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Cream filling machine from China

A thick cream does not flow down into the piston by itself, so a cream filler that doses water perfectly can leave half-empty cylinders and air pockets once your real product sits in the hopper.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

How product reaches the piston

Gravity works for a pourable lotion. A stiff night cream or body butter needs a pressurised or stirred hopper, or a feed pump, to push product into the cylinder on every stroke. Ask which feed the quote includes and on what viscosity it was proven.

Piston, rotor pump or servo

A pneumatic piston is simple and cheap. A rotor pump handles very thick paste with less shear. A servo piston lets you change volume on the screen instead of with a hand wheel. Each suits a different product, not a different budget.

Heated hopper for creams that set

Some creams are filled warm and set in the pot. Without a jacketed hopper and heated lines, the product thickens during a stop and the first fills after restart come out short.

Nozzle cut-off

Cream strings from the nozzle and lands on the rim or thread. Ask for a nozzle with a shut-off valve and a lift speed you can set.

Dead volume and cleaning

Cream left in hoppers, valves and hoses is lost at every changeover. Ask how much product the machine holds when empty and whether valves strip without tools.

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.

A sample of each cream, with viscosity, density and fill temperature.
Containers: jars, bottles or tubes, with neck and opening sizes.
Fill volumes and the tolerance allowed by your label claim.
Batch size and number of product changes per day.
Whether you need a capper, a liner placer or only the filler.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Fill a counted run of your thickest cream at your target speed and weigh each container.	All fills inside your tolerance, spread recorded, no short fills after the first ten.
Stop the machine for fifteen minutes with product in the hopper, then restart.	The first fills after restart weigh within tolerance and no air pockets show when cut open.
Strip and clean the product path while you time it.	Clean within the time written in the offer, with no product left in valve cavities.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with model and serial number, under 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027, then Regulation (EU) 2023/1230.
Low voltage 2014/35/EU and EMC 2014/30/EU references where the machine has heaters or electric drives.
Material certificates and a parts drawing for the hopper, piston, valve and seals.

The one people forget. A seal list with material and size for every O-ring in the product path. Creams with oils and fragrance attack the wrong elastomer, and a swollen seal changes the fill volume.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your product pours like milk and goes into pump bottles.

A lotion filling machine with a pump-head capper. A cream piston is slower than it needs to be for that job.

You fill tens of thousands of jars a day with liners and caps.

A cosmetic jar filling machine with in-line liner and cap placing, not a stand-alone filler.

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 cream filling machine listings on one marketplace, checked September 2026, advertised asking prices from US$800 for a semi-automatic pneumatic filler up to US$300,000 for an automatic container line; at least three offered a heated or stirred hopper.
Listings · 16The same sixteen listings used piston, rotor pump, servo and peristaltic dosing under the one name. Asking prices, not landed cost.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Lotion filling machine. Choose a lotion filler when the product pours and the hard part is the pump head, not the dose.
Cosmetic jar filling machine. Move to a jar filling machine when you need liners, caps and a flat fill surface in one pass.

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

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European cream filling machine: which is better?+

Judge the feed system, seals and valve design on your cream. The name on the frame matters less than whether the piston fills completely on every stroke.

What should a cream filling machine sourcing guide tell me to test?+

Counted fills of your thickest cream, a restart after a stop, cut-open containers for air, and a timed clean-down.

What CE documentation comes with a cream filling machine?+

A Declaration of Conformity and a technical file behind it. A CE mark on a listing proves nothing.

Does the machine need to meet the cosmetics regulation?+

Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 applies to your product and its responsible person. The machine questions are cleanability and which materials touch the cream.

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