Powder Fillers
Powder
Fillers come in two main types: Auger Fillers and Net Weight Fillers.
Sometimes there is even a cross breed where an auger filler feeds a
bottle that is on a scale. Just like every other type of machinery on
this site there are advantages and disadvantages to each type of
powder filler.
Auger fillers have the advantage of speed when the right product is
run on it. The product should be free flowing and not tend to bridge
or pack tight. I've seen a single head machine run as many as 40
bottles per minute on an ideal product. But if your powder or granular
product tends to bridge or pack tight look out, you may wish you'd
never heard the words Auger Filler.
Net weight fillers have the advantage of accuracy. No giving away
excessive fills with these machines! Many can fill within 1 gram on a
1 pound fill. The big disadvantage of a net weight filler are the
machines are relatively slow. 20 fills per minute is about as
good as it gets and you will probably be in the 10 - 15 bottles per
minute range per head. The other disadvantages are that they tend to
spew very light powders (like talc) into the air and get all over the
place. Enclosing it in a cabinet can help but you'll have a lot of
cleaning there too as the design of net weight fillers is necessarily
open. If we had to choose between the two fillers for overall
performance however, our vote would be for a net weight filler because
of accuracy and cost. In fact you can usually buy a 2 or 3 head powder
filler for the cost of a single auger filling head. So you can make up
the speed with extra heads. Just watch out for those light
powders!
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