Capsule Filling for Coffee
Technology
Extreme flexibility to package your coffee capsules.
Covering all aspects of the packaging process, from consultancy and design to production planning and turnkey solutions, IMA provides equipment for the filling of every type of capsule on the market, in plastic, aluminium, compostable and recyclable material.
For every capsule type and material
Key applications
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Capsule type
Plastic capsules
IMA machines handle the entire packaging cycle for plastic capsules, including coffee dosing, capsule forming or feeding, sealing with top film or lid and final cartoning, ensuring precision, high-speed performance and optimal product integrity through advanced capsule packaging machine solutions.
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Capsule type
Compostable capsules
For compostable capsules, IMA provides dedicated solutions that respect the delicate nature of sustainable materials. The machines manage coffee capsule filling, sealing and packaging with great care to preserve capsule integrity and meet eco-friendly standards.
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Capsule type
Aluminium capsules
IMA solutions can process aluminium capsules with high accuracy, managing coffee filling, tamping, lid application and inert gas flushing when required. The line ensures full barrier protection and long shelf life, essential for premium products, supported by a high-performance capsule packaging machine portfolio.
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Capsule type
American-style pods
IMA packaging machines handle every stage of the production process for American-style pods: from precise dosing and tamping of ground coffee into the rigid capsule, to inserting the internal filter, sealing with top films, and ensuring airtight packaging and product consistency through reliable coffee capsule filling and sealing systems.
A wide range of capsule filling and sealing machines.
IMA’s machines can package every kind of capsule present on the market.
Primary packaging of the capsules ensures maximum hygiene and prevents the aggression of external agents, such as moisture, heat and air. Discover IMA’s wide range of low, medium and high-speed capsule packaging machines, from 20 up to 1200 capsules per minute.
High-speed capsule fillers
Capsule Filling for Coffee
Capsule Filling for Coffee
Capsule Filling for Coffee
Medium-speed capsule fillers
Capsule Filling for Coffee
Capsule Filling for Coffee
Low-speed capsule fillers
Capsule Filling for Coffee
Turnkey solutions
Sustainability at the centre
Beyond the A to Z of coffee processing and packaging, IMA Coffee Hub is committed to increasing sustainable practices to reduce roasting emissions and test alternative packaging materials, implementing advanced eco-friendly solutions throughout the industrial process to rise to the challenge of coffee sustainability. This environmental commitment applies through adapting coffee capsule filling and sealing technology to the new packaging materials, and testing alternative processes to preserve the resources and minimise packaging waste.
Over the past few years, IMA’s approach to sustainability has led to the design and adaptation of packaging technologies to effectively handle compostable materials, including a dedicated capsule packaging machine portfolio, in collaboration with OPENLab, IMA Group’s network of technological laboratories and testing areas dedicated to research on sustainable materials, technologies and production optimisation processes.
