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Pilot filling machine from China

A pilot filler changes product and container every week, so what you pay for is accuracy at your smallest fill and the time it takes to change over, while listings sell speed.

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

Dosing principle

Peristaltic pumps suit sterile and small liquid fills, pistons suit thicker liquids, and screw or auger dosing suits powders.

Accuracy, at which fill and speed

A percentage means little without the fill size and speed behind it.

Wetted parts

Tube, steel grade and seals that touch product, with certificates.

Changeover

Tooling per container, time to swap it, and whether the unit also stoppers, caps or crimps.

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.

Product: liquid viscosity or powder flow, and any foaming.
Smallest and largest fill, and the containers with closures.
Vials or bottles per hour you actually need.
Whether you work under EU GMP, food law or cosmetics law.
How many changeovers you run a week.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Fill a counted run of your product at your smallest fill and weigh each one.	Mean and spread of fill weights inside the tolerance in the order.
Change to your second container and product while timed.	Done inside the offer's stated time, first fills in tolerance.
Run through closing or capping on the same run.	Every container closed and seated, no reject left in the output.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity for the serial number: 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027, then Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, plus 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU.
Material certificates for product-contact parts, and IQ and OQ documents where the buyer works under EU GMP.
Food-contact declaration under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 for food supplements and other food.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You already fill tens of thousands of units a day of one product.

A production filling line, where speed matters more than changeover.

You fill a handful of samples a week.

A calibrated benchtop dispenser or a balance and pipette, until volume justifies a machine.

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 · 11Eleven priced listings for small-volume filling machines, checked September 2026, ran from US$1,500 for benchtop units to US$300,000 for aseptic ampoule lines. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 1One pilot vial filling and capping line, checked September 2026, listed 0.1 to 1 g fills, plus or minus 3 to 5 percent, 40 to 50 vials a minute, US$8,300 to US$8,900.
Arithmetic0.1 g x 5 percent = 0.005 g = 5 mg. 40 vials a minute x 60 = 2,400 an hour.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Stainless steel reactor vessel. Look at a reactor vessel when the batch upstream of the filler is the bottleneck.
Laboratory freeze dryer. Look at a lab freeze dryer when filled vials must be dried and stoppered.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Lab & process 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 pilot filling machine: what is the difference?+

Compare fill weight spread on your product at small fills, and the contact-part papers, not speed.

What goes on a pilot filling machine inspection checklist?+

Serial against the declaration, weighed fills at both ends of the range, changeover time and contact-part certificates.

What CE documentation does a pilot filling machine need?+

A Declaration of Conformity for that serial number and a technical file behind it. The machine is never GMP compliant on its own; the buyer qualifies it.

Who is the EU importer of a pilot filling machine?+

The business placing it on the EU market, usually the buyer, who checks the conformity file.

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