Hummus Filling Machine in San Antonio
Automatic hummus and dip cup filling, sealing, and cupping for San Antonio food producers — up to 30 cups/min, ±0.5% accuracy, CE/FDA/UL certified. From $45,000 USD.
San Antonio is one of the largest Hispanic-foods manufacturing hubs in the United States, with deep expertise in salsa, guacamole, and fresh dips. The SDH-R fills and seals all of them — including hummus — on one rotary platform.
Hummus Packaging for San Antonio Producers
San Antonio's food industry is built around fresh, flavour-forward dips and sauces, and demand for grab-and-go cups keeps climbing. The SDH-R suits the city's producers because its servo piston handles everything from smooth hummus to chunky, particulate-rich salsa, while MAP nitrogen flushing protects colour and freshness — critical for guacamole and other oxidation-prone products. At up to 30 cups per minute with CE/FDA/UL certification, it fits both established co-packers and scaling brands.
Why the SDH-R Excels at Hummus
Servo-Driven ±0.5% Accuracy
The volumetric piston filler meters by displaced volume, holding ±0.5% fill-weight accuracy across smooth, whipped, and chunky hummus — protecting net-weight compliance and margins.
All-in-One Fill, Seal & Cap
One compact rotary machine denests cups, fills hummus, applies a tamper-evident membrane seal, and adds an optional snap lid — no separate sealer or capper required.
MAP Nitrogen for Retail Shelf Life
Optional nitrogen flushing extends refrigerated hummus shelf life from 7–10 days to 30–45+ days — the range grocery distribution demands.
Made in Canada, Fully Certified
Built from 304 stainless steel for CIP sanitation, the SDH-R ships with CE, FDA, and UL documentation and a 12-month warranty.
Hummus & Dip Manufacturing in San Antonio
Fresh salsa, pico de gallo, guacamole, chile con queso, refried bean dip, elote dip and crema are not a specialty aisle in San Antonio - they are the core of a manufacturing sector. The city's food industry grew out of milling, masa and tortillas, and that base has widened into one of the country's most concentrated clusters of Hispanic-foods manufacturers and refrigerated co-packers. H-E-B is headquartered here, which makes the path from a small local run to a chain listing unusually short, and unusually demanding.
Two consequences follow. First, the products themselves are difficult to package: chunky, particulate-heavy, and in guacamole's case chemically impatient. Second, the co-packer model dominates, so one filling line may run a dozen customer brands in a week, each with its own cup, label, fill weight and seal specification.
What producers run into when they try to scale is predictable. Scooping chunky salsa into cups by hand is slow and inconsistent. Pumps specified for smooth product shear diced tomato and onion toward paste. Avocado begins browning the moment it meets headspace oxygen. And a 7-10 day code date keeps a San Antonio brand inside Texas when Houston, Dallas and the border corridor are all within a day's truck. A rotary dip filling and sealing machine is the practical answer to all four at once.
Why San Antonio Producers Choose the SDH-R
South Texas products break equipment that was specified for smooth spreads. The SDH-R gets chosen here for the opposite reason - how it handles difficult, particulate-heavy, oxygen-sensitive product.
- Particulates arrive intact. The servo volumetric piston meters by displaced volume and moves product on a large-bore stroke rather than by shear, so diced tomato, onion, roasted corn, black bean and chunky avocado reach the cup looking the way the recipe intended.
- Nitrogen flush against browning. Optional MAP displaces headspace oxygen immediately before the tamper-evident membrane seal is applied - the single strongest lever on guacamole colour hold, and equally useful on queso and crema. Refrigerated life moves from roughly 7-10 days to 30-45+ days.
- Three filler stations, one pass. Queso base plus a salsa roja drizzle plus a cotija or cilantro garnish; or bean dip, queso and jalapeno. Layered SKUs are a real merchandising advantage in this market, and the SDH-R builds them without a second line.
- Co-packer changeover. PLC recipes and tool-free strip-down keep a cup and fill-weight change under roughly 15 minutes, which is what makes a dozen customer brands in a week economically sane.
Fill range is 50 g to 500 g across 4, 8, 10 and 16 oz standard cups, with custom 2-32 oz round, square or rectangular formats. Specifications sit on the SDH-R product page, and the hummus cup filling machine page covers the Mediterranean side of the same platform.
Delivery, Installation & Service in San Antonio
Build and delivery run 8-12 weeks. Texas is covered from two of our three service centres - California and New Jersey - which between them hold technicians and parts on either coast, with the Calgary, Alberta factory behind them for anything needing build-level attention.
Commissioning is done on your product. For a San Antonio install that usually means proving the hardest SKU first: a chunky salsa or a guacamole, run at speed with the nitrogen flush active, checking particulate integrity, fill-weight repeatability at +/-0.5% and seal peel on the tamper-evident membrane before anything is signed.
Operator training covers recipe recall, cup denesting, film reel changes, station setup for multi-deposit SKUs and fault clearing. Sanitation training runs separately and covers CIP, tool-free strip-down and reassembly checks - which matters on a South Texas line that alternates between dairy-based queso, avocado and sesame-containing hummus.
A 12-month warranty applies from commissioning, and wear parts ship from stock to Texas customers. Ask for a South Texas quote.
SDH-R Specifications for San Antonio Producers
Full specification of the SDH-R automatic cup filling, sealing and cupping machine.
| Specification | SDH-R |
|---|---|
| Throughput | Up to 30 cups per minute (dry cycle) |
| Real-world output | 18–25 cups/min depending on product, cup size & options |
| Fill range | 50 g – 500 g (2 oz – 17 oz) |
| Fill-weight accuracy | ±0.5% (servo-driven volumetric piston) |
| Standard cup sizes | 4 oz, 8 oz, 10 oz, 16 oz |
| Custom cup sizes | 2 oz – 32 oz with matching tooling |
| Cup shapes | Round, square, rectangular |
| Sealing | Roll-film membrane heat seal (tamper-evident) |
| Lidding options | Pre-cut lid · snap-on lid (pick-and-place) |
| Shelf-life option | MAP nitrogen flush — 7–10 days to 30–45+ days refrigerated |
| Filler stations | Up to 3 (base + drizzle + garnish in one pass) |
| Construction | 304 stainless steel |
| Cleaning | CIP clean-in-place + tool-free strip-down |
| Controls | PLC + HMI with recipe storage |
| Changeover | Under ~15 minutes between SKUs |
| Certifications | CE, FDA, UL |
| Footprint | 44 × 52 in (1,100.5 × 1,315.5 mm) |
| Origin | Made in Canada (Calgary, Alberta) |
| Warranty | 12 months |
| Delivery | 8–12 weeks from order confirmation |
| Starting price | From $45,000 USD |
Manual vs Semi-Automatic vs Automatic Rotary Cup Filling
Which tier of cup filling machine fits your production stage (throughput varies by product, cup size and fill weight).
| Factor | Hand-filling | Semi-automatic / tabletop | SDH-R automatic rotary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical output | ~3–6 cups/min | ~8–15 cups/min | Up to 30 cups/min |
| Operators on fill & seal | 3–5 | 1–2 | 1 supervising |
| Fill-weight accuracy | Operator-dependent | Moderate | ±0.5% servo volumetric |
| Tamper-evident sealing | Hand-applied lids | Separate bench sealer | Integrated membrane seal |
| MAP / extended shelf life | Not available | Rarely available | Optional nitrogen flush (30–45+ days) |
| Typical investment | Lowest | Moderate | From $45,000 USD |
SDH-R Configuration for Hummus
Hummus Products It Fills
Serving San Antonio & Nearby
How the SDH-R Fills Hummus in San Antonio
Fully automatic from empty cup to sealed, retail-ready product
Cup Denesting
Empty cups are automatically separated from a nested stack and placed into the rotary table carriers. The pneumatic denester handles round, square, and rectangular cups from 2oz to 32oz.
Servo-Driven Filling
The volumetric piston filler draws a precise dose and dispenses it into the cup. Servo control adjusts stroke length and speed per recipe, maintaining ±0.5% fill-weight accuracy. The PLC stores recipes for quick changeovers.
Membrane Heat Sealing
Roll-stock film is drawn across the filled cup and heat-sealed to create a tamper-evident, airtight membrane. Sealing temperature, pressure, and dwell time are individually controlled to match your film and cup materials.
Snap-On Lid (Optional)
A pick-and-place mechanism applies a consumer-friendly snap-on lid over the membrane seal — a two-barrier system providing tamper evidence and reclosability for grocery retail and foodservice.
MAP Nitrogen Flush (Optional)
Modified Atmosphere Packaging replaces headspace oxygen with food-grade nitrogen immediately before sealing, typically extending refrigerated shelf life from 7–10 days to 30–45+ days.
Hummus Filling Machines in San Antonio — FAQs
Yes. Hummus Pack ships the SDH-R to San Antonio and across Texas, with North American service support from centres in Alberta, New Jersey, and California. Standard delivery is 8–12 weeks from order confirmation, and every machine includes a 12-month warranty.
The SDH-R starts at $45,000 USD for the single-filler configuration. Final price depends on the number of fillers, MAP nitrogen flushing, lidding format, and custom cup tooling. Contact us for a quote scoped to your products and volume.
The SDH-R fills up to 30 cups per minute in dry-cycle operation, with real-world hummus output typically 18–25 cups per minute depending on cup size, fill weight, and whether MAP nitrogen flushing is enabled.
Yes. The optional MAP nitrogen flush displaces headspace oxygen immediately before sealing, typically extending refrigerated shelf life from 7–10 days to 30–45+ days — the range regional and national grocery distribution requires.
Standard 4, 8, 10, and 16 oz cups, with custom tooling from 2 oz sampler cups up to 32 oz club and foodservice formats, in round, square, or rectangular shapes. Fill weights run from 50 g to 500 g.
Yes. The same machine fills tzatziki, baba ganoush, labneh, guacamole, salsa, pesto, sour cream, cottage cheese, nut butters, and cream-cheese spreads — see the dip filling and sealing machine page for the full range.
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