Hermes and Poseidon fill and seal pre-formed cups you buy in, indexing them past a dosing head and sealing film or a pre-cut lid across the top. Cup geometry rules a machine in or out before output does, so the published envelope below matters more than the headline rate.
Ideal for: Yogurt, pudding, ice cream, coffee creamer
Cup fill and seal in operation
The published envelope
Models & technical specifications
| Cup configurations | 2 cups/cycle at 145 mm — up to 60 cups/min · 3 cups/cycle at 117 mm — up to 90 cups/min · 4 cups/cycle at 75 mm — up to 120 cups/min |
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| Cycle rate | Up to 30 cycles per minute; 25.5 with gas flush |
| Stations | Up to 8 — de-nesting, filling, MAP sealing, ejection |
| Sealing film | Pre-cut lids and roll stock |
| Max. cup diameter | 145 mm |
| Dimensions | 1,550 × 1,500 × 2,185 mm |
| Net weight | 550 kg |
| Electrical | 220V, 25A, 2.0 kW — split phase USA / 1 phase Europe |
| Compressed air | 7 bar, 750 L/min |
| Cup configurations | 1 cup/cycle at 117 mm — up to 30 cups/min · 2 cups/cycle at 68 mm — up to 60 cups/min |
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| Cycle rate | Up to 30 cycles per minute; 22 on liquids; 25.5 with gas flush |
| Cup diameter | 51 to 117 mm |
| Sealing film | Pre-cut lids, with lid placing |
| Dimensions | 925 × 1,100 × 1,800–2,000 mm |
| Net weight | 350 kg |
| Electrical | 220V, 25A, 2.0 kW — split phase USA / 1 phase Europe |
| Compressed air | 7 bar, 300 L/min |
Specifications as published in the Hefestus machine specification sheets. Rates are nominal; utilities, footprint and weight are confirmed at quotation.
Spec sheets
Read either sheet here without leaving the page. Each one is two pages, and everything on it is also in the table above.
Where pre-formed cup filling belongs
Poseidon covers up to 3,600 cups an hour and Hermes up to 7,200. Above roughly that ceiling you have outgrown pre-formed cup filling and should be looking at a form-fill-seal cup machine instead, which makes the cup from a web rather than taking one you bought. We would rather tell you that now than sell you a machine you outgrow in a year. Below it, pre-formed keeps the machine simpler and leaves you free to change cup supplier.
Counting what hand-filling really costs
Cup filling is where giveaway hides. Before comparing machines, weigh thirty cups off your current line and look at the spread rather than the average: the overfill you run to stay legal is a cost on every cup, all year, and it rarely reaches anyone’s business case. Add the labour on filling and lidding across all shifts, and the cups lost to bad seals. An automated filler bids against that combined figure, not against the wage bill alone.
The ceiling on this machine
The published ceiling is 120 cups per minute on Hermes, which is 7,200 an hour; Poseidon tops out at 60, or 3,600. Above that you have outgrown pre-formed cup filling, and the honest answer is a form-fill-seal cup machine that makes the cup from a web instead. Cup geometry is the other hard limit: 146 mm maximum for a single cup, 120 mm each in a double or quadruple arrangement. A cup outside that is not a conversation about speed. We also publish no modified-atmosphere option for this machine, so if you need gas in a cup, ask rather than assume.
Cup and flavour changes
Two different operations get called the same word here. A flavour change is a clean-down, and its cost is cleaning time and product loss. A cup change is a tooling change. Ask for both separately, timed by your own operators, and ask what the clean-down requires when the previous product carried inclusions — that is the one that overruns.
Settle these before anyone quotes
- Cup diameter. Maximum single cup diameter is 146 mm; 120 mm each in a double or quadruple arrangement. Send a physical cup rather than a specification.
- Film roll diameter. Maximum 270 mm, which sets how often an operator reloads and therefore how much unattended running you get.
- Power for your country. Published as 220V, 25A, 2000W: single phase in Europe, two phase in the USA. Confirm which applies to your site.
- Fill accuracy. Ask for the tolerance and the expected giveaway at your target weight. Overfilling by one percent is an invisible cost on every cup.
- Lidding. Foil or film, printed or plain, and the reel specification as a range so more than one supplier can quote it.
Cup diameter, film roll diameter and the electrical supply for both Europe and the USA are published above because any one of them can rule this machine out before output becomes the question. It is a short list, and we would rather you check it in five minutes than discover it in week six.