LogoBOTTLELINE
Get the Guide
Overhead view of a high-speed bottling line with amber liquid filling clear bottles under fluorescent industrial lighting

— Bottleline Contract Manufacturing

From Formula to Freight.
We Run the Line.

200 units per minute. Six production stages. One partner from mixing tank to sealed pallet — for startups, scaling brands, and private-label retailers.

Scroll to see the process
200/min
Fill Rate
50,000+
Min. Run Size
6
Production Stages
48hr
Quote Turnaround
99.4%
Line Uptime
01
Stage One — R&D

Formulation &
Development

Your recipe arrives — scribbled on a napkin, locked in a spreadsheet, or handed off by a food scientist. Our R&D team runs bench trials across pH, Brix, viscosity, and shelf stability. We iterate until the formula is production-ready and replicable at scale. Every batch starts here.

72hr
Bench Trial
±0.1%
Brix Tolerance
Food scientist in white lab coat examining a clear beaker of amber liquid under laboratory lighting
01
02
Stage Two — Sourcing

Ingredient
Sourcing

We maintain preferred supplier agreements with 40+ ingredient vendors across sweeteners, acids, flavors, functional actives, and carbonation gases. Your BOM is locked against spec sheets. Certificates of Analysis travel with every shipment. Nothing enters the tank without documentation.

40+
Vendors
COA
Every Batch
Industrial warehouse shelving stacked with labeled ingredient drums and containers in a sterile food-grade facility
02
03
Stage Three — Batch

Batching &
Blending

Stainless blend tanks hold 5,000 to 20,000 gallon runs. Automated dosing systems hit your formula within specification every time. Temperature-controlled mixing, in-line CIP between SKUs, and continuous QC sampling mean what leaves the tank matches what was approved in the lab.

20k gal
Max Batch
CIP
Between SKUs
Large stainless steel mixing tanks in an industrial beverage production facility with workers in hairnets monitoring equipment
03
04
Stage Four — Fill

Filling &
Capping

The line runs at 200 units per minute across glass, PET, and aluminum formats from 8oz to 32oz. Counter-pressure filling for carbonated SKUs, hot-fill capability for juice and RTD tea, and nitrogen flush for extended shelf life. Every cap torqued to spec, every fill volume checked by in-line scales.

200/min
Fill Rate
3 formats
Glass · PET · Can
Close-up overhead shot of amber liquid filling clear bottles on a high-speed conveyor line, fill nozzles sharp in foreground
04
05
Stage Five — Label

Labeling &
Packaging

Shrink-sleeve and pressure-sensitive label application at line speed. Steam tunnel shrink for 360° coverage. Vision inspection rejects any bottle with misaligned, wrinkled, or missing labels before it reaches case packing. Secondary packaging in 4-pack, 6-pack, 12-pack, and 24-pack configurations.

360°
Sleeve Coverage
4 configs
Pack Formats
Rows of freshly labeled beverage bottles with shrink-wrapped sleeves moving through a steam tunnel on an industrial conveyor
05
06
Stage Six — Ship

Warehousing &
Logistics

Finished pallets move into 80,000 sq ft of climate-controlled warehouse. Lot tracking through every pallet position. Pick-and-ship for DTC, full truckload staging for retail DCs, and third-party logistics coordination for national distribution. Your product ships when you need it, not when the line has space.

80k sqft
Warehouse
Lot Track
Every Pallet
Wide-angle view of a large climate-controlled warehouse with rows of stacked pallets of packaged beverage products reaching ceiling height
06
— Free Resource

Are You Production Ready?

Most brands lose 60–90 days before their first run because they didn't know what a manufacturer needs before the conversation starts. This guide closes that gap.

  • Formula documentation requirements (pH, Brix, viscosity ranges)
  • Minimum order quantities by format and fill type
  • Label artwork specs and submission timeline
  • What co-manufacturing agreements cover — and what they don't
  • How to calculate your true landed cost per unit
Production Readiness Guide
28-page PDF · Updated Q1 2026 · Free download

Unlock the Guide

No spam. We'll email you the PDF link immediately. Your data is used only to send the guide.

BOTTLELINE
— Next Step

See the Floor.
Before You Sign Anything.

Walk the production floor with one of our operations leads. See the fill line running, ask questions in the middle of a batch, and leave with a clear picture of what your production run will actually look like.

90-minute guided floor walk
Meet the operations team running your product
See active production across all six stages
Q&A with our R&D and logistics leads
Bottleline Production Facility · Tours by appointment only

Request a Line Tour

We'll confirm within 1 business day with available dates.