NICHROME FILLING SYSTEMS FOR THE PACKAGING INDUSTRY

 

To put it simply, a pouch packing machine has two major components: the filling system and the bagging system. The filling system or filler is responsible for the accurate measurement and dispensing of the material into the pouch and the bagging system is responsible for packing and sealing the material in the pouch.

Whether it is a vertical form-fill-seal machine or horizontal form-fill-seal machine, the filler plays a crucial role in fast and accurateoperations. In the food industry, fillers are used for filling flexible pouches, cans, bottles, etc. In the pharma industry, filling systemsensure accurate and sterile discharge of the product into syringes, vials, capsules, sachets and bottles.

Depending on the type of product to be packaged, filling systems are selected. Liquid packaging or grain packaging, snack packaging or oil packaging, sugar packaging or ready-to-eat food packaging - different products require different filling systems. Factors such as container size, may play a part in selecting specific filling machinery, or in customizing the machinery, but there are two basic criteria packagers followwhen deciding which filling system to use for their product.

MAIN CRITERIA WHEN CHOOSING A FILLER

Level of automation: Filling machines or fillers are manufactured to work with automated packaging systems. They can also be manufacturedto work as stand-alone, semi-automatic machines, combining the filler with say, a capping machinery.

Knowing how many packs per minute, hour or day you need to fill will help to identify the level of automation necessary for your filling machine. High production levels may require an eight head automatic filling machine, and the filler could be designed to allow additional heads to be added in the future.

Filling principles: The unique trails or characteristics of the product to be packed determine the filling principle. The working of a milk filling machine will differ from a powder filling machine; an automatic sugar filling machine requires a different filler than what is used by an edible oil filling machine.

For example, gravity fillers areideal for thin, free-flowing products. Thicker, viscous products require more than gravity to complete the filling process, so a piston filleror pump filling machine is more suited to filling viscous products.

NICHROME’S INNOVATIVE FILLING SYSTEMS

As India’s leading provider of integrated packaging solutions, and proven packaging machine manufacturer, Nichrome offers a range of filling systems for a wide range of Food, Pharma and other products. Whether you are investing in a new VFFS packaging machine; looking to upgrade an old one or want to use your current automated packaging machine for packing new products, it’s worth taking a look at Nichrome’s innovative filling systems.

Nichrome offers an exclusive portfolio of filler-weighers for diverse applications. With a range of filling capacities and built-in safety features, Nichrome’s filling systems can be integrated easily into existing packaging machines for greater efficiency, speed and versatility.

Intelweigh Multi Head Weigher: This filling system has 10 weigh heads and a combination volume of 3000 cc. It is the ideal filler for solid products such as tea, sugar, rice, pulses, snacks, and other free-flowing granular products.

Features include:

·         Bucket volume: 1.3 l

·         Accuracy: 0.2 to 2 gm

·         Weighing range: 10 gm to 1000 gm

·         Speed: 70 dumps per minute

·         Product contact parts: SS 304

·         Display: 7 inch touch screen

·         Buckets open and close with stepper motor

·         Weighing method with load cell

Intelweigh Combi Filler DH: This filling system is an aesthetically improved machine ensuring safety for users. It is the ideal filler for solid products such as seeds, whole spices, grocery products, Indian namkeen, etc.

Features include:

·         Accuracy % sd: 0.5% /0.2%

·         Weighing range: 50 gm to 2 kg/500 gm to 5 kg

·         Speed: 40-50 dumps/minute for 1 kg; 15-20 dumps/minute for 5 kg

·         Display: 7 inch touch screen

·         Air consumption: 0.15 CFM at 6 bar

·         Connected Load/Head: 0.25 kW

·         Built in safety door guards with machine off interlock

·         Broad range of filling capacities available

Easyfill Servo Auger: For food packaging of powders such as spices, atta (flour products), milk powder, nutraceuticals, coffee powder, premixes, instant mixes, even agro chemicals and pesticides, Nichrome’s Easyfill Servo Auger provides accuracy, speed and efficient performance.

The auger is available in different finishes as per customer’s requirement. Choose from buffing, Teflon-coating or Nedox coating.

A unique feature of this filling system is its split hopper which facilitates cleaning and easy changeovers.

Other features include:

·         Filling capacity: 5 cc to 2000 cc

·         Servo driven auger mechanism

·         Contact parts: SS 304 or SS 316 depending on product

·         Gaskets: PTFE/Food grade silicon rubber

·         Hygienic construction

·         Structure: MS powder coated

·         Hopper: inside buffing, outside matt finish

·         Facilitates easy cleaning

 

SUMMARY

Filling systems or fillers play a vital role in the efficient operation of packaging machines. Nichrome manufactures fillers using advanced technology and user-friendly design for a wide gamut of applications.

Nichrome is not only a leading packaging machine manufacturer, it is also a recognized automatic filling machine manufacturer. With a range of filling capacities and built-in safety features, Nichrome’s filling systems can be integrated easily into existing packaging machines for greater efficiency, speed and versatility.

With over 4 decades in the industry, and proven expertise in automated packaging technology, Nichrome will partner to develop and deliver the most apt and cost-effective integrated packaging solution for your industry.

NICHROME EXPERTISE FOR MILK, LIQUID AND OIL PACKAGING

 

Are you considering an automated liquid packaging machine for your beverage factory? Want to upgrade to a high-speed milk pouch packaging system? Looking for a cost-efficient edible oil filling machine? Nichrome India is your one-stop solution for all your liquid, oil or milk packaging needs.

However, choosing the appropriate liquid filling machine is not an easy decision. There are so many things to consider before you make the big investment.

Again, Nichrome can help. Nichrome believes in partnering with customers through the lifecycle - from consulting to understand individual challenges and application needs right through to commissioning and even post-sales support. So when you connect with Nichrome, you get a complete package of technology, support and service.

Some points to ponder before purchasing a liquid packaging machine:

Product type: It's obvious that when you think of 'liquid' packaging, you must define the type of 'liquid' you are going to pack. Is it an edible oil or a juice? Water or dairy milk? Wine or buttermilk? Every liquid has its own properties such as viscosity, particulates, etc. A product such as edible oil has higher viscosity than water, so you probably need a machine with piston fillers. On the other hand, gravity fillers can be used for thinner, less viscous liquids. 

In some cases, liquids change their viscosity with changes in temperature or may need to be heated/cooled for the filling process. These characteristics have to be factored in when choosing the most suitable machine.

Container: Do you want to package your product in flexible pouches or bottles? Will those bottles be glass or plastic? The packaging format and material pouch are crucial when selecting the best liquid filling machine.

Production quantity: How much quantity of product do you want filled? Your answer has a direct connection with the automation level of your liquid filling machine.

Machines can be semi-automatic or fully-automatic - the larger the quantity required, the greater should be the level of automation. Fully automated packaging machines require less human interaction and are therefore able to operate at a rapid speed, delivering higher outputs per hour.

NICHROME LIQUID PACKAGING SOLUTIONS

Nichrome is the milk pouch packing machine manufacturer with a legacy of expertise for four decades. Nichrome’s Filpack series of liquid filling machines is designed to package almost all liquids in flexible pouches. The range includes:

Filpack 6K
Milk filling machine

-          CSPP pouches at 6000 packs/hour

-          For milk, flavoured milk, lassi, juice, mineral water

Filpack 12K
Fastest milk pouch packaging machine

-          CSPP pouches at 12000 packs/hour

-          For milk, flavoured milk, lassi, juice, mineral water

Filpack Universal
Milk products packaging machine

-          CSPP pouches at 5000 packs/hour

-          For milk, flavoured milk, lassi, juice, mineral water

-          For viscous liquids such as cream, ghee, kefir

Filpack CMD Alpha
Milk packaging machine

-          For milk, flavoured milk, lassi, juice, mineral water

-          Twin heads to pack 2 different products at the same time

Filpack CMS 5L
Dairy & milk packaging machine

-          CSPP pouches at 800 packs/hour

-          For milk, flavoured milk, lassi, juice, mineral water

Filpack Servo SMD
Cooking oil packaging machine

-          CSPP pouches at 800 packs/hour

-          For oil, ghee, ketchup, mayonnaise

-          Twin heads to pack 2 different products at the same time

CONCLUSION

For liquid packaging, Nichrome's solutions offer durable, heavy-duty performance, with advanced PLC controlled operations. Since Nichrome pioneered India's first indigenous milk packaging machine four decades ago, the company continues to innovate technologies and upgrade offerings for not only milk packaging but for other liquids too.

What is more, Nichrome provides customisation services for specific needs, and also assures good after-sales service. Whether it is training of customer staff, regular maintenance or prompt repairs and genuine spares – Nichrome partners for the long-term to ensure optimum efficiency and long service life from your liquidpackaging machine.

COOKING OIL PACKAGING MACHINE BY NICHROME

Edible oil is a vital constituent of kitchens everywhere. The packaged edible oil market is growing relentlessly as consumers shift from buying loose oil to safer, more hygienic packaged oil.

In cooking oil packaging, especially for small quantities up to 1 litre, flexible pouches are growing in popularity due to their cost-effectiveness - both to manufacture as well as to transport and store. Pouches remain preferred packaging solutions due to their malleability and low weight. In addition, they protect the products from contaminants and improve retail value.

For pouch packaging of edible oils, Nichrome offers a range of VFFS and HFFS packaging machines. As a leading automatic filling machine manufacturer for over four decades, Nichrome has the expertise and technology to deliver innovative oil pouch packaging machines that pack with speed, accuracy and hygiene. Nichrome's edible oil packaging expertise combined with its sales and service network across the country and abroad make it a trusted partner for reputed cooking oil manufacturers, both big and small.

Nichrome's Filpack Servo SMD

The star of Nichrome's range of VFFS edible oil packing machines is undoubtedly the Filpack Servo SMD. A durable, heavy-duty performer, it has touch screen HMI panel and PLC to control operations. It occupies less floor space and has an enclosed SS cabinet for hygienic operation.

Filpack Servo SMD comes with twin head construction with independent head operation so you can pack two different products and quantities simultaneously.

Filpack Servo SMD packs in 3 side seal pouches at speeds ranging for 80-85 packs/minute for quantities of 100, 200 and 500 ml, and at 70-80 packs/minute for 1000 ml pouches.

This cooking oil packing machine is also a ghee packing machine, working with versatility and reliability for a range of viscous applications that include vanaspati, ketchup, fruit pulp, mayonnaise, curry pastes, and even grease, paint, lubricating oil, adhesives, etc.

Other features of Filpack Servo SMD

•        Positive displacement pump filler with fine quality adjustment facility

•        Operator friendly PLC controller

•        Full mechanical machine. No requirement of compressed air.

•        Enclosed SS cabinet construction for hygienic operation

•        Advanced linearly adjustable Impulse Seal

•        Specially designed film roll unwinding mechanism for smooth bag pulling operation

•        Less floor space requirement for machine installation as no side opening required

•        UV sterilization of packaging film

•        End of film roll facility with parking mode interlock

•        Facility for using panel printed films

•        Servo motor driven precise bag length control mechanism

•        Servo motor operated bag longitudinal and cross sealing system

•        Motorized special film tracking system offering lateral movement of film trolley

•        Isolation of film reel mounting area from other lubricating mechanisms of the machine to avoid contamination of film during transportation due to foreign particles

•        Suitable for large range of film with minimal setting

Conclusion

If you're looking for an automated packaging solution for cooking oil that assures performance and peace of mind, Nichrome's Filpack Servo SMD is the answer. It is compact, durable, easy to operate and maintain, promising long service life.

Consult Nichrome with your requirements and they will ensure you get the most relevant, cost-effective edible oil packaging machine for your plant. Nichrome will transform your oil pouch packaging operations with their proven expertise and range of advanced products for modern pouch packaging.

Healthy capabilities in Oil Packaging

The branded oil market is growing! Per capita consumption of edible oil has doubled from 8 kg per annum to 16 kg. Consumers are becoming increasingly conscious of what they consume, and there is a growing preference for branded oil over loose oil.

Sales are increasing by more than 25 per cent in rural India. The introduction of smaller and more affordable pack sizes is also bringing more packaged food categories within the reach of price-sensitive consumers in semi-urban and rural India.

In urban India however, oil companies are making the most of steadily rising affluence levels and health consciousness. Growing disposable incomes and rising health problems like diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease are driving demand for such value-added variations. We see a variety of innovative value adds and marketing based on health and wellness. Catering to the demand for ‘healthy oils’, all major players are launching ‘healthy’ variants of their regular offerings. Low absorption, vitamin-fortified, antioxidants, orizanol, heart-healthy, diabetes care, etc. are the words that shout out on TVCs and retail shelves.

Most of these oil companies market their products in flexible pouches. Who better than Nichrome for oil pouch packaging machines?

Oil Pouch Packaging

As a leading packaging solutions provider, Nichrome is especially well known as capable edible oil filling machine manufacturer. Nichrome’s automatic oil filling machines are trusted for their high speed, accuracy and hygienic cooking oil packaging. Nichrome’s automatic oil filling and ghee packing machine, FILPACK SERVO SMD is designed to pack an impressive 100 pouches/min. in 50 ml to 100 ml, and 3-side seal pouch formats. Itpromises to protect the purity of the product, improve time-to-market, and enhance the retail value of the brand.

In the category of cooking oil packing machines, Nichrome also offers SPRINT 250 VISCO, MULTILANE PV-215, and a range of HFFS edible oil filling machines from TOTPACK, Spain. The TOTPACK range is PLC-based touch screen machines with auto tuning temperature controller, easy and quick change over. Their compact and versatile design offers both single and perforated chain of pouches. TOTPACK is equipped with well designed duplex modules for higher outputs.

HFFS edible oil filling machines

Nichrome’s capabilities do not end at oil packaging machines. Nichrome provides integrated packaging solutions, and undertakes turnkey projects for complete packaging lines. Pre-primary, primary, secondary, tertiary — Nichrome partners to deliver and integrate individual machines for different stages, or provides customized end-to-end solutions.

For proven expertise and single-source convenience in innovative flexible packaging solutions, contact Nichrome.

For more details: www.nichrome.com