APK-60 High-Speed Automatic Effervescent Tablets Tube Filling Machine
50 to 60 tubes a minute, with automatic rejection of short-count tubes
Speed is the obvious difference — 50 to 60 tubes a minute against 40. The less obvious one matters more: this machine detects a tube that’s a tablet short and rejects it, rather than capping it and sending it down the line.
1. Speed— 50 to 60 tubes a minute
2. Short-count rejection— a tube missing a tablet is diverted, not capped
3. Tablets— Ø25 mm, up to 6 mm thick, 10 to 20 per tube
4. Power— 220 V, 2 kW
5. Weight— 1,000 kg. A machine this heavy doesn’t need anchoring to stay stable at 60 tubes a minute.
Is this the right machine for you?
✓ Yes, if…
- You need 50 to 60 tubes a minute
- Short counts are a real cost for you — this is the only model that rejects them automatically
- You have 3.3 × 2 m of floor for it
✕ Buy something else if…
- You need 40 tubes a minute or fewer → the APK-40B does that in half the floor space and half the weight
- Your floor can't take 1,000 kg → check before you order
- Your tablet hardness is under 5 kg → speed makes chipping worse, not better
Short-Count Tubes Leave the Line
The 40-series locks out the cap when a tablet is missing, which leaves you an uncapped tube travelling down the line. This machine pushes it out into a separate chute. At 60 tubes a minute, that’s the difference between finding it now and finding it at the packing bench.
Cap Feed Sized for the Speed
A vibrating hopper orients caps and feeds them down the track continuously. On a 40-tube line the cap feed has slack; at 60 it doesn’t, which is why this machine’s sorter is scaled up rather than carried over.
50 to 60 Tubes a Minute
Fifty percent more than the 40-series, from the same screening-and-row logic running faster. The tablets are still laid flat and pushed in sideways — speed here comes from the indexing and the cap feed keeping up, not from handling the tablets any harder.
SUS316L Where the Tablets Touch
Effervescent tablets carry citric and malic acid, and they shed that acid as dust. Contact parts are SUS316L; the table canopy is SUS304.
Technical specification
| Specification Parameter | APK-60 Technical Metrics |
| Model Designation | APK-60 (High-Speed Mass-Production Flagship Tier) |
| Primary Dosing Transmission Upgrades | Leadshine Stepper Motor + Gaoshida Dividing Disk Indexing |
| Production Line Running Throughput | 50–60 tubes / minute (Mass-Volume Optimized Continuous Loop) |
| Standard Target Tablet Matrix | Diameter: 25 mm | Thickness: ≤6 mm (Customized per client requirements) |
| Target Capsule Count Per Tube | Flexible range: Standard 10 to 20 pieces per bottle |
| Required Raw Tablet Characteristics | Hardness profile: Above 5 kg | Thickness error: ≤0.2 mm |
| System Automation Control Layer | German Siemens PLC + Panasonic & Schneider Main Electrical Core |
| Electrical Voltage / Total Power Draw | 220V 50-60 Hz / 2.0 kW Heavy-Duty Extended Powertrain System |
| Purified Compressed Air Demands | Pressure: 0.5–0.6 MPa | Consumption: ≤0.24 m³/min |
| Machine Structural Scales (L × W × H) | 3300 × 2000 × 1750 mm Heavy-Scale Cleanroom Layout |
| Net Equipment Dead Weight | Approximately 1000 KG (1 Metric Ton) Rigidity Core |
| Material Metallurgy Grade | Table Canopy: SUS304 | Tablet Contact Lines: Pure SS316L |
Model comparison
Model | Indexing | Speed | Power | Weight |
APK-40A | Pneumatic | 35–40 tubes/min | 1.2 kW | 420 kg |
APK-40B | Stepper + indexing disk | 35–40 tubes/min | 1.5 kW | 420 kg |
APK-60 | Stepper, with short-count rejection | 50–60 tubes/min | 2 kW | 1,000 kg |
APKZL-60 | Tube labeller | 60 tubes/min | 0.8 kW | 320 kg |
The 40A and 40B run at the same speed and weigh the same. What differs is how each station is stopped — and that shows up when your tablet thickness varies.
Production Applications
What changing over involves
What changed | What you adjust | Roughly |
Same tablet, different count per tube | Track setting | 15-30mins |
Different tube diameter | Tube guides and cap vibrating disk | 15-30mins |
Different tablet diameter | Row alignment rails and track guides | 15-30mins |
Tablet thickness drifts within ±0.2 mm | Nothing — but that’s the limit | — |
Beyond ±0.2 mm of thickness variance, no adjustment fixes it. That’s what separates the 40A from the 40B.
What to check before you buy
Your tablet, before the machine
Hardness above 5 kg, thickness variance within ±0.2 mm, and a tube at least 2 mm wider inside than your tablet. Those three decide whether any tube filler runs cleanly on your product — ask any supplier to confirm them against your actual samples.
What happens to a short-count tube
Some machines lock out the cap. Others push the tube out of the line. Ask which, because one of them still leaves you a tube to find at the packing bench.
Installation and training
Ask what's included and what costs extra.
Why Choose AIPAK？
Factory-direct — You buy from the plant, not through a trading company.
We run your tablets first — Send us tablets and tubes and we run them before you order, so you see whether your hardness and thickness clear the track.
U.S. line, answered by us — +1 (213) 526-8644, 9am to 11pm Eastern, Monday to Friday. That’s 6am to 8pm Pacific.
Lead time — 1-3months. Confirmed in writing with your order.
Fully Expanded Technical FAQ for APK-60
The machine is engineered around a horizontal vibratory sorting table and screening channels that arrange tablets into a single overlapping row. Tablets are systematically aligned flat before a gentle mechanical cylinder shuffles them into the tube mouth, entirely removing vertical drops and preserving raw tablet hardness.
To ensure reliable row counting and jam-free insertion, your raw formulation must maintain a minimum hardness threshold of above 5kg. Additionally, to prevent count variations from cumulative stacking errors, tablet thickness variance must remain within a tight tolerance of ±0.2mm.
The line features a multi-point sensor verification array governed by the Siemens PLC. If a container displays an incorrect tablet count or experiences a capping failure, the system skips the sealing step to protect component integrity and automatically directs that specific uncapped tube into an integrated rejection chute.
The mechanical sorting rails naturally drop fine powder away from the primary pathways. To completely clear airborne dust from the encapsulation zone, the APK-60 includes an integrated 38 mm diameter vacuum suction port, designed for easy coupling to your cleanroom’s industrial dust extraction unit.
Yes. The APK-60 uses a modular changeover design across its key tracks. Cleanroom technicians can quickly adjust or swap the tube feeding rails, cap vibrating disks, and row-shuffling channels using quick-clamp mechanisms, minimizing line downtime during multi-recipe turnarounds.
No. According to international packaging compliance and the physical properties of overlapping row insertion, the inner hole diameter of your bobbin bottle must be at least 2 mm larger than the maximum outer diameter of your tablet to ensure jam-free automated loading.
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Send Us Tablets and Tubes
Three things decide whether any of these machines runs cleanly on your product, and speed isn’t one of them.
Your tablets need to be harder than 5 kg — softer than that and the edges chip in the track. Thickness has to stay inside ±0.2 mm, or the stack height drifts and the count goes wrong. And your tube’s inner diameter has to be at least 2 mm wider than your tablet, or it jams at the mouth.
Send us samples of both and we’ll check all three before we quote. If your tablet doesn’t clear one of them, we’d rather tell you now than after the machine ships.
- Reply within one business day
- Your tablets and tubes run on the machine before you order
- Your formula and specs stay with us
