Piston filling machine
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What Is Piston Filling Machine?
Piston filling machine is an equipment that utilises a piston and cylinder mechanism to accurately fill a specific volume. It is suitable for applications that require accurate filling of viscous liquids or products containing particles. It ensures product quality and productivity and is ideal for viscous liquids or products containing particles.
Piston filling machines are known for their heavy-duty construction, precision dose filling, and reliable performance across multiple shifts. These machines offer flexible filling options, allowing for adjustment to different container sizes and fill volumes as production demands change. The piston-driven mechanism not only maintains high accuracy but also handles a wide range of product viscosities, making it a versatile solution for food, cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Their robust design ensures consistent operation, supporting both high throughput and demanding production environments.
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While piston filling machines are valued for their user-friendly operation and effective handling of dense products, it’s worth noting a few limitations. Traditional piston technology, though reliable and economical, is gradually being overshadowed by newer servo-driven positive displacement systems. These advanced alternatives often provide greater flexibility, accuracy, and adaptability, particularly for high-speed or highly variable production environments.
Additionally, for processes demanding frequent format changes, exceptionally high throughput, or compatibility with a wide range of viscosities, modern servo-driven fillers may offer advantages in terms of efficiency and control. However, for many applications—especially those involving thick or particulate-laden liquids—piston fillers continue to deliver dependable performance
The operation of automatic piston filling machines, such as the filling machine provided by Shanghai Npack, is both intuitive and efficient. This filling machine shares common characteristics with other filling machines, integrating basic components such as pistons and advanced servo drive and control systems, including PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), frequency converter, and motor.
The key of the piston filling machine is the accuracy and volumetric filling mechanism is the key. This is also the main reason why people are willing to use piston filling machines. Pistons and cylinders are key components in this process. The working principle of this system is direct stroke movement, which makes it easy to accurately measure and dispense liquid into the container.
At the beginning of the operation, first pull the piston to allow the liquid to enter the cylinder. Subsequently, push the piston to inject the accurately measured liquid into the bottle. This systematic push-pull movement an ensure a reliable and efficient liquid filling process.
Here we are listing some of the popular application industries for piston filling machines:
- Food and Beverage: this liquid filling machine is perfect for thick food items like sauces, jams, honey, and condiments, as well as for fruit juices or water. Apart from the aforementioned items, the piston filling machine is suitable for various food and drink purposes, including dairy products, salad dressings, and others. They are proficient at filling tasks with precision and speed, and can fulfill various packaging requirements effectively.
- Cosmetics and Personal Care products: In the cosmetics packaging process, piston fillers are used for accurately dosing and filling creams, lotions, gels, and other skincare cosmetics liquid.
- Pharmaceuticals: Piston filling machines are also popular application in the pharmaceuticals ,for filling syrups, creams, pastes, and other medicinal preparations, the most often using piston material is the ceramic piston pump, GMP and FDA standard.
- Chemicals: non corrosive chemical liquids , such as detergents, shampoo,solvents, and lubricants, piston fillers can effectively handle both harsh and delicate chemical viscosities while ensuring that containers are filled to the precise level required.
- Household Products:Similarly, these filling machines can also be used to fill non-edible household products, such as cleaning products, dishwashing liquid, and other household or industrial chemicals.
- Paints and Coatings: Piston pumps are used to spot fill products with different types of paint and coatings, which is common and may be inconsistent for filling thick, viscous products.
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Automatic inline Multy Heads Vertical Piston Filling Machine
Model: NP-VF
Filling range:1ml to 5000ml
2 to 24 Filling heads
Max capacity:140b/min base on 100ml
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Automatic Inline Multy Heads Horizontal Piston Filling Machine
Model: NP-EVF
Filling range:1ml to 5000ml
2 to 4 Filling heads
Max capacity:30b/min base on 100ml
High Speed rotary piston filler
High Speed Rotary Piston Filler Automatic Rotary Multy Heads Piston Filling Machine
Model: NP-RVF
Filling range:100ml to 1000ml
8 to 36 Filling heads
Max capacity: 250b/min base on 500ml
Non stop working when filling, motion control system
Automatic Tracking Piston Filling machine
Model: NP-TVF
Filling range:1ml to 1000ml
2 to 8 Filling heads
Max capacity:50b/min base on 500ml
Bench top Piston Filling Machine
Semi Automatic Piston Filling Machine
Model: NP-S
Filling range:1ml to 5000ml
1 to 2 Filling heads
Max capacity:30b/min base on 100ml
Speically designed for small business
Manual Piston Filler
Model: NP-MVF
Filling range:1ml to 100ml
1 Filling head
Max capacity:10b/min base on 50ml