To open a water factory, like 5gallon water production line,you need to do many things, such as looking for the water source, designing bottle shape, designing logo, building, and planning factory, going to the local health department for a business license, etc. Each link is important, in all these links, the machinery for producing water is also essential. Good equipment can not only ensure our water quality but also save us a lot of machine maintenance energy, help us open the target market faster, and realize the profit growth of our water plant.
What details should we pay attention to when choosing machines? I have rich experience in the drinking water industry, I hope my suggestions can help you. Let’s take the 5gallon water production line as an example, here I list the details we need to pay attention to when purchasing and selecting equipment for your reference.
How much of 5gallon water production line?
Under 1000 barrels per hour production, the budget is between $10,000 and $100,000, depending on the degree of automation of the equipment.
More than 1000barrels per hour, the budget is between $100,000 and $200,000, depending on the equipment configuration.
What are the models of the 5gallon water production line?
| Model | TXG-100 | TXG-150 | TXG-300 | TXG-450 | TXG-600 | TXG-750 |
| Capacity(bottles/hour) Based on 5gallon | 100BPH | 150BPH | 300BPH | 450BPH | 600BPH | 750BPH |
| Model | TXG-900 | TXG-1200 | TXG-1500 | TXG-2000 | TXG-2400 | TXG-3000 |
| Capacity(bottles/hour) Based on 5gallon | 900BPH | 1200BPH | 1500BPH | 2000BPH | 2400BPH | 3000BPH |
What is the process of 5gallon water production line?
5gallon barrel making machine
Caps remover – barrel washing equipment (internal washing, internal brushing, and external brushing) – washing filling capping – labeling machine – palletizer
5gallon water production line, barrel making machine
PC material gallon barrel
Production speed
We use the blow molding machine to make the PC barrel. The process is to heat PC particles to form tube preform, and then blow the tube preform into the barrel shape. The production speed of the PC barrel-making machine is not high, usually less than 100 barrels per hour.
The whole system of 5 gallon PC bottle blow molding machine includes: Blow molding machine, loader, Mold, Dryer, Mold temperature machine, Hopper, Crusher, Air compressor, and Air receiver.
Major electrical brand
Major electrical like PLC, HMI, PARISON PROGRAMMER, Linho recommend the international famous brand.
PET material gallon barrel
We use the bottle blowing machine to make the PET barrel. The process is to heat the ready-made pet tube preform, and then blow the pet tube preform into the barrel shape.
The whole system of 5 gallon PET bottle blowing machine includes Bottle blowing machine, Heater, Mold, High-pressure air compressor, Low-pressure air compressor (optional), Cooling dryer, Air filter, and chiller.
Production speed and degree of automation
The speed of semi-automatic 5 gallon PET bottle blowing machine: 90bottles per hour
The full-automatic 5 gallon PET bottle blowing machine speed: 1000-2000 bottles per hour.
For the full-automatic 5 gallon PET bottle blowing machine, it has servo type and cylinder type. Compared with the cylinder type, the servo type is energy-saving, efficient, and expensive.
Mold material: iron mold or aluminum mold. Iron mold has high strength, aluminum mold has low weight, and easy to replace the mold.
Major electrical brands
Major electrical like PLC, HMI, cylinder, servo, Linho recommend the international famous
brand.
5gallon water production line, caps remover
The numbers of de-capper heads?
Generally, below 600BPH(barrels per hour), the de-capping machine has one de-capper head, more than 600BPH, the de-capping machine has two de-capper heads or one high-speed de-capper head. If the production speed is more than 1000BPH, we need two sets of high-speed de-capping machines.
Whether it has the caps label remove funsction
Recycled barrels, some of which have caps labels on caps. Linho 5gallon caps remover machine can be equipped with the label removal device. The wasted caps and labels have collection devices to facilitate collection.
5gallon water production line, Barrel washing equipment
Internal brushing
High-pressure internal washing
Production speed and degree of automation
The number of washing heads
The washing pressure
The washing pressure is generally 80-120kg and adjustable
For internal washing, Linho recommend high-pressure washing, as brushing washing maybe brush off phenomenon
External brushing
Production speed and degree of automation
The number of brushes
Single row brush or double row brush, Linho external brushing machine can clean the barrel in all directions, including barrel neck, barrel body, and barrel bottom.
The quality of the brushing machine
Linho brush machine is equipped with high-quality brushes. The barrel can brush clean without leaving scratches on the barrel.
Linho rotary external brush machine has an anti-card barrel device, high speed, and no barrel jamming during operation.
For low requirements, you can consider the semi-automatic machine.
Washing Filling Capping
Washing
How many washing and disinfection procedures?
The number of washing water tanks and washing pumps.
The water tank must have the liquid shortage sensing device
The washing/rinsing process must have the drip function
If there is no drip-drying function, it is easy to cause the residue of cleaning fluid in the barrel.
Linho designs detailed washing flushing procedures according to customer requirements.
Filling
Filling valve material
We need to ensure that the filling valve material is food-grade stainless steel 304 or 316.
Filling precision
Linho recommends non-contact filling, through the combination valve and frequency conversion control filling, to achieve high precision filling. For different filling system, you can check this article.
Capping
The production line would better have the automatic caps elevator and automatic caps unscrambler.
Caps disinfection and cleaning devices can be an option for those with high production requirements. Linho caps disinfection device has three washing/flushing procedures and a SUS304 washing water tank.
Machine material and configuration
Linho square tube size is 80 * 80 to ensure the long-term stable operation of the machine without failure.
Linho adopts 3-4mm stainless steel 304 plates. All material contacts with products and water are SUS304.
For electrical components, Linho uses Siemens or Mitsubishi PLC and HMI, which can also be customized according to customer requirements.
Labeling machine
For barrel caps labels, besides the manual labeling, Linhe can also provide the automatic labeling machine.
For barrel body labels, Linho can provide both the single side labeling machine and whole round labeling machine according to customer requirements.
For high requirement customers, Linho can also provide a special-shaped label labeling machine.
5gallon bottle special shape label
Palletizer
Linho can provide different speed palletizers according to customer requirements.
Low speed palletizing machine: manually put the tray and sucker
Medium and high-speed palletizing machine: automatic put the sucker
This is the brief introduction of 5 gallon water line. If you are planning to build a 5gallon water production line, please contact us! Linho can provide you with professional advice and design.
