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Coffee bean packing machine from China

Freshly roasted beans keep giving off carbon dioxide, so the hard part is not weighing them but getting a one-way valve on every bag, in the right place, and a seal that holds while the bag is still gassing.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 1 October 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Weigher type for whole beans

Beans flow well and suit a multihead or linear weigher. An auger meant for ground coffee cracks beans. Ask which weigher is in the price and whether its accuracy was measured on beans.

Valve applicator: inline or missing

Many quotes show a bagger with no valve station. An inline applicator punches the film and welds the valve before the tube forms, so it must stay in register with the print. Get the station named, with the valve types it accepts.

Bag style and former

Pillow, quad seal or flat bottom each need their own former; pre-made zip bags need a different machine type. Quad and flat bottom bags stand on a shelf and cost more in tooling.

Seal jaws on laminated coffee film

Coffee film is thick and often foil, and bean dust lands in the seal. Ask for temperature control per jaw. A weak side seal lets oxygen in long before the valve fails.

Nitrogen flushing

A nozzle on the tube is not a result. Ask what residual oxygen was measured on filled bags and the nitrogen use per hour.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Your beans as a sample, with roast level and hours from roast to pack.
Every bag weight you sell and the bag style for each.
The valve you will buy, as a physical sample, and your film specification.
Bags per hour needed, set against what your roaster produces per hour.
Whether ground coffee runs on the same machine, which needs an auger and a second setup.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run your beans into your printed film at target speed with the valve station on, for a counted run.	Every bag has a valve in the marked area, every valve opens under gentle pressure, no weld wrinkle across a valve.
Weigh every bag in the run individually.	All bags at or above declared weight, spread recorded per weight, not averaged.
Leave sealed bags of fresh roast overnight, then squeeze-test them.	Bags firm but not burst, valves released gas, no seal opened.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with model and serial number.
Food contact evidence under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for weigher buckets, chute and forming tube.
Former and valve station drawings listing the bag sizes each former makes.

The one people forget. The former list and valve station settings per bag size. Without them, a new bag size means paying the factory to rework a setup you already bought.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You roast a few hundred kilos a week for a shop and online.

A semi-automatic weigher, pre-made valve bags and a band sealer. A full bagger would run a few hours a week.

You only need valves on bags you already buy.

A coffee degassing valve applicator, without the weighing and forming stages.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 1One multihead weigher listing for coffee beans, checked October 2026, stated 65 bags a minute for a 10-head model and 120 for a 14-head model, with an asking price of US$5,000 to US$12,000 and no valve applicator named.
Listings · 3Three small vertical coffee packing listings, checked October 2026, asked US$2,500 to US$8,999. None stated a speed or named a valve station. These are asking prices, not landed cost.
Arithmetic65 bags a minute x 60 = 3,900 bags an hour. At 250 g a bag that is 3,900 x 0.25 = 975 kg of roasted coffee an hour to keep the machine busy.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Coffee degassing valve applicator. Choose it when you already have a filler and only need valves put on bags or film.
Drip coffee bag packing machine. Choose it if your product is single-serve hanging filter bags rather than retail bags of beans.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Coffee & tea page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European coffee bean packing machine: what differs?+

The principle is the same. Compare the valve station, seal consistency on thick laminates, weigher accuracy on beans and how fast a spare jaw arrives.

What goes on a coffee bean packing machine inspection checklist?+

Valve position and function on every bag, individual weights, the overnight seal test, formers against the order, and the serial number matching the declaration.

What does EU compliance involve?+

A Declaration of Conformity under 2006/42/EC up to 19 January 2027 or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 after, plus 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU, and Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for coffee-contact parts.

Who is the EU importer?+

Whoever places the machine on the EU market. It adds its name and address and checks the declaration and technical file. Buying direct makes that you.

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