About Us
Anthony Barber Associates, Ltd. is a family-owned-and-operated packaging machinery manufacturer located south of Charlotte, NC. We manufacture liquid filling machines and lid placing and closing machines for our customers domestically and internationally.
Our high quality filling machines and equipment are typically used for filling paint, chemicals, coatings, and other liquids. We pride ourselves on delivering a quality product and aim to establish long-term partnerships with all of our customers.
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All of our liquid filling machines, including paint filling machines are custom built to each customer’s specific needs. We offer a diverse selection of pail filling equipment, volumetric or net weight filling machines, as well as rotary feed tables, lid placers & lid droppers, crimpers & presses, pumps, and conveyors. Our experienced team designs machines for non-hazardous as well as explosion-proof areas to meet C1D1 (Class 1, Division 1) and C1D2 (Class 1, Division 2) standards. We also offer our industry renowned fill heads as well as a full range of spare parts.
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Our customers are welcome to tour our facility to view the machines in production and to discuss specific machine needs with us in person. For more information, call at (803) 396-0621 or request a quote.
A brief History
ABA was started in 1991 by Anthony Barber as a supplier to the paint and chemical industries. With experience of European and US manufactured equipment, we started by supporting liquid filling machines in the US manufactured by Neumo, Ltd. and Thiele Engineering, Inc. Initially supplying parts and pump assemblies, ABA rapidly grew into manufacturing complete machines. The first packaging machine manufactured was a conveyor with roller lid press supplied to Kraft foods in 1994. Complete filling machines followed soon after. Our non-drip cone style fill heads are used with phenomenal success on ABA machines and most competitors machines.
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We manufacture net weight and volumetric liquid filling machines and stock and supply quality spare parts for Neumo/Thiele filling machines. All new volumetric machines have ABA designed, positive displacement, double acting volumetric piston pumps for speed and accuracy. ABA can offer custom machines at reasonable prices. We stock sub-assemblies for standard machines to improve delivery schedules. We now have machines running in the USA, Canada, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, the UK and Turkey (to see a full map of our machines across the world, check out our client list).
Meet The Team
Anthony Barber, Owner & President
Anthony Barber, President and Owner of Anthony Barber Associates, Ltd, (ABA) emigrated to the United States in 1987 from England, where he had worked for Neumo, Ltd, a British based manufacturer of liquid filling machines. Anthony established ABA in Chicago in 1991 and moved his family and the business to Charlotte, NC in April 2011. Over the years, the company has transformed into to a family business, as all four of his children are working at ABA.
Kirsty Gaus,
Marketing Manager
Having worked at ABA for many years in a number of roles, Kirsty transitioned to a part time schedule after the birth of her first child in August 2016. As marketing manager, she is in charge of our website, videos, photos, and manuals, and is loving her new roles both at home and at ABA.
Christine Barber, Office Manager
Over the years, Christine has played a number of roles at ABA and has settled into Office Manager as the best fit.
Russell Gentry, Mechanical Designer
Russell has been working for ABA since 2012, first as our lead machine assembly technician, managing the rest of our assembly team, and now as a mechanical designer working to design our custom machines. Prior to moving to Charlotte, Russell worked as a supervisor in a large company in Illinois.
Gregory Barber, Service Manager
After working primarily as a machine assembly technician, Greg recently took on the role of service manager and runs FATS, does machine installs and service trips, and programs and troubleshoots machines.
Christopher Barber,
Machine Assembly Technician
After both working part time at ABA for years, Chris has finished school and has taken on a full time role as a machine assembly technician.
Ashley Cooley,
Machine Assembly Technician & Parts Manager
Ashley joined us part time while in school and has since then taken on a full time role as a machine assembly technician.