FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS SERVED FROM NICHROME

 

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 post-pandemic situation, with changing demand patterns and government measures 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 greenhouse 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 with 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 for your purposes.

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:

Nichrome in Food Packaging

Nichrome’s entry into food packaging machines goes back four decades. Nichrome pioneered the first indigenous milk pouch packaging machine forty years ago, and since then has consistently grown its expertise and product portfolio to include the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for the food industry. Whether you are looking for liquid packaging machines or powder packaging machines, grains & seeds packaging machines or tea packaging machines, ketchup packaging machines or sugar packaging machines - Nichrome is the one-stop packaging machines supplier you can trust.

A key aspect of Nichrome’s food packaging machines is their versatility. Many of the machines are designed to serve a variety of applications by simply changing the filler. What’s more, Nichrome automated packaging machines ensure minimum downtime for activities such as product changeover, dimensions or filling weight changeover, cleaning, etc.

Let’s take a quick peek into Nichrome’s offerings for food packaging. The product portfolio can be broadly divided into the following sections, as per the applications they serve:

Oil & Viscous

For packaging oil and other viscous products, Nichrome's Filpack Servo SMD is a durable, heavy-duty performer, with a touchscreen HMI panel and PLC that controls operations. It occupies less floor space and has an enclosed SS cabinet for hygienic operation.

Nichrome also offers the Multilane Stickpack, a fast and durable stickpack packaging machine to package viscous products in convenient single-serve stickpacks that are gaining popularity in the hospitality and travel sectors.

Milk & Liquid

For milk, other liquids and dairy products, Nichrome's Filpack series offer reliable, hygienic and accurate liquid filling solutions. Equipped with advanced servo technology, Nichrome's milk and liquid packaging machines offer fast and accurate pouch packaging. The range includes:

- Filpack Servo 6K

- Filpack Servo 12K

- Filpack Universal

- Filpack CMD Alpha

- Filpack CMS 5L

Powder

Nichrome offers a range of proven powder packaging machines for the full gamut of free-flowing and non-free-flowing powders. Spice powder packaging machine or atta packaging machine, salt packaging machine or milk powder packaging machine–Nichrome has a suitable solution for every need.

Besides the multilane stickpack packaging machine for packing in small, single-use sachets, Nichrome offers some high speed vertical and horizontal packaging machines:

- Excel 400 Plus Servo Auger

- Sprint 250 Plus Servo Auger

- Maxima 200

- Maxima 400

- T-series of HFFS

Snacks & Namkeen

Nichrome offers a wide range of automated snack packagingmachines, each offering different flexible packaging formats. From large bulk packs and stand up pouches to chains of small pouches and sealed trays using MAP technology, Nichrome's snack packaging solutions offer a variety of pouch formats, speeds and applications. The machines vacuum-pack chips, namkeen kurkure, pasta, dry fruits, candies -even grains, sugar and pulses.

Nichrome also offers the Wing 200 E-Line for entry-level requirements of startups and SMEs. Other snack packaging machines include:

- Excel Vertipack 320

- Snackpack

- Excel 400 Plus Multi-Head Weigher

- Sprint 250 Plus Multi-Head Weigher

Grains & Pulses

Nichrome offers a wide range of automated packaging machines, filling systems and integrated packaging solutions for your grain and seed packaging needs. Food Packaging Machines like those in Nichrome’s Excel Plus series, equipped with modern technology offer innovative packaging solutions that follow stringent packaging quality standards for a wide range of products.

Whether you want to pack grain in 500gm retail pouches or larger 2 Kg and 10 Kg formats, Nichrome has the grain packaging machine for you. Nichrome also offers Wing 200 E-Line, an automated packaging machine for startups and small-medium enterprises. It offers all the technology and expertise in a compact, affordable format. Nichrome’s offerings include:

- Excel 400 Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler

- Sprint 250 Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler

- Excel 400 Plus Cup Filler

- Excel Vertipack 320

- Wing 200 E-Line Snackpack

These machines are also well suited for other applications such as sugar, tea, whole spices, dry fruits, even snacks & namkeen.

Tea & Coffee

Nichrome has been a pioneer in tea packaging machines in India. Today, besides tea packaging machines for packing tea in a variety of flexible pouches, Nichrome offers complete integrated packaging systems for tea packaging for end-to-end efficiency. For tea packaging and coffee packaging, Nichrome's rugged range of packaging machines includes:

- Excel 400 Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler

- Sprint 250 Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler

- Excel 400 Plus Servo Auger

- Sprint 250 Plus Servo Auger

- DH Wing Servo Auger Filler

- Excel Vertipack 320

- Multilane Stickpack & PV215 for sachet packaging of coffee powder

Nichrome also offers a series of horizontal form fill seal (HFFS) machines for packaging tea and coffee. The advanced linear technology and small footprint make Nichrome's T-series a popular choice.

RTE & Instant Mixes

For effective and hygienic packaging of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook foods, Nichrome's Pick-Fill-Seal (PFS) machine comes with specially designed fillers.

The rotary filling and sealing technology of this RTE packaging machine enables 2 different fillers to dispense different ingredients in the same pouch, allowing for easy and gentle mixing of ingredients. Foods can be packed in a variety of stand up pouches which can then be subjected to retort packaging for longer shelf life.

Besides this horizontal packaging machine, Nichrome offers the Athena Thermoforming Tray Sealing machine 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.

For marketers of cut fruits & vegetables, meat & fish, namkeen & sweets and even ready-to-eat meals like biryani, Athena ensures the food products stay safe and hygienic till they reach the consumer's table.

Conclusion

Try Nichrome for all your food packaging needs. Nichrome will study your product, understand your requirements, and deliver the optimal solution for your specific industry. For the latest, most cost-effective automatic packaging machines and packaging solutions India, Nichrome is the preferred partner for progress.

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.

GRAIN PACKAGING WITH NICHROME

Food grains are a rich source of life-sustaining nutrients. Excellent carbohydrate sources, they also provide protein, fats, vitamins and minerals. In India, rice is the predominant dietary staple, followed by wheat, maize, millet and sorghum.

Although grains/cereals are annual crops, their consumption is throughout the year. This means that storage methods and packaging play an important role in storage stability. Qualitative and quantitative losses due to insects & rodents, pilferage, microbial spoilage, high humidity, heat - all these factors adversely affect food grains.

While appropriate bulk packaging is critical for storage, retail packaging is key to successful marketing. It goes beyond visual appeal, convenience and accuracy in unit quantity, and ease of opening. The contents of the bag have to be protected against contamination, infestation, moisture and oxygen. Moreover, as bulk density of these products is high, packaging material needs to have good impact strength, tensile strength and puncture resistance for working on FFS machines.

For up to 10Kg unit packs, LDPE and LLDPE are the most commonly used materials. To protect special varieties like basmati rice and flours from flavour loss and rancidity, flavour barrier materials such as reverse printed polyester laminated to LDPE, and oxygen barrier film are used. Technologies such as CO₂ flush packaging and vacuum packaging also help to extend shelf life.

Nichrome Grain Packaging Solutions
Nichrome offers a wide range of automated packaging machines, filling systems and integrated packaging solutions for your grain and seed packaging needs. Food Packaging Machines like those in Nichrome’s Excel Plus series, equipped with modern technology offer innovative packaging solutions that follow stringent packaging quality standards for a wide range of products.

Excel 400 Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler/Cup Filler: A VFFS packaging machine for grains, pulses, sugar, seeds, whole spices and tea, Excel 400 packs pouches of up to 10 kgs at 80 packs per minute. Pouch formats include the Pentaseal & Pentaseal with D cut, Gusset Pouch, CSPP and 4 Line Seal Pouch.

Key features include print mark scanners, servo motor driven bag length control system, and adjustable stroke of cross sealing jaws for optimum performance. It is designed as per stringent quality standards, and can be easily integrated to upstream or downstream machines/systems.

A range of fillers makes the EXCEL PLUS series a truly versatile packaging solution for powders, granules, grains, snacks, etc.

Sprint 250 Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler: For pouch quantities up to 2 Kgs, Nichrome’s Sprint 250 Plus series offers speed, accuracy and efficiency for flexible packaging of a wide variety of grains, powders, snacks, etc.

Sprint 250 Plus is an automated machine with CE marked PLC and touch screen HMI. Its servo motor driven sealing system can effectively seal with pressure levels maintained. It is programmed to pull the exact length of film required for packaging, and offers a perforation system to deliver a chain of small pouches.

Sprint 250 Plus packs up to 2 Kg pouches at speed of 120 packs per minute. Pouch formats include the CSPP and Gusset Pouch.

Wing 200 E-Line Snack Pack: This automated packaging machine is a Nichrome innovation for startups and small-medium enterprises. It offers all the technology and expertise in a compact, affordable format. It packs at a maximum speed of 80 CSPP pouches per minute. Besides grains, pulses and sugar, Wing 200 E-Line is ideal for SMEs in snacks, biscuits, pasta, dry fruits, etc.

Nichrome also offers integration of primary packaging machines into existing lines and secondary packaging solutions such as stacking & wrapping, bulk packing, HDPE bag filling, etc. For end-to-end integrated systems, Nichrome partners with customers to design, install and commission solutions tailored for specific needs.

Conclusion
Packaging for grains, cereals and sugar is vital for storage, handling, display and preservation of the product. As these are essential commodities and staples of our daily diet, packaging must fulfill all its functions at the lowest possible cost to minimize losses and curtail retail price.

Nichrome is your go-to partner for a wide range of automated packaging solutions for grain packaging that promises safety, speed, accuracy and efficiency for best business outcomes.

Factors to Consider When Selecting Instant Food Packaging Machines

According to Wikipedia, 'instant food' can be defined as foods that provide convenience to consumers and assists in reducing "the time of preparation/cooking and drudgery", whereby no more than five minutes of time is required from the time of food preparation to the food being consumed.

Food Packaging Machines

In the contemporary world, the range and variety of instant food is huge. From instant baby food, instant soups, cup noodles, sauce mixes to beverages like powdered milk, fruit-flavoured drink mixes, instant tea & coffee to canned food and RTE/RTC packs - the number of instant foods available on retail shelves is mind-boggling.

Packaging of Ready-to-eat (RTE) & Ready-to-cook (RTC) Food

For the purpose of this blog, let's narrow our discussion on instant food packaging to packaging of RTE/RTC food. Due to growing urbanisation, and changes in society such as changing food habits, more women pursuing professional careers, unavailability of domestic help, increase in nuclear families, people prefer the convenience and variety of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook food over cooking at home.

Ready-to-Eat (RTE) and Ready-To-Serve (RTS) food broadly comprise items such as meat products like pre-cooked sausages, ham, chicken products, curries, chapattis, rice dishes, aloo chole, navratan kurma, channa masala, palak-paneer, etc.

Ready-to-Cook food includes instant mixes like cake mixes, gulab-jamun mix, falooda mix, icecream mix, jelly mix, pudding mix, soup powders, etc.; ready snacks & breakfast meals such as upma, masala oats, poha, etc.; and pasta products like noodles, macaroni, vermicelli, etc.

The purpose of proper instant food packaging

Proper packaging must essentially contain and protect the food from external contamination. This function involves retardation of deterioration, extension of shelf life, and maintenance of quality and safety of packaged food. Packaging should protect food from environmental influences such as heat, light, the presence or absence of moisture, oxygen, pressure, enzymes, spurious odors, microorganisms, insects, dirt and dust particles, gaseous emissions, and so on.

The packaging should be an effective marketing tool, and should provide convenience of use to the consumer. And before it reaches the consumer, the package should remain undamaged throughout the shipping, storage and handling process.

Points to consider when choosing the right packaging machine

There are 3 main points to consider when choosing the right equipment for instant food packaging.

1. Speed: Ideally, you need to understand your targets. How many packs and how fast you want to package them every day, should be defined. If you are a startup or investing in packaging machinery for the first time, you could start with a smaller, slower machine.

2. Pouch format: Diversity of products and goals can help you choose the machine that's best for your operations. If you hope to widen your product range and SKUs, you need a machine that's versatile enough to grow with you.

3. Operating cost and maintenance: An automated packaging machine is a big investment but it doesn’t stop there. Some may be costlier but deliver smoother, hassle-free performance. Focus on all the elements of operating costs and overheads such as electricity and labor to operate the line. Also, being used for food products, the machine should be easy to clean with fast, hassle-free changeovers.

 4. Training: The machine you select will affect the amount of training and employee hours required to operate the machine. The advantage of an automated form-fill-seal machine is that once the operator has been trained and the machine commissioned & configured, the operator can concentrate on other tasks.

Ideally, your packaging machine manufacturer should provide the training and support you need to ensure efficient operations with minimal downtime.

Select the right packaging machine manufacturer

For RTE & RTC Food packaging, Nichrome is a reliable and experienced integrated packaging solutions provider. Nichrome has four decades of experience in the flexible packaging industry, and 7000+ installations across India and the world. For enterprises big and small, in India and abroad, Nichrome partners to add value through the entire lifecycle. Nichrome studies the customer’s requirements, goals and application challenges to deliver innovative food packaging solutions that will protect the purity of the product, improve time-to-market, and enhance the retail value of the brand.

Nichrome’s RTE food packaging machine

Nichrome’s highly advanced variant of the Pick-Fill-Seal Machine is a Ready-to-eat food packaging machine with specially designed RTE fillers which can be used to conveniently and quickly pack a wide variety of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook foods.

This rotary filling and sealing machine enables 2 different fillers to dispense different types of ingredients in the same pouch, allowing for easy mixing of ingredients, through gentle handling and without damaging the ingredients.

This automatic packaging machine allows manufacturers of RTE foods to conveniently pack their perishable products, safely, in a wide variety of stand-up pouch formats, which can then be subjected to retort packaging for longer shelf life.

The PFS Machine also provides a cost-effective integrated packaging solution because it is available with multiple filler options, which can be used for the packaging of items other than RTE foods.

Nichrome’s RTC Food packaging solutions

For RTC products, Nichrome offers a wide range of VFFS and HFFS machines. In the VFFS category, there are many options in the Maxima, Excel and Sprint series of automatic packaging machines. These machines efficiently pack powders, pre-mixes, instant mixes and granular products in a variety of pouch formats: CSPP, CSPP chain of pouches, 4 line seal, gusset, pentaseal and pentaseal with D-cut.

All these machines have a compact design, with a small footprint so they occupy less floor space in factories. They are equipped with PLC-based control system and touch screen HMI. With servo motor driven sealing system, Nichrome's VFFS machines effectively fill and seal a wide variety of snacks and RTC powders with speed and accuracy. 

Nichrome’s HFFS range brings the superior performance of linear technology from Totpack, Spain. The Totpack Series is versatile, and can be used for packing a wide range of powders, grains, snacks, liquids and viscous products using different fillers. The Series also offers a range of pouch formats with superior pouch aesthetics.

The HFFS machines are PLC based machines with touch screen interface. They offer both single and perforated chain of pouches with quick and easy changeover. Well designed duplex modules are available for higher outputs.

To select the right instant food packaging machine for your business, consult Nichrome.

Flexible and Efficient Packaging Solutions

Vertical Form Fill Seal Machines – this automatic filling Machine can be used for the packaging of Solid, Liquid and Viscous, Food or Non-food products

  1 )Excel Plus Series

     Salient Features -:

• Automation equipped with CE Marked PLC controller & Touch Screen HMI
• Servo Motor driven bag length control systems
• Belt draw-off system for positive and accurate film pulling
• Pneumatic / Servo Motor driven system  for horizontal sealing mechanism
• Motorized precise film reel unwinding mechanism
• Print mark scanner
• Static charge eliminator
• Adjustable storke of cross sealing jaws for optimum performance
• Quick & easy size change over
• Designed ad per stringent quality standards
• Integration to upstream and downstream machines / systems
• Built-in Jumbo Roll Trolley suitable for max.600 mm dia./ 60 kg weight

         ·          Fillers -:

• Servo Auger Filler
• Multi-head Weigh Filler
• Liner Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler
• Volumetric Cup Filler
• Swing on filler to offer common solution for Powder & Grains

 Optional Accessories

• Rectangular Forming Size Parts
• Side Gusset Mechanism & Block Bottom Device
• Splicing Table for quick film joining
• Straight Line Cut Facility
• Impulse Constant Change-over System
• Gift / Leaflet Insertion System

         ·       Allied Equipment

• Dynamic Check Weigher with tendency control facility
• On-line Digital Metal Detection System
• Date / Batch Coding Devices i.e. Ink jet / Hot foil / Contact type printer / TTO
• Dust Extraction System
• PIP Systems
• Baling Machine for secondary packing       
• Flexi-block System   

 * Excel Plus Servo Auger 

Industries :SpicePackaging Machine

Applications -: Spices, A (Flour Products), Milk Powder, Nutraceuticals, Coffee Powder, Premixes, Instant Mixes, Agro Chemicals, Pesticides

*Excel Plus Multi – Head Weigher  

Industries :Snack Machine Manufacture

Application :Potato Chips, Kurkure, Macroni, Indian Namkeen, Puffed Snacks, Dry fruits, Nuts, Candies, Seeds, Soya Chunks, Breakfast Cereals, High Counts Biscuits, Pasta, Whole Spices.

 

                   

                  

*Excel Plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler  

                     

           

Industries : Tea Packaging Machine

Application  -: Grains, Pulses, Rice, Sugar, Tea, Whole Spices, Seeds

*Excel Plus Cup Filler 

Application -:Grains, Pulses, Sugar, Rice, Detergent

Nichrome Powder Packaging On the Spice Trail

Last year, of India’s estimated Rs40,000 crore spices market, just about 15% was branded and dominated by brands such as Catch, Badshah, Everest, MDH, MTR and Ramdev, among others, according to a study by Technopak Advisors.

However the branded spices market is booming as consumers grow increasingly concerned about quality, purity and brand. Spice exports from India too are on the rise. As per the Economic Times, spices export from India has seen a staggering 129% growth in the last fiscal year.

Horizontal Form Fill Seal Machines HFFS Series T-200

The Indian spices market is projected to reach approximately USD 18 billion by 2020 with growth in the sector is expected to be led by branded spices and spice mixes. The Indian government is aggressively promoting spice exports through various initiatives such as setting up of spice parks. Spice Parks offer common processing facilities to both producers and exporters.

No wonder, large packaged goods companies like ITC Ltd., Kohinoor and Tata Chemicals Ltd., the maker of branded salt and pulses, have stepped into the spices segment during the past couple of years.

Besides modern retail and kirana shops, branded masalas are being sold through specialty stores like meat shops and online marketplaces like Amazon and Big Basket. There is a huge market for smaller packs and single-use pouches.

Think branded spice powders, and Nichrome must inevitably come to mind. A leader in automatic powder packaging machines, Nichrome has four decades of experience and proven expertise in pouch packaging technology.

Depending on your individual needs and challenges, Nichrome offers a wide range of VFFS machines and HFFS machines for powder packaging. One of the best sellers is undoubtedly the CE-compliant Maxima 400. With its compact design and PLC-based control system, Maxima 400 efficiently packs blended spices, ground spices and a host of other powders such as dairy whitener, soup powders, pre-mix powders and even granular products. Humidity and contaminants are kept out; freshness and flavor are locked in.

Maxima 400 has a modular structure and small footprint, and offer a bagger speed of 400 pouches per minute, in single CSPP or perforated chain of CSPP pouches. Filler options like Servo Auger and twin cup filler are available, and you enjoy the flexibility to pack different products with different quantities on each head.

MAXIMA 400 WITH SERVO AUGER

To exploit the huge potential of the branded spices market, partner with Nichrome for fast, accurate and airtight pouch packaging of your products.

Visit for more: www.nichrome.com

Single-serve sachets are the way to go!

Urbanization, convenience, education, mobility, waste consciousness – all these contemporary trends have made single-serve sachets a popular form of flexible packaging in India and abroad.

In restaurants and hotels, offices and canteens, airports, airlines and food malls – single-serve stick packs have become the popular type of food packaging. The stick pack offers consumers convenience (it is easy to open and provides just the right amount of product) plus the freshness of the product is guaranteed. The stick pack is a safe and hygienic packaging form used in both the food industry and even in the pharmaceutical sector.

Stick packs offer unmatched economy and convenience for service providers in the hospitality, food or airlines industries. They help these players to provide food and nutraceutical powders in hygienic, single-serve packaging which reduces wastage and spillage.

Stick packs are the perfect portable solution for ‘on the go’ consumers of all ages – whether they contain our daily medication, favourite coffee, mouth freshner or ketchup to go with our sandwich lunch, they allow us to take our lifestyle on the road.

As India’s leading packaging machine manufacturer, Nichrome has innovated a multilanestick pack packaging machine to make the most of this growing trend. The Multilane Stickpack solution is available with 2 to 10 lanes, yielding 35 packs per minute per plane! It has a complete Stainless Steel construction and is CE compliant. The machine is available in multiple Filler options depending on the product to be packed. The machine delivers maximum accuracy and higher speeds with low wastage of film!

A state-of-the-art automatic packaging machine for powders, the Multilane Stick Pack helps protect the product through tight pouch seals and high-quality materials, and also help strengthen brand image with functionality, portability and design.

Nichrome’s latest solution with Servo Auger Filler for milk powder packaging, pharma powders packaging and coffee/tea premix packaging, has the capacity to pack small sachets of powders from 2 g to 20 g. With a Multi Piston Filler, the machine packs viscous products such as Honey, Ghee, Ketchup, Olive Oil, Mayonnaise, Mustard Paste, and Jam & Shampoo; with Volumetric Multiple Cavity Filler, it packs free flow powders & granular products such as sugar, salt, pepper, mouth freshner, etc. A CE certified PLC controller makes it easy to operate and provides the necessary flexibility for product and format changes while maintaining the efficiency of the process.

For businesses who want to make the most of the booming demand for stick packs in the Food, Aviation and Hospitality industries, Nichrome’s VFFS Multilane Stickpack is a worthy partner.

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POWDER PACKAGING PERFECTED: NICHROME INDIA

When it comes to powder packaging, few can match the expertise of Nichrome India. Nichrome is the leading pouch packaging machine manufacturer with over 7000 installations across 45 countries to its credit. With experience spanning 4 decades, Nichrome is well known for its innovation and indigenization of the latest technologies for Indian customers and applications.

Nichrome’s SALTPACK Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine offers a high-speed, automatic packaging solution for the salt industry. The products parts are designed of special grade materials suitable for salt handling and salt pouch packing. It involves the lowest running cost through reputed CE marked PLC housed in dust tight electrical panel for machine control.

Nichrome’s Salt Packaging Machine is equipped with unique film pulling technique which prevents film and product wastage. It packs up to 1000 gms in CSPP pouches at the rate of 60 packs per minute.

Salt Packaging Machine

For other powders such as Spices, Atta (Flour Products), Milk Powder, Coffee Powder, Premixes, Instant Mixes, Agro Chemicals, Pesticides, Nutraceutical and Pharma Powders, Nichrome offers a wide range of solutions to suit individual needs. Moreover, the Powder Packaging Machines come with a choice of fillers so they can be used for diverse products. It is this versatility that makes Nichrome the preferred choice for pouch packaging solutions.

MAXIMA 400 WITH SERVO AUGER

For example, Nichrome’s Multilane PV-125 is a versatile Pharmaceutical Packaging Machine with 5 different filler options. When fitted with a Positive Displacement Pump Filler, it packs Pastes, Cream Gel, Lotions, etc. in convenient 4 side seal sachets. For ORS and other free flowing and granular powders, capsules, tablets & lozenges, the Volumetric Slide Gate Cup Filler / Drum Filler is used.

Nichrome also offers a range of Horizontal Form Fill Seal Machines incorporating new-gen linear technology from Totpack of Spain. Totpack’s compact and versatile design offers both single and perforated chain of pouches. Totpack machines are equipped with well designed duplex modules for higher outputs, and promises easy and quick change over. Ideal for powders like ORS, Pharmaceutical, Spices, Milk, Coffee, Health Drinks, Instant Mixes, Premixes, Coconut & Hair Dye; and free flowing powders and granular products like ORS, Sugar, Rice, Cheese Balls, Pulses & Detergents, Totpack HFFS machines also pack viscous products like ketchup, pickles, ghee, shampoo, gels, etc. and free flowing liquids like milk, lassi, health drinks, juices, liquor, etc.

HFFS Machines

Contact Nichrome for customized packaging solutions for your factory. Nichrome collaborates to study and understand specific client needs, and then tailor solutions that optimize space, resources and productivity. For Powder Packaging, Nichrome offers project design and project integration capabilities covering the stages of primary packaging, secondary packaging and tertiary packaging.

For more details:www.nichrome.com