Herbal Tea Production Line
The seven core processes
Custom Complete Solutions for All Types of Plant Herbal Tea Beverages
From PET bottles, glass bottles and aluminum cans to disposable large barrels and stand-up pouches, Zhonglian Machinery delivers fully customized plant herbal tea production lines to match every one of your production demands. Whether you manufacture cooling herbal tea, flower infusion tea, functional herbal drinks or plant-based beverages, our tailor-made integrated systems adopt precision UHT sterilization and hot filling technology to ensure stable product quality and long shelf life. Covering full procedures from water treatment, herbal extraction, blending sterilization to end-of-line packaging, we support diversified packaging formats with stable, high-efficiency turnkey equipment.
Comprehensive Advantages of the Production Line
- Convenient Maintenance: The stainless steel body is easy to clean and corrosion-resistant, with universal spare parts and low later maintenance cost. Full CIP cleaning system ensures long-term sanitary production conditions.
- Wide Compatibility: One production line supports PET bottles, glass bottles, aluminum cans, pouches and other packaging formats, and easily switches between cooling herbal tea, flower tea and functional herbal beverages.
- Controllable Quality: Fully enclosed production throughout the process. Dual sterilization of UHT and retort ensures commercial sterility of products, and multi-stage filtration guarantees clear and stable product state without sediment.
- User-friendly Operation: Touchscreen human-machine interface with visual parameter adjustment, easy to master even for new operators. The system supports formula storage and one-click switching for multi-variety production.
- Flexible Capacity: Flexible equipment configuration to match small workshops and large-scale factories, with a wide range of capacity options from 2,000 to 30,000 bottles per hour.
Classification of Herbal Tea Raw Materials by Production Process
Rich in volatile oil and aromatic active substances; long-time high-temperature boiling will lose fragrance and active ingredients. Matched with low-temperature countercurrent extraction and sealed extraction tanks to retain natural herbal scent.Raw materials: Honeysuckle, chrysanthemum plumeria, mint, mulberry leaf, houttuynia cordata, dandelion
High crude fiber & lignified texture, hard to dissolve active components; prolonged high-temperature simmering is required. Equipped with coarse crusher, high-pressure extraction tank and multi-stage filter for full effective substance release.Raw materials: Roughhaired holly root, smilax glabra, prunella vulgaris, microcos paniculata, lophatherum gracile, evodia lepta
High plant polysaccharide and pectin content leads to viscous, turbid extract with heavy sediment. Supporting enzymatic clarification, centrifugal separation and frame precision filtration to avoid layering and dull luster of finished drinks.Raw materials: Mesona chinensis, monk fruit, polygonatum odoratum, lily bulb, sterculia lychnophora
High tannin and bitter alkaloid bring strong harsh taste in raw extract. Adopt staged extraction, licorice blending and activated carbon debittering filtration to balance bitterness and improve drinkability.Raw materials: evodia lepta, helicteres angustifolia, abrus cantoniensis, polygonum chinense, gardenia jasminoides
Other
Our herbal processing solutions are not limited to the above four categories of botanical raw materials. We can design complete turnkey production lines for any herbal raw materials from all over the world, supplying full-set equipment including raw material cleaning, crushing, low-temperature extraction, clarification, blending, UHT sterilization and filling for herbal tea, five-flower tea, heat-clearing dampness-dispelling drinks and concentrated herbal liquid.
Main Packaging Formats
The production line features strong compatibility and flexible switching between packaging formats, meeting demands of supermarkets, catering, distribution and other market channels:
PET Bottle
330ml–1.5L | Light shatterproof mass-market herbal tea packaging
Glass Bottle
200ml–1L | Airtight premium bottle for high-end herbal tea drinks
Aluminum Can
200ml–330ml | Portable pressure-resistant single-serve herbal tea container
Tetra Pak Brick
200ml–1L | Aseptic long-shelf-life brick for herbal tea beverages
Plant Herbal Tea Production Line & Production Process Guide
Plant herbal tea beverages, represented by cooling herbal tea, flower infusion drinks and functional herbal beverages, deliver unique flavor and health benefits from natural herbal extracts. Zhonglian Machinery supplies fully automatic plant herbal tea production lines integrating water treatment, extraction, blending, sterilization, filling and packaging. With mature technology and stable operation, the lines are compatible with multiple packaging formats and cover capacities from small-batch to large-scale manufacturing, widely applied in mass production of various herbal tea products.
Main Equipment & Performance Features
The entire production line is mainly made of food-grade 304/316 stainless steel, with corrosion resistance, no sanitary dead corners and easy cleaning. Core electrical and pneumatic components are sourced from internationally renowned brands.
It consists of quartz sand filters, activated carbon filters, sodium ion filters, precision filters, primary reverse osmosis units, UV sterilizers and aseptic water storage tanks. The system stably produces high-purity water meeting herbal tea production standards, effectively prevents tea cream formation and extends the service life of the whole line.
It consists of herbal extraction tanks, sugar melting kettles, blending tanks, duplex filters and clarification equipment. The system completes herbal extraction, sugar dissolving, formula blending and impurity filtration, and delivers standardized tea liquid for the subsequent sterilization process.
It consists of tubular or plate-type ultra-high temperature sterilizers, plate heat exchangers and aseptic storage tanks. It achieves instant sterilization of material liquid, maximally retains herbal flavor and active ingredients, and provides qualified sterile liquid for hot filling process.
It includes fully automatic / semi-automatic bottle blowers, bottle unscramblers and bottle rinsing & spraying equipment. It realizes integrated bottle forming, sorting and cleaning, and is compatible with various bottle shapes and container specifications.
It integrates bottle rinsing, atmospheric hot filling and capping, with linear and rotary structures available in multiple configurable models. It is equipped with high-precision filling valves and magnetic constant-torque capping heads, and supports quick bottle format changeover for stable, efficient production.
It includes light inspection equipment, bottle air dryers, inkjet / laser coders, sleeve labeling machines, fully automatic shrink wrappers and case packers. The fully automatic workflow ensures neat packaging and clear product identification for finished herbal tea beverages.
It consists of water-bath sterilization retorts, automatic temperature control units and loading/unloading devices. It performs constant-temperature secondary sterilization on finished products, effectively extends product shelf life and ensures food safety of products in normal-temperature circulation.
It performs full cleaning for all pipelines, tanks and equipment of the production line without disassembly, with automatic dosing and cycle control. It strictly meets the sanitary standards of the food industry and maintains long-term hygienic production conditions.
It includes air conveyors for empty bottles and product conveyors for semi-finished & finished products, covering transfer between all production sections. It realizes seamless and stable material delivery between processes and improves the overall operating efficiency of the line.
Reference Table for Investment Information of Plant Herbal Tea Production Line
| Product Type | Investment Budget (USD) | Hourly Capacity (units) | Daily Output (8h shift, units) | Operators Required (persons) | Payback Period (months) |
| PET Bottled Herbal Tea | 90,000 – 170,000 | 3,000 – 6,000 | 24,000 – 48,000 | 3 – 4 | 13 – 19 |
| PET Bottled Herbal Tea | 220,000 – 550,000 | 7,000 – 14,000 | 56,000 – 112,000 | 4 – 6 | 11 – 16 |
| PET Bottled Herbal Tea | 650,000 – 1,300,000 | 15,000 – 24,000 | 120,000 – 192,000 | 6 – 10 | 9 – 13 |
| Glass Bottled Herbal Tea | 110,000 – 190,000 | 2,000 – 4,000 | 16,000 – 32,000 | 4 – 5 | 15 – 21 |
| Glass Bottled Herbal Tea | 270,000 – 650,000 | 5,000 – 9,000 | 40,000 – 72,000 | 5 – 7 | 13 – 19 |
| Glass Bottled Herbal Tea | 750,000 – 1,600,000 | 10,000 – 18,000 | 80,000 – 144,000 | 7 – 12 | 11 – 16 |
| Aluminum Canned Herbal Tea | 100,000 – 180,000 | 6,000 – 12,000 | 48,000 – 96,000 | 3 – 5 | 14 – 20 |
| Aluminum Canned Herbal Tea | 250,000 – 600,000 | 15,000 – 25,000 | 120,000 – 200,000 | 5 – 7 | 12 – 17 |
| Aluminum Canned Herbal Tea | 700,000 – 1,400,000 | 30,000 – 50,000 | 240,000 – 400,000 | 7 – 11 | 10 – 14 |
| Tetra Pak Brick Herbal Tea | 120,000 – 200,000 | 3,000 – 6,000 | 24,000 – 48,000 | 4 – 5 | 15 – 21 |
| Tetra Pak Brick Herbal Tea | 280,000 – 650,000 | 8,000 – 15,000 | 64,000 – 120,000 | 5 – 7 | 13 – 18 |
| Tetra Pak Brick Herbal Tea | 750,000 – 1,500,000 | 18,000 – 30,000 | 144,000 – 240,000 | 7 – 12 | 11 – 16 |
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Henan Zhonglian Enterprise covers a total area of over 6,000 square meters, with over 4,000 square meters of standardized industrial workshops and fixed assets of 20 million yuan. To ensure the processing quality of its food and beverage equipment, the company is equipped with over 30 advanced machines, including CNC machining centers, large hydraulic equipment, automatic polishing equipment, large shearing, bending, and rolling equipment, dynamic balancing equipment, physical performance testing equipment, hydrostatic testing equipment, and electrical safety testing instruments. The entire process, from design and sales to production and inspection, is managed using computerized programs.
