Screw Cappers
(43 companies)Used to apply threaded plastic caps that are twisted down over the mouth of a container to a set torque, such as plastic capping for most soda bottles. Are you considering purchasing new filling, capping or closing machinery? Learn more about what to look for in your next purchase.
Accutek Packaging Equipment Co.
Accutek supplies a wide range of capping machinery for applications in screw spindle, screw chuck, roll-on bottle and press/push-on bottle capping. Featured cappers include the Accutek’s Semi-Automatic Spindle Capper (SSC-6), designed to accurately torque most cap types – flat caps, flip top caps, pull spouts, safety caps, child proof caps, sport caps, trigger pumps, and closures with over-caps or induction seals – onto a wide range of bottles at speeds up to 120 cpm. Other machines include Accutek Auto AccuCappers, continuous motion machines that replace the tedious work of manually pressing and/or placing snap caps and prevent costly spills by removing human error from the process.
All-Fill Cappers
All-Fill offers models CS and CI automatic chuck cappers for bottle capping applications. Both of these fully automatic, two-station inline chuck cappers feature stainless steel and anodized aluminum construction with an integrated 4.5 square foot cap hopper. Units can also be seamlessly integrated with ancillary packaging equipment.
All-Fill Inc.
All-Fill offers models CS and CI automatic chuck cappers for bottle capping applications. Both of these fully automatic, two-station inline chuck cappers feature stainless steel and anodized aluminum construction with an integrated 4.5 square foot cap hopper. Units can also be seamlessly integrated with ancillary packaging equipment.
Apex Filling Systems LLC
Apex Filling Systems manufactures capping equipment designed to secure nearly any cap type onto a wide assortment of bottle types, including spindle cappers and tighteners, chuck cappers and snap cappers. Apex Filling Systems’ spindle cappers/spindle tighteners place and accurately torque flat caps, oval caps, flip top caps, pull spouts, safety caps, childproof caps, sport caps, and caps with over-caps or induction seals onto most bottle types, including PET, PP, PVC, HDPE, LDPE, and glass. Automatic spindle cappers handle almost any bottle type, with a modular design that allows users to start with just a cap tightener and easily add automation capabilities such as chute or automatic cap feeder later. Apex also offers handheld chuck cappers, an economical, portable cap tightener used to tighten hand-placed threaded caps.
AROL North America
AROL North America designs and builds an extensive range of capping, pluggers and closure machinery for applications across the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical markets. Numerous models of capping equipment handle highly specialized applications, such as: systems for applying aerosol caps on personal care containers; can cappers for beverage filling lines; plastic flip-top closure application systems for personal care; mushroom and straight corking equipment for wine bottling lines; long plastic pressure cap systems for chemicals and home goods; and much many other machines.
BellatRx Inc.
BellatRx manufactures capping and torquing equipment for threaded, press-on or crimped caps with precision torque control. The Magna Capper is an automatic inline capping machine designed for large containers and closures. Also available are: the Secure Star Capper, an automatic high-speed starwheel cap applicator; the Secure Chuck Capper, an automatic in-line cap applicator; and the Prime Capper, an entry-level automatic inline cap applicator.
BW Packaging Systems
Pneumatic Scale Angelus, a Barry-Wehmiller Packaging Company, offers mechanical servo and rotary capping machines, with a focus on machines for “marketing-style caps” for the personal care, food, beverage and chemical industries. PSA capping machines have a compact footprint, with stainless steel barrier guarding and interlocking access doors, and are available in standalone, freestanding turret, or monobloc configurations. PSA's mechanical rotary cappers are ideal for almost any application requiring pump caps, screw caps, press-on caps, plugs, and overcaps for glass, metal, plastic, and fiberboard containers. Machines provide accurate torque control through the use of magnetic torque units, and employ several anti-rotation measures to ensure that each container is securely held throughout the capping process, eliminating crushing, scuffing, slipping, or spilling.
Capmatic
Capmatic manufactures various retorquing and capping systems for a variety of liquid and semi-viscous filling applications in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care and other industries. Highlighted amongst Capmatic’s product catalog of dozens of cappers is the BeltStar servo-driven inline screw capper, providing extensive control and accuracy when handling the bottles and tightening the caps. BeltStar inline retorquers for screw cap, screw pump and tightening applications allows for programmable recipe-driven changeovers, displays true application torque, and provides 100% torque verification through the HMI.
CDA USA, Inc
CDA USA supplies automatic or semi-automatic capping/screwing machine, with or without distribution system of corks/caps, independent or integrated into a complete packing line. CDA offers a wide range of capping and screwing solutions for applications involving liquid and semi-liquid products: flat screw cap, spray cap, pump cap, pipette cap, security cap, beer cap and other drinks, twist off cap and more. CDA capping and screwing machines are suitable for a wide panel of caps and other closing systems used in sectors including food, beer, liquor, cosmetics, e-liquids, chemicals and more.
Chase-Logeman Corporation
Capping machines properly place or crimp closures onto bottles and vials of all shapes and sizes. Systems handle every type of closure: flat caps, eye dropper bulbs and nasal sprays.
Closure Systems International, Inc.
Capping machines from Closure Systems International feature rated speeds of up to 50 bottles/min. and 3,000 bottles/hour per head. Product line features machines with 4 to 36 heads on multi-head cappers, all with corrosion resistant materials in the product zone. Capping systems are available as turret or freestanding machines. Featured cappers include the Series 5000 Combi, designed as a durable and versatile capper that can effectively apply a wide variety of closures, including aluminum caps, TSROPP, ROPP, screw caps, lug caps, ring pulls, and T-corks for glass, aluminum, and PET bottles.
Cozzoli Machine Company
Cozzoli Machine Company’s line of cappers and crimpers for bottles include the CM Series Rotary Crimping Machine, a high-speed rotary crimping system that automatically caps and crimp seals aluminum closures at speeds of up to 200 or 400 containers a minute. As capped containers index into position, individual triple-roller crimping heads lower and tuck the skirt under with a gentle progressive roll, then raise as finished containers index out.
Crandall Filling Machinery Inc.
Crandall Filling Machinery supplies Kinex capping machines for bench-top bottle and jar filling operations. PS™ Pneumatic Bottle Cappers tighten screw and lug caps from 10 mm to 130 mm and are designed for applications where torque accuracy and repeatability are critical. SA™ Semi-Automatic Bench-Top Capping Machines are designed to eliminate the strain and fatigue associated with hand capping. Powered by a fractional horsepower AC motor, Kinetic Capping Machines are designed to be strong, capable of closing up to 50 bottles per minute.
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Dillin Engineered Systems
Dillin Capping Systems designs, engineers, manufactures, and services straight line and rotary cappers for vacuum (wet or dry) and non-vacuum applications. Product line includes inline spin and steam vacuum cappers, cap blowers and related equipment. Dillin also offers high-performance capping heads with magnetic clutches, custom- designed bottle handling parts, and other special purpose equipment for a variety of applications, cap sorters, pneumatic parts feeders, incremental torque gauges, in-line cocked cap detectors and dud detectors, and other specialized items of equipment related to the capping process.
E-PAK Machinery, Inc.
At E-PAK Machinery, choose from a selection of machines engineered for capping bottles of all types, including automatic vertical wheel pluggers, chuck cappers, snap cappers and spindle cappers.
EQUITEK
Equitek´s in-line or rotary cappers, require the least possible operator´s engagement, allowing the end user to maximize resources. Practical and versatile capping machines are designed to handle different types of containers and caps with minimal tooling changes. Company offers either automatic or semi-automatic systems that properly secure caps using pneumatical, magnetic or pressure systems.
FILAMATIC
Filamatic makes closing and capping systems for a wide range of applications. The Filamatic product line includes single and dual head cappers, servo cap tighteners as well as belt wheel capper, single/dual station servo chuck capper, rotary plugger/capper and rotary plugger/stopper machines. Featured products include the single or multi-head chuck, standalone CT-100 and CT-200 pneumatic, conveyed and indexed capping machines, designed to provide nearly all of the perks of fully automated, customized cappers but at an economical price. The Servo Chuck Capper is a servo-motor driven/PLC controlled capper designed to provide precise application torque and servo controlled feedback and automatically apply and tighten the cap to the desired application torque at 30 cpm; dual head capper handles up to 50 cpm.
Filler Specialties, Inc.
Filler Specialties offers a full line of standalone rotary container cappers for handling screw caps, press-on caps, snap/screw caps, flat caps, sport caps, foil caps and specialty closures. Models range from three head to 30 head units to meet the capping requirements with speeds up to 700 containers per minute.
Fogg Filler Co.
Offering a variety of turrets, Fogg capping machines handle multiple capping applications. Fogg capping equipment technologies include pick-in-place, articulating jaw and ROPP cappers. Fogg systems can also run flat screw, sport, snap and snap screw closures on the same bottle capping machine, with Fogg’s change parts making changeover quick and easy. Fogg reports its cappers can cap 99% of caps in the industry and can be integrated with customers’ fillers, or sold as a standalone unit.
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GEB METAL MECANICA S DE RL DE CV
GEB Metal Mecánica distributes equipment for an entire packaging line, including chuck style cappers with torque regulators. GEB will also supply related equipment such as cap elevators, filling equipment, conveyors, labelers and accumulation tables.
Grupo Empac SA de CV
Grupo Empac SA DE CV offers a range of automatic and semi-automatic capper machines.
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IGPR Inc.
Industrias GOLDPACK S.A. manufactures an automatic screw capping system consisting of a conveyor, cap orienter, cap placement system and screw capping machine that uses eight torque wheels.
Integrated Packaging Systems
Rotary chuck cappers are known for having a more positive application of bottle closures with less incidents of skewed or miss-threaded caps and more consistent application torque. The IPS Cleanpack screw cappers using chucks are competitively priced and offer quality in-line capping with higher throughput and consistency. Chuck cappers from IPS are less prone to jamming, with more positive application of bottle closures and facilitate smoother production runs. Constant-smooth magnetic chuck is designed to provide a more consistent application torque.
Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc
Kaps-All manufactures a broad range of capping, overcapping, retorque, lidders and hand capper machines for numerous applications and speeds. Models include the A6 Spindle Auto Capper, a fully automatic machine that handles screw caps of all materials and styles from 8mm to 120mm including pilfer evident and child resistant cap closures. Model FA6 Portable 6 Spindle Cap Tightener and Retorquer, for pump and trigger cap tightening, runs at speeds of up to 300 bpm and requires only 38 in. of line space. Model BE4-Portable Over Capper/Lidder handles over caps, lids and fitments of all materials and styles from 13mm to 70mm.
Liquid Packaging Solutions
Liquid Packaging Solutions manufactures capping machinery to meet the needs of the specific closure for any given project, from ROPP to screw-on, snap and corks, LPS offers automatic, semi-automatic and manual options.
Marchesini Group USA Inc.
Marchesini Group USA supplies a range of vial and bottle capping machines for the pharmaceutical industry and beyond.
New England Machinery
PMMI member New England Machinery (NEM) manufactures a full line of capping systems including bottle capping machines, container capping equipment, and cap sorters for a wide variety of applications. NEM’s capping machines and bottle cappers tighten screw-caps and lug-type caps, close oriented and non-oriented push-down closures, and secure plugs, fitments and lids, to ensure all are securely placed on the customer's bottle or container.
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Newmapak Ltd.
Newmapak supplies single head, linear and rotary capping equipment from OEMs such as Bertolaso and Barida. BETA Series crown cappers from Bertolaso are designed to be highly flexible machines used in many different industries: food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and others. Bertolaso's SIGMA series screw cappers handle aluminum, plastic pre-threaded and special shaped caps across many markets. Other cappers supplied by Newmapak are the Barida ISO 6/1/1/ automatic monobloc for sparking drinks and the T-Cork capping machine from Bertolaso, which handles pressure-inserted and flip-top caps.
NJM Packaging
NJM Packaging’s Capper family includes both in-line belt, in-line disc and rotary continuous models. NJM provides a number of features and options to suit any operation, including a variety of cap feeders, elevators and chutes. All cappers feature stainless steel, heavy-duty construction and the latest in controls. Compact design makes them easy to incorporate into packaging operations. In addition, NJM also supplies retorquers as in-line belt or in-line disc type to reapply the cap to the proper torque after induction sealing.
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PallayPack, Inc.
Rotary chuck type cappers help bottlers eliminate missing caps and cross-threaded caps on the filling line. PallayPack’s chuck cappers are designed to improve and maintain cap application torque throughout production without adjustments. Compact and requiring less change parts because one set can be used for a range of bottles and caps, chuck cappers feature fast changeover times. After capping is complete, no further adjustments to dial in the torque are needed. Rotary cappers are recommended when production speed is over 60 bottles/min. and for longer production runs.
Paxiom Group
Paxiom Group provides capping solutions that unscramble bottles, cap containers and ensure caps are induction sealed. Paxiom’s family of automatic capping machines, engineered for medium to high-speed requirements, is ideally suited for industries such as snack food, confectionery, beverage, pharmaceutical and cannabis, among others. Rotary cappers are capable of accommodating many container sizes and can meet production rates from 10 to 150 cycles per minute depending on the specifics of container and cap.
PMC Industries
PMC Industries specializes in pump cappers and crimper machines for products ranging from household goods, cosmetics and aerosol products to personal care items such as lotion and finger pump liquid products. Product line includes several models, such as the PMC Pump Capper, designed to apply all styles of pump caps while also handling many other styles of closures at speeds from 60 to 300 caps/min. Other models include the ERC-1600 capper, for spout pumps and lotion pump capping applications, dispensing pumps up to 2 liter sizes and the Trigger Capper/Screw Capper, running trigger pumps, screw caps with diptubes and flat screw caps on the same machine with fast changeover.
Pneumatic Scale Angelus
Pneumatic Scale Angelus (PSA) makes a line of capping equipment including mechanical rotary capping machines such as the TC capper, which handles a wide range of screw caps, press-on caps, plugs, and overcaps. PSA also makes servo rotary cappers, designed for almost any application requiring pump caps, screw caps, press-on caps, plugs, and overcaps for glass, metal, plastic, and fiberboard containers.
Ronchi America LLC
The SIRIO family of capping machines covers a very wide range of capping applications, offering servo-driven as well as mechanical solutions capable of applying closures used in the personal care, detergent, pharmaceutical and food products industries.
Serac Inc
Capping machines from Serac are designed to reduce changeover time and tooling costs and run containers from 100g to 35kg, up to 400mm width, 500 mm height. Serac cappers handle materials including PET, PP, PS, aluminum and glass with outputs of up to 36,000 cph.
Shibuya Hoppmann Corp.
Filling and capping systems from Shibuya Hoppmann are designed to ensure customer satisfaction and consumer safety. Product line of servo and mechanical cappers are used in a wide range of applications, such as aseptic filling and capping for beverages. Shibuya Hoppmann also manufactures filling and capping systems for dairy, soy sauce as well as a cleanser filler and capper system for personal care products.
SureKap, LLC
SureKap’s most popular fully automatic capper utilizes the latest technology to automatically place and precisely torque a wide spectrum of cap types onto virtually any bottle style. Designed for maximum efficiency and versatility, this straight line, six-spindle capper features a new non-vibratory, high speed belt feeder with floor-level loading and a heavy-duty stainless steel frame.
Terco, Inc.
Terco specializes in the manufacture of equipment for aerosol and liquid filling equipment, including overcappers for aerosol can packaging. Featured machines in the Terco product line include the Model RO-150-C Rotary Overcapper, a six-head rotary system designed to place and secure overcaps at rates up to 150 cans per minute. Configured with a continuous motion drive system, these machines feature an explosion proof, variable speed drive system. With simple set-up and robust construction, these units are designed to meet the needs of automated aerosol filling production. Each system comes standard with an air driven centrifugal sorter bowl to sort, orientate, and feed a wide variety of overcaps. Available upgrades include bulk feed elevators, “no-cap” detection, and sanitary/dairy construction.
Tetra Pak Inc.
Tetra Pak has a wide range of cap application systems that handle closures for portion packs, family packs, chilled and ambient solutions. Among Tetra Pak’s capping systems are the Capper 30 by Trepak 0100, for running Tetra Pak E3 packaging, featuring a high-capacity storage cap hopper, additional stand-on platform for the operator and a high-speed cap elevator.
Turbofil Packaging Machines
TurboFil offers a full line of bottle capping systems ranging from handheld to capping equipment for fully automated production lines, including systems that handle crimp caps, screw caps and tamp-on caps for all sizes of containers and production speeds in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, chemicals and other industries. New inline capper is designed to be a cost-effective solution for servo-controlled capping. This machine can be mounted on the customer's existing conveyor (or a TurboFil-supplied one) and can be supplied as a fully automatic machine using a cap feeder or as a manually loaded operation. TurboFil's Acrobat chuck capper reaches rates of 80 bottles per minute, combining the benefits of flexibility and easy changeover of a spindle capper with the precise torque and reliable cap handling offered by chuck cappers.
WeighPack Systems Inc. / Paxiom Group
Weighpack Systems, part of the Paxiom Group, provides capping solutions that unscramble bottles, cap containers and ensure caps are induction sealed. Paxiom’s family of automatic capping machines, engineered for medium to high-speed requirements, is ideally suited for industries such as snack food, confectionery, beverage, pharmaceutical and cannabis, among others. Rotary cappers are capable of accommodating many container sizes and can meet production rates from 10 to 150 cycles per minute depending on the specifics of container and cap.
Zalkin Americas
Zalkin designs and manufactures high-performance capping and cap handling systems – from a 5 mL-vial to a 5-gallon container. Zalkin capping technology addresses the full range of application needs for a wide variety of industries. Zalkin & beltorque® offer a full range of freestanding cappers capable of repeatably and reliably applying a wide range of closures to virtually any rigid package. Zalkin’s line of capping systems typically include a combination of capping heads, cap applicator, cap orienter, cap elevator and a cap conveyor.
ZimaPack
ZimaPack offers both rotary capping machines and monoblocs that can include rinsers, fillers and cappers on a single machine. ZimaPack also offers the cap feeding systems to automate the capping process including the cap sorters, cap elevators and cap chutes. Custom chuck style capping heads can accommodate a wide range of caps including but not limited to: screw caps; press-on/screw-on trigger caps; flip-top screw caps; droppers; drip cap; dispenser pumps; sport and push-pull caps; dispense caps with pouring spouts; lug or twist caps. Cap change parts are labeled with cap description. Reject systems are available for missing and/or crooked caps.
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