Automatic Vial Filling Machine Supplier
☑ Fill vials with small doses of liquid or powder
☑ Machine designs with 1 to 12 filling heads
☑ Compatible with a variety of vial sizes and materials
☑ Significantly boost your production output
☑ Integrated washing, filling, stoppering, and sealing
☑ Full gCMP compliance and validation support
Automatic Vial Filling Machine Applications
SaintyCo vial filling machines are primarily used in pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare manufacturing. Use cases include filling small-volume parenterals (SVPs) like vaccines, insulin, and analgesics; antibiotics; biologics and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs); freeze-dried (lyophilized) drugs, and veterinary injectable production like hormones for livestock. They’re also used for nutraceutical and cosmetic sterile liquids, like vitamin injections or hyaluronic acid solutions.
What Is An Automatic Vial Filling Machine?
An automatic vial filling machine is used to fill small plastic or glass containers with precise doses of pharmaceutical products. They’re usually used to fill liquid, however our machines are also suitable for use with lyophilized drugs, which have been freeze-dried and powdered. Filling happens under aseptic or sterile conditions. This ensures product integrity and is essential for the health and safety of both facility workers and the end patient who will be receiving the medication.
SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines are designed for impeccable accuracy, high-speed, and zero-tolerance contamination control. In general, our filling machines integrate vial feeding, filling, and stoppering. Many of our models also incorporate additional functions, like vial washing, capping, and inspection.
Typically, SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines are placed towards the end of a production line. Upstream equipment may include vial sterilization or pre-gassing machines. Labeling and packaging stations are commonly found downstream.
Automatic Vial Filling Machines
Here at SaintyCo, we manufacture automatic vial filling machines with several different technologies, filling methods, and specialized modules.
Commonly used for injectable drugs where immediate post-fill stoppering is required.
Piston-based or peristaltic pumps deliver a fixed dose of liquid with each cycle.
Load cells or electronic balances measure out the dose by weight for greater accuracy.
Best for filling vials with low or medium viscosity liquids and fast production speeds.
Barrier technology minimizes contamination risk and ensures total sterility.
Our standard machines are designed to handle products like saline, insulin, or biologicals
Adapted for dry powder filling of lyophilized products with vacuum or auger dosing
Ideal for high-speed operations, with a rotating turret that handles vials in a circular motion.
Automatic Vial Filling Machines By Capacity
Whether you’re running a small-scale operation or you need to produce millions of vials every week, SaintyCo has an automatic vial filling machine that’s designed to do the job.
Our compact dual-head fillers are often preferred for pilot-scale production efforts.
Four filling heads increases throughput significantly, ideal for mid-scale production facilities.
Our highly-efficient 8-head fillers can handle up to 5,000 vials/hour with excellent consistency.
Our highest-speed machines have up to 24 filling heads, producing <36,000 vials an hour.
SaintyCo Vial Fillers: Features And Benefits
The SaintyCo engineers have poured decades of design experience into our range of automatic vial filling machines. So, they’re packed with cutting-edge features to help your operations run smoothly,
Servo-driven systems deliver precise dose accuracy for consistent quality.
Our smart design features modular components and functionalities in one streamlined system.
Tool-free and optional automated changeover minimizes downtime between batches.
Constructed to comply with industry standards including cGMP and EU regulations.
Intelligent photoelectric sensors detect missing vials to prevent waste.
Optional pre- and post-fill nitrogen injections for oxygen-sensitive products.
Audit trails, recipe management, performance monitoring, alarms, and more.
Compatible with RABS, isolators, and advanced contamination control technology.
How Do Automatic Vial Filling Machines Work?
Below, we have broken down the working process of SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines into six key stages. The exact components at each step will differ depending on the machine setup.
SaintyCo systems offer rotary vial unscramblers for bulk loading, conveyors, or tray loading modules for RTU formats. An optional air ionizer neutralizes static.
At the core filling sage, dosing is completed by peristaltic pumps for low-volume liquids, rotary piston pumps for viscous or oil-based injectables, or vacuum or auger fillers.
Our systems use vibratory bowl feeders to orient and feed stoppers with vacuum or mechanical pick-and-place arms. We offer full or half stoppers (for lyophilization).
Our machines that include capping use rotary or linear crimping heads to create reliable aluminum seals on each vial. Torque settings are adjustable for different vial sizes.
SaintyCo vial fillers use laminar airflow (LAF) modules with HEPA filtration and optional TABS or isolator enclosures with integrated H202 decontamination ports.
Once vials are filled and stoppered, bunged, or capped, star wheels or belts move them to outfeed where they’re transferred to trays or downstream conveyors.
Extensive Vial Compatibility
SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines can be configured to support vials of various types, shapes, sizes, and materials. They’re compatible with screw vials, lip vials, and crimp vials made from plastics like COC or COP, and tubular glass vials in Type I (borosilicate), II, and III. We also provide solutions for lyophilization vials, RTU nested vials, screw-neck vials, and more, in sizes from 1 ml to 100 ml.
Works With All Standard Stopper And Cap Formats
Our vial fillers are designed for all industry-standard closures like butyl and bromobutyl stoppers, siliconized stoppers for reduced friction, vented stoppers that allow pressure equalization during freeze drying, and half stoppers. Cap types include flip-off aluminum caps, Euro-head or tear-off caps, plastic screw caps, or press-fit closures.
SaintyCo Resources
Click the button below to download a PDF version of the SaintyCo product brochure, complete with all automatic vial filler models.
We have compiled the technical specifications of our various automatic vial filling machines into one, handy document for your perusal.
Get an visual overview of the automatic vial filling machine process as we should you how it works during a typical production run.
Leading The Pharma Industry For Over 20 Years
SaintyCo is a trusted global supplier of automatic vial filling machines, with eight advanced manufacturing facilities across China. We’re committed to providing high-performance, exceptional-quality machinery that helps you achieve your production goals.
We’ve engineered our automatic vial filling machines to be user-friendly, fast, and accurate, with powerful yet energy-efficient technology. Get in touch today to find out how we can optimize your line and improve your output while reducing your operating costs.
Automatic Vial Filling Machine Models
We offer automatic vial filling machines with various setups to suit your production needs, whether you’re running an R&D laboratory or a mass-production facility.
Our innovative modular system combines vial washing, sterilizing, filling, stoppering, and capping into a single compact layout. It’s an all-in-one solution, commonly used for small-batch vaccine production.
Our lab-scale machines are available as benchtop or floor-mounted units. They’re built to support research facilities, product formulation development, clinical trials, and biologics testing suites.
Designed for pre-sterilized and ready-to-use (RTU) vials in nests, trays, or tubs. Our specialized machines are commonly used in advanced thermal medicinal products (ATMP) manufacturing.
Our top-of-the-range machines are built for large scale and continuous production. They can process tens of thousands of vials an hour with servo-driven filling heads and inline quality control systems like vial indexing.
Automation And Control Options
With SaintyCo, you’re in control: you decide the level of automation for your machine, whether you prefer entry-level pricing and complexity or operator-free, SCADA-ready integration.
For low-throughput clinical environments, our economical semi-automated vial filling machines are a great option. They include a mid-level PLC and HMI for cycle control and data management. The manual intervention required relates to the loading of empty vials and unloading of vials after filling.
We produce vial filling solutions for full line automation and IIoT connectivity. Features include SCADA ready control with MES/ERP integration, CFR Part 11–compliant e-records, and automated fast changeover. Our high-end systems also support remote monitoring and diagnostics with batch report generation and alarm and event logs.
More About Our Automatic Vial Filling Machines
View the average performance metrics of our different spec machine categories, read about our after-sales service, and check out pictures from recent automatic vial filling projects.
- Data Sheet
| Bench-Top Models | Mid-Range Models | High-End Models | |
| Filling Range | 1-10 ml | 1-20 ml | 2-30 ml |
| Filling Accuracy | ±1% | ±0.5-1% | ±0.5% |
| Filling Speed | 25-50 vials/min | 60-100 vials/min | 200-600 vials/min |
| Power Supply | 220V, 50/60Hz | 280V, 50/60Hz | 380V, 50/60Hz |
| Air Pressure | 0.4~0.6 MPa | 0.5–0.7 MPa | 0.5–0.8 MPa |
| Stopper Qualification Rate | ≤99% | ≤99% | ≤99% |
| Vacuum Pumping Speed | 10-30 m³/h | 50-60 m³/h | 100-120 m³/h |
| Laminar Air Classification | Class 100 (ISO 5) | Class 100 (ISO 5) | Class 100 (ISO 5) |
| Changeover Time | ~15 min (manual) | ~10 min (semi-auto) | <5 min (auto, tool-free) |
| Number Of Filling Heads | 1-2 | 2-8 | 8-24 |
After-Sales Service
When you purchase an automatic vial filling machine from SaintyCo, you can continue to enjoy our fantastic service for the decades that follow.
All our equipment comes with lifetime after-sales support, including virtual and in-person assistance from our technicians. We also offer help with maintenance, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and spare parts. If you need operator training, SaintyCo can even step in to help with that, too.
Testimonials
“At INX we’re using the 8 head SaintyCo automatic vial filling machine on our SVP line for glass vials which is mostly 5ml and 10ml, or in that range, with a few rare exceptions. The fill accuracy has stayed consistent even on runs with more viscous formulations, and we run 2 or 3 batches a day generally, around 20k units. So far we’re very impressed with the quality. We didn’t integrate capping right away which was a mistake in hindsight but SaintyCo made it easy to add in later with the modular system.”
Randalf ThomasPurchasing, INX Supplies“I spent loads of time gathering quotes from Chinese suppliers but SaintyCo really stood out to me because of their kind and attentive service so we moved ahead with our order for an automatic vial filling machine. We needed something compact but still cGMP compliant and SaintyCo delivered. We went with one of the desktop fillers with a peristaltic pump. We haven’t had any drift with fill volumes and the operation is extremely easy and efficient, it’s very well engineered.”
Osman AhmedProduction Manager, Syra Pharm International
The general structure of SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines consists of a stainless steel cabinet, frame, and base. A conveyor system and vial-handling system moves vials between stations which include cleaning (optional), filling, capping or stoppering, inspections, and discharge.
At SaintyCo, we produce automatic vial filling solutions for products in both liquid, semi-liquid, and powder form. While liquids are more common, our machines are also suitable for filling lyophilized pharmaceutical products (known as cakes), which have a longer shelf life and can be reconstituted before use.
The most appropriate number of heads for your automatic vial filling machine depends on your production goals, physical facility layout (available space), and budget. We’re happy to discuss your project and give you tailored advice, so get in touch to take advantage of our expertise.
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Automatic Vial Filling Machine With CIP/SIP
SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines can include full support for clean-in-place (CIP) and sterilize-in-place (SIP) functionality at your request.
The CIP/SIP modules can be integrated with our peristaltic or piston filling systems, product feed tanks, valve manifolds and stopper contact paths, and infeed and outfeed trays.
CIP systems use WFO, detergent, or NaOH to flush these systems. SIP is generally achieved at 121°C for 30 minutes to comply with FDA and EU Annex 1 guidelines.
Optional Modules
You can customize, upgrade, and adapt SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines with optional modules. These include vial washing machines, for sterilizing the vials using WFI and compressed air, and depyrogenation tunnels, which remove endotoxins using high-temperature laminar airflow over 250°C.
Additional options include vial unscramblers, aluminum crimping stations, inline checkweighers, labeling units, and track packing systems for complete end-of-line processing.
SaintyCo vial filling machines operate within restricted access barrier systems (RABS) or isolators. This allows for continuous particle monitoring and HEPA-filtered laminar airflow with a positive air pressure.
Yes, SaintyCo automatic vial filling machines include features like camera systems, electronic batch recording, in-process weight checking, and seal integrity testing
Yes, we provide IQ, OQ, and DQ validation protocols to ensure that you meet the stringent requirements set out by pharmaceutical cGMP standards.
The lead time on our automatic vial fillers depends on what kind of machine you want to order, and how many. Kindly send us your details and we’ll provide an exact timeframe with your quote.
We offer a wide range of products, models, and specs, with high levels of customization. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs and get an accurate quote based on your requirements.