Tea bag packing machine guide: inner/outer, pyramid and nylon bags

Tea bag styles and machines

Style	Material	Machine	Output
Inner bag with string, tag and outer envelope	Filter paper + paper/film envelope	180C inner & outer tea bag packing machine	—
Pyramid bag with weigher	Nylon, PLA, corn fibre	160SC pyramid tea bag machine with weigher	15–30 bags/min
Triangle bag with string and tag	Nylon mesh	160CS nylon triangle tea bag machine with string and tag	1–15 g, 20–60 bags/min
Nylon and cloth bags, drip coffee	Mesh, non-woven	180C drip coffee & nylon tea bag packing machine	30–40 bags/min

Fine tea vs whole leaf

Fine broken tea (CTC, fannings) flows well and is dosed volumetrically into paper bags. Whole leaves, flowers and herbal blends are bulky and fragile, so pyramid machines use weighers and larger mesh bags.

Tea bag machine for a small business

Start-ups and specialty tea brands often begin with a single compact pyramid or triangle bag machine — the 160CS nylon triangle tea bag machine with string and tag measures only about 0.85 × 0.52 m — and hand-pack bags into tins or boxes. Larger producers add envelope wrapping and cartoning.

Materials and sealing

Paper bags are sealed with heat-seal filter paper or folded and stapled/knotted; nylon and PLA mesh are ultrasonically or heat sealed. Tell us which material you use or want to use.

Reference line

See the tea bag packing line. Send your tea, bag style and output.

Questions and answers

What machine makes pyramid tea bags?

A pyramid (triangle) tea bag machine with a weigher, such as the 160SC, or the 160CS with string and tag.

Is there a tea bag machine for small business?

Yes. Compact triangle tea bag machines fit in under a square metre and run on single-phase power.

Can a tea bag machine add string and tag?

Yes. The 180C inner/outer machine and the 160CS triangle machine both add string and tag.

Can the same machine make drip coffee bags?

The 180C drip coffee and nylon tea bag machine handles both drip coffee bags and nylon tea bags.