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Drip coffee bag packing machine from China

A drip bag machine has to make two packs at once, the filter bag with its paper hangers and the sealed outer envelope that keeps oxygen out, and many quotes cover only the first, so ground coffee packed on them goes stale within days.

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

Inner only, or inner and outer

Inner-only machines make the filter bag with hangers and leave you to pack it. Inner and outer machines seal each filter bag into a printed envelope. Five of thirteen listings named the outer envelope.

Filter sealing: ultrasonic or heat

Nonwoven drip filter is usually welded ultrasonically; heat-seal filter needs heat jaws. The welding method must match the filter roll you buy. Ask which filter materials were proven on the machine.

Hanger placement

The paper hangers must sit square on the bag so it hangs on a cup rim. Ask how hangers are fed and glued or welded, and what happens when the hanger roll runs out.

Dosing ground coffee in small weights

Drip bags hold small doses, and volumetric cups drift as grind and oil change. Ask the accuracy measured on your grind, and whether a servo auger is offered.

Nitrogen in the outer envelope

Ground coffee stales quickly in air. A nitrogen flush into the envelope helps only if residual oxygen is measured. Ask what figure was measured and how.

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 ground coffee, at the grind you will sell, and the fill weight per bag.
The filter roll and hanger type you will buy, as samples.
Outer envelope film and print, and whether it is nitrogen flushed.
Bags per hour needed, and how bags go into boxes after the machine.
Compressed air and nitrogen on site, voltage and phase.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run a counted batch of your coffee into your filter and envelope film at target speed.	Every filter bag has both hangers square and closed, every envelope sealed and printed in register.
Weigh each filled filter bag from the run.	Every bag inside your declared tolerance, spread recorded, not averaged.
Brew sample bags on a cup and check the envelope with an oxygen analyser.	Bags hang without tipping, no grounds pass the filter, and envelope oxygen at or below the level you set.

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 hopper, dosing parts and forming guides.
Parts list for ultrasonic horns, cutting knives and hanger feeder.

The one people forget. The ultrasonic horn part number and frequency. Horns wear and crack, and a replacement from another source must match the generator exactly.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You want to sell loose tea in the same bags.

A tea bag packing machine, built for leaf density and tea filter papers.

You sell drip bags in small runs of several origins a week.

A co-packer, or pre-made drip filters filled by hand and sealed into envelopes, until volume holds steady.

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 · 13Thirteen drip coffee bag machine listings on one marketplace, checked October 2026; eleven stated a price, from US$3,199 to US$60,000. The top listing named nitrogen flushing. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 13Of the same thirteen listings, checked October 2026, five named an inner and outer bag or an envelope, one stated a fill of 5 to 10 g and none stated a speed.
ArithmeticA 0.5 g overfill on a 10 g bag is 0.5 / 10 = 5 percent of the coffee given away.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Tea bag packing machine. Choose it if you pack leaf tea into string-and-tag or pyramid bags.
Coffee bean packing machine. Choose it if you sell whole beans in retail bags with a degassing valve.

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 drip coffee bag packing machine: how do they compare?+

Compare the outer envelope station, ultrasonic welding on your filter, dosing accuracy on your grind and spare horn supply. Origin matters less than those four.

What goes on a drip bag packing machine inspection checklist?+

Hanger position, weighed bags, envelope seals and print register, oxygen in envelopes, a brewing test, and the serial number matching the declaration.

What EU compliance applies to a drip coffee bag packer?+

Machinery rules, 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, with 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU, plus Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for coffee-contact parts.

Who is the importer into the EU?+

The business placing the machine on the EU market, which checks the conformity documents and adds its name and address.

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