Production-scale machines and full lines available
Recommended configuration✓ Food-grade product-contact parts
10-head or 14-head multihead weigher for beans; volumetric cup filler for granulated and powdered coffee; auger filler for powder only, recommended for packs over 1 kg
Ground, instant and whole-bean coffee
4-side seal gusseted bags with a degassing valve; sachets, sticks and pouches
250 g to 1 kg on the lines we have supplied; sachets confirmed by trial
Rated 10 to 15 or 20 to 25 bags a minute, to within 2%
About our modelModel codes shown are machines we have supplied and configured for previous projects. Your machine is specified and configured to suit your product, output and pack format — not supplied off the shelf.
A coffee packaging machine weighs or doses ground coffee, instant coffee or beans into bags. These are the coffee products our machines pack, with the usual pack and the machine for each. A trial on your own coffee confirms the setup.
Weighing and bag forming. A Z-type bucket elevator feeds a 10-head or 14-head multihead weigher, the coffee filling machine that weighs each bag of 250 g to 1 kg to within 2%. A bag-making device on the VFFS machine forms 4-side seal gusseted bags from roll film. The 10-head coffee line is rated at 10 to 15 bags a minute and the 14-head line at 20 to 25; more heads give the weigher more portions to combine, so it reaches the target weight faster.
Valve, nitrogen and sealing. A valve inserter, fed by a valve scrambler, fits a one-way degassing valve into the film as each coffee bag forms, and a nitrogen-flushing device fills the bag before it is sealed. VFFS coffee bagging covers weighing, bag forming, valve, nitrogen and sealing in one line. Whole beans are weighed rather than augered, which keeps the beans whole.
Auger filling on a VFFS. Fine ground and instant coffee are powders, so they are dosed by an auger filler on a VFFS that forms pillow or gusseted bags from roll film. For high volumes of single-serve coffee sachets and sticks, a multi-lane VFFS with an auger filler forms several packs at once, and a single-lane machine suits smaller runs. See the sachet filling machines.
Pre-made pouches, cups and pods. Coffee in stand-up and zipper pouches is filled into pouches that arrive already made, on a horizontal fill-seal machine or a semi-automatic auger filler with a band sealer; see the pouch packaging machines. Coffee in cups and pods is filled and sealed on a cup fill and seal machine with an auger or measuring-cup doser.
These are the coffee pack formats producers ask us to quote for, with the machine setup for each. On a VFFS, each bag width needs its own forming shoulder, so a line that runs several widths is quoted with extra shoulders.
| Pack | Format | Machine setup |
|---|---|---|
| 250 g to 1 kg retail bags | 4-side seal gusseted bag with a degassing valve, nitrogen-flushed | VFFS with a 10-head or 14-head multihead weigher, valve inserter and nitrogen flushing, rated at 10 to 15 or 20 to 25 bags a minute, to within 2% |
| Single-serve sachets and sticks | 3-side or 4-side seal sachet, or stick pack | Multi-lane VFFS with an auger filler for high volumes; a single-lane machine for smaller runs |
| Retail bags of fine ground or instant coffee | Pillow or gusseted bag from roll film | VFFS with an auger filler |
| Stand-up and zipper pouches | Pre-made pouch | Horizontal fill-seal machine, or a semi-automatic auger filler with a band sealer |
| Cups and pods | Pre-formed cup or pod, film-sealed | Cup fill and seal machine with an auger or measuring-cup doser |
Output on a coffee line is set by the pack size and the weigher. Our coffee lines are rated at 10 to 15 bags a minute with a 10-head weigher and 20 to 25 bags a minute with a 14-head weigher, on 250 g to 1 kg valve bags. These are the ratings of each build, not results measured on a customer’s line.
We confirm the output for your coffee and pack size by running a trial before we quote, rather than promising a figure in advance.
We have supplied coffee lines on the same VFFS with a 10-head and with a 14-head multihead weigher. Each forms 4-side seal gusseted bags of 250 g to 1 kg, inserts a one-way degassing valve, flushes each bag with nitrogen and seals it, to within 2%. Each line is fed by a Z-type bucket elevator, finished with a conveyor and an accumulation table, and run by two operators.
We run a product trial for every machine we sell. Send us a sample of your coffee and the pack you sell it in, and we run it at our Riversands showroom so you can see the fill weight, the seal and the finished pack before you order.
Coffee in filter bags, like tea, runs on a tea bag machine. See the powder packaging machines page for our other powder lines.
Coffee lines from our range: a six-lane coffee sachet machine, an auger VFFS for ground and instant coffee, a multihead weigher VFFS for whole beans, and a horizontal form-fill-seal machine for pouches.
A six-lane machine forming, filling and sealing coffee sachets six at a time in pillow packs.
An auger filler dosing fine powder into bags on a VFFS machine, the setup for ground and instant coffee.
A multihead weigher portioning granules into bags on a VFFS, the setup for whole coffee beans.
A horizontal form-fill-seal machine forming pouches and dosing powder into them.
A coffee line is quoted to configuration, so we need these details about your product and plant.
The coffee: ground, instant or whole bean, and the grind
The pack format and sizes, from sachets and sticks to retail bags and pouches
Target output, in packs a minute
Whether your packs need a degassing valve or a nitrogen flush
Your film or pre-made pouches, and any printing or coding on the pack
Any other products on the same line, such as creamer, sugar or tea
Send a sample of your coffee with the enquiry and we will trial it before we quote. For what shapes the figure on a machine quotation, read the packaging machine cost guide. Before you ask for a quote, see how to choose a VFFS machine. Your quote includes installation and operator training, and spares are held at our Johannesburg workshop.
Coffee is sold ground, instant and as whole beans, in packs from single-serve sachets to retail bags, and these things about it decide how a coffee line is set up.
The form of the coffee decides the doser. A volumetric cup filler doses both granulated and powdered coffee. An auger filler doses powder only, set up like a powder packaging machine, and is recommended for powder packs over 1 kg. Whole beans are granules and are weighed by a multihead weigher: an auger would crush them.
Coffee dust reaches the seal. Ground and instant coffee give off fine dust, and any that lands on the seal area stops the pack closing properly. Dosing is set up to drop the coffee cleanly into the pack, clear of the seal.
Roasted coffee needs a valve and nitrogen. Freshly roasted coffee gives off gas and loses flavour when it meets oxygen. Our coffee lines insert a one-way degassing valve into the film as each bag forms, and flush the bag with nitrogen before it is sealed.
Ground and instant coffee are powders, so this page sits under the powder packaging machines; whole beans are granules, covered by the grain and granule packing machines. Coffee in filter bags runs on the tea bag machine.
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We have supplied packaging machines since 2017. Send us a sample of your coffee and the pack you sell it in, and we will run it at our Riversands showroom before you order.
A vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine fitted with an auger filler. It forms each pillow or gusseted bag from roll film, doses the ground coffee with an auger screw and seals the bag.
Whole beans are free-flowing granules, so a coffee bean packaging machine weighs them with a multihead weigher rather than dosing them by auger, which would crush them. A volumetric cup filler doses both granulated and powdered coffee. An auger filler doses powder only, with the auger recommended for powder packs over 1 kg.
A VFFS machine with an auger filler. For high volumes, a multi-lane VFFS forms several sachets or sticks in each cycle; our six-lane coffee machine forms six pillow-pack sachets at a time. We confirm the sachet size and output with a trial on your coffee.
Yes. Stand-up and zipper coffee pouches arrive pre-made and are filled on a horizontal fill-seal machine or a semi-automatic auger filler, then closed on a band sealer. See the pouch packaging machines for the options.
