An Automatic Glass Bottle Washing Machine is an industrial-grade appliance designed primarily for the beverage, dairy, food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries to efficiently clean reusable or returnable glass bottles. These machines automate the cleaning process, handling high volumes of bottles while ensuring thorough removal of contaminants, labels, residues, and foils. They are built to meet hygiene standards like GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and are constructed from durable, corrosion-resistant materials such as stainless steel (SS 304 or higher) to withstand harsh cleaning agents and high-pressure operations.
Automatic Glass Bottle Washing Machine Video
Key Features
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Compact and Efficient Design: Many models feature a small footprint with single-end or double-end configurations, incorporating soaking tanks, high-pressure jets, and rinsing stations in one unit. This minimizes space requirements and downtime while supporting energy-efficient operation, including automatic temperature, caustic concentration, and speed controls.
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Low Maintenance and Consumptions: Equipped with self-cleaning filters, stainless steel pumps, and no complex mechanical parts in some advanced models, leading to reduced water, electricity, and detergent usage. Water recycling systems can further lower operational costs.
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Customization Options: Available in rotary, linear, or tunnel-style formats; semi-automatic for smaller outputs or fully automatic for production lines. Integration with filling lines, crate washers, or labeling systems is common.
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Safety and Hygiene: Includes features like automatic tank level control, IP55 electrical protection, and final self-centering sprays to eliminate caustic residuals, ensuring bottles exit in a fully sanitized condition.
Typical Washing Process
Automatic Glass Bottle Washing Machine follows a multi-stage cycle tailored for new, returnable, or labeled bottles:
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Pre-Washing: 1–3 initial baths or jets to remove loose debris using recycled or fresh water.
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Soaking: Immersion in 1–4 caustic or detergent tanks to loosen labels and stubborn residues. Temperatures and chemical dosing are automatically regulated.
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Label Removal: Dedicated extraction stations for paper, aluminum, or foil labels.
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Detergent Jetting: High-pressure sprays (inside and outside) with alkaline solutions for deep cleaning.
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Rinsing: 2–3 stages of recycled and final fresh water jets to neutralize and flush out residues, often with external top sprays for comprehensive coverage.
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Drying/Sanitizing (Optional): Air drying or integrated drying modules to prepare bottles for filling.
Applications and Benefits
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Industries: Ideal for breweries, soft drink producers, juice/juice lines, dairies, distilleries, and ketchup packaging, where reusable glass bottles are common.
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Benefits: Achieves superior cleaning results with minimal human intervention, reduces labor costs, and supports sustainability through water recycling. Outputs can be scaled from small labs (e.g., 500 bph) to high-volume plants (e.g., 76,000 bph).
Salient Features of Bottle Washing Machine
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Geneva mechanism.
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Four inner, one outer and one air wash.
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Sequence of washes of washes to customer’s choice
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Stationary nozzles eliminate contamination of water cycles.
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Easy loading and unloading with two rows.
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Individual solenoid valve for each washing sequence.
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Pumps and tanks are mounted on parable stand for easy maintenance.
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Easy operation.
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Higher capacity centrifugal pumps to wash bigger bottles.
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The stationary nozzles avoid chipping of bottle necks.
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Bottle guide system especially for lightweight bottle.
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Pumps and Tanks are mounted on portable stand for easy maintenance.
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Separate panel control to avoid any short circuit due to spraying of water.
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S.S. glycerin fill pressure meter.
Process Operation of Automatic Bottle Washer
The bottles are loaded on the subsequent indexing part of rotating platform and are cleared in series of operations. Specially designed bottle holders are provided to hold bottles with neck diameter. The bottles are placed in an inverted position in these cup shaped holders. Spraying showers does the external cleaning of the bottles. Solenoid valves are provided to enable the regulation of wash timings, it also spraying water when bottle are stopped means ensure saving of water and sequence of various washing media to suit specific requirement.
Technical Specification of Bottle Washer Machine
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Model No |
ARBW – 64 | ARBW – 100 |
| Production Output | Up to 60 Bottles / Minute (Depending on Bottle Size) |
Up to 100 Bottles / Minute (Depending on Bottle Size) |
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Input Specification |
Diameter of the container: 25 mm to 100mm Outside Diameter of Neck: 20 mm to 38 mm (with the help of change parts) Height of the container: Up to 280 mm (with the help of change parts) |
Diameter of the container: 25 mm to 100mm Outside Diameter of Neck: 20 mm to 38 mm (with the help of change parts) Height of the container: Up to 280 mm (with the help of change parts) |
| Power Supply | Main Unit: 0.75 H.P., 380 Volt, 3 Phase, 4 Wire System, 50 Hz
Optional Accessories (2 Pumps – Pumping Station) 0.75 H.P., 380 Volt, 3 Phase, 4 Wires System, 50 Hz Electric Heater Tank: 2 K.W. |
Main Unit: 0.75 H.P., 380 Volt, 3 Phase, 4 Wire System, 50 Hz Optional Accessories (2 Pumps – Pumping Station) 0.75 H.P., 380 Volt, 3 Phase, 4 Wires System, 50 Hz Electric Heater Tank: 2 K.W. |
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Overall Dimension |
1550 mm (L) x 1700 mm (W) x 1300 mm (H) approx. | 1800 mm (L) x 1700 mm (W) x 1300 mm (H) approx. |
| Air Consumption | 30 CFM @ 5 bar |
30 CFM @ 5 bar |
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Net Weight |
650 kgs. approx. |
750 kgs. approx. |
* Power voltage can be adjusted as per customer’s domestic power voltage requirements.
* Rights of technical improvements & modification reserved.
* Illustrations & dimensions are shown for information purpose only.
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