Manual Lipstick Production Line

 S150 Three-roll Mill

 70L Heating Mixing Tank

 Mold Preheating Machine

In the lipstick production process, the **lipstick mold preheater** is a device used to heat the mold to the appropriate temperature, usually before the filling process. Preheating the mold helps ensure that the liquid lipstick paste can flow smoothly into the mold during filling, and prevents bubbles, cracks or other defects on the paste surface due to overcooling of the mold, thereby improving product quality.

### Working principle of lipstick mold preheater:
1. **Mold heating**: The mold is sent into the preheater by conveyor belt or manual method. The heating system in the preheater (such as electric heating elements, hot air circulation, etc.) will heat the mold to a preset temperature, usually ranging from 30°C to 50°C, and the specific temperature is adjusted according to the lipstick formula and production requirements.
2. **Uniform heating**: The preheater usually uses a hot air circulation system or an electric heating plate to ensure that each mold can be evenly heated to prevent local overheating or overcooling of the mold.
3. **Temperature control**: The equipment is equipped with a precise temperature control system, which can adjust the heating temperature according to different materials and production requirements to adapt to different types of lipstick production.
### Equipment Features:
- **Uniform heating**: The mold preheater ensures uniform heating of each mold to avoid inconsistent cooling of the lipstick paste due to uneven temperature, which in turn affects product quality.
- **Automatic operation**: In an automated production line, the preheater can be seamlessly connected to the mold transfer system to automatically complete the heating process of the mold and improve production efficiency.
- **Precise temperature control**: Equipped with a high-precision temperature control system, it can accurately set and maintain the preheating temperature of the mold to prevent overheating or insufficient heating.
- **Energy-saving design**: Many modern preheaters use energy-saving technology to reduce energy consumption while having high heating efficiency, reducing production costs.
- **Large capacity**: The equipment is usually able to process multiple molds at a time, suitable for large-scale production lines, and ensure synchronization with the rhythm of the filling process.
### Importance in lipstick production:
1. **Improve filling quality**: Mold preheating can effectively prevent surface defects such as bubbles, cracks or uneven surfaces caused by low mold temperature during filling. Warm molds help liquid lipstick paste flow and solidify evenly to form a smooth surface.
2. **Prevent paste breakage**: If the mold is too cold, the lipstick paste may cool rapidly during filling due to contact with the cold mold, resulting in increased internal stress, which may cause it to break easily during subsequent demolding or use. Preheating the mold can prevent this problem and improve product stability.
3. **Ensure production efficiency**: By preheating the mold, the filling speed of the lipstick paste can be accelerated, ensuring that the paste is evenly distributed in the mold and maintains proper fluidity, and the filling efficiency will not be affected by rapid solidification.
4. **Adapt to different formulas**: Different types of lipsticks (such as matte, moisturizing, etc.) have different temperature requirements during filling. The preheating machine can flexibly adjust the temperature to adapt to various lipstick formulas to ensure production stability.

 12-hole Lipstick Filling Machine

   In the lipstick production, the automatic 12-hole lipstick filling machine is a device specifically used to accurately inject liquid lipstick materials into lipstick molds. The machine has a multi-hole filling function and is usually designed with 12 filling holes, which can fill 12 lipstick pastes at the same time, greatly improving production efficiency.

### Working principle of the automatic 12-hole lipstick filling machine:
1. **Material conveying**: The lipstick paste that is evenly mixed and kept at an appropriate temperature in the heated mixing tank is transported to the filling machine through a pipeline.
2. **Precision filling**: 12 filling heads work simultaneously, and can accurately inject liquid lipstick into the mold according to the set volume or weight. Each filling head has an independent control system to ensure that the filling amount of each lipstick is consistent.
3. **Cooling and curing**: After filling, the mold will be cooled or frozen to ensure that the lipstick paste is quickly solidified and formed, ready for subsequent demolding and packaging processes.
### Equipment features:
- **Multi-hole design**: The 12-hole design can fill 12 lipsticks at the same time, significantly improving production efficiency, especially suitable for large-scale lipstick production lines.
- **Automatic control**: The equipment is usually equipped with an advanced PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) system, which can accurately control parameters such as filling volume, speed, temperature, etc. to ensure the consistency of each batch of products.
- **Temperature control**: In order to maintain the fluidity of the lipstick paste, the pipes and filling heads of the filling machine are usually equipped with a heating function to prevent the material from cooling and solidifying during the filling process.
- **High precision**: Each filling head can accurately control the injection amount of the material to avoid excessive or insufficient situations, thereby reducing material waste and improving product quality consistency.
- **Easy to clean**: The filling machine is usually designed with a modular structure for easy cleaning and maintenance, especially when switching production of lipsticks of different colors, thorough cleaning is required to prevent color cross-contamination.
### Importance in lipstick production:
1. **Improve production efficiency**: The 12-hole filling machine can complete the filling of multiple lipsticks at one time, greatly shortening the production cycle and suitable for efficient assembly line production.
2. **Ensure product consistency**: High filling accuracy can ensure that the weight and volume of each lipstick paste are completely consistent, improving product quality control.
3. **Reduce manual operation**: Through automated filling, manual operation links are reduced, which not only reduces labor intensity, but also reduces human errors and improves the stability of the production process.

 3M Freezing Tunnel

  In lipstick production, the **5PH freezing tunnel** is a device used to quickly cool and solidify lipstick paste, usually located after the filling process. The lipstick paste needs to be quickly cooled after filling into the mold to ensure that it solidifies and forms. The freezing tunnel quickly reduces the temperature of the lipstick through a low-temperature environment, so that the paste changes from a liquid or semi-liquid state to a solid state, achieving the desired hardness and shape.

### Working principle of the 5PH freezing tunnel:
1. **Material conveying**: After the lipstick mold is injected with paste in the filling machine, it will automatically enter the freezing tunnel through a conveyor belt. The tunnel is usually equipped with a transmission system to gradually send the mold into the tunnel.
2. **Rapid cooling**: The tunnel is maintained at a set low temperature environment, usually provided by a refrigeration unit, and the temperature is evenly distributed in the tunnel through an air circulation or condensation system to ensure that the lipstick paste in each mold can be cooled evenly and quickly.
3. **Solidification and shaping**: The lipstick gradually solidifies from a liquid state to a solid state at a low temperature, forming a stable paste shape and achieving a hardness suitable for demolding.
4. **Outgoing process**: After the paste is completely solidified, the molds that have passed through the freezing tunnel are transported to the next process through the conveying system, usually demoulding and subsequent packaging processes.
### Equipment features:
- **Efficient cooling**: The 5PH freezing tunnel can quickly cool the filled lipstick to the solidification temperature through a forced cooling system, which is essential for large-scale automated production.
- **Low temperature control**: The equipment is equipped with a precise temperature control system that can set and maintain the ideal freezing temperature, usually between -10°C and -30°C, to ensure that lipsticks of different formulas can be quickly solidified.
- **Automatic conveying**: The freezing tunnel is usually seamlessly connected to the filling machine, automatically transferring the mold, avoiding manual operation, and improving production efficiency and consistency.
- **Large capacity**: The 5PH freezing tunnel has a high-capacity design and can handle a large number of molds at the same time, suitable for large-scale continuous production.
- **Energy-saving design**: Many freezing tunnels use energy-saving freezing systems to reduce energy consumption while maintaining low temperatures.
### Importance in lipstick production:
1. **Improve production efficiency**: The freezing tunnel can complete the cooling and solidification of large quantities of lipsticks in a short time, greatly shortening the production cycle of lipsticks.
2. **Ensure product quality**: Through rapid and uniform cooling, ensure that the paste structure of each lipstick is uniform, avoiding surface defects or internal bubbles caused by uneven cooling.
3. **Adapt to multiple formulas**: Lipsticks of different types and formulas (such as matte, moisturizing, etc.) have different solidification requirements at different temperatures. The freezing tunnel can flexibly adjust the temperature to adapt to various production needs.
4. **Reduce human errors**: The automated freezing process reduces the manual operation links, improves product consistency, and reduces product defects caused by improper temperature control.
### Application process:
1. **After filling**: After the lipstick mold is filled with paste by the 12-hole filling machine, it enters the 5PH freezing tunnel.
2. **Quick freezing**: The mold is quickly cooled in the low-temperature tunnel and the lipstick paste is solidified.
3. **Demolding preparation**: After the lipstick is cured, the mold is transferred to the next process for demoulding and subsequent packaging or shelling process.

 Lipstick Stripping Machine

  In the lipstick production, the **automatic lipstick demoulding machine** is a device specifically used to remove the cooled and fixed lipstick from the mold. This step usually follows the freezing tunnel. The automated operation of the demoulding machine not only improves production efficiency, but also ensures the integrity of the lipstick during the demoulding process, avoiding damage or defects caused by human operation.

### Working principle of the automatic lipstick demoulding machine:
1. **Mold conveying**: The cooled and solidified lipstick mold enters the working area of ​​the demoulding machine from the freezing tunnel through a conveyor belt or manually.
2. **Positioning and clamping**: The demoulding machine accurately positions each mold, and the manipulator or specific clamp gently contacts the lipstick paste in the mold to prepare for demoulding.
3. **Pushing or extraction**: The demoulding machine uses air pressure or a mechanical pusher to push the lipstick paste up or down from the mold. Some equipment also uses vacuum or other technical assistance to ensure that the lipstick can be smoothly removed from the mold without damaging the paste surface.
### Equipment features:
- **Automatic operation**: The fully automated design reduces manual involvement, greatly improves demoulding speed and production efficiency, and is suitable for mass production.
- **Precise demoulding**: Through precise positioning and control systems, ensure that each lipstick paste will not be damaged during demoulding, maintain the smooth surface of the lipstick and the integrity of the overall shape.
- **Strong adaptability**: Automatic demoulding machines can usually adapt to molds of different sizes and shapes, and can be adjusted according to the needs of different lipstick products, with strong flexibility.
- **Gentle handling**: The mechanical force or air pressure during the demoulding process is strictly regulated to ensure that the paste is not squeezed or damaged when it is taken out, especially for lipstick types with soft or fragile textures.
- **Efficient demoulding**: Automated equipment can handle multiple molds at the same time, usually in conjunction with the efficient operation of the production line to avoid bottlenecks.

 Lipstick Tube Capping Machine

  In the lipstick production process, the **lipstick tube automatic capping machine** is a device used to automatically cap the lipstick that has been shelled. It is usually located after the shelling process, and can efficiently and accurately tighten the cap of the lipstick tube into place, ensuring that each lipstick is in a sealed state before packaging is completed. This equipment greatly improves production efficiency and ensures product consistency and packaging quality.

### Working principle of the lipstick tube automatic capping machine:
1. **Lipstick tube conveying**: After filling and shelling, the lipstick tube enters the working area of ​​the automatic capping machine through the conveyor belt. The lipstick tube is accurately positioned and ready for capping.
2. **Capping operation**: When the cap is placed on the top of the lipstick tube, the capping machine automatically tightens the cap according to the set torque and angle through the mechanical rotation system to ensure a tight fit between the cap and the lipstick tube.
3. **Finished product conveying**: After the capping is completed, the lipstick tube is automatically conveyed to the next process, such as labeling, packaging, etc.
### Equipment features:
- **Efficient automation**: The fully automated operation of the capping machine greatly reduces manual operation and improves production efficiency. It can usually process multiple lipstick tubes at the same time, which is suitable for large-scale production lines.
- **Precise capping**: The equipment can accurately control the force and angle of capping to ensure that the cap of each lipstick can be tightened in place, preventing the cap from falling off due to being too loose, and preventing the tube from being damaged due to being too tight.
- **Strong compatibility**: The capping machine is usually designed as an adjustable structure, which can adapt to lipstick tubes of different sizes and shapes, and is suitable for lipstick products of various specifications.
- **Automatic capping device**: The automatic capping machine is equipped with an intelligent capping system, which can quickly and accurately remove the cap from the cap storage device and accurately dock it with the lipstick tube, avoiding the problem of poor cap alignment.
- **High-speed processing**: The machine can complete large-scale capping operations in a short time, and usually seamlessly connects with other automated equipment to ensure the efficient operation of assembly line production.
Important component.

 7.5KW Air Compressor Set

  In the lipstick production process, **air compressor** is a device that provides compressed air, which is often used to drive pneumatic equipment and process operations on the production line. Compressed air is used as a power source to drive the mechanical devices of filling, demoulding, capping and other equipment to improve production efficiency and automation. The stable operation of the air compressor is crucial to the continuity and accuracy of the entire production line.

### Working principle of air compressor:
The air compressor drives the compression device through an electric motor to compress the air and store it in the air tank to form compressed air with high pressure. When the production equipment needs an air source, the compressed air is transported to the pneumatic components of the equipment through a pipeline to drive various pneumatic operations.
1. **Air compression**: The air compressor inhales external air and compresses it through the compressor assembly to increase the gas pressure.
2. **Storage and regulation**: Compressed air is stored in the air tank for use by production equipment on demand. The regulating device equipped with the air compressor will adjust the air pressure according to demand to ensure the stability of the pneumatic system.
3. **Transportation and application**: Through pipelines, compressed air is transported to production equipment, such as lipstick filling machines, demoulding machines, capping machines, etc., to drive cylinders or other pneumatic components to complete corresponding actions.
### Specific applications of air compressors in lipstick production:
1. **Pneumatic filling**: In lipstick filling machines, compressed air is used to drive cylinders to control the precise injection of lipstick paste. The air pressure provided by the air compressor ensures the stability and consistency of each filling.
2. **Pneumatic demoulding**: In the demoulding machine, compressed air pushes the pneumatic components to smoothly push the lipstick paste out of the mold to avoid possible damage to the paste caused by manual operation.
3. **Pneumatic capping**: In the automatic capping machine, the compressed air provided by the air compressor drives the manipulator or pneumatic device to complete the capping operation, ensuring the accuracy and speed of the capping process.
4. **Pneumatic transmission**: In the transmission system of the lipstick production line, compressed air can also be used to drive the conveyor belt or clamping device to realize the automatic transmission of products.