What to Look For When Investing in Automatic Bottle Fillers

Investing in packaging machinery, and especially automatic bottle fillers that will handle your specific products, is a business decision that can lead to improved efficiency and consistency in the packaging process. Choosing the right liquid filling machine will directly impact your output, overall product quality, and, of course, your bottom line! Understanding what to look for in an automatic bottle filler helps to ensure that the investment delivers maximum value both today and in the future.

Compatibility with Liquid Products

From foods and beverages to cleaners, chemicals and other products, liquids can vary in flow rate and viscosity, including changes based on temperature. Products may be flammable, corrosive, or otherwise hazardous. The filling machine chosen for any project must be engineered and built to work with the specific products to be filled. At Liquid Packaging Solutions, different filling principles, including volumetric and fill-to-level principles, can be used for filling projects to ensure an efficient fill for a range of products.

Compatibility with Containers

Very few products are manufactured and packaged in one size or container. Sample bottles and single serve items may share shelf space with larger family or value packs. Like the compatibility with products, to ensure max efficiency a business must look for an automatic bottle filler that will run most or all of their containers. Purchasing a bottle filler for each container size would not only be an inefficient cost solution but would require extensive space and additional operators for each machine!

Accuracy and Consistency

One difficult part of hand-filling bottles with product is accurately filling the bottles. LPS automatic bottle fillers can repeatedly and accurately fill by volume, to a level, or even by net weight. The different designs of LPS filling machines meet the needs of each individual packager to consistently fill bottles using the principle necessary or desired for the given project. Accuracy not only protects against product waste but helps improve and maintain customer satisfaction and brand prestige.

Production Speed

Of course, many businesses upgrade to automatic filling machines to increase their output. Not only should a business look for a bottle filler that will meet their current needs but look for a machine that is capable of handling an expansion of products or production in the future. Even automatic liquid filling machines are not efficient if they cannot meet the demand for the product!

Integration and Upgradeability

Almost all LPS automatic filling machines are capable of rolling right up to an existing conveyor system to become part of an already existing packaging line. Integration of the filling machine with automatic rinsing equipment, bottle cappers, labeling machinery and other packaging machines allows a business to set up a completely automated packaging process. As noted above, the ability to upgrade the filler to handle new products or an increase in demand or output is also crucial, to ensure that the machine is not only accurate, efficient, and dependable, but stays that way long into the future.

Machine Support

Finally, when investing in an automatic bottle filler, make sure that the manufacturer stands behind their machinery, offering the support necessary to maximize the usefulness of the machine. At LPS, we offer technical support ranging from simple phone calls to zoom meetings and on-site visits. Our Parts Department stocks wear and spare parts for all of our filling machines to reduce downtime and maintain efficient performance. At LPS, a packager does not just get a filling machine, they get a packaging partner as well.

Automatic filling machines remove the need for operator interaction with the bottle and filler on a per cycle basis. Typically, the PLC allows the operator to set up the filler for the product and bottle being filled at a touchscreen interface, including a recipe screen for easy setting recall for a number of product and bottle combinations. Once the filler is set up and running, the operator needs only monitor the machine for proper performance. Automatic fillers from LPS can fill anywhere from two to sixteen bottles per cycle, offering inline filling that can reach over a hundred bottles per minute depending on product and container size.

To learn more about automatic bottle fillers from LPS, and the perks of LPS as a packaging partner, reach out to a Filler Specialist today to discuss your own project!