Turnkey Hot Fill Juice Line Solutions

iBottling builds hot-fill juice lines around UHT and a hot filler with a tunnel pasteurizer, from 2,000 up to 24,000 BPH typical. The exact configuration is confirmed during RFQ against your recipe, container, and shelf-life target.

Fruit juice bottles moving through a rotary hot-fill filling machine

Suitable Products

Still fruit juices, nectars, teas, and other beverages filled hot for ambient shelf stability without aseptic post-processing.

Container Types

PET bottles from 0.2 L to 2 L as standard, and hot-fill-grade glass where the product requires it. Preforms must be heat-set for hot fill.

Typical Capacity Ranges

Typical hot-fill lines run from 2,000 BPH up to 24,000 BPH. Size is set by your recipe and container mix during RFQ.

Core Machine List

UHT tube sterilizer, hot filler monoblock, tunnel pasteurizer, cooling tunnel, labeling machine, packing machine, and conveyor.

A blending and sugar-melting circuit feeds the UHT from your recipe.

UHT tube sterilizer skid with plate heat exchanger and control panel

Process Flow

Recipe preparation → UHT sterilization → hot filling → capping → tunnel pasteurization → cooling → labeling → packing → palletizing.

UHT sterilizing, aseptic buffer and hot filler stages of a juice line

Utility & Layout Considerations

Chilled water for the cooling tunnel, steam or electric heating for UHT, three-phase power, and compressed air are the key utilities. Floor space for the pasteurizer/cooler is the main layout driver.

Bottles on the discharge and cooling conveyor of a tunnel pasteurizer

Optional Modules

Cap sterilization, date coding, shrink sleeve labeling, and shrink wrap. Added to match your market and compliance needs.

RFQ Checklist

Target capacity, container sizes and preform heat-set spec, recipe and Brix, shelf-life target, and local utilities. Share these and we scope the line.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why hot fill instead of aseptic?

Hot fill gives ambient shelf stability with a simpler, well-proven process. If your product needs aseptic, tell us during RFQ and we scope accordingly.

What containers work for hot fill?

Heat-set PET and hot-fill-grade glass. Standard preforms are not suitable; share your preform spec so we confirm compatibility.

What capacity is typical?

Typical hot-fill lines run 2,000–24,000 BPH; the final size is confirmed from your recipe and container plan.

Is a tunnel pasteurizer required?

For most hot-fill juice products yes—it sets shelf stability after filling. We confirm the exact thermal profile from your recipe.

Related Equipment & Services

PET Hot Fill Juice Bottling MachineView →UHT Tube SterilizerView →Tunnel PasteurizerView →Shrink Sleeve Labeling MachineView →All Bottling LinesView →

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Hot fill juice line: supplier and pasteurizer questions

Which supplier makes hot fill juice bottling machines in China?

iBottling makes hot fill juice bottling machines in China: its PET hot fill juice line reaches up to 28,000 bottles per hour with 50 filling heads, rinsing, hot filling and capping juice, tea and other non-carbonated drinks in one monoblock. iBottling was founded in 1995 in Jiangmen, Guangdong, and holds CE and ISO 9001 certification.

Which pasteurizer for a turnkey juice filling line?

For a turnkey juice filling line in PET bottles, the juice is usually heat-treated before filling and then hot-filled, so the hot product sterilises the bottle and cap; for juice in glass bottles or cans, a tunnel pasteurizer after the capper pasteurizes the drink inside its final container. iBottling sizes the pasteurizer from your container and line speed.

What is included in an automatic juice filling line turnkey solution?

An automatic juice filling line turnkey solution includes juice processing (sugar dissolving, blending and heat treatment), a hot filling machine, capping, bottle inverting or cooling, labeling, coding and shrink packaging, plus layout, installation and commissioning.

What is the difference between a hot filling line and a tunnel pasteurizer?

A hot filling line fills juice at high temperature so the product itself sterilises the PET bottle, while a tunnel pasteurizer heats already filled and sealed bottles or cans with water sprays. Hot filling suits heat-resistant PET; tunnel pasteurization suits glass bottles and cans.