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Nail polish filling machine from China

With nail polish the dose is the easy part: a mixing ball, a wiper plug and a brush cap must each go into a small glass bottle, and most quotes leave some of that to a person's hands.

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

Ball, wiper and brush cap placing

A complete nail polish machine drops a mixing ball, presses a wiper plug into the neck, then places and tightens a cap with the brush on its stem. Ask which stations the price includes; each missing one is another operator.

Keeping pigment in suspension

Pigment settles in a still hopper, so first and last bottles can differ in shade. Ask whether the hopper is stirred, including while the line waits.

Dosing a lacquer that thins when stirred

Polish thins while it moves and thickens at rest. Piston, peristaltic and rotor pumps all sell under this name. Ask for nozzle cut-off and fill profile on your lacquer, including after a pause.

Seals and tubes against solvent

Acetate solvents swell some rubbers and tubes, and a swollen seal changes the dose. Ask for the material of every seal, tube and O-ring in the product path.

Vapour near motors and switches

Ask whether motors, sensors and controls near the heads are offered as ATEX equipment under 2014/34/EU. Whether your room is a hazardous zone is your own assessment.

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 polish, with its safety data sheet.
Bottles, wiper plugs, mixing balls and brush caps you will actually buy.
Fill volume per bottle and the tolerance your label allows.
Bottles per minute, and how many colour changes you run in a day.
Whether UV gel polish must run on the same machine.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Run a counted batch of your bottles through the ball, wiper and cap stations at target speed.	Every bottle holds one ball, a seated wiper and a brush that reaches the bottom without bending.
Fill a strongly pigmented shade, stop for your usual break, then restart.	First and last bottles match a drawdown card, and fill weights stay inside tolerance.
Change from one colour to the next while timed, flushing included.	No streak of the old colour in the first bottles, and flush solvent used is written down.

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.
If the machine is sold for a vapour area, the ATEX declaration and marking under 2014/34/EU for each electrical part concerned.
A material list for every seal, tube and pump part that touches the lacquer.

The one people forget. Drawings and part numbers for the wiper tooling and cap chuck per bottle. Without them, new tooling comes only from the first supplier.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your product is a mascara or lip gloss in a tall, narrow vial.

A mascara filling machine, built for a thicker product and a deeper wiper.

You fill small batches in many shades each week.

A benchtop filler with balls and caps placed by hand.

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 · 30Thirty listings from one marketplace search for nail polish filling machines, checked October 2026, advertised asking prices from US$390 for a single head filler to US$20,000 for automatic filling and capping machines. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 30Of the same 30, only five titles named brush, plug or steel ball placing, and nine also offered the machine for other liquids such as perfume, essential oil or eye drops.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Mascara filling machine. Choose a mascara filler for a thick product in a narrow vial.
Perfume filling machine. Look at a perfume filler when the liquid is alcohol based and closed with a crimped pump.

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 nail polish filling machine: what matters?+

Ball, wiper and cap stations, seals that survive your solvent, and electrical parts near the vapour, tested on your bottle.

What goes on a nail polish filling machine inspection checklist?+

Serial number against the declaration, a counted run through every station, shade after a stop and a timed colour change.

What CE documentation does a nail polish filling machine need?+

A Declaration of Conformity and technical file, plus ATEX papers if sold for a vapour area. A CE mark in a photo proves nothing.

Who is the EU importer of a nail polish filling machine?+

The business placing it on the EU market, usually you. Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 covers the polish, not the machine.

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