Client Background
Maji Safi is a local mass-market drinking water brand headquartered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, specializing in 500ml portable sachet purified water. Its products mainly cover community grocery stores, street vendors, campus canteens and suburban residential areas, targeting the huge demand for affordable safe drinking water among local residents.
Previously, the brand operated with small semi-automatic equipment, facing persistent problems such as low output, high manual sealing defect rate and unstable water quality. To expand market share and meet official food safety production requirements, the client partnered with Allylinkmachine to build a standardized full-automatic sachet water production line.
Core Operational Challenges
- Raw water quality fluctuation: Local municipal water has high total dissolved solids and unstable microbial indicators, requiring a stable and durable purification system.
- Low production efficiency: Semi-manual production led to insufficient daily output, high labor cost and frequent leakage problems in finished products.
- Compliance requirements: The client needed to upgrade production conditions to pass national food safety certification and achieve formal large-scale operation.
- Technical gap: The on-site team lacked professional equipment operation and maintenance experience, requiring easy-to-operate equipment and systematic training.
Customized Solution from Allylinkmachine
Allylinkmachine provided a full turnkey sachet water production solution, covering raw water treatment, sterile storage, automatic sachet forming, filling, sealing and coding. The whole line adopts food-grade 304 stainless steel, complies with Tanzania national drinking water production standards, and features simple operation, low failure rate and low maintenance cost, which is highly suitable for emerging market customers.
Core Equipment Configuration
| Equipment Name | Capacity | Core Function |
|---|---|---|
| Single-stage RO Water Treatment System | 6 tons per hour | Deep desalination and purification, remove impurities, heavy metals and bacteria |
| Stainless Steel Aseptic Water Tank | 3000L | Sealed storage of purified water, avoid secondary pollution |
| Vertical Automatic Sachet Filling Machine | 2000 sachets/hour | Complete PE film forming, quantitative filling, heat sealing and date printing in one process |
| Ozone Sterilization System | 5g/h | Sterilize water body and production pipeline, ensure product biological safety |
Project Results
The entire project was installed, commissioned and put into full production within 30 days, with all performance indicators exceeding the client’s expectations.
- Capacity upgrade: Hourly output reaches 2000 sachets, and daily output under 16-hour operation exceeds 32,000 sachets, 4 times higher than the original production mode.
- Quality stability: Finished product sealing pass rate reaches 99.2%, with zero batch leakage problems; water quality indicators fully meet national standards, and the client successfully passed the official food safety audit at one time.
- Cost reduction: Fully automatic production reduces front-line operators from 8 to 2 per shift, cutting unit production cost by over 30%.
- Fast market growth: Four months after official launch, the product has covered more than 90 community retail outlets and 26 primary schools in Dar es Salaam, with steadily growing regional market share.
Client Testimonial
“Allylinkmachine delivered far more than just equipment. They arranged professional engineers to guide the installation on site, and trained our team patiently until we could fully operate and maintain the line independently. The RO system works perfectly with our local water quality, and the sachet filling machine runs stably with very few defective products. This investment has helped us achieve formal large-scale operation and win more customer trust. We will definitely choose Allylinkmachine again for our next capacity expansion.”
