care Product Filling
Cosmetic manufacturers deploy this filling line for liquid soap bottling including hand soap, body wash, and shower gel in decorative bottles and pump dispensers, shampoo and conditioner packaging in various container sizes and formats, lotion and moisturizer filling in bottles and jars, and liquid foundation and cosmetic formulation packaging. The system handles products with varying viscosities from water-thin toners to thick creams, accommodates premium glass packaging for luxury cosmetic brands and cost-effective plastic containers for mass-market products, and maintains sanitary processing conditions for personal care formulations. The gentle filling action prevents foam generation in surfactant-based products while precise volumetric control ensures consistent product delivery in cosmetic manufacturing facilities, contract packaging operations, and personal care product production serving beauty retail, salon professional, and direct-to-consumer markets.
Automotive Lubricant and Motor Oil Bottling
Lubricant manufacturers utilize this automated liquid filling line for motor oil packaging in plastic bottles and metal cans from 1-quart to 5-quart containers, transmission fluid bottling for automotive aftermarket distribution, hydraulic oil filling in industrial lubricant containers, and specialty automotive fluid packaging including brake fluid, power steering fluid, and coolant antifreeze. The system handles multi-grade motor oil production with rapid changeover between 5W-30, 10W-40, and other viscosity grades, synthetic oil bottling requiring clean-fill operations, and conventional petroleum lubricant packaging in high-volume production. The robust construction withstands continuous operation in industrial environments while the anti-drip filling prevents oil residue on containers, maintaining clean packaging for retail automotive stores, quick-lube service centers, and industrial lubricant distribution.
Agricultural Chemical and Fertilizer Liquid Packaging
Agricultural chemical manufacturers employ this filling line for liquid fertilizer bottling including nitrogen solutions, micronutrient formulations, and organic liquid fertilizers in plastic containers from 1-liter to 20-liter formats. The system packages pesticide concentrates requiring precise dosing for dilution applications, herbicide formulations in various container sizes for agricultural and lawn care markets, and plant growth regulators in retail and commercial packaging. The chemical-resistant construction handles corrosive agricultural formulations while the accurate filling ensures proper concentration ratios for end-user dilution in crop protection product manufacturing, liquid fertilizer production facilities, and agricultural input packaging operations serving farming operations, greenhouse growers, and lawn care service providers.
Industrial Chemical and Solvent Packaging
Industrial chemical producers utilize this liquid packaging line for solvent bottling including acetone, alcohol, and specialty solvents in metal cans and chemical-resistant plastic containers, acid and base packaging including hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, and sodium hydroxide in appropriate container materials, and specialty chemical formulation filling for industrial manufacturing applications. The system handles flammable liquid packaging with explosion-proof electrical components, corrosive chemical filling with appropriate material selection, and hazardous material packaging meeting DOT and international shipping regulations. The robust construction and chemical compatibility ensure reliable operation in industrial chemical packaging facilities, solvent redistribution operations, and specialty chemical manufacturing plants serving industrial manufacturing, laboratory supply, and chemical distribution markets.
