Wine & Cocktail Filler Capabilities

The wine and cocktail industry demands exceptionally high standards when it comes to filling and packaging products for distribution. For this reason, SMB Machinery has partnered with several leading manufacturers to provide the highest quality filling machinery for the industry. The selection of new equipment available from SMB offers exact filling capabilities at highly competitive prices. Once beverages are bottled, canned, or boxed, the new film shrink wrapping machines from SMB provide a wide choice of packaging options, also at very affordable prices.
Choice of the Best Brands
If you are looking for new processing and packaging equipment for wine and ready-to-drink cocktails at competitive prices, you will find that SMB offers an excellent choice.
  • Top-quality Cime Careddu filling machines that are ideal for varied wine products, seltzers, and ready-to-drink cocktails
  • Reliable, high-performing, affordably priced Hermis pasteurizing equipment
  • Best price-quality options for the best TECMI shrink-wrapping packaging systems on the market

Key Benefits

  • Value – Competitive pricing coupled with affordable service agreements that keep you covered
  • Reliability – Consistent production quality filling and packaging operations you can rely on
  • Flexibility – Machines designed for filling cans and both glass and PET bottles that offer a choice of cap types
  • Durability – Filling machines and components manufactured with the best quality stainless steels
  • Speed of Operation – Filling speeds from 30 to more than 800 bottles or cans per minute and packaging speeds up to 1,000 bottles or cans a minute
  • Ease of Maintenance – Well-designed machines, all of which are safe and easy to clean and maintain

SMB Machinery prides itself on partnering with trusted brands so its customers know that when purchasing wine and ready-to-drink cocktail filling and packaging equipment, their investment is sound.

The three companies SMB has proudly opted to work with share the same level of commitment to quality and customer care that is valued by SMB, a company renowned for reliability and integrity. All three are leading equipment manufacturers: Cime Carredu and Hermis are based in Europe, and TECMI.  When you invest in Cime, Hermis, or TECMI equipment from SMB, you know you will benefit from a service and support partner long after your initial purchase.

Whether you have decided to upgrade your current manufacturing or are purchasing machinery and equipment for a new ready-to-drink cocktails and/or wine filling and packaging venture, SMB Machinery wants to help you succeed. You may know exactly what equipment you want, or you may require help in evaluating your needs. Either way, the sales team at SMB can help you choose the right filling and packaging equipment to meet your needs and launch or expand your business.

SMB's New Filling Equipment for Wine & Ready to Drink Cocktail Manufacturing

Gold Bottle Filler

If you like the idea of using traditional bottles, the Cime Carredu Gold Bottle Filler is an excellent choice for your wine and ready-to-drink cocktail beverages whether carbonated or still. The counter-pressure machine is easy to operate and combines beautifully with both PET and glass bottles to meet varied customer needs.

The Gold Bottle Filler is manufactured from the best AISI 304 stainless steel. It has a base that is completely covered with standard AISI 304 stainless steel panels. Under these panels, there is a tubular stainless steel frame and steel plates, including a painted upper plate. The bottle filler has adjustable feet, located in the lower section of the base so that it can be leveled in compliance with height regulations and individual needs. The various components can be easily dismantled for cleaning and essential internal maintenance.

Safety guards, made from AISI 304 stainless steel frame combined with transparent panels, allow constant visual surveillance by the operator assigned to the machine. Additionally, the machine has been designed to effectively reduce noise levels on the factory floor.

Cime Careddu Gold Bottle Filler

Silver Bottle Filler

The Cime Carredu Silver Bottle Filler is a gravity filler that was designed specifically for bottling still liquids, including wine and ready-to-drink beverages that are suitable for serving (or drinking) as cocktails.

Like the Gold Bottle Filler, the Silver Bottle Filler is manufactured from top quality AISI 304 stainless steel, and it has a base made with stainless steel plates and a tubular frame. The upper plate is painted and the base is covered with stainless steel panels. The machine has adjustable feet located at the lower part of the base so that it can be leveled as required. The design of the Silver Bottle Filler makes it easy to clean and because the various components can be easily and quickly dismantled, internal maintenance is simplified.

The Silver Bottle Filler also features safety guards made from a stainless steel frame with transparent panels that permit constant visual surveillance by the operator. Similarly, the innovative design of this machine effectively reduces noise levels in the factory.

Cime Careddu Silver Bottle Filler

Diamond Can Filler

The Cime Carredu Diamond Can Filler is the ideal solution for filling and seaming cans used for wine and/or ready-to-drink cocktails.

The rotary counter-pressure machine has an adjustable filling height and the design is optimized for use with all standard cylindrical aluminum can diameters and sizes, to fit every possible application. The filling valves incorporated into the design of the Diamond Can Filler were designed not only for optimum filling, but also for hygienic safety, and for easy assembly and disassembly. The machine is made from top quality AISI 304 stainless steel or, if preferred, from AISI 316 that has increased resistance to corrosion.

The Cime Carredu Diamond Can Filler will operate at whatever speed suits customer needs, from 30 cans a minute to more than 200 cans a minute.

Cime Careddu Diamond Can Filler

Tunnel Pasteurizer

Designed for the thermal treatment of both carbonated and noncarbonated liquids that have been bottled in glass or canned, the Hermis Tunnel Pasteurizer is available in different sizes to cater for small, medium, and large ready-to-drink cocktail, hard seltzer and/or wine processing operations.

Manufactured in the form of a tunnel to fit any production areas, regardless of size and shape, the Tunnel Pasteurizer may be heated with hot water, steam, or electricity and cooled with cold or with iced water. The temperature of pasteurization ranges from 62 °C to 97 °C.

Made from high-quality stainless steel with components that are manufactured mostly in the European Union, Hermis Tunnel Pasteurizers have Siemens control systems that feature automatic temperature control.

Tunnel Pasteurizer

Flow Pasteurizer

Designed specifically to increase the shelf life of products, the Hermis Flow Pasteurizer reduces microorganisms in wine and ready-to-drink cocktails products by pasteurization prior to filling bottled or canned beverages. The liquid is heated rapidly to a predetermined temperature, held at that temperature for a specified time, and then cooled.

Heated with steam, electricity, or hot water, the machine has a variety of cooling sources including water, saline or alcohol solutions, or propylene glycol.

Made with high-quality stainless steel and components that are manufactured primarily in Europe (almost exclusively in Germany), these pasteurizing machines incorporate either an automatic or semi-automatic Siemens control system.

Hermis Flow Pasteurizers can be equipped with a buffer tank and a pump for any cleaning solutions that are returned from the buffer tank. An optional pump is also available for the coolant line.

Flow Pasteurizer

Tunnel Warmer

The Hermis Tunnel Warmer is designed for heating both carbonated and non-carbonated cold-filled containers to ambient temperatures of more than 20 °C or 25 °C for subsequent labeling.

Designed in the form of a tunnel, the Hermis Tunnel Warmer can heat between 30 and 400 bottles a minute, making it a versatile machine. Manufactured from high-quality stainless steel produced in Europe, it features controllers manufactured by the German company Siemens that may be automatic or semiautomatic depending on customer needs. All components, including electric actuators, valves, pumps, and nozzles are also made in Europe, mostly Germany.

The heat sources used for the tunnel warmer are electricity, hot water, and steam. Glass or PET bottles or cans are heated gradually in different heating zones at low temperatures by spraying water onto the container through nozzles that have been specially designed for purpose.

Tunnel Warmer

EV 750-35 Film Shrink Wrapper

One of the newest types of automatic shrink wrapping machines, the TECMI EV 750-35 is an innovative overlap machine that can be used to package the full range of bottled and canned wine and ready-to-drink cocktail products.

This packaging machine is available with single and double lanes to meet different requirements, it has an automatic servo engine and automatically stacks packages. The film used for shrink-wrapping is fed into the machine electronically and it is synchronized with whatever wine or cocktails are being packaged. There are two rolls of film at every station, one of which operates while the other is on standby.

A reliable mid-speed bundler is available with a pad loader option.

TECMI EV 750.35 Film Shrink Wrapper

EV 750-50 Film Shrink Wrapper

The TECMI EV 750-50 is a very reliable, flexible machine that provides continuous shrink-wrapping so that the film overlaps under the pack to seal the wine or cocktail product packaging. It operates without a welding bar and has an output of up to 100 packs offering high speed and flexibility.

Designed and built to top-quality standards, the EV 750-50 is suitable for packaging all kinds of wine and ready-to-drink cocktail products. The machine has an adjustable production speed that can handle up to a maximum of 100 packs per minute. It is available in many different versions that are suitable for bottles or cans or jars and may be used on single or double lanes with or without a cardboard pad. For safety and quality, it incorporates an electronic system that enables operators to monitor the formation of packs and keeps the product visible and accessible at all times.

There is a double-lane wrapping option with a single reel and a slitting device. The film is cut with a rotating blade and a manually-operated welding bar can be used to seal joints when the film on the reel is finished. A manual device is used to remove packs from the heating zone when the power is cut.

There is a film-only machine as well as a pad and film option.

TECMI EV 750.50 Film Shrink Wrapper

EV 35 Multipack Film Shrink Wrapper

The TECMI EV 35 Multipack Film Shrink Wrapper can handle any form of wine or ready-to-drink cocktail products including those that are square, cylindrical, or rounded in shape.

It is an automatic, continuous-operation shrink-wrapping machine that can accommodate wine and mixed cocktail beverages that have been packed in glass or PET bottles, or even in cardboard containers, and it is ideal for packages that are inconsistent in shape and/or size. It can handle up to 35 packs per minute if operating with a single lane and 70 if used in the double-lane format.

This machine only handles film, but it offers an excellent option for repackaging operations. Another advantage is that it has an ergonomic layout for manual loading.

TECMI EV 35 MultiPack Film Shrink Wrapper

ECAS 650/TT Film Shrink Wrapper

Acknowledged as being one of the best available shrink-wrapping machines in terms of performance, cost, and overall benefits, the ECAS 650/TT Film Shrink Wrapper is an automatic machine that can be used for packaging various wine and cocktail products.

A welding bar comes standard with this machine, which adds to its versatility and enables hot-chamber welding with digital temperature control for an automated operation. The welding bar has pneumatically operated upper and lower movement and all the necessary safety devices are incorporated in the design. Production speed can be adjusted to handle up to 25 packs per minute.

This is a highly flexible film shrink wrapper that is reliable and unique in the market. It also offers a number of optional extras including a single-lane cardboard pad dispenser and a wrap-around tray dispenser. There is a top-quality stainless steel version available.

TECMI ECAS 650/TT Film Shrink Wrapper

EV 850-50 Film Shrink Wrapper

The TECMI EV 850-50 Film Shrink Wrapper is an automatic, continuous wrapping machine that can be used on its own, with a cardboard pad, or with a tray to package bottles of wine and cans or bottles of ready-to-drink cocktails.

The machine has a linear and continuous movement and the film used for shrink wrapping is cut with a rotating blade. There is an electronically monitored loading station for a spare reel and protection devices where the wrapping bar is located. The welding bar for jointing the film when reels end is also operated manually. If bottles are blocked under the dragging bars a two-stage reverse motion will release them.

Designed for automatic pack preparation, the EV 850-50 offers excellent product visibility and accessibility throughout the packaging process. This feature also simplifies care and maintenance.

TECMI EV 850-50 Film Shrink Wrapper