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Jam processing line from China

Jam is cooked until it reaches its sugar target, and open boiling darkens colour and flattens flavour, so the question is whether the line cooks under vacuum and how it proves the end point.

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

Cooking method

Open jacketed kettle or vacuum concentrator. Under vacuum the fruit boils at a lower temperature.

Fruit preparation

Washing, destoning, pulping. Whole pieces need gentler pumps than puree.

End point control

Inline refractometer or a hand check of soluble solids. Ask which, and whether it is logged.

Sugar and pectin dosing

A dissolving station, or sugar tipped by hand into the kettle.

Hot fill and capping

Hot filling into jars, steam or vacuum capping, and a cooling tunnel.

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.

Fruit types, pieces or puree, and whether fresh, frozen or pulp.
Kilograms of jam per hour or per batch.
Product category and soluble solids target.
Jar and closure type, fill temperature.
Pasteurising or cooling after capping.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Cook a batch of your fruit.	Target soluble solids reached, measured by refractometer, inside the cycle time in the offer.
Fill and cap jars, then cool them.	Every sampled lid pulled down by vacuum and fill weight inside tolerance.
Open sampled jars.	Fruit pieces of the agreed size present, not broken down to puree.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity per machine.
Food contact declarations under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004.
Pressure documents for the concentrator and jackets where 2014/68/EU applies.

The one people forget. Vacuum pump and condenser data. Without them you cannot check the boiling temperature the concentrator really reaches.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You make farm shop batches.

An open jacketed kettle and a hand filler.

You buy jam in bulk and only fill jars.

A piston filling and capping line.

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 · 6Six jam line listings describing jam equipment, checked September 2026: four for filling and capping only at US$6,500 to US$25,000, two from washing to capping at US$120,000 to US$200,000. Asking prices.
Listings · 6Six further listings in the same search, checked September 2026, were bread, biscuit, snack or vinegar lines.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Sauce processing line. Choose it if your product is savoury and texture comes from milling.
Fruit juice production line. Choose it if your fruit goes into drinks.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Food & candy 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 jam processing line?+

The concentrator decides colour and flavour. Ask for a cook of your fruit on the offered model.

Jam processing line factory audit?+

Vacuum reached, refractometer calibration, pump type for pieces, capping vacuum, product-side welds.

Jam processing line EU compliance?+

2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, and Regulation (EC) 1935/2004. Directive 2001/113/EC sets which names, such as jam or extra jam, your product may carry.

Who is the EU importer?+

The EU business placing the line on the market, which names itself and holds the file.

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