EP-HGA.FS-1CG220 Food Jars and Cans Bottle Blow Molding Machine
The EP-HGA.FS-1CG220 occupies a unique position in the Food Jars and Cans blow molding machine series. Where the ES-series models address the 68–168 mm neck diameter range across single, dual, and four-cavity configurations, the FS-1CG220 is a purpose-built special configuration designed for the specific engineering challenges of producing containers with neck diameters up to 138 mm, body diameters reaching 190 mm, and container heights up to 330 mm — in a format that holds up to 5,000 ml. No standard ES-series model in this range delivers this combination of neck diameter and container height simultaneously, which is why the FS configuration exists as a dedicated platform.
The machine operates on the same two-step blow molding machine principle as the ES series — preforms are injection-moulded separately and fully cooled before loading into the machine’s 40-position preform holder track for reheating and stretch-blow forming. The holder count is calibrated to the longer cycle time that 5,000 ml containers require, ensuring each preform receives sufficient oven dwell time at every position. The 500 mm stretching stroke — the joint-longest in this series alongside the ES-2C260 — supports the 330 mm maximum container height that makes this machine relevant to tall wide-body jar formats not achievable on the more compact dual-cavity models.
Food Jars & Cans Series — FS Special Configuration
EP-HGA.FS-1CG220
Food Jars and Cans Bottle Blow Molding Machine
A single-cavity fixed-stroke special configuration blow molding machine engineered for ultra-wide-mouth food containers up to 5,000 ml — covering the 138 mm neck diameter and 190 mm body diameter formats that no standard ES-series model can reach. Purpose-built for bulk food storage, catering-grade containers, and large-format edible oil packaging.
Technical Parameters — HGA.FS-1CG220 Blow Molding Machine
| Category | Blow Molding Machine Parameter | Unit | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molding | Clamping stroke | mm | 225 |
| Mold-open distance | mm | 509 | |
| Mold-close distance | mm | 284 | |
| Stretching stroke | mm | 500 | |
| Base mold-open distance | mm | 50 | |
| Gripper distance | mm | 220 | |
| Preform holders | pcs | 40 | |
| Cavities | Mold cavities | — | 1 |
| Theoretical output | bph | 600 | |
| Container | Max container volume | ml | 5,000 |
| Max neck diameter | mm | 138 | |
| Max container diameter | mm | 190 | |
| Max container height | mm | 330 | |
| Electrical | Max heating power | kW | 36 |
| Normal operating power | kW | 14 | |
| Air System | Operating pressure | kg/cm² | 7 |
| Low pressure air consumption | ltr/min | 800 | |
| Blowing pressure | kg/cm² | 30 | |
| High pressure air consumption | ltr/min | 3,500 | |
| Cooling Water | Operating pressure | kg/cm² | 5–6 |
| Temperature | °C | 8–12 | |
| Flow rate | ltr/min | 30 | |
| Machine | Dimensions (L×W×H) | mm | 4200×2070×2000 |
| Machine weight | kg | 3,200 |
What Makes the FS-1CG220 Blow Molding Machine a Distinct Platform
The FS designation in this model's name signals a fixed-stroke special configuration — a machine built around a specific combination of large mold-open distance, extended stretching stroke, and wide-body mold accommodation that places it outside the standard ES-series parameter envelope. Understanding what this configuration makes possible — and what production situations it is designed for — is the starting point for assessing whether it is the right blow molding machine for a given container programme.
📦 5,000 ml in a Single-Cavity Platform
Producing 5,000 ml containers on a single-cavity blow molding machine keeps mold tooling cost and change-over complexity manageable while delivering the container scale that bulk retail, food service, and industrial supply chains require. The 190 mm body diameter and 330 mm height capability cover the standard 4-litre and 5-litre wide-mouth jar formats used across food retail in Colombia and Southeast Asia.
📐 138 mm Neck Diameter
A 138 mm maximum neck diameter on a single-cavity machine sits in the segment between the standard wide-mouth ES models and the extreme-width 2C260. It provides hand-access dispensing capability for bulk food jars, supports wide-mouth lid systems for consumer retail packaging, and accommodates the ladle-access formats used in catering and food service supply — without requiring the larger machine investment of the XL dual-cavity platform.
📏 500 mm Stretching Stroke
The 500 mm stretching stroke is among the longest in this series. It directly enables the 330 mm maximum container height — which is the key specification for tall 5-litre wide-body jar formats where the height-to-diameter ratio approaches 1.7:1. Most standard two-step blow molding machine models with a 138 mm neck diameter cannot reach this height because their stretching stroke was designed for shorter container profiles.
⚡ Energy-Proportionate Operation
Rated heating power of 36 kW with normal operating draw at 14 kW gives an operating efficiency ratio of 39% — lower than the rated maximum because zone-controlled infrared heating precisely manages the energy delivered to each section of a wide-neck preform's wall. For a single-cavity large-container machine, 14 kW operating draw represents genuinely low per-unit energy consumption relative to the container volume being produced.
🏭 Manageable Installation Scale
At 4,200 × 2,070 × 2,000 mm and 3,200 kg, this bottle blow molding machine is installation-accessible without major civil engineering. The footprint is comparable to a dual-cavity standard model despite its significantly larger container capability, making it a practical choice for facilities where floor space is constrained but production requirements demand 5-litre container output.
🔄 Full Resin Compatibility
PET, PETG, PP, PC, and PCTG are processable on this platform. For the bulk food storage and pharmaceutical container markets this machine serves, the ability to switch between PET and PETG without a platform change — and to process PP with the addition of a Mold Temperature Controller — provides meaningful flexibility across the different product categories that large-format wide-mouth containers serve.
Partner Brands
More than two decades of focused development in blow molding machine engineering have built a global client base spanning the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and beverage packaging industries. National patents across successive machine generations reflect genuine proprietary innovation in preform oven architecture, wide-neck forming mechanics, and energy control systems. Our manufacturing operation controls every precision component through in-house CNC machining. Brands running their packaging lines on our machines include Yibao, Haitian, Luhua, Walch, Blue Moon, Proya, Libai, Estée Lauder, Walmart, Da Senlin, and Shining Eye Drops.
Blow Molding Machine Machine Engineering & Design Detail
The FS-1CG220 Blow Molding Machine clamping system is built around a 225 mm clamping stroke and 509 mm mold-open distance — the widest mold-open specification in this machine series. That 509 mm figure is the engineering statement that defines this machine's large-container capability: it is the space available for the mold tool to open, the formed container to be held and ejected, and the mold to close again in each production cycle. At a body diameter of 190 mm, even allowing for the mold tooling structure surrounding the cavity, the mold-open distance requirement is substantially larger than for any smaller-format container, and the FS configuration's 509 mm specification provides it with an adequate engineering margin rather than a minimum clearance.
The preform heating oven carries 40 preform holders, a count that balances oven track length against the cycle time dictated by the 5,000 ml container this machine produces. Wide-neck preforms for 5-litre containers carry significantly higher wall mass than any standard food jar preform, and heating them to consistent orientation temperature through their full wall cross-section requires controlled dwell time at each lamp zone position. The 40-holder track provides that dwell time at 600 bph without requiring the oven to run at temperatures that would overheat the outer preform surface before the inner wall reaches orientation temperature. Zone-controlled infrared lamp management is the specific mechanism that makes this possible — each zone along the oven track is independently set rather than operating at a single average temperature.
Blowing pressure for this machine is specified at 30 kg/cm² — lower than the 35 kg/cm² specified for the standard ES-series models — reflecting the different preform material distribution characteristics of a 5-litre wide-body container versus smaller jar and condiment bottle formats. High-pressure air consumption of 3,500 ltr/min is the demand that the compressor installation must cover. An oil-free compressor is mandatory for food-grade production. Cooling water at 8–12 °C with 30 ltr/min flow rate manages both mold and machine thermal loads — a flow rate identical to the single-cavity compact ES model, reflecting the efficient cooling circuit design in the FS configuration's large-area mold rather than a simple scaling with container volume.
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Application Scenarios
The EP-HGA.FS-1CG220 serves a specific segment of the food and industrial packaging market — one defined by the combination of large container volume, wide neck diameter, and production volume levels that are better served by a single-cavity large-format blow molding machine than by a multi-cavity platform producing smaller containers. The application areas below reflect where this machine's unique specification translates directly into production capability unavailable on standard ES-series models.
🫙 Retail Bulk Food Storage Jars
4-litre and 5-litre PET or PETG wide-mouth jars for dried goods, pulses, cereals, and bulk snacks in consumer retail. The 138 mm neck diameter allows easy hand-access dispensing, while the transparent PET wall allows consumers to assess fill level and product quality — a retail preference that glass or opaque containers cannot offer at this volume.
🍳 Catering-Grade Edible Oil
5-litre PET edible oil containers for restaurant supply, catering distributors, and institutional kitchens across Colombia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The wide-mouth format allows pouring without a separate dispensing adaptor — a practical requirement for high-volume kitchen operations where speed of access directly affects cooking line efficiency.
🧂 Institutional Condiment Containers
Wide-mouth condiment jars for hotel, hospital, and institutional kitchen procurement in the 2–5 litre range. These containers require consistent sealing-surface geometry for tamper-evident lid systems — a quality requirement that the single-cavity auto pet blowing machine's dimensional control approach delivers more consistently than larger multi-cavity platforms where inter-cavity variation is a design constraint.
💊 Pharmaceutical Bulk Containers
Large-count tablet and capsule containers for hospital pharmacy, veterinary bulk supply, and industrial supplement distribution. PETG and PC resin compatibility extends the application range to materials with specific UV clarity and chemical resistance properties that pharmaceutical container standards sometimes specify beyond standard food-grade PET.
🧴 Premium Cosmetic & Personal Care Jars
Large-format cream jars, body butter containers, and salon-grade personal care tubs in the 1–3 litre range. The single-cavity plastic blow molding machine's dimensional precision is particularly valued for premium cosmetic containers where surface finish, roundness, and neck-finish concentricity directly affect the perception of product quality on shelf.
🏭 Industrial Liquid Packaging
Food-safe industrial liquids — vinegar concentrates, fermented sauce bases, soy sauce bulk — in 3–5 litre wide-mouth containers for manufacturing supply chains. The PC and PCTG resin compatibility of this bottle molding machine addresses the specific chemical resistance requirements of these applications without requiring a dedicated platform change from standard food-grade PET production.
How to Select the Right Blow Molding Machine for Large-Format Wide-Mouth Containers
The EP-HGA.FS-1CG220 is the appropriate specification when your container programme requires a neck diameter between 110 mm and 138 mm, a container volume between 2,500 ml and 5,000 ml, and a container height approaching or reaching 330 mm — and when your production volume is best served by a single-cavity machine rather than a multi-cavity platform producing smaller containers. If your neck diameter exceeds 138 mm, the dual-cavity XL model covers that requirement at a matched volume scale. If your neck diameter is below 110 mm and volume below 2,500 ml, the dual-cavity wide model within the ES series is likely the more economical choice.
When comparing pet blowing machine manufacturers for this container category, three machine parameters warrant detailed attention. The first is mold-open distance: at 190 mm body diameter, a mold-open distance below 480 mm creates inadequate clearance for the container to be ejected without contact risk — verify the specified figure, not an estimated value. Second, stretching stroke: at 330 mm container height, a stretching stroke below 480 mm limits the machine's ability to reach the full container height specification with adequate axial stretch ratio. Third, blowing pressure: the 30 kg/cm² blowing pressure for this machine reflects the material distribution characteristics of a 5,000 ml wide-body container — a machine specified at higher blowing pressure for this container format may be applying force calibrated for a different product type and delivering inconsistent wall thickness.
About Us
More than two decades of continuous engineering in blow molding machine development have produced a manufacturing operation where every component is controlled in-house — from clamping frame weldments and precision-bored platen surfaces to preform holder track segments and blowing valve assemblies. This manufacturing depth is the reason our machines perform to their rated specification from the first production shift rather than requiring extended on-site parameter tuning after commissioning. It is also why our quality guarantees are backed by field data from operating customer facilities rather than laboratory test results alone.
Our engineering teams have commissioned blow molding machine installations on six continents, including food packaging operations in Colombia, edible oil plants in Southeast Asia, and pharmaceutical container facilities in Europe. The field observations from those commissionings — what adjustments large-format wide-mouth containers require during warm-up, what preform temperature profile works for 5-litre PET containers in a 35°C ambient production environment, what cycle time is actually achievable versus theoretical — feed directly into how subsequent machines in this series are designed and specified. The FS-1CG220 carries design improvements that trace back to specific large-format production challenges observed in real customer facilities.
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System Equipment & Related Products
The EP-HGA.FS-1CG220 requires a set of auxiliary systems that are specified from the machine's actual utility demands rather than generic estimates. We supply every auxiliary product below with validated compatibility to this blow molding machine — providing a one-stop supply path that removes the cross-supplier integration risk that is disproportionately high for large-format single-cavity machine installations, where any auxiliary equipment shortfall affects the entire output rather than a fraction of a multi-cavity system.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1. What type of fully automatic blow moulding machine is best suited for producing 5-litre wide-mouth food storage jars for retail distribution in Colombia and Southeast Asia?
For 5-litre wide-mouth food storage jars targeted at retail distribution in Colombia and Southeast Asia, the FS-1CG220 special configuration blow molding machine is the appropriate specification. Its 5,000 ml maximum container volume, 138 mm maximum neck diameter, and 190 mm maximum body diameter cover the standard dimensional envelope of 4-litre and 5-litre wide-mouth retail food storage jars. The single-cavity configuration is well-suited to the production volumes that retail food storage jar programmes typically require — where volumes are meaningful but not at the scale that would justify the capital and complexity of a multi-cavity platform.
Q2. How does the two-step blow molding process manage uniform wall thickness distribution in large-volume wide-neck containers that have high preform wall mass?
Wide-neck preforms for 5,000 ml containers have substantially higher wall mass than standard food jar or beverage preforms, and the challenge of heating them to consistent orientation temperature through the full wall cross-section is greater. The two-step blow molding machine approach manages this through two mechanisms. First, the preform can be fully cooled and thermally stabilised after injection moulding before it enters the oven — it arrives at the oven in a known thermal state, not a transient post-injection state as in single-stage processes. Second, the 40-holder oven track on this machine provides sufficient dwell time at each infrared lamp zone for heat to penetrate from the outer surface through to the inner wall of the preform before the preform advances to the next zone.
Q3. Which automatic pet blowing machine model should a food service packaging company in Australia choose when transitioning from glass jars to large-format PET wide-mouth containers?
For an Australian food service packaging company transitioning from glass to PET wide-mouth containers in the 2–5 litre range, the FS-1CG220 provides the dimensional coverage the transition requires. PET containers at 138 mm neck diameter match the wide-mouth access that glass jar users expect in food service environments — a narrow-neck alternative would not be accepted as a genuine replacement by commercial kitchen operators. The PET container produced on this machine offers weight reduction of 80–90% versus glass equivalent at the same volume, eliminating a major breakage risk and logistics cost in food service supply chains. The machine's resin compatibility with PET and PETG supports both standard food contact applications and the higher-clarity PETG specification that some premium food service brands require. Australian electrical configuration is set at the factory.
Q4. What compressed air system does a single-cavity large-format bottle blow molding machine require, and why is oil-free compressor specification mandatory for food-grade production?
The FS-1CG220 blow molding machine requires 3,500 ltr/min high-pressure compressed air at 30 kg/cm² blowing pressure. An oil-free compressor is mandatory rather than optional for food-grade production because conventional oil-lubricated compressors introduce oil aerosol into the compressed air stream. That aerosol contacts the interior surface of every container during the blowing phase — the same surface that will contact the food product after filling. Food safety standards in most markets, including those applicable in Colombia and Australia, prohibit food-contact contamination of this type.
Q5. How do blow molding machine manufacturers ensure consistent container geometry when producing wide-body PET jars with body diameters approaching 190 mm on a single-cavity platform?
Dimensional consistency on a wide-body single-cavity blow molding machine depends on controlling three variables: preform temperature uniformity across the wall cross-section at the blowing station entry point; blowing pressure stability at the specified 30 kg/cm² throughout the cavity-fill phase; and mold cooling water temperature at 8–12 °C with adequate flow rate to cool the container to dimensional stability before mold opening. Preform temperature uniformity is managed through the oven zone-control system — individually adjustable lamp banks allow the operator to compensate for the higher mass of the shoulder section relative to the body in a wide-mouth preform profile. Blowing pressure stability requires an oil-free compressor installation sized to the upper consumption demand, with a buffer receiver to smooth peak demand at the mold-close event.
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