EP-HGA.ES-4C114 Water and Beverage Bottle Blow Molding Machine
The HGA.ES-4C114 belongs to a multi-pitch, multi-cavity series of bottle blow molding machines developed specifically for water, beverage, and liquid consumer packaging with exacting quality requirements. The “4C114” designation encodes the machine’s defining configuration: four blow cavities arranged for a 114 mm bottle mold-close distance, which directly supports the wider container body diameters that separate this model from the 4C76 and 4C100 variants below it in the product line. The broader mold envelope lets producers run symmetrical 80 mm diameter bottles — a body profile common in wide-label beverage formats and 500–800 ml juice containers — without tooling compromises.
The machine operates on the established two stage blow molding process. Preforms are loaded into the infrared heating oven where 92 mandrel-mounted holders rotate each preform through individually controlled lamp zones. After reaching the target forming temperature profile, preforms transfer to the blow station where a servo-guided stretch rod drives axial extension while high-pressure air — delivered at 35 kg/cm² — forces the PET against all four cavity surfaces simultaneously. Biaxial orientation achieved through this process gives finished bottles superior gas barrier performance, impact resistance, and optical clarity compared to non-oriented blow processes.
Theoretical output stands at 4,600 bottles per hour — slightly lower than the 4C76’s 4,800 bph due to the larger cavity volume being blown per cycle, which requires a marginally longer blow and cooling time. For producers targeting annual volumes between 25 and 90 million bottles in 500–800 ml formats, this output level translates to strong per-bottle economics without the capital commitment of larger six-cavity platforms. The machine’s 4,000 kg weight and 4,170 × 1,930 × 2,340 mm footprint place it within the payload ratings of standard industrial floor slabs and within the clearance envelope of conventional production bay ceiling heights.
EP-HGA.ES-4C114 Water and Beverage Bottle Blow Molding Machine
Model: HGA.ES-4C114 | Series: Water & Beverage Bottle | Type: Two-Step Blow Molding Machine | Cavities: 4
The EP-HGA.ES-4C114 is a four-cavity blow molding machine engineered for producers who need to push output beyond the boundaries of standard small-format water bottle machines. Where smaller cavity-pair models cap out at 700–1,000 ml containers, the HGA.ES-4C114 extends that range to 800 ml with a maximum container diameter of 80 mm and neck diameters up to 68 mm — giving the machine genuine versatility across standard 500 ml still water, 600 ml sports drink, and wider-body 800 ml beverage and juice formats. At 4,600 bottles per hour theoretical output, this model suits mid-to-large scale water packaging operations and beverage contract manufacturers that need consistent, high-quality pet blow molding output across multiple SKUs without sacrificing cycle efficiency.
Technical Specifications — HGA.ES-4C114 Blow Molding Machine
Specifications are measured under standard operating conditions for the HGA.ES-4C114 model. Output figures reflect rated performance with standard PET preforms at nominal forming temperature.
| Category | Blow Molding Machine Parameter | Unidad | HGA.ES-4C114 Blow Molding Machine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molding | Clamping Stroke | mm | 128 |
| Mold-Open Distance | mm | 362 | |
| Mold-Close Distance | mm | 230 | |
| Stretching Stroke | mm | 400 | |
| Mold-on Distance | mm | 50 | |
| Bottle Mold-Close Distance | mm | 114 | |
| — | Preform Holder | — | 92 |
| Cavities | — | 4 | |
| Container | Volumen máximo del contenedor | ml | 800 |
| Max. Neck Diameter Range | mm | 68 | |
| Max. Container Diameter | mm | 80 | |
| Max. Container Height | mm | 250 | |
| Output | Theoretical Output | bph | 4,600 |
| Electrical System | Max. Heating Power | kW | 62.5 |
| Normal Heating Power | kW | 21 | |
| Air System | Operating Pressure | kg/cm² | 7 |
| Low Pressure Air Consumption | ltr/min | 800 | |
| Blowing Pressure | kg/cm² | 35 | |
| — | High Pressure Air Consumption | ltr/min | 4,000 |
| Cooling Water | Operating Pressure | kg/cm² | 5–6 |
| Temperature Range | °C | 8–12 | |
| Flow Rate | ltr/min | 40 | |
| Machine | Machine Size (L×W×H) | mm | 4170×1930×2340 |
| Peso de la máquina | kg | 4,000 |
Key Advantages of This Blow Molding Machine
Wider Bottle Body Range
The 114 mm bottle mold-close distance is the defining parameter that sets this blow molding machine apart from narrower-cavity siblings. It accommodates container bodies up to 80 mm diameter — wide enough to cover standard 500 ml and 600 ml round bottles as well as 800 ml wide-waist formats used in premium beverage and juice segments. Switching between these formats requires only a mold change, not a machine change, protecting the capital investment as your product range evolves.
Energy-Smart Heating Design
Despite running 92 preform holders through the infrared oven and blowing a larger container volume than the 4C76, the HGA.ES-4C114 blow molding machine operates at just 21 kW under normal steady-state conditions — against a rated maximum of 62.5 kW. This gap between peak and operating power reflects well-designed zone control and efficient lamp placement. For a fully automatic blow moulding machine running on multi-shift beverage production, this translates directly to lower electricity bills and reduced carbon footprint per unit produced.
Generous Stretch Stroke
A 400 mm stretching stroke allows the stretch rod to extend through the full length of taller preform geometries, achieving the axial draw ratio needed for bottles approaching the 250 mm height limit. Greater axial draw translates to higher biaxial orientation in the bottle sidewall, which means better clarity, gas barrier retention, and top-load compression strength — qualities that premium water and juice brands specify when sourcing from a pet blow molding machine supplier.
High-Volume, Multi-SKU Flexibility
At 4,600 bph, the HGA.ES-4C114 blow molding machine serves the production bracket that contract bottlers and regional water brands most commonly occupy — high enough output to serve multiple customer accounts per shift, yet built on a platform that can change formats within a single maintenance window. Colombian and Andean market producers operating this auto pet blowing machine can run their 500 ml everyday water bottle on the morning shift and switch to a 750 ml premium juice format in the afternoon with manageable changeover time.
How to Select the Right Blow Molding Machine for Your Format Range
The most reliable way to choose between models in this series is to start with the bottle's body diameter — not the output figure. The HGA.ES-4C114's 80 mm maximum container diameter is its primary differentiator. If the widest bottle in your current or planned product range exceeds 68 mm body diameter, this model is the appropriate choice over the 4C76. If you anticipate launching 800 ml formats with circular cross-sections or oval-body bottles with a major axis approaching 80 mm, this bottle blow molding machine handles those geometries within its rated envelope.
Output requirements follow format decisions. At 4,600 bph, a facility running two-shift production (16 hours/day) on this automatic pet blowing machine generates approximately 73,600 bottles per day. Over a standard 300-day operating year, that amounts to roughly 22 million bottles — a volume that fits producers supplying regional retail chains, food service distributors, and private label accounts in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and neighboring markets. Three-shift operations push that figure toward 33 million annually, enough to support multiple retail customers simultaneously.
Infrastructure planning should account for the machine's larger air demand relative to smaller models. The 4,000 ltr/min high-pressure air requirement at 35 kg/cm² is substantially higher than the 4C76's 3,900 ltr/min — a difference that matters when sizing a shared compressor system across multiple production lines. Cooling water needs remain at 8–12 °C and 40 ltr/min, consistent with the 4C76. Electrical supply should support the 62.5 kW rated maximum heating capacity, even though actual operating demand runs considerably lower at 21 kW.
Mold Configuration
Preform Injection Mold
The nozzle gate is engineered as a two-component assembly, with each section independently machined to guarantee concentricity when assembled — directly preventing off-center wall thickness in the finished preform. Cooling passages follow an optimized routing path that extracts heat evenly across the preform wall, shortening cycle time without introducing thermal gradients that cause bowing or crystallinity variation in the reheated preform. All cavity-forming surfaces are produced from imported 2316 die steel, heat-treated to a hardness that resists wear and maintains surface finish over millions of injection cycles while providing natural corrosion resistance. Core plates, cavity plates, and structural components are machined from 420 stainless steel for long-term dimensional stability in humid or chemically active environments. The tooling is laid out for accessible servicing — routine maintenance tasks do not require full disassembly — and uses standardized hardware that allows interchangeable replacement of wear components. A single set of tooling can be configured to produce multiple preform formats by swapping neck inserts, protecting the mold investment across product launches.
Blowing Mold
Blowing molds for this machine are constructed from premium-grade steel specified for its hardness-to-machinability ratio and thermal conductivity — properties that directly affect cavity durability and cycle speed. All bottle profiles originate in 3D CAD software, where the complete container geometry — base pushup profile, sidewall taper, label panel geometry, and grip waist — is modeled and interference-checked before any material is sourced. An extensive library of standard bottle designs covers the most common formats in the 200–800 ml water and beverage segment; custom bottle development is available against client-supplied drawings or physical samples. Cooling channels are engineered to maintain uniform fluid distribution across all four cavity surfaces simultaneously, ensuring consistent mold wall temperature throughout the production run. Every component of the blowing station tooling — from the cavity block to the bottom plug — is finish-machined to tolerance on CNC equipment, ensuring cavity-to-cavity repeatability across the machine's full production life.
Blow Molding Machine Application Scenarios
Still Water — Standard Retail Formats
The 500 ml and 600 ml still water formats that dominate Colombian and Latin American retail are the natural starting point for this blow molding machine. The 80 mm body diameter and 250 mm height ceiling cover the full range of cylindrical and oval bottle shapes in these volumes, with consistent wall uniformity for automated filling at 10,000–20,000 bph filling line speeds.
Premium Juice & Functional Beverages
Wide-body juice bottles in the 700–800 ml range benefit from this machine's larger mold envelope. High optical clarity of the PET bottles made by this pet blow molding machine lets product color function as a shelf differentiator, which juice brands actively leverage in supermarket cooler displays across Bogotá, Medellín, and export markets.
Sparkling Water & Carbonated Soft Drinks
Biaxially oriented PET produced through the two stage blow molding process offers significantly better CO₂ retention than non-oriented alternatives, extending effective carbonation shelf life. The 68 mm maximum neck diameter supports the 30/25 and PCO-1881 closures used across carbonated soft drink and sparkling water lines in the Andean region.
Edible Oil & Liquid Condiments
Square-profile and oval edible oil bottles in 500–750 ml occupy a container envelope well within this machine's parameters. The controlled biaxial orientation achieved through the stretch-blow process gives these bottles the rigidity needed for supermarket shelf stacking and the clarity that allows oil color grading to be visible at point of sale.
Healthcare & Liquid Pharmaceutical Packaging
The HGA.ES-4C114's precision neck finish tolerances support reliable child-resistant and tamper-evident closure engagement — requirements for oral liquid pharmaceutical packaging. Consistent wall thickness across the container body ensures accurate volume graduation marks remain visually aligned after bottle formation and labeling.
Contract Packaging & Multi-Brand Operations
For contract packaging operations supplying multiple beverage and food brands in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the HGA.ES-4C114's format flexibility — from 200 ml to 800 ml across neck sizes up to 68 mm — makes it the anchor machine for a multi-format operation. A single automatic pet blowing machine investment covers the volume range of most regional multi-brand packaging contracts.
Machine Engineering & Build Quality
The main frame of the HGA.ES-4C114 is fabricated from structural steel section, welded and stress-relieved before precision machining of all guide rail mounting surfaces. This foundation controls the deflection experienced by the clamping mechanism during the high-cycle loading of production, keeping the four cavity halves aligned through millions of open-close cycles. The clamping stroke of 128 mm is larger than the 4C76's 100 mm, reflecting the additional travel required to clear the wider 80 mm diameter bottle body geometry during mold opening.
The infrared heating section processes 92 preform holders on a continuously moving mandrel chain. Each holder rotates the preform around its central axis during oven transit, which is the primary mechanism for achieving circumferential temperature uniformity before the blow station. The oven is divided into independently controllable lamp zones — top, middle, and bottom along the preform axis — allowing the operator to dial in the temperature profile that matches the preform's wall thickness distribution and target blow ratio. This control granularity is what allows a single blowing machine platform to process preforms of meaningfully different wall thicknesses without hardware modifications.
The blowing station uses a servo-driven stretch rod with programmable position profile — not a fixed mechanical stop. This means the pre-blow initiation point, the rod travel speed, and the final position are all adjustable through the HMI recipe system. Dialing in stretch rod behavior per bottle format is where experienced operators extract the most from a stretch blow molding machine: optimizing the balance between axial and radial draw ratio determines where wall thickness ends up in the finished bottle, and fine-tuning that distribution directly affects bottle weight, clarity, and top-load performance.
Our Manufacturing Expertise
Twenty-plus years of engineering focus on blow molding machine development has produced a manufacturing operation that covers the full spectrum from PET water bottle machines through to PETG cosmetic containers and PC large-format water cooler bottles. Our R&D team holds multiple national patents across heating system design, preform handling mechanics, and blowing station engineering — each patent representing a production problem we solved and then protected. We continue to improve our production systems based on feedback from installations across global markets.
Our range of specialized plastic blow molding machines covers packaging materials including PET, PETG, PC, PCTG, and PP, across industries ranging from cosmetics and baby care to drinking water, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and agricultural chemicals. In the high-end cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food-safe packaging segments — markets where dimensional precision and contamination control are non-negotiable — we have built a recognized leadership position that our client roster reflects.
Partner Brands
Our blow molding machine installations produce packaging for leading consumer brands worldwide:
Yibao · Haitian · Luhua · Walch · Blue Moon · Proya · Libai · Estée Lauder · Walmart · Da Senlin · Shining Eye Drops
Recommended Auxiliary Equipment
Running a complete production line around this blow molding machine means specifying auxiliary equipment that matches its utility requirements and output rate. We supply or recommend the following systems, all verified for compatibility with the HGA.ES-4C114 — making us a genuine one-stop source for the core blow molding line and its support infrastructure.
Oil-Free Air Compressor
With 4,000 ltr/min high-pressure air demand at 35 kg/cm², the HGA.ES-4C114 blow molding machine requires a compressor sized for sustained high-duty output at blowing pressure. For water and beverage applications, that compressor must be oil-free — preventing contamination of bottle interior surfaces that would compromise food-safety audits. Explore compatible oil-free air compressor options for this application to ensure your line meets food-grade air quality standards from the first production run.
Controlador de temperatura del molde
A standalone mold temperature controller maintains the mold surface at a set point independent of plant utility water temperature variation. In Colombian and Andean facilities where ambient temperatures can push utility water above 20 °C in summer months, uncontrolled mold temperature leads to longer cooling dwell times, increased cycle time, and inconsistent bottle weight. A dedicated temperature controller eliminates that variation and brings cooling performance back to specification without changing the machine's process recipe.
Bottle Visual Inspection Machine
At 4,600 bph, sampling cannot cover the statistical exposure needed for consistent defect detection. Inline optical inspection positioned immediately after the blow station checks every bottle for wall crystallinity anomalies, base deformation, foreign matter, and neck finish completeness before the container enters the air conveyor. Integrating automated inspection downstream of the auto blowing machine protects filling equipment from deformed containers and gives quality managers documented evidence for each production batch.
Industrial Chiller
Maintaining cooling water within the 8–12 °C specification at 40 ltr/min requires an industrial chiller in any climate where tap or tower water exceeds that range. In warm-climate markets across Latin America and Southeast Asia, this is standard practice rather than an optional upgrade. Stable chilled water supply prevents the mold surface temperature drift that extends cycle dwell times and introduces bottle weight variation between the first and last hour of a shift.
Sobre nosotros
Our manufacturing operation has concentrated exclusively on blow molding machine engineering and production for over two decades. In that time, we have built a facility equipped with advanced CNC machining centers, precision assembly stations, and dedicated test benches where every machine undergoes production-cycle validation before leaving the plant. Our R&D investments have generated multiple national patents covering preform heating, blow station design, and mold tooling — patents that reflect solved real-world production challenges rather than theoretical improvements.
Application engineering support is built into the purchase process. Our team reviews container specifications, production volume targets, utility infrastructure, and downstream filling line requirements before confirming the model selection — catching mismatches that would otherwise become commissioning problems. After installation, startup commissioning and process optimization support help ensure that each bottle blow molding machine reaches its rated output with minimal delay. For customers in Colombia, Brazil, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Europe, regional service contacts and spare parts stocking provide ongoing support throughout the machine's working life.
The diversity of our client base — spanning water, beverage, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food packaging — speaks to machine performance that holds up in demanding 24-hour production environments, not just during factory demonstration runs. Every blow molding machine we produce is engineered to that standard.
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