The following article is a Must Read before buying a new K cup filling machines:
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What Are K cups?
The First K-cup was launched in 1998. it was designed for the office market.
Now it is the most popular single-serve cup product in North American.
About 80% of U.S. coffee companies have the K CUP category, and most coffee companies in Canada are also producing such products.
K cup is composed of sealing film, coffee granules, filter paper, and outer cup.
It can load 8-13 grams granules inside the cups
You can also fill cocoa powder, milk powder, tea granules, Health powder, etc inside the cups.
Now in the U.S.A, 45 percent of Americans own a single-cup coffee maker. More than 10 billion k-cups are sold every year. What a huge market!
Even in Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, South Korea, China, and other countries and regions, there are some coffee companies offering personalized coffee K cups options for the North American market.
Now, we all know coffee capsules including K cups Change Tastes and Changing your coffee drinking Habits.
What will happen in the future? The future lies in convenience and sustainable development! And k-cups and coffee capsules will help you to catch the train of the future.
The K-cup is an airtight container that locks out oxygen, light, and moisture while locking in freshness and flavor.
What Are the K cup filling machines?
K cup filling machines is specially used for filling coffee/powders into k cups and sealing k cups.
It can have more functions, such as missing-cup detection, automatic feeding, automatic sealing film, automatic cup ejection, etc.
Die Maschine besteht aus Edelstahl, Kohlenstoffstahl, Aluminiumlegierung und anderen Metallmaterialien mit elektrischen Kontrollteilen.
Die aktuellen Mainstream-K-Tassen-Füllmaschinen können 50-500 K-Tassen pro Minute erreichen.
Sein Erscheinungsbild hat mehr Fabriken dazu beigetragen, die automatisierte und unbemannte Produktion zu verwirklichen, mehr Arbeit und Verschwendung effektiv zu sparen und allen Verbrauchern jeden Tag einen sicheren und gesunden Kaffee zu trinken.
What are the standard K cup filling machines functions?
Effiziente K -Tassen -Füllmaschinen haben im Grunde die folgenden Funktionen.
#1 K Tassen fallen: Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, Tassen zu senden, die wir derzeit kennen:
1. Die vertikale Drop -Methode: Dies soll die Tasse in den vertikalen Becher -Lagertank legen, und dann verwendet die Maschine die Lücke, die nach dem Falten der Tasse angezeigt wird, um die Tasse mit einem speziellen Werkzeug zu trennen. Diese Methode zum Ablegen von Tassen hat Einschränkungen auf der Höhe des Veranstaltungsortes.
2. Die horizontale Futtermethode: Diese Methode besteht darin, einen horizontalen Becher -Lagertank, pneumatische Finger zu erstellen, um jede Tasse zu greifen und ihn in die Maschine zu stecken. Diese Geschwindigkeit ist nicht so schnell wie die vertikale, aber Sie können es willkürlich verlängern, mehr Tassen zu platzieren und die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Tassen zu verringern.
#2 K Cups Detektorsensor: Dies soll überprüfen, ob die K -Tassen in den Tassenschimmel gut geladen sind. Wenn es keine K -Tassen erkennt, funktioniert die Füllung und Versiegelung nicht. Wenn es drei kontinuierliche leere Löcher erkennt, verhindern Sie, dass die Maschine ausgeführt wird.
#3 Füllstationen:
Diese Station umfasst drei Teile:
1. Auto -Kaffee -Fütterung zum Trichter: Wir haben zwei Auswahlen: Auger -Fütterungssystem und Vakuum -Fütterungssystem. Normalerweise werden wir das Vakuum -Fütterungssystem ausrüsten.
2. Servomotor und Schneckenfüllsystem: Die guten Maschinen sollten den Servo -Motor verwenden, um die Schnecke zu steuern, die genau ist. Alle Parameter sind im Kontroll -Touchscreen veränderlich. Dies ist der Schlüssel, um eine hohe Genauigkeit zu gewährleisten.
3. Static system: If you are producing dark roasted coffee, you need to add a static elimination system. Otherwise, during filling, coffee particles will stick to the filling container and spill on the machine, and the filling accuracy will be severely reduced.
We will recommend customers to add this system.
#4 Clean the K cups edge after filling: After filling, K cups need to go through a cleaning process to remove the powder overflowing from the edge to ensure the sealing effect of the subsequent process. A mature cleaning procedure is very important, it plays a crucial role in the effect of your final product.
#5 Lids place system: After the cup completes the previous process, the sealing film can then be placed. At present, it is more popular to adopt the form of film, and the machine can complete the action of automatically taking and placing. Of course, you can also use the film roll method. In this case, the structure of the machine is slightly complicated and the function of the cutter needs to be increased. Also, it’s not so easy to replace.
#6 Lids detection: The same as the cup detection function, after the film is placed, a film detection function is required. If there is no film, the machine will not seal, and the cup without the film will be rejected when the cup is discharged. If this function is not available, the heat sealing head at the back may stick to the cup and affect the operation of the machine
#7 Sealing: Gegenwärtig wird das Prinzip der Hochtemperaturheizversiegelung hauptsächlich zur Verschmelzung der Tasse und der Versiegelungsschicht des Films bei hoher Temperatur von 180 bis 240 Grad verwendet, um die Versiegelungswirkung zu vervollständigen. In diesem Schritt wird die Tasse angehoben, um den Versiegelungskopf zu berühren, und gleichzeitig wird ein bestimmter Druck auf die Tasse ausgeübt, um die Versiegelung enger zu machen. Möglicherweise müssen Sie später das Heizrohr und das Thermoelement ersetzen.
#8 Ausgabe: Nachdem die Tasse gefüllt und versiegelt ist, wird die Tasse aus der Maschine gedrückt. Um diesen Vorgang abzuschließen, haben wir drei Optionen:
1. Cup sunction: This is the most commonly used, suitable for aluminum and plastic film materials. Suction function are used to grab the cup.
2. The mechanical finger grips the cup: This is suitable for cups that are not easily deformed, such as plastic cups.
3. Air blowing: This is a trachea under the cup. When the cup passes through the trachea, the compressed air from the trachea can blow out the cup quickly. This is not commonly used at present.
#9 Stickstoffspülsystem: This is the most important function of coffee preservation. During the filling and sealing process of K cups coffee, you can always fill with nitrogen to remove oxygen in the container, so as to ensure that the coffee is always in the freshest state.
AFPAK machines are equipped with 7-9 nitrogen filling systems, and nitrogen is also injected into the hopper so that your coffee will last longer.
After these nine procedures, you can get a standard K CUPS.
Of course, you can purchase more functions, such as online weighing, conveyor belt out of the cup, counting flip, etc.
I need to produce k-cup, and want to buy a k cup filling machines, so what should I pay attention to?
Based on AFPAK ten years of experience, general customers will have the following questions.
Where are k cup filling machines made now?
Now, The main manufacturers are located in Europe, American, and China. EU and USA's equipment is of high quality and price. and Chinese equipment is cheap and also reliable.
Chinese K cup filling machines are reliable?
Many people think that Chinese equipment is cheap. The equipments they bought before had a lot of problems, and even they couldn’t be used, so some people think that although Chinese equipment is cheap. It lacks in quality.
After years of upgrading, Chinese manufacturers have also realized the importance of quality, so they are now focusing on customer experience and improving the quality of their machines. There are many customer's factories that purchase all equipment from China.
Just following AFPAK's strategy to purchase equipment, you can get the equipment you are satisfied with.
What elements do I need to focus on for the K cup filling machines?
Design and workmanship of the machine: There are a lot of equipment manufacturers in China, which often cause headaches for customers. Compare several devices and you will know which one is of high quality
Filling Accuracy: This is very important. Powder filling is relatively complicated. Whether high-precision and stable filling can be ensured is a very important factor for the production capacity of this equipment.
Sealing is strong and beautiful: This is an essential factor for your customers to choose your products.
Oxygen Residual: Very important factor to protect your coffee freshness. Normally it is required to make the oxygen residual limited to 1% around which many factories cannot make it.
What do you recommend to fill and seal my own k cups?
AFPAK haS a full range of speed and price lists for your choice.
Highly Recommend: AF-RN1S Rotary K cup filling machines
This machine can produce 50 c.p.min.
It can change molds to produce different capsules (not for dolce gusto capsules).
Entry-level choose: AF-H1 Linear type K cup filling machines
Designed for startup coffee companies.
produce 30-50 c.p.min
Although it is an entry-level version, it has all the functions needed to produce K cups and is the favorite machine of many start-up companies.
Big Production choose: AF-H2/4/6/8/10 Linear type K cup filling machines
The produce is 35-50 circles per minute for each lane.
Lab table type: AF-BZD95 semi-auto sealing machine
It can seal the capsules, and you can use it to test your materials.
Wenn Sie weitere Fragen zu K Cups und K Cup -Füllmaschinen haben, können Sie sich eingeladen, und ich werde Ihnen in kürzester Zeit antworten.
Über den Autor:
Jeffree: 2011 einen Universitätsabschluss mit Schwerpunkt International Economics and Trade. Fast 10 Jahre Berufserfahrung in der Verpackungsmaschinerie -Branche. Bereitstellung von Dienstleistungen für mehr als 500 Kunden hauptsächlich aus europäischen und amerikanischen Ländern. Einer der frühesten Menschen in China, die Kaffeekapselfüllung und -versiegelungstechnologie recherchierten und angewendet haben.