Potato Chip Packaging The Nichrome Way

The potato has come a long way since it was first introduced to India in the late 16th and early 17th centuries by Portuguese traders or British missionaries. Today, India is the second largest potato producer in the world, and the humble potato, from being a poor man’s staple food, has transformed into a national favorite in the form of fried chips or wafers.

Euro monitor’s report Savoury Snacks in India (December, 2016) estimates that savoury snacks are likely to register a constant value CAGR of 12% over 2016-2021, with sales reaching Rs 445 billion. The Indian chips market, sized at Rs 7,000-7,500 corer according to Euro monitor, has been growing at a robust pace of 15% over the past five years and going forward, is expected to grow at a similar pace. Growth will come from rising disposable incomes, changing lifestyles, product innovations and strengthening of distribution to have better selling opportunities in lower-tier cities and rural areas, the report goes on to state.

Indeed today, potato chips and wafers have become the most preferred snacking option. Slowly and surely, brands have made their place to the store shelf — and eventually, into the consumer’s kitchen. From kiosks and carts at railway stations to the neighbourhood paan-wala, from large supermarkets to the local kirana-wala, the distribution of chips brands is widespread and so penetrated that they are available literally everywhere. Product innovation, attractive branding and packaging have provided an added impetus for these products.

Playing a crucial role in packaging chips in hygienic, colorful pouches that protect the flavor and crispness of the chips is Nichrome, India’s leading provider of innovative packaging solutions. Nichrome’s Snack pack Sprint 250 Continuous is a high speed potato chips packaging machine that takes the inherent fragility and shapes of chips and other snack foods into account while ensuring minimized costs and a highly efficient packaging process.

Snack pack sprint 250 Continuous comes with the latest technological innovations for superior efficiency. The 4-axis servo motion provides better operational control while the ‘Date over Internet’ feature enables customers to access machine information via Cloud computing from anywhere, any time. The rated system output (bagger filler) is up to 130 pouches per minute. It allows easy format changes to produce CSPP and gusseted pouches of different sizes besides perforated chains of pouches.

Nichrome’s potato chips packing machine is HACCP and GMP compatible and also fulfills the requirements of snack packing for products such as Namkeen, puffed snacks, kurkure, 3D snacks, besides wrapped candies, macaroni, biscuits, pasta, seeds, breakfast cereals, soya chunks, dry fruits, etc.

For more details, visit www.nichrome.com