Automating a Bottling Line for Cosmetics

Eyeshadow, concealer, lipstick; all kinds of cosmetics take work. A lot of work. Like, enough work that you’re probably wondering, “How can I get all of this done without having to do so much?”

Machines—that’s the answer. Stainless steel-constructed, automatic, precise machines. With like what we offer here at Accutek, you can significantly reduce the time and effort required to fill your cosmetic containers and get them out the door and to your customer(s).

Let’s take a look at what machines are necessary for carrying out your cosmetics manufacturing process.

What Kinds of Cosmetic Packaging Machines Do You Need?

The most essential machines you would need for a cosmetics line would be a filler to pour the product into your container, a capper to apply a cap, and then a labeler to stick on your company branding. 

But considering your industry and the types of products you produce, not just any one machine from each of these categories will do. You’ll need specialized machines to handle your goods. Let’s take a look at some of them.

Cosmetic Filling Machines

Piston Fillers

If your product is on the more viscous side, it may be difficult for some fillers to pour it out. This is why a piston filler is an optimal choice for products like shampoos and lotions. An extending piston can push product through a cylinder, forcing it through a nozzle and into a container. 

Several of Accutek’s machines are piston fillers, like the (AVF) and the (SVF). However, the SVF is a semi-automatic machine that’s mostly meant to operate independently of other hardware. So an AVF is optimal for inclusion in a cosmetics bottling line. 

Vacuum Fillers

But not every product is going to be as thick as shampoo. If your product is something thinner, like nail polish or perfume, then you’ll want to use a vacuum filler. These machines use vacuum pumps to draw liquid from a supply tank before depositing it into a container. 

Accutek’s can fill up to 12 bottles at a time to the same visual fill level using a drip tray and neck grabber. A diving head assembly lowers a series of fill nozzles, forming airtight seals with each bottle opening.

Cosmetic Labeling Machines

Labeling is critical, because otherwise, how would a customer know a product is yours? Or what it does? Or what ingredients …

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Best Filling Machines for Hot Sauces

Handling Your Hot Sauce Products

Have you been manually filling your containers with your hot sauce? If so, we’re betting that after a while, it can be really tough work, right? You have to repeatedly squeeze, crank, or dip to get your product into the bottle(s).

Maybe you sometimes spill a bit of product on the floor, or on yourself. You’re also wondering whether your process is completely sanitary.

After all, you don’t want any contaminants getting into your different types of sauce and potentially making your customers sick.

So if you’re looking for the optimal machine for your various sauces, you’ve come to the right place. Accutek Packaging builds and customizes a that can handle all kinds of hot sauces. 

Hot Sauce Filling Machine Considerations

While hot sauce can come in all different kinds of flavors, colors, and even degrees of hotness (otherwise known as Scoville units, or ), there’s one deciding factor that’s going to dictate what machine you use. 

That’s right: the thickness, otherwise known as the viscosity. Is your hot sauce water-thin? Does it have the thickness of molasses? Does it contain particulates or chunks?

Thicker hot sauces need more robust machinery to push them through nozzles and into containers without spilling or backing up. 

Let’s take a look at some of these liquid fillers and why they’re optimal for the hot sauce filling process.

Gravity Fillers

A gravity filler works by positioning a tank containing the product above the filling nozzles. Liquid flows downward into the containers until they reach a set level or volume. Which is why they’re called gravity fillers; gravity is doing most of the work. 

Gravity fillers are better for thinner hot sauces because the thicker or chunkier ones will clog up the nozzles or create inconsistent fill levels. If you want a quick crash course in both gravity and piston fillers, we have an entire article comparing them  

For those thicker sauces, you’ll want to look into a piston filler.

Piston Fillers

Piston fillers are liquid filling machines that use piston motors to extract product from a holding tank. The product is then pushed into containers with controlled force. The piston’s stroke length (essentially, how far it retracts) determines the fill volume. 

Piston fillers are perfect for medium- to high-viscosity products, along with products containing. Since they use mechanical pressure instead of gravity, …

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