With the right commercial food filling equipment, your company can adapt to changing market demand by improving its overall food processing system. Getting by with hand filling of bottles, containers, pastries and doughnuts worked just fine when you started out. However, your business has grown at a rapid pace, and now you must consider automating more steps in the process so you can keep up with customers' demand.

There may be other reasons requiring you to purchase food fillers. Perhaps you're now making a product that demands stricter precision in its amount and blend of ingredients, or you may be among the growing number of food processors who say their most difficult challenge is putting together a reliable work force. Whatever your reason may be, there's no doubt that you'll streamline your efforts to find the right filling machines when you consider the following buying tips:

1. Opt for food filling equipment made by nationally recognized manufacturers.

2. Take advantage of the purchasing help food filling equipment distributors offer.

3. Get food filling equipment designed especially for bakeries.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Order directly from food filling equipment manufacturers when brand loyalty counts

Many of these manufacturers design food filling equipment with their customers' unique needs and operating methods in mind.

I recommend: Accutek Packaging Equipment Company is a leading manufacturer of high performing commercial food fillers. Its expansive product line includes equipment designed to fill easy flowing liquids (juice), thicker liquid products (toothpaste), dry foods (sugar) and stringing and sticky products (honey). For more than 50 years, New York-based KAPS-ALL has designed and manufactured premium food filling machinery for the food industry. Its state of the art liquid fillers run alone or in conjunction with your entire packaging operation.

Contact a recognized food filling machine distributor for the greatest equipment selection

The experienced staff that most equipment distributors maintain will usually create equipment profiles for customers based upon specific operating techniques.

I recommend: Star Industries is in Los Angeles, California and for three decades has been distributing used food filling equipment to small and large food processing operations. It's also equipped entire plants with beverage and food filling machines. Operating out of Union, New Jersey, Jaygo Incorporated distributes semi-automatic and fully automatic filling food machines to nationally recognized food and chemical manufacturers.

Contact experienced equipment wholesalers for a wide selection of bakery filling machines

If you're a small scale bakery, chances are your most pressing need is a pastry filling machine for doughnuts. You can start small by purchasing hand-held models until your product demand requires larger, floor stand models.

I recommend: Kerekes Bakery & Restaurant Equipment sells doughnut-filling equipment for independently owned retailers who bake on premises. Check out the company's comprehensive online catalog and then place your order online with one of its helpful staff. Bakery Equipment.com sells new and used pastry and doughnut filling equipment from top manufacturers. It offers free shipping on many products and, in most cases, guarantees delivery within five business days.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Before investing in any pricey filling food machine, contact a manufacturer's or distributor's experienced sales staff for help on selecting the model that best suits your needs.