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Sauce processing line from China

Sauce lines fail on texture and stability: a mayonnaise that separates, or a ketchup whose thickness drifts batch to batch, and the machine that decides it is often one line in an offer that spends its pages on the filler.

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

Emulsifying or milling principle

Vacuum emulsifier for mayonnaise, colloid mill for smooth pastes, coarse mill for chunky sauces, homogeniser for thin emulsions. Ask which one your recipe was tested on.

Cooking vessel

Jacketed kettle with a scraper agitator, heated by steam, thermal oil or electricity. Scrapers keep thick sauce from burning on the wall.

Vacuum

Removes air from emulsions so they do not oxidise or foam in the jar.

Heat treatment after filling

Hot fill, tunnel pasteuriser, or retort. Set by acidity and target shelf life.

Filler

Piston filling for thick sauces with pieces. Ask the nozzle bore against your largest piece.

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.

Recipes, with acidity, oil content and largest piece size.
Batch size and batches per shift.
Heat treatment plan: hot fill, pasteurise after filling, or retort.
Packs: jar, bottle, pouch, sachet or bucket.
Steam supply and cleaning expectations.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Make a batch of your recipe.	Viscosity and particle size inside your specification, measured, and no separation after the agreed hold.
Repeat the batch the next day.	Measured viscosity inside your tolerance of the first batch.
Clean kettle and mill as the manual describes.	Swabs clean without dismantling beyond what the manual states.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity per machine.
Food contact declarations for product-side parts.
Pressure documents for steam jackets where 2014/68/EU applies.

The one people forget. Pressure documents for steam-jacketed kettles. A jacket on boiler steam is pressure equipment, and the inspector asks for its file.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You make a few hundred jars a week.

A kitchen-scale kettle, or a co-packer.

Your sauce is low in acid and must keep at room temperature.

Add a retort sterilizer; hot fill alone will not make it shelf stable.

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 · 12Twelve sauce production line listings, checked September 2026, advertised US$7,000 to US$250,000. Most described filling and packing; two described processing tomato paste or soy sauce, at US$50,000 each. Asking prices.
Listings · 1One tunnel pasteurising and cooling line for pickles and sauces, checked September 2026, advertised US$8,800 to US$36,000.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Jam processing line. Choose it if your product is a cooked fruit spread with a sugar end point.
Retort sterilizer. Choose it if your sauce is filled already and must be made shelf stable.

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 sauce processing line?+

Emulsifier head and mill gap decide texture. Ask to run your recipe on the exact model offered.

Sauce processing line inspection checklist?+

Scraper contact with the wall, seal type on the agitator shaft, vacuum reached, mill gap setting, product-side welds.

Sauce processing line EU compliance?+

2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027. Contact parts fall under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004. Ask about hygienic design to EN 1672-2.

Who is the EU importer?+

The EU business placing the line on the market, named on the machines or papers.

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