Cup Filling Machines  Manufacturers, Traders, Suppliers

The filling system for industrial requirements enables the fast and precise filling of low-viscosity to slightly viscous media from drums or containers into manually fed canisters at the touch of a button.

Core Selling Points & Advantages of Our Cup Filling & Sealing Machines1. Superior Sealing Integrity & Product PreservationThis is the absolute cornerstone for cup products, especially perishable ones. Our machines ensure:
Airtight & Leak-Proof Seals: Critical for liquids like water, yogurt, and beverages, preventing spills, contamination, and spoilage. This is achieved through precise heat sealing, ultrasonic sealing, or induction sealing technologies, guaranteeing the integrity of every single cup.
Extended Shelf Life: For sensitive products like yogurt or ice cream, an excellent seal dramatically extends shelf life by preventing oxidation and microbial growth.
Specialized Sealing for Sensitive Products:
Vacuum Nitrogen Filling Plastic Box Sealing Machine: This is a key differentiator. It allows for the removal of oxygen (vacuum) and back-flushing with inert nitrogen, vital for products sensitive to oxidation (e.g., nuts, coffee, certain ready meals, or medical devices) to maintain freshness, flavor, and extend shelf life significantly.
2. High Hygiene & Food Safety StandardsGiven the nature of cup products (often consumed directly), hygiene is paramount, particularly for food and dairy. Our designs incorporate:
Sanitary Construction: Extensive use of food-grade stainless steel (304 or 316L), smooth surfaces, and minimal crevices to prevent bacterial growth and facilitate thorough cleaning.
Easy Cleanability (CIP/SIP Ready): Designed for quick and effective cleaning cycles, often compatible with CIP/SIP systems to meet stringent hygiene regulations.
Enclosed Systems: To minimize exposure to the environment, particularly important for yogurt cup filling sealing machines and ice cup filling sealing machines where temperature control and cleanliness are critical.
3. Precision Filling & Consistent DosingAccuracy directly impacts product cost and consumer satisfaction. Our machines offer:
High Filling Accuracy: Utilizing precise dosing systems (e.g., piston fillers, flow meters, or volumetric pumps) to ensure consistent fill levels, minimizing product giveaway and maximizing profit margins.
Versatile Product Handling: Capable of handling a wide range of viscosities, from thin liquids (water) to semi-viscous products (yogurt) and even products with particulates (ice cream with inclusions).
Temperature Control: Essential for products like ice cream or yogurt, our machines can maintain precise product temperatures during the filling process to preserve quality and texture.
4. High Speed & Efficiency with Minimal DowntimeFor high-volume markets like Europe and North America, throughput is king. Our solutions provide:
Optimized Production Rates: Designed for continuous, high-speed operation to meet demanding production targets, whether for water cup filling or yogurt cup filling.
Automated Cup De-nesting & Feeding: Efficiently handles bulk cups, feeding them precisely into the filling station.
Quick Changeover: Features tools and mechanisms for rapid format changeovers (different cup sizes or lid types), minimizing unproductive downtime.
5. Automation, Intelligence & Operator FriendlinessAddressing labor costs and the need for efficiency:
Intuitive HMI & PLC Control: User-friendly touchscreens allow for easy setup, operation, and monitoring, reducing operator training time.
Integrated Quality Control: Options for vision systems to detect missing lids, improper seals, or under-filled cups, ensuring only perfect products leave the line.
Robust & Reliable Components: Using high-quality components from reputable international brands ensures long-term reliability and easy sourcing of spare parts.

Our designed Cup Filling and Sealing Machines, including specialized models for ice cream cups, yogurt cups, water cups, and the advanced Vacuum Nitrogen Filling Plastic Box Sealing Machine, are built around core processing technologies that prioritize high efficiency, precision, stringent hygiene standards, and reliable sealing. These processes collectively ensure product quality, extended shelf life, and market competitiveness.
Here are the primary core processing technologies:
1. Automatic Cup Feeding & Positioning

• Principle: Utilizes robotic arms, vacuum suction cups, or cup denesters to automatically separate stacked empty cups and precisely deliver them to the filling station.
• Process Characteristics:

• Precise Cup Separation: Ensures only one cup is fed at a time, preventing overlaps or jams.
• Scratch-Prevention Design: Employs gentle transfer methods for different materials (e.g., plastic, paper cups) to avoid scratching the cup body.
• No Cup, No Fill: An intelligent sensing system stops subsequent filling and sealing actions if no cup is present, preventing material waste.

Value: Ensures smooth and continuous production line operation, reduces labor costs, and enhances automation.

2. Precise Filling
This is the central process for cup filling machines, ensuring accurate product dosing.

• Piston Volumetric Filling:

• Principle: Dispenses a fixed volume of product through the precise reciprocating motion of a piston.
• Applicability: Widely suitable for various viscosities, from thin liquids (e.g., water, juices) to high-viscosity pastes (e.g., yogurt, jams, ice cream), and can even handle products with particulates.
• Characteristics: High filling accuracy and repeatability, easy to clean.

Flow Meter Filling:

• Principle: Precisely measures the volume or mass of fluid using flow meters (e.g., electromagnetic, mass flow meters) for filling.
• Applicability: Suitable for various liquid viscosities, especially for shear-sensitive products or those requiring non-contact filling.
• Characteristics: High accuracy, unaffected by product density changes, convenient for cleaning.

Gravimetric Filling:

• Principle: Integrates high-precision load cells beneath the filling station to continuously monitor the product weight in the cup, stopping the fill once the preset weight is reached.
• Applicability: Used for high-value products or applications with extremely strict weight accuracy requirements.
• Characteristics: Highest level of precision, effectively reduces product giveaway.

Temperature-Controlled Filling:

• Principle: For temperature-sensitive products like yogurt or ice cream, the filling system integrates temperature control modules to ensure the product remains at its optimal temperature during filling, preserving taste and quality.

3. Automatic Film/Lid Placement
Automatically covers the cup with sealing material after filling.

• Principle: A roll film dispensing system automatically unwinds and cuts the film, or a lid feeding system precisely places pre-formed lids onto the cup opening.

• Photoelectric Tracking: Ensures precise cutting alignment for roll film, and that branded lids are accurately centered.
• Vacuum Suction/Mechanical Gripping: Ensures smooth and precise lid placement.
• No Cup, No Film/Lid: Intelligent sensing prevents film/lid waste if no cup is present.

4. Precise Heat Sealing
This is a critical step for forming the seal, directly impacting product shelf life and safety.

• Principle: A heated sealing die applies pressure and heat to bond the lid film to the cup rim, creating an airtight seal.

• Precise Temperature Control: Accurately controls sealing temperature based on different lid film and cup body materials (PP, PE, PET, aluminum foil, etc.), ensuring a strong and aesthetically pleasing seal.
• Uniform Pressure Application: Ensures even pressure across the entire sealing area to prevent leaks or partial seals.
• Multi-Head Sealing: High-speed machines often use multiple sealing heads working in parallel to increase efficiency.

Specialized Sealing Process:

• Vacuum Nitrogen Filling Sealing:

• Principle: Before sealing, the cup is vacuumed to remove oxygen, then back-flushed with nitrogen or other inert gas.
• Applicability: Used for oxygen-sensitive products (e.g., coffee powder, nuts, certain ready meals) or products requiring extended shelf life.
• Characteristics: Significantly extends shelf life, preserves product flavor, color, and freshness, a key technology for premium packaging.

5. Finished Product Cutting & Discharge
Post-sealing processing and output.

• Precise Cutting: If roll film is used, a die precisely cuts and trims the sealed cups, removing excess film.
• Automatic Discharge: Sealed and cut cups are automatically discharged via robotic arms or conveyor belts to the next stage (e.g., case packing, palletizing).
• Waste Film Collection: Excess film scrap is automatically collected.

6. CIP/SIP (Clean-in-Place / Sterilize-in-Place)
Essential for industries like food, dairy, and pharmaceuticals to ensure the highest hygiene standards.

• Principle: Without manual disassembly, pre-programmed cycles automatically circulate cleaning solutions and steam to clean and sanitize critical filling and sealing components.
• Value: Ensures thorough cleaning, prevents cross-contamination, shortens downtime for cleaning, and meets strict hygiene regulations (e.g., FDA, EU Food Grade, cGMP).

7. Intelligent Control & Quality Inspection
Ensuring production process stability and product quality.

• PLC Control System & HMI: Acts as the machine's brain, enabling precise control, recipe management, fault diagnosis, and real-time monitoring.
• Photoelectric/Vision Inspection: Integrated sensors or cameras detect cup presence, correct filling, accurate lid placement, proper sealing, and automatically reject non-conforming products.
• No Film/Lid, No Seal: Intelligent sensing prevents empty seals, avoiding equipment damage and waste.

Our designed Cup Filling and Sealing Machines (including models for ice cream, yogurt, and water cups, as well as Vacuum Nitrogen Filling Plastic Box Sealing Machines) have core application scenarios spanning multiple industries that demand high standards of hygiene, precision, and packaging integrity. These machines are engineered to meet the needs of large-scale production and diverse product packaging. Here are the primary core application scenarios: 1. Dairy Industry • Scenario: Production lines for yogurt, puddings, fresh milk, cream, cheese spreads, and other dairy products. • Specific Demands: Extremely high hygiene standards, precise filling volumes (especially for yogurt with fruit pieces), temperature control of the product during filling, and ensuring an airtight seal for extended shelf life and spoilage prevention. • Machine Characteristics: Features sanitary design, CIP/SIP capabilities, piston or flow meter filling for accuracy, and precise heat sealing technology to prevent leakage. 2. Food Industry • Scenario: Production of jams, jellies, honey, condiments (e.g., ketchup, salad dressings), instant soups, desserts, puddings, instant coffee/tea powder cups, nut snacks, etc. • Specific Demands: Wide adaptability to product viscosities, ability to handle particulates, maintaining product freshness (potentially requiring vacuum nitrogen filling), and ensuring packaging aesthetics and tamper-evidence. • Machine Characteristics: Offers various filling methods, can integrate vacuum nitrogen filling (especially for plastic box sealing machines), precise film cutting and heat sealing to preserve product flavor and shelf life. 3. Beverage Industry • Scenario: Packaging lines for bottled/cupped water, juices, tea beverages, plant-based drinks, energy drinks, etc. • Specific Demands: High-speed filling, precise level control (for transparent cups), prevention of overflow and foaming, and reliable sealing to maintain beverage quality and carbonation. • Machine Characteristics: High production capacity, typically uses flow meter or piston filling for accuracy and efficiency, and a robust sealing system to prevent leaks. 4. Pharmaceutical & Diagnostic Reagent Industry • Scenario: Single-dose packaging for oral liquids, diagnostic reagents (e.g., pre-filled reagent cups), and certain liquid pharmaceuticals. • Specific Demands: Extremely high filling precision, strict sterile or cleanroom requirements, prevention of cross-contamination, and ensuring product batch traceability. • Machine Characteristics: Features cGMP-compliant sanitary design, high-precision filling systems, can integrate laminar flow hoods or isolators to ensure a clean production environment, and provides data logging functionalities. 5. Cosmetics & Personal Care Industry • Scenario: Packaging for creams, lotions, gels, mud masks, shampoo/conditioner samples, shower gels, etc. • Specific Demands: Precise filling for small-dose, high-value products, handling various viscosities and textures, aesthetically pleasing sealing results, and preventing product spillage or degradation. • Machine Characteristics: Precision filling heads capable of handling products from thin liquids to thick pastes, ensuring clean fills without drips, and aesthetically pleasing seals. 6. Ice Cream & Frozen Dessert Industry • Scenario: Packaging for cup ice cream, popsicles, frozen yogurt, smoothies, etc. • Specific Demands: Filling in low-temperature environments, precise dosing, maintaining product texture and temperature, and fast, reliable sealing to prevent ice crystal formation and product melting. • Machine Characteristics: Specifically designed for low-temperature operation, filling systems capable of handling semi-solid or viscous products, and rapid sealing mechanisms to minimize product exposure to ambient temperatures.