Hummus & Dip Filling Machine in San Jose
Automatic hummus and dip cup filling, sealing and cupping for San Jose food producers - up to 30 cups/min, +/-0.5% accuracy, CE/FDA/UL certified. From $45,000 USD.
San Jose and the southern Bay Area combine premium, clean-label food brands with some of the highest labour costs in the country - the exact conditions where automating cup filling and sealing pays back fastest.
Cup Filling & Sealing for San Jose Producers
Bay Area producers face a simple arithmetic problem: hand-filling cups is expensive here in a way it is not elsewhere. The SDH-R removes that cost, filling hummus, dips and spreads to +/-0.5% at up to 30 cups per minute with one operator supervising, sealing each cup tamper-evident, and optionally adding MAP nitrogen to reach the 30-45+ day shelf life that Northern California grocery distribution requires.
Why the SDH-R Suits San Jose Production
Servo-Driven +/-0.5% Accuracy
The volumetric piston meters by displaced volume, holding +/-0.5% fill-weight accuracy across smooth, whipped and chunky products - protecting net-content compliance and margins.
All-in-One Fill, Seal & Cap
One compact rotary machine denests cups, fills, 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 shelf life from 7-10 days to 30-45+ days - the range grocery distribution demands.
Certified, Food-Grade Build
Food-grade 304 stainless with CIP, CE/FDA/UL documentation and a 12-month warranty. Made in Calgary, Alberta by Alter Pack.
Hummus & Dip Manufacturing in San Jose
San Jose's food manufacturing is quieter than its tech industry and just as specialized. Production sits in the older industrial pockets — the Monterey Road corridor, north San Jose out toward Alviso, the light-industrial blocks off Berryessa Road — and in the co-packing plants that ring the South Bay toward Gilroy, Hollister and the Salinas Valley. Raw material is unusually close: Gilroy garlic, Central Coast produce, Central Valley legumes and Watsonville cold storage all sit inside a two-hour drive.
Demand is equally distinctive. Santa Clara County's Vietnamese, Indian, Mexican, Persian, Filipino and Portuguese communities support real volume in spreads and dips well beyond the mainstream hummus set, and Silicon Valley campus micro-markets and grab-and-go programs buy single-serve refrigerated cups by the pallet. Add clean-label retail through Whole Foods, Sprouts, Zanotto's, Lunardi's and the weekend farmers' market circuit, and a young brand can build an order book faster than it can build a line.
What stops those brands is the arithmetic of labor. San Jose operates its own local minimum wage ordinance, and Bay Area packaging labor is among the most expensive in the country. A three- or four-person hand-fill table that pencils out in another state simply does not here, and every case produced by hand carries a cost that premium retail pricing cannot fully absorb.
Overfill compounds it. When the base is tahini, extra-virgin olive oil, pistachio or avocado, a few grams of giveaway per cup across a shift is money straight off the margin — which is why a hummus filling machine in San Jose usually pays back on labor and yield together.
Why San Jose Producers Choose the SDH-R
In the South Bay the business case is written in headcount and yield, not in cups per minute alone. The SDH-R runs as one automatic filling, sealing and cupping cell: a single operator loads cups and film, recalls a recipe and supervises the line while it fills, seals and discharges at up to 30 cups per minute on a dry cycle and 18-25 CPM on real product.
- Displaces an entire hand-fill crew — in a market with San Jose wage rates, the labor line item is usually the fastest part of the payback calculation.
- Plus or minus 0.5% fill accuracy — servo volumetric dosing protects yield on expensive bases like tahini, cold-pressed olive oil, avocado and nut butters, where hand-scooping quietly overfills every cup.
- MAP nitrogen flush instead of preservatives — clean-label Bay Area brands extend refrigerated shelf life from roughly 7-10 days to 30-45+ days without touching the ingredient declaration.
- Three filler stations for premium presentation — base, olive oil or harissa drizzle and a za'atar, dukkah or seed garnish deposit in one pass, supporting the price point Whole Foods and specialty grocers expect.
Recipe changeover runs under 15 minutes through the PLC and HMI, which matters for South Bay brands carrying eight or ten SKUs into a single retail account, and for co-packers switching client to client mid-shift. Construction is food-grade 304 stainless with CIP and tool-free strip-down, and the machine is CE, FDA and UL certified. Review the complete SDH-R specification and options or the dip filling and sealing machine overview.
Delivery, Installation & Service in San Jose
Every SDH-R is built to order in Calgary, Alberta by Alter Pack, with typical delivery of 8 to 12 weeks. Northern California is supported from our California service center, which keeps San Jose customers in-state for engineer visits and spare parts — no customs paperwork on a service call, and no waiting on international freight for a wear item.
Commissioning happens on your product. Provide your hummus, dip, spread or salad along with the cups and film you intend to run in production, and the line is set up and validated on your recipes, fill weights and seal parameters before we hand it over. That matters most for clean-label formulations, where viscosity varies batch to batch and the piston settings have to be proven on the real thing.
Training covers both sides of the operation: operators on HMI recipe recall, cup and film changeover and a full SKU switch, and the sanitation team on tool-free strip-down and CIP for your food safety plan and retailer audits.
Machines carry a 12-month warranty with parts stocked in North America. Request a Bay Area quote with your cup sizes, target CPM and product viscosity.
SDH-R Specifications for San Jose 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 |
| 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 | Food-grade 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 x 52 in (1,100.5 x 1,315.5 mm) |
| Origin | Made in Calgary, Alberta, Canada by Alter Pack |
| 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 San Jose
Products It Fills
Serving San Jose & Nearby
How the SDH-R Fills & Seals in San Jose
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 plus/minus 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.
Cup Filling Machines in San Jose - FAQs
Yes. Hummus Pack ships the SDH-R to San Jose and across the California region, supported by North American service 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. Price depends on the number of filler stations, MAP nitrogen flushing, lidding format and custom cup tooling. Contact us for a configured quote for your products and volume.
Up to 30 cups per minute in dry-cycle operation, with real-world output typically 18-25 cups per minute depending on product viscosity, 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.
Tzatziki, baba ganoush, labneh, guacamole, salsa, pesto, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream-cheese spreads, queso and cheese dips, aioli and other emulsified sauces, nut butters and tahini. Up to three filler stations allow layered and garnished cups in one pass.
Yes. The SDH-R is CE, FDA and UL certified and built from food-grade 304 stainless steel with CIP clean-in-place and tool-free strip-down, suited to HACCP and BRCGS-audited plants. It is designed and built in Calgary, Alberta by Alter Pack.
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