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Tea bag packing machine from China

The bag decides the machine: a flat double-chamber bag with thread, tag and envelope, a pyramid mesh bag and a plain round bag each need a different machine, and a buyer who picks on price before fixing the bag often cannot make the pack they planned.

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

Bag type the machine makes

Double-chamber with thread and tag, single-chamber pillow, or pyramid in nylon or plant-based mesh. These are different machines, not options. Name the exact bag and get a sample made on the quoted model.

How the thread is fixed

Some machines fix thread and tag with a small metal staple, others knot or heat-seal it. Staples raise a metal detection question with retail buyers. Ask which method and whether both are offered.

Filter paper: heat-seal or not

Double-chamber bags usually use non heat-seal paper folded and crimped; pillow bags use heat-seal paper. The paper you can buy locally may decide the machine.

Dosing leaf, dust or herbs

Volumetric cups suit fine, even tea dust. Larger leaf, flowers and herbal blends bridge and vary; they may need a weigher. One listing gave its dose as a maximum volume, not a weight.

Outer envelope and cartoning

Envelopes protect aroma and carry print. Ask whether the envelope station and counting into boxes are included, since boxing by hand can be the slowest step.

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.

The exact bag you want, as a sample, with thread, tag and envelope if any.
Your tea or blend, since leaf size decides the dosing method.
Fill weight per bag and bags per box.
Filter paper or mesh, tags and thread you will buy, and where from.
Boxes per shift needed and whether cartoning is manual.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Make a counted run of your bag with your tea, paper and tags at target speed.	Every bag closed, thread and tag attached, no leaf escaping, envelopes sealed and printed in register.
Weigh every bag from the run.	All bags inside your declared tolerance, spread recorded, not averaged.
Brew sample bags and pull the tag firmly.	Bags hold in hot water without bursting and no tag separates from its thread.

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 cups and forming parts.
A spares list for knives, crimping rollers and dosing cups with part numbers.

The one people forget. The dosing cup sizes supplied. A new blend of different density needs a different cup, and a missing size stops a launch.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You pack coffee in hanging filter bags.

A drip coffee bag packing machine, built for ground coffee and paper hangers.

You sell loose-leaf tins and a few boxes of bags a week.

A tea co-packer for the bags until the range and volume settle.

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 · 16Sixteen tea bag machine listings with a price on one marketplace, checked October 2026, asked US$3,950 to US$85,000. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 11Eleven priced listings from a second search on the same marketplace, checked October 2026, asked US$500 to US$30,000; one stated a speed, 100 bags a minute.
Listings · 1One inner and outer bag listing with thread and tag, checked October 2026, stated 20 to 40 bags a minute, a maximum fill of 12 ml and 3.35 kW, at an asking price of US$12,000.
Arithmetic40 bags a minute x 60 = 2,400 bags an hour, or 2,400 / 20 = 120 boxes of 20.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Drip coffee bag packing machine. Choose it if the product is ground coffee in hanging filter bags.
Tea sorting machine. Read it if stalks and off-colour leaf must come out before the tea reaches the bagger.

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 tea bag packing machine: where is the difference?+

Compare bag quality, stops per hour and speed on your own tea, and how fast crimping rollers and knives arrive. A used European machine can be the better buy if its bag type is yours.

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

Bag sample against your reference, weighed bags, tag pull test, brew test, envelope seals, dosing cups supplied and the serial number.

What EU compliance applies to a tea bag packer?+

Machinery rules, 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 after, plus 2014/35/EU, 2014/30/EU and Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for parts touching tea.

Who is the importer of record?+

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

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