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Vial filling machine from China

A vial filling machine quote can be a tabletop filler and stopper or a full washing, depyrogenation, filling and capping line with a barrier; the price gap is the aseptic scope your licence requires, not the pump.

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

Aseptic scope

Open machine, RABS or isolator. For sterile product this sets your cleanroom grade and validation work. Ask what barrier is included and what room it assumes.

Washing and depyrogenation

A full line adds a vial washer and hot air tunnel. A standalone filler assumes sterile vials arrive. Price them separately.

Stoppering and capping

Stoppers are fed by vibration and pressed in; flip-off caps are crimped after. Ask about stopper detection, reject, and half-stoppering for freeze drying.

Liquid or powder

Liquid vials use peristaltic, ceramic or piston pumps. Powder vials use a screw or disc doser. One machine does not switch between them.

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.

Vial drawing, stopper and cap samples, and fill volumes.
Your product: liquid or powder, and whether it is terminally sterilised or filled aseptically.
The room the machine will stand in and its current grade.
Vials per hour and batch sizes.
Your licence status: licensed medicines manufacturer or not.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Fill and stopper a counted run of your vials at quoted speed.	Each vial weighed, spread inside your tolerance, every missing stopper rejected.
Crimp caps on the same run and check seal integrity.	No loose caps and no failures on the container closure test you specify.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with model and serial number.
IQ/OQ protocols and material certificates for product-contact parts.
Surface finish records for contact parts.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

Your product is a non-sterile oral liquid.

An oral liquid filling machine, without the aseptic scope you would pay for here.

Your product must be closed in glass with no rubber contact.

An ampoule filling 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 · 10Ten vial filling machine listings on one marketplace, checked September 2026, advertised asking prices from US$5,000 to US$160,000, covering tabletop liquid fillers, powder fillers and sterile systems.
Listings · 3Three vial filler specifications, checked September 2026: a peristaltic 1 to 10 ml unit at 20 to 50 vials a minute claiming 0.3 to 0.5 percent; a 30 to 500 ml unit at up to 14,000 an hour claiming within 2 percent; a full washing-to-capping line at 6,000 to 24,000 an hour drawing 69.8 to 123.8 kW.
Arithmetic24,000 an hour is 400 a minute. 0.5 percent of 2 ml is 0.01 ml.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Ampoule filling machine. Choose it when the product is sealed in glass by flame instead of a stopper.
Oral liquid filling machine. Choose it when the liquid is swallowed, not injected.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Pharma & supplements 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 vial filling machine: what really differs?+

The validation package and barrier design differ more than the pump. Get the IQ/OQ documents before comparing price.

What does vial filling machine EU compliance mean?+

The machine needs a Declaration of Conformity under 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027. Sterile medicines from a licensed manufacturer fall under EU GMP (EudraLex Volume 4) and its Annex 1. An inspector judges your process, not the machine alone.

What goes on a vial filling machine factory audit?+

Contact-part welds and finish, the stopper reject, IQ/OQ templates and any barrier leak test.

Who is the EU importer?+

The business placing the machine on the EU market. It checks the documents and adds its name.

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