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Doypack filling machine from China

The word doypack describes a stand-up pouch, not a machine, so two quotes under the same name can be a rotary table filling bought-in pouches and a horizontal line forming the pouch from reel film, and they cost, run and fail differently.

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

Which machine the word covers

Rotary premade, linear premade, or horizontal form-fill-seal (HFFS) from roll film. Make the factory write the type into the quotation. HFFS makes the pouch itself, so you stop buying converted pouches but take on a forming section to maintain.

Bottom gusset forming

On a reel-fed machine the W-shaped base is folded and sealed on the machine. Ask how that seal is checked. The base corner is where a standing pouch leaks first.

Will the filled pouch stand

Fill level, headspace and settling decide it. Ask whether a settling or tapping step sits between filler and top seal.

Closure stations

Zip, spout, tear notch or degassing valve each add a station. A zip must be opened before filling and the top jaw must cross it cleanly.

The doser on top

Auger, multihead weigher or piston pump. Low listings often show the frame alone. Ask for the doser model and whether it ran on this frame at the factory.

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.

Your pouch drawing: width, height, gusset depth and closure.
Whether you will buy printed pouches or form them from reel film. This decides the machine type.
Product, fill weight or volume, and bulk density or viscosity.
Output per shift, stated for the largest pouch.
Nitrogen flush or not, the coding method, and any checkweigher after the machine.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Fill and seal a counted batch of your pouches, or pouches formed from your film, at target speed, then stand every pouch on a flat table.	The number that tip over stays within the figure written in the contract.
Leak test a sample, looking hardest at base corners and where the top seal crosses the zip.	No leaks and no product trapped inside any seal.
Time a change from your smallest to your largest pouch, closure station included.	It ends within the quoted time and the next pouches pass the standing and leak checks.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity for this serial number, naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 for delivery from 20 January 2027.
Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 declaration for every product-contact part, doser included.
Manual in your language, diagrams, and a PLC program backup.

The one people forget. For a reel-fed machine, the film specification it was accepted on. When a cheaper film later stops the gusset forming, that record shows whether film or machine changed.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your product is a drink or puree poured through a spout and capped.

A spout pouch filling machine, which fills through the spout, not the open top.

You run small volumes of many products and a pillow bag would sell them.

A VFFS packaging machine, or a tabletop filler with a band sealer until volume pays for a pouch 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 · 10Ten marketplace listings titled doypack filling machine, checked September 2026, asked US$3,800 to US$250,000. The top figure was a special-shaped beverage pouch line; all ten titles described premade pouch machines. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 13Thirteen listings titled horizontal doypack machine, checked September 2026, asked US$3,000 to US$100,000. Several titles said premade pouch, one said HFFS, and most did not say whether the pouch is formed from film.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Premade pouch packing machine. Read the premade pouch packing machine page once you have chosen printed pouches and need the detail on gripping and opening them.
Spout pouch filling machine. Choose a spout pouch filling machine when liquid goes in through a fitted spout and gets a cap.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Packaging 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.

What is the best doypack filling machine from China?+

The type that matches your pouch supply: printed pouches point to a premade machine, high volume without a converter points to reel-fed HFFS. Settle that before comparing prices.

Chinese vs European doypack filling machine?+

Compare the same type. On HFFS, ask for proof of gusset forming on your own film first. A used European machine can be the better buy if its format range fits.

What goes on a doypack filling machine inspection checklist?+

The standing test, leak tests at base corners and zip, a timed format change, the doser run on the frame, then guards, emergency stops and a nameplate matching the Declaration.

What does the EU importer of a doypack filling machine need?+

Buying direct makes you the importer: your name goes on the machine or its papers, and you check the Declaration of Conformity and technical file exist and match. Ask before paying a deposit.

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