NICHROME: PROVEN EXPERTS IN FOOD PACKAGING

 

The global food packaging market is vast, mature and growing at an exciting pace. Packaging companies serving the sectors of food, beverages, personal care and pharmaceutical are expected to do well in the present pandemic situation, with changing demand patterns, government measures, and stockpiling pushing up demand for packaged food products.

The food packaging market is broadly segmented into 3 categories based on product: rigid, semi-rigid and flexible. While rigid packaging has the largest market share, the flexible packaging market is growing exponentially due to technological advancements. Moreover, flexible packaging offers several advantages: it uses less material, needs less energy during formation, produces lesser green house gases during manufacturing. Being lightweight & unbreakable, it is economical to pack, store and transport.

In India, few can match Nichrome’s expertise in flexible packaging for food products. Nichrome is a leading food packaging machine manufacturer and integrated packaging solutions. Nichrome’s packaging technology is well accepted around the world too.

Whether you want to package food grains, powders, liquids, viscous products or ready-to-eat foods, Nichrome offers a reliable, high-speed, cost-effective solution.

Nichrome offers a wide range of food packaging machines, besides liquid packaging machines for products such as milk, juice, water. Let’s take a look at some of the different technologies Nichrome offers in food packaging machines:

VFFS
VFFS (vertical form fill seal) machines are automated packaging systems used to package the widest range of liquids and solids. VFFS machines deliver high speeds, accuracy, variable bag lengths and shapes, and are easy to operate and maintain.

Whether it is liquid like milk, juice and water, viscous like ketchup, ghee and edible oil, granular like rice, pulses and sugar, powder like masalas, coffee and dehydrated milk, solid like nuts, namkeen or cookies — Nichrome has a VFFS machine for you.

Nichrome’s VFFS machines are versatile and can be used for diverse applications by changing the filling system. Cleaning and changeovers are easy and fast.

Multilane
These are VFFS machines with multiple lanes or channels, and are generally used for smaller pouch sizes. For small sachets and stickpacks of salt, ketchup, sugar, coffee, dairy whitener, condiments, etc. which are popular in the travel, hospitality and food business, Nichrome’s VFFS multilane machines offer speed, accuracy of filling and reliable sealing.

HFFS
Unlike VFFS machines which are vertical in structure, HFFS packaging machines are horizontal. Nichrome offers a range of HFFS machines based on the latest linear technology from Europe. The series is versatile, and can be used for packing a wide range of powders, grains, snacks, liquids and viscous products using different fillers. HFFS machines also offer a range of pouch formats with superior pouch aesthetics.

PFS
Nichrome’s PFS (Pick-Fill-Seal) is the preferred packaging machine for ready-to-eat foods. Using versatile Rotary technology, the machine conveniently packs a wide variety of ready-to-eat foods in eye-catching innovative shapes while maintaining freshness of the products. The machine is sturdy and compact, easy to clean and maintain.

An advanced variant of packaging technology innovated by Nichrome enables 2 or 3 different fillers to dispense multiple types of ingredients in the same pouch.

For liquid/semi-liquid packaging, Nichrome offers another PFS machine with an automatic cap feeding system for filling liquids in spouted pouches. 

Tray sealing
For small-scale marketers of cut fruits & vegetables, meat & fish, namkeen & sweets and even ready-to-eat meals like biryani, Nichrome offers Athena thermoforming tray sealers from Tecnovac, Italy. Athena is able to seal, pack in a protective atmosphere (vacuum + gas) or with “Skin effect” all types of trays or jars. Due to its strong stainless steel structure and easy maintenance, Athena is ideal for use in small and medium sized companies.

Tin filling line
Nichrome’s tin filling line is a sturdy, low-maintenance system made for accurate and efficient performance. The PLC-controlled line has a digital LCD touch screen displaying settings, and safety enclosures with interlocks for rotary parts.

Machine construction is available in SS3014, SS316 and MS painted material. Various tin sterilisation and cleaning options are available.

By using different filling systems, this system can be used for filling and packaging products such as milk powder, health drink powders, tea powder, sugar, rice, whole spices, dry fruits, candies, pan masala, premixes, etc. in a variety of tin sizes.

If you are looking for a high performance, cost-effective, durable food packaging machine or liquid packaging machine for your business, talk to Nichrome. Nichrome can even customise solutions to suit your specific requirements.

ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITS WITH THE LEADING SNACK MACHINE MANUFACTURER

 

As consumers turn away from loose snacks and mithai towards hygienically packaged products; as online shopping becomes the norm across India; marketers of snacks need to consider automated snack packaging machines. It's the only way to build your consumer base, and expand your market.

High quality snack packaging offers many advantages, such as:

- attractive retail appeal

- hygiene; products untouched by human hands

- protection from air, water & contaminants

- longer shelf life

- better mobility

- easier to transport, distribute & store

With these advantages for your business, snack manufacturers can improve retail value of their products and make forays into new markets, thereby growing sales and profits.

Nichrome snack packaging machines

Nichrome is India’s leading provider of integrated packaging solutions with a whole gamut of offerings for snack packaging. Nichrome range of automated snacks packaging machines and namkeen packing machines suit different needs and budgets while offering some definite advantages:

- high speed performance

- accuracy in weighing & filling

- excellent vacuum sealing

- easy changeover for multiple products

- easy cleaning and maintenance

- flexible pouches for better packaging design

- robust construction

- HACCP & GMP compliance

- reliable performance

- flexibility: different fillers make multiple applications possible on the same machine

All these features add up to big benefits for snack manufacturers. Greater speed and efficiency means improved productivity for your factory, and longer life for your products.

Choose your pouch format

Nichrome offers a wide range of automated snack food packaging machines, each offering different flexible packaging formats. Some of the most popular snack packaging formats include:

Chain of small pouches
Nichrome’s Sprint Snack Pack packs snacks such as chips, namkeen, puffed snacks, dry fruits, etc. in Centre Seal Pillow Pouches of different sizes. It has a perforation mechanism that produces a chain of pouches that is easy to display in crowded Indian stores.

Large bulk packs
Nichrome’s snack packaging machines offer a variety of large pouch formats such as the Gusset, Gusset with D-cut, Penta Seal and Quad Seal pouches. These are ideal for bulk packaging up to 10 kgs and pack at a speed of 80 bags per minute.

Stand up pouches
Nichrome has innovated India's first vertical pouch packaging machine! The Excel Vertipack 320 has been developed for packaging dry fruits, snacks, pasta, grains, etc. in a variety of stand up pouches with or without zipper.

Sealed trays
Nichrome’s tray sealing machines are the perfect choice for packaging Indian mithai, snacks and other food products. MAP (Modified Atmosphere Packaging) technology ensures the snacks are packed safely in preformed trays, untouched by human hands - and sealed tight in a modified atmosphere that prevents spoilage and extends shelf life.

Special innovation for start-ups

More and more snack manufacturers are seeing the need for automating their packaging process. To retain old customers, attract new ones and make inroads into new markets, snack manufacturers need modern packaging that’s safe, accurate and effective.

But not every snack producer has the space or budget for an expensive snack packaging machine. Nichrome has a solution. Nichrome has designed a special snack packaging machine under the brand name ‘E-Line’, for such start-ups and small-medium enterprises.

Wing 200 E-Line is an exclusive entry-level snack packaging machine that delivers all the technology, expertise and reliability of Nichrome in a compact, affordable format. Wing 200 E-Line is designed to fit modest space, budget and performance expectations.

It is the ideal machine for chips, kurkure, namkeen, pasta, dry fruits, candies - even sugar, grains and pulses. Products are vacuum-packed at a speed of 80 bags per minute in economical Centre Seal Pillow Pouches (CSPP). Perforated chains of pouches are also possible.

Conclusion

As hygiene and safety become increasingly important for the modern consumer, automated snack packaging grows in need. The ongoing pandemic further emphasizes the need for hygienically packed and sealed packs.

For snacks producers, it makes sense to partner with a snack packaging machine manufacturer who truly knows and understands the business. Nichrome offers a wide range of high quality, high speed namkeen packaging machines, and can even customise solutions for specific needs.

Nichrome provides end-to-end support, right from consulting to understand your requirements and recommending the most relevant, cost-effective solution, to manufacturing and delivering it. Nichrome also helps integrate the machine in your upstream or downstream systems, provides training for your staff, and offers timely support and spares when required.