SMALL PACKS, BIG PROSPECTS: NICHROME SACHET PACKAGING

 Across the globe, convenience and the on-the-go culture is driving packaging miniaturization. Consumer needs and preferences are changing. In urban areas, consumers look for diverse choice in terms of functionality, quality and price of packaging. In developed countries, consumers are happy to pay for products that make their hectic, mobile life easier.

In emerging economies however, smaller SKUs such as sachets are in demand because they are more affordable than normal family-size packs. They also induce trial and are therefore the preferred format for FMCG and pharma manufacturers who seek to expand their market into semi-urban and rural areas.

Hence, small, individual packages are growing globally. Individual packs such as sachets and stickpacks are universally convenient and becoming increasingly popular.

About sachets and stick packs

· Sachets are small packs, made by sealing flexible packaging material, on three or four sides.

· Sachets are generally flat as opposed to stick packs which have a round or oval cross section.

· Stickpacks look like tubes or sticks, and are made by sealing a narrow, tube-like packaging, with a continuous side seam, at both ends.

· Sachets are used in the cosmetics industry for packaging of single-use quantities of consumer goods such as lotions or shampoos.

· Both sachets and stick packs are used in the food industry for packaging small amounts of products such as salt, condiments, sugar, mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, candies, coffee, dairy whitener, chocolates and much more.

· In the pharma industry, both formats are used for small powdered doses such as probiotics, ORS, vitamin D, wet wipes, tablets, lozenges, etc.

· The hospitality industry relies on stick packs and sachets, where items such as sugar, milk, coffee creamers, drink mixes, yogurts and ketchup are all packaged in these single-serve format

· Compared to stick packs, sachets offer a larger surface area and can be designed in creative shapes to score on branding and point-of-sale appeal

SACHET PACKAGING WITH NICHROME

For high-speed sachet packaging, Nichrome offers VFFS multilane machines: PV-215. These are high speed, flexible, PLC-controlled machine. For practically every application in Pharma, Personal Care, Cosmetics, Healthcare and Food industries, PV-215’s intermittent motion technology ensures efficient sealing and a bagger speed of up to 1000 bags/min.

PV-215 is extremely flexible to accommodate quickly any attachments/additional features at any stage due to its shaft-mounted modular concept. It also offers wrinkle-free sealing and user-friendly web tracking.

Pouch formats include 4 side seal, 4 side seal with v-notch, twin sachets, contour pack, and contour with v-notch — to pack quantities ranging from 5 gms to 2.5 Kg.

PV-215 is suitable for an amazingly large and diverse range of sachet packaging applications.

STICK PACK PACKAGING WITH NICHROME

For stickpack packaging, Nichrome offers the Multilane Stickpack with different filling systems depending on the products to be packed. These machines have up to 10 lanes, depending on the width of the stickpack, and the pouch formats are the centre seal stickpack and centre seal stickpack with v-notch, both singly and in a chain with perforation.

Fillers include:

Volumetric Multiple Cavity Filler: for free-flowing powders and granular products such as sugar, salt, pepper, mouth freshner, etc.

Multi-Piston Filler: for packaging liquids and viscous products such as honey, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard paste, jam, shampoo, etc.

Multi Head Servo Auger Filler: for non-free flowing powders such as milk powders, coffee powder, tea/coffee premixes, etc.

CONCLUSION

Sachets and stick packs are easy to try, easy to carry and easy to use. No wonder the worldwide market is growing rapidly, offering lucrative prospects for manufacturers.

From a production point of view, sachets and stick packs tend to be more cost-effective, both in terms of manufacturing and distribution than larger packs.

Nichrome’s sachet packaging and stick pack packaging machines can help manufacturers to grow their market share and meet fast-changing market demands. Nichrome’s technology addresses the five key aspects of packaging technology which are:

· Flexibility

· Dosing accuracy

· Performance

· Hygienic design

· Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Whether it is sugar packaging, coffee packaging, ketchup packaging, shampoo packaging or any food or pharma powder packaging, there’s a Nichrome automatic sachet packaging machine for you.

Discuss your specific requirements with Nichrome; they can help you select machinery that’s just right for your application. As India’s leading automated packaging machine manufacturer with over four decades of expertise, Nichrome has the experience, knowhow and network to deliver complete satisfaction.

Food Packaging Solutions From Nichrome

 

The demand for good quality food packaging machines is growing. As consumers grow more conscious of hygiene, storage and portability issues, as manufacturers seek to produce more with less downtime and expand their markets, as international standards become mandatory in a globalised world - packaging technology is the obvious answer.

While the demand for packaging machines has been growing steadily, the pandemic has made it soar! In India, where so much of the market is unorganised and un-branded, even those small food product producers are shifting to professional, automated packaging to preserve and increase their clientele. In supermarkets and restaurants, for frozen foods, pre-made meals, etc., they are using shrink-wrapping or film-covered sealed trays to ensure the products are untouched and safe from the virus.

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 touch screen 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 packaging machines, each offering different flexible packaging formats. From large bulk packs and stand up pouches to chain 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, namkeem kurkure, pasta, dryfruits, 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 RTEpackaging 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 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

For all your food packaging needs, try Nichrome. 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.

Small size, big market: Stickpack Packaging for Sugar

Stickpack Packaging

For airlines, food chains and the hospitality industry, stick packaging seems to be leaving conventional packaging behind. Markets & Markets has recently predicted a market worth of $316.61 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 6.26% during the review period.

On a global scale, sticks are replacing sachets as they use up to 40% less film than rectangular sachets, which translates into significant per-unit savings. They offer ease of use by controlled opening and dispensing without spillage, and since the stick pack is smaller, the carbon footprint is lesser compared to other forms of packaging. The small size also means that stick pack equipment tends to run at higher production speeds than sachet making equipment.

Multilane Stickpack

Multilane Stickpack | Source

Stickpack Pouch Packaging

On restaurant tables, vending machines or hotel rooms, those small pouches of sugar, coffee & dairy whitener are just waiting to be torn open and poured into your cup! Order a soup or pizza at your local cafe, and you’re sure to get those skinny pouches of salt, pepper and seasonings. Stick packs offer unmatched convenience, hygiene and economy. They’re easy to store, dispense and carry; they provide serving accuracy and reduce wastage.

Nichrome’s Multilane Stickpack with Volumetric Multi Cavity Filler is a stick pack pouch packaging machine specially innovated for sugar, salt, pepper and mouth freshener sachet packaging. It is equipped with a CE certified PLC controller that makes it easy to operate and provides the necessary flexibility for product and format changes while maintaining the efficiency of the process.

Nichrome’s Multilane Stickpack Sugar Sachet Packing Machine

Nichrome’s Multilane Stickpack sugar sachet packing machine is made of high quality stainless steel, and has pneumatically operated bag length control with table draw-off system. The volumetric piston filler is pneumatically operated with adjustable product volume for dedicated single range. It has the capacity to pack small stick packs for free flow solids in weight ranges of 1–3 g, 3–7 g, 5–10 g, and the number of lanes goes up to 10 with a speed of packaging 450–500 packs per minute.

STICKPACK WITH VOLUMETRIC MULTIPLE CAVITY FILLER

STICKPACK WITH VOLUMETRIC MULTIPLE CAVITY FILLER | Source

Leading Sugar Packaging Machine Manufacturer

The pneumatically operated ten cavity rotary drum type volumetric cup filler is equipped with a product hopper of approx 25 kg capacity. The see-through window facilitates checking while the mesh at the product inlet prevents entry of foreign particles, ensuring product quality.

As India’s leading sugar packaging machine manufacturer, Nichrome also offers VFFS Excel plus Intelligent Electronic Weigh Filler for packing larger bags of sugar. It is an automatic sugar filling machine handling quantities up to 10 kgs and delivering a bagger speed of up to 80 packs per minute.

Pouch formats include 4-line seal, Pentaseal, CSPP, gusset pouch and Pentaseal with D cut. Further, Nichrome’s offers Sprint 250 plus Series, the ideal machine for packing smaller quantities of sugar up to 2 Kgs.

STICKPACK WITH MULTI-PISTON FILLER

STICKPACK WITH MULTI-PISTON FILLER | Source

Nichrome’s Expertise in Retail Sugar Packaging

Nichrome’s expertise in retail sugar packaging extends beyond automatic packaging machines to complete Project Integration. Nichrome’s secondary packaging equipment such as baling systems and integrated packaging solutions ensure smooth operations with optimization of space, manpower and resources for enhanced productivity and minimal wastage and human errors.

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