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 packaging machines, 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.

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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 stick packs 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.
• Stick packs 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 machines. 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 stick pack 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 stick pack, and the pouch formats are the centre seal stick pack and centre seal stick pack 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.

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Today’s market and changing global standards call for high standards of packaging. And as your business gears up for increased demand, you will undoubtedly face ‘growing pains’ such as labour issues, inefficiencies and wastage, operation costs and bandwidth limitations.

Automatic packaging machines are the solution. Automatic packaging machines are automated machines that use a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes. Automation implies automatic control via modern PLCs or information technology.

Nichrome’s automatic packaging machines

Nichrome is a leading provider of integrated packaging solutions India with over four decades of industry experience to their name. For a wide range of applications in Food, Pharma and other industries, Nichrome offers a variety of flexible packaging machines, filling systems and integrated packaging systems.

Oil pouch packing machine, salt packaging machine, powder filling machine, ketchup packaging machine, milk packaging machine…the Nichrome portfolio of automatic packaging machines is vast. Nichrome also offers solutions for non-food applications – cosmetic packaging machines, shampoo packing machines, blister packaging and bottle filling lines for pharma industries, and many more.

Nichrome’s automatic packaging machines also offer the latest DoIT (data over internet) feature whereby you can monitor and control your packaging machine from anywhere, any time. Just connect your laptop or mobile phone, and you’ll be in control 24×7.

Benefits of Nichrome’s automatic packaging machines

Productivity

Automated packaging machinery work much faster than manual methods, so you can dramatically increase productivity to save time and ensure a faster production line. Rather than struggling with employing additional staff when you want to increase production, you have a reliable automatic packaging machine that can take on the extra work and isn’t afraid of a repetitive task. For example, Nichrome’s milk packing machine Filpack 12k is a super-fast machine filling and sealing 12000 milk pouches in an hour!

Safer working conditions

If the items that you are packaging are bulky, cumbersome and heavy, then there can be a risk for health and safety. Back injuries from manually wrapping pallet loads, carpal tunnel syndrome from repetitive motion during package assembly, or a lack of safety guards on older equipment, are all areas that can be addressed with automatic machines. Automated packaging thus creates a safer working environment.

Meticulous quality

With automated packaging, you can be sure that every package is well-protected through a standardised packing process. With automated packaging, each product has a tailored packaging design and shape so that you can be sure of the same level of protection for each item.

Reduced wastage

An automatic packaging machine is programmed to be economical in its use of material, cutting to precise size and creating an efficient pattern that maximises protection out of the least material. This helps businesses save a considerable amount in packaging material costs. Moreover, with more consistent seals and improved tunnel performance, reworks and scrap rates will decrease further delivering substantial cost savings.

Lower labour costs

Labour intensive processes can be expensive and also unreliable as workers can make mistakes, fall ill, lose concentration while performing repetitive tasks, etc. Plus, labour costs keep rising, making it hard to calculate the budget required for your packaging and the cost of packaging per product. By reducing the labour requirements, you can utilise your staff in other value-adding areas in the business.

Specialised packaging

If you have many products and different packaging sizes, an automated solution is right for you. Whether the need is vacuum packing, pressure filling, modified atmosphere packing (MAP), sterilised or inflatable, Nichrome can tailor the right piece of equipment to suit your bespoke needs. Nichrome also offers machines compatible with different fillers so the same machine packs diverse products and pouch formats with easy changeover.

Conclusion

Although automatic packaging machines may seem expensive, you will be able to recover the costs in a matter of months.

Besides, people buy products if they are pleasing to the eye and assure good hygiene standards. Automation means great packaging with accurate information. This creates a good impression and helps promote the brand. Nichrome’s automatic packaging machines make your products cost-effective, safe and appealing. Consult Nichrome with your needs and projections – they will help you with a solution that best suits your requirements. This will help you to expand operations, improve productivity and grow your consumers, while ensuring employee safety and profitability.

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Flexible packaging accounts for 19 percent of the overall packaging market and is expected to grow at a rate of 3.9 percent CAGR by 2023, according to the 2019 Flexible Packaging Marketing Assessment by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. Convenient packaging, excellent barrier properties, sustainable materials and growing customer base for fast-moving consumer products and consumer durables in emerging countries are driving this expansion.

Especially for food manufacturers and even pharmaceutical and cosmetic product manufacturers, flexible packaging is emerging as the preferred choice. Here are some of the reasons why:

• Convenient – fulfils consumer demand for portability
• Cost-efficient – low cost per package
• Lightweight – low storage & distribution costs
• Safer distribution – less risk of breakage and injury
• Eco friendly – small carbon footprint
• Customisable – can be moulded into varieties of shapes & sizes
• Brand building – more surface for graphics & messaging; scope for creative concepts

AUTOMATIC FLEXIBLE PACKAGING MACHINES

Automatic flexible packaging machines can be divided into 2 broad categories:

Form-Fill-Seal: FFS machines are the most widely used flexible packaging type. As the name suggest, the machine forms bags, fills them with the product, and seals the filled bag. Some FFS machines work vertically(vertical-form-fill-seal or VFFS) and some perform the process horizontally (horizontal-form-fill-seal or HFFS). VFFS are the more popular type as they occupy limited floor space and usually cost less than HFFS machines.

For industries that need to package their products (e.g. condiments, drink mixes, sugar, etc.) in small packets, multi lane machines are extremely popular. Used popularly as sugar sachet packaging machine or ketchup packaging machine, these form-fill-seal machines create multiple packages via multiple channels simultaneously.

Fill-Seal:These machines are growing in demand. The machine fills pre-made pouches with product and then seals the pouches shut.Some of these premade pouch filling machines operate in a rotary fashion and others in a straight line. Rotary machines offer better ergonomics for operators, and occupy less floor space.

NICHROME EXPERTISE IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

Nichrome is a leading name in packaging solutions India. A pioneer of flexible packaging in1977, Nichrome today has built up the expertise, experience and product range to serve the widest range of flexible packaging needs in food, pharma and other industries.

Whether you are looking for a namkeen packaging machine or automatic sugar filling machine; salt packaging machine or shampoo packaging machine; cosmetic packaging machine or powder filling machine, grain packaging machine or milk filling machine– Nichrome has a solution for you.

POUCH FORMATS IN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

Nichrome’s flexible packaging machines can accommodate a variety of pouch formats. Some of the main ones include:

THREE SIDE SEAL BAGS are flat pouches sealed on three sides.

CENTRE SEAL PILLOW PACKS comprise of two flat panels sealed together on the top and bottom with a vertical seal down the back. This bag type is popular for value-brands, chips, single-serving snacks, milk, and fractional packs of coffee.

DOYPACKS are stand-up pouches with an oval-shaped base. This bag type is growing in popularity for premium products in many industries, including snacks, dry fruits, coffee, and powder supplements.

QUAD SEAL BAGS have a rectangular bottom and can stand unassisted. This bag type has two side gussets and two panels joined together with four vertical seals, providing a more structured bag and modular look. This bag type is popular for premium coffee brands.

FLAT BOTTOM BAGS are similar to quad seal bags, featuring two gussets, but only have a single vertical seal. This bag type is popular for coffee and pet food.

GUSSETED BAGS are similar to pillow packs but have side gussets, offering more internal space.

SACHETS are small, flat 4-side sealed packets, often used for single-serving condiments and spices.

STICK PACKS are very narrow pillow bags, used for single-serving powders and liquids.

CONCLUSION

Over four decades in the business, Nichrome has proved itself as one of the most capable and competitive packaging machine manufacturers in India. Nichrome flexible packaging solutions are marked by speed, accuracy and durability. They incorporate advanced technology and state-of-the-art features at a competitive price. Nichrome’s plus point is its capabilities for customisation. Nichrome studies the client’s product and packaging requirements in detail, then customises a solution that delivers the best ROI and business outcomes.

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