How to Fill Lotion Bottles Efficiently: A Guide to Filling Machines
From moisturizers and skin creams to sunscreens and other cosmetic and personal care products, lotions are used by millions of people on a daily basis. If you are a company mass producing lotions for private labels or a small cosmetic company focused on a niche market, being able to quickly, accurately, and consistently fill bottles will positively impact the production process. At Liquid Packaging Solutions, we can manufacture the right liquid filler for your large or small business.
Bottle filling machines for sale at LPS for cosmetics and personal care lotions range from automatic machinery that can prepare upwards of 100 bottles per minute, depending on the container size, to more small-scale bottle filling machines for niche businesses or markets. Whether using inline equipment or a tabletop bottle filling machine, LPS fillers can use principles to fill lotions by weight, level, or volume.
WHY CHOOSE AN AUTOMATIC BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE?
Automatic bottle fillers are often a part of in line packaging systems, which may include other equipment such as rinsing or capping machines. These machines use an indexing system and a PLC to properly locate bottles under fill heads and repeatedly run cycles to meet production goals. While an operator will properly set up the filler initially, their involvement once the packaging line is running is limited to monitoring the machine and performing other simple tasks related to the line as a whole. These tasks may include ensuring bulk product is available, loading bottles onto the line, or preparing finished product for shipping.
The PLC includes all of the settings necessary to allow the machine to quickly and repeatedly fill bottles, including indexing times, fill times, and controls for machine options such as drip trays, neck locators, or even turntables. In addition to accuracy and consistency, automatic filling machines provide speeds not attainable by hand filling or using semi-automatic filling equipment. These machines often include recipe screens as well, making initial set up as simple as pressing a few buttons on the touchscreen interface.
For businesses filling lotions that need to upscale production, expect future growth, or currently have high demand for their products, automatic bottle filling machines are the best choice to efficiently fill their products.
WHY CHOOSE A SMALL-SCALE BOTTLE FILLER?
Small-scale bottle fillers can be built in a variety of formats to meet the needs of the specific business using the equipment. Tabletop filling machines for lotions are a great way for a small business with limited space to efficiently prepare products. While full-frame semi-automatic equipment will often give a business the option to move to automatic production if the business experiences growth in the future. Small-scale, or semi-automatic, filling machines for lotions will require operator interaction during each cycle that the machine performs. More specifically, the operator will typically place the bottles under the fill heads, hit a switch to start the fill, and remove the filled lotion bottles once the cycle is complete. This process is then repeated until all of the necessary bottles are filled.
Though not running automatically and not providing the high speed fills of the automatic machinery, the semi-automatic liquid fillers offer a cost-effective and efficient solution to consistently and repeatedly prepare different lotions for the shelf. The simple operation and space-saving design of small-scale filling machines offers smaller businesses a versatile solution that will not break the bank. For smaller producers of cosmetics or personal care products, a small-scale bottle filler with the ability to grow with a company or with demand is the best option for filling bottles.
Whether just starting out with a new product or filling hundreds of brand name lotions every hour of the day, how you choose to fill your bottles based on products, viscosity, demand, and other factors is a decision that can provide efficient and reliable production for both current and future needs. For more insight into equipment options, browse the different filling machines offered by Liquid Packaging Solutions or call our offices today.