Bottle Washer Buying Guide

What Is a Bottle Washer Machine?

While other parts washers are more general in their design in order to accommodate different kinds of parts and materials, bottle washer machines are specially designed to meet certain requirements. They often consist of multiple jets that force chemistry into bottles to effectively clean and sterilize them by contacting all interior and exterior surfaces. The solution is typically heated to meet specific sanitation levels and provide quality assurance. Production lines rely on consistent, thorough cleaning solutions to ensure product safety and hygiene during the bottling process. Research labs and testing facilities require thorough decontamination of their equipment after use. Bottle washing machines provide a critical function for many different industries.

Bottle Washing Machine Applications

“Bottle washer” is a broad term that covers a large range of commercial bottle washing machines. Many different types of bottle washer machines are used in multiple industries and sectors for different purposes. Some of our bottle washer applications include:

The needs of your company will determine the kind of bottle washing machine you need. For example, a small research lab may only need a cabinet bottle washer to meet all of their sanitation requirements, while a brewery would require a fully automated glass bottle washer that can thoroughly clean hundreds of bottles per hour. Niagara Systems can build custom industrial bottle washers to cover all of our client’s needs.

Types of Bottle Washer Machines

For commercial bottle washers, there are a number of variants that companies use across different industries. Aside from custom high-pressure bottle washers, there are three main varieties available on the market — cabinet and carousel, and tunnel — and they come in two methods of operation: semi-automated and automated.

Things to Consider When Buying a Bottle Washer Machine

There are several factors to consider when you are purchasing an industrial bottle washer. While there are other pertinent details to address, these are some of the basics that we ask our clients about when helping them buy or customize a high-pressure bottle washer.

1. Volume

How much capacity do you need? High-volume workflows will have vastly different requirements than small operations. For lab testing equipment, a cabinet bottle washer could suffice. For a large vineyard that needs a wine bottle washer, a carousel system would be required.

2. Footprint

The amount of space that you have available for your bottle washing machine will be a big factor. Fitting an automatic bottle cleaner into a smaller footprint can create bottlenecks and logistics issues that may be solved with a custom system.

3. Turnaround

How fast your bottle wash cycle needs to be in order to maintain the level of inventory for your application can affect different aspects of the wash cycle. The amount of time you have for the rinse and drying process may determine things like temperature control, water pressure and other factors to give you the best cleaning solution in the appropriate amount of time.

4. Flexibility

Single-purpose units can be highly customized to perform the one specific cleaning task that you require. Changes can be made to water pressure, temperature and other parameters to maximize cleaning efficiency. Multipurpose bottle washers are made to handle different cleaning applications that can handle unique washing situations where flexibility is as important as timeliness.