The trend in coffee and tea is to offer single serve portions in a variety of flavors and styles to accommodate all preferences.

The Kuerig brand is the leader in single serve coffee distribution, with production licensed through a number of coffee roasters. The application requires filling 3 to 5 grams of tea or 8 to 15 grams of coffee into individual, pre-packaged coffee filters that are used in brewing machines.

Pneumatic Scale’s Mateer Burt Filling System was selected by Van Houtte Coffee, a Canadian Kuerig licensee that has installed numerous filling systems from PSC Mateer Burt.

The filter cups are de-nested, filled and sealed four at a time on 3-inch centers. Individual servo-driven augers fill the filter cups. ELAU’s PacDrive SCL servo systems have proved ideal for the machine’s close center distance and torque/speed requirement.

Cycle rates of 35-40 cpm per head equate to machine output of 150 to 160 cups per minute. The filling system is supported by a frame with a carriage that allows an operator to move the system in and out of the filling zone for quick changeover between four varieties of coffee and several varieties of tea.