No DramaBuyer guide · Cosmetics
Most cosmetic tube filler listings never say how the tube end is sealed, and the sealing head, matched to your laminate, is the part that decides whether tubes leak on the shelf.
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Hot air melts the inner layer of a plastic or laminate tube and jaws press it shut. Ultrasonic sealing welds with vibration and is often chosen for thin or recycled walls. A quote that says only 'sealing' tells you nothing: ask which head is fitted and whether it was set up on a tube like yours.
Accuracy figures are usually measured with water. A thick sunscreen traps air, so the piston delivers less than its stroke. Ask for accuracy on your product at your speed.
Cream left on the inside of the tube end stops the seal forming. Ask whether the nozzle dives into the tube and fills bottom up, and whether it has a cut-off valve so it does not drip on the way out.
A sensor turns each tube until its print mark faces front before sealing. Glossy, metallic or dark tubes can defeat the sensor. Send printed tubes, not blanks.
Each diameter needs its own holders and often its own sealing jaw. Ask how many diameters the price covers.
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Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.
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| Require this | A pass looks like |
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| Fill and seal a counted run of your printed tubes with your cream, then weigh every tube. | Every tube inside your written tolerance, with the spread recorded in the test report. |
| Leave sealed tubes for a day, then squeeze each hard and inspect the seal. | No seal opens, no cream visible inside the seal line, edges trimmed straight. |
| Change to your second tube diameter while you time it. | Changeover done with the supplied parts only, and the first sealed tubes pass the squeeze test. |
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A tube filler with a folding and crimping head. A hot air or ultrasonic head cannot close metal.
A cream filling machine or cosmetic jar filling machine with the right capper.
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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.
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Every machine we source in this area is on the Cosmetics page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.
Straight answers
Mostly sealing head quality, change parts per diameter and how well the eye mark reads your print. Test all three with your own tubes.
Serial number against the declaration, weighed fills, the squeeze test after a day, artwork facing front, a timed diameter change and legible seal codes.
A Declaration of Conformity and a technical file behind it. Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 governs your cosmetic product and its responsible person; the machine questions are cleanability and contact materials.
Your company, if you place it on the EU market. Your name and address go on the machine or its documents, and you check the conformity file.
Contact
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