Since that incredible feat, Nichrome has only been augmenting and developing its capabilities and offerings for milk packaging with every subsequent decade. Nichrome today offers automated packaging machines and integrated packaging systems for a diverse range of dairy products including liquid (milk, buttermilk, flavoured milk), viscous (ghee, vanaspati, curd) and powders (dairy whiteners, milk powder). Nichrome’s range of dairy packaging machines and systems bring with them pertinent common advantages such as a compact, maintenance-friendly construction, high-speed performance, exemplary hygiene standards, and accurate filling and sealing.

Nichrome’s Milk Packaging Systems

Nichrome has designed a revolutionary primary packaging + secondary packaging combination for the milk industry. It is made up of Nichrome’s Filpack Servo 12K and a Milk Pouch Crating System.

Filpack Servo 12K

The pride of Nichrome’s milk packaging portfolio, the Filpack Servo 12K is the fastest milk pouch packaging machine with a speed of 12,000 packs/hour.

Features of Filpack Servo 12K:

• CSPP pouches of co-extruded LDPE in SKUs of 200 ml, 500 ml and 1000 ml
• Independent balance tanks for flexibility to handle single or multiple products simultaneously
• Can pack free-flow liquids such as flavoured milk, lassi, juice, mineral water
• Minimal spillage and wastage
• Fully stainless steel structure, digital heat control system that provides maximum accuracy with a separate control panel box
• Built-in jumbo roll with a web tracking attachment
• Easy to set and change recipes and quantity through the HMI panel
• Machine operations can be controlled using a remote control and machine automation can be accessed remotely through a state-of-the-art ‘Data Over Internet’ feature
• The insulated tanks installed in this system maintain product temperature and minimize energy consumption

Flexible milk pouches are not self-supporting, so they compulsorily need secondary packaging. Also, since these pouches are packed at high speeds by Nichrome’s Filpack Servo 12K milk filling machine, manually lifting them in crates for transportation isn’t just slow, it could be inaccurate too.

Automatic Milk Pouch Crating System

Nichrome’s Automatic Milk Pouch Crating System brings to the table a complementary secondary packaging solution that counts and fills pouches in crates in synchronization with Nichrome’s high-speed milk pouch packaging Filpack Servo 12K machine. This helps make the process systematic, automated and quick. It also helps to maintain the quality and food safety standards while keeping a count of the number of pouches and crates.

Advantages of Nichrome’s Crating System:

• This system can be custom-made as per the floor layout and number of machines
• A complete end-of-the-line solution, from crate washing to cold storage
• Fully automated solution that reduces labour
• Keeps the secondary packing process hygienic and modern
• Enhances productivity
• Independent of speed of machines/number of heads
• Independent of the volume of pouches
• Every crate has the correct pouch count
• Optional features include data logging and online crate weighing. The entire data of the production process can be logged and saved in the Cloud or central server system
• Optional Online Leak Detection Mechanism in which each pouch from the conveyor is passed through a pressing conveyor which removes excess air from the pouch, through which operators can readily differentiate leaky pouches

Conclusion

Nichrome’s demonstrated expertise in dairy products packaging technology is well renowned – not just in India but in other countries too. Nichrome offers multiple packaging solutions for dairy products such as milk, lassi, buttermilk, curd, cream, ghee, and even dairy whitener and milk powder.

If you’re on the lookout for a seamlessly integrated milk packaging system that can deliver efficient, trouble-free performance every day for a sustained period of time, connect with Nichrome. Nichrome will carry out a detailed study of your operations, requirements, space and facilities to provide you with a complete customized solution. As a result, you get a primary packaging machine plus a secondary packaging solution that is integrated and tailored for the optimal utilization of space, performance and resources. For further information about the milk packaging systems and other cutting-edge integrated packaging solutions, contact www.nichrome.com.

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Considerations for Liquid Packaging

Even before the product hits the shelves, packaging and processing facilities must ensure that the product remains free of contaminants and possible spoilage before consumption.

While the packaging design is crucial for keeping products safe from contamination and spoilage, liquid products need to be protected prior to the packaging process.

Effective packaging systems integration needs to be utilized to ensure that the products remain safe at all times during the packaging process. In the case of liquid packaging lines, this includes using dependable liquid filling machines and related packaging equipment specifically designed to handle the product.

Nichrome displays its superior capabilities in Bottle Filling Systems for liquids.

Nichrome’s Liquid Packaging Solutions

Liquid packaging was the first technology developed by Nichrome way back in 1977. Nichrome answered the government’s call for cost-effective indigenous milk packaging by manufacturing India’s first indigenous milk pouch packaging machine.

Nichrome’s diverse range of liquid packaging machines is suited to packaging a wide variety of liquids. Nichrome has innovative packaging solutions for liquids ranging from free flow liquids, to highly viscous. Nichrome boasts of decades of experience in handling the different characteristics of different liquids: foam generating liquids, liquids with lumpy particles, liquids that need nitrogen flushing, liquids that require constant temperature, flammable liquids etc. Nichrome has the capacity to customise solutions for client-specific requirements.

Nichrome’s Bottle Filling Line for Liquids

Nichrome’s automatic bottle filling system is an integrated packaging solution that can pack liquids in SKUs from 100ml to 20ltrs.

Some of the applications of this automated bottle filling system include a diverse range of food and beverage liquids such as flavoured milk, water and buttermilk, soft drinks, energy drinks; non-food liquids such as perfumes, shampoo, handwash oil; viscous products such as ghee, ketchup, chocolate sauce et al.

Nichrome’s bottle filling line is an efficient integrated system for bottle filling and packaging. The components of this system include:

• Turntable
• UV sterilisation chamber
• Automatic liquid filling machine
• Cap feeding elevator
• Rotary capping machine
• Induction sealer
• Labelling machine
• Date & batch coding system
• Packing table

Key Features of Nichrome’s Bottle Filling Line for Liquids

• “No Bottle, No Filling” safety device which prevents spillage or drippage of liquids if there is no bottle in the line.
• Auto cap placing, pressing and screwing feature available which effectively automates the bottling process.
• Glass, HDPE, PP bottle and Metal Tin friendly line, so that a variety of container/bottle types can be filled.
• Machine construction available in SS304, SS316 and M.S painted.
• PLC controlled line for precision and accuracy.
• Fast changeover design for different bottle sizes for quick changeover.
• Digital LCD touchscreen display and settings for easy control and operation.
• Safety enclosures with interlocks for rotary parts to prevent accidents.
• Various bottle sterilization and cleaning options available for specific highly sensitive liquid packaging.
• Versatile SKU packing range without the need to change parts.
• Fast cut off option to achieve accuracy and speed.
• Completely drip-free filling to avoid wastage and spillage.

Conclusion

Nichrome is India’s leading automatic filling machine manufacturer, and the pioneer in Milk pouch packing machines in India.

Since Nichrome’s development of India’s first indigenous milk packaging machine in 1977, it has been at the cutting edge of next-generation packaging technologies. It has been a brand trusted for its rich legacy of groundbreaking innovation, expansive domain knowledge and manufacturing prowess in packaging systems. As an innovative packaging machine manufacturer, Nichrome has always had a strong belief in partnering with customers in order to understand their product and the challenges therewith, and providing value in every interaction. Nichrome’s impressive portfolio of advanced packaging solutions and global presence has been built on the platform of its strong in-house R&D and manufacturing capabilities.

Connect with Nichrome for your liquid packaging machine needs today!

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It is expected to cross INR 21,971 billion by 2024.

India has been the leading producer and consumer of dairy products worldwide since 1998 with a sustained growth in the availability of milk and milk products. Dairy activities form an essential part of the rural Indian economy, serving as an important source of employment and income. 

Nearly all of the dairy produce in India is consumed domestically, with the majority of it being sold as fluid milk.

Along with offering profitable business opportunities, the dairy industry in India serves as a tool of socio-economic development. Keeping this in view, the Government of India has introduced various schemes and initiatives aimed at the development of the dairy sector in the country.

Nichrome and the Indian dairy industry

Nichrome’s association with the dairy industry goes back more than four decades. Indeed, Nichrome’s foray into automated packaging machines was motivated by its commitment to further the cause of the White Revolution. Nichrome pioneered India’s first milk pouch packaging machine in the 1970s in response to the Government’s call for indigenous, cost-effective packaging solutions.

The first Filpack machine was commissioned at Kurla Dairy, Mumbai where the commercial distribution of milk pouches was started on 7th March 1977.

Today, as India’s leading integrated packaging solutions provider, Nichrome offers the fastest milk packaging machine besides many other automated dairy packaging solutions for liquid, powder and viscous products in the dairy industry.

Nichrome’s Mini Dairy Plant

More recently, Nichrome has developed a special mini dairy plant to help small dairy farmers process and package their produce for independent retailing.

Most small dairy owners sell their milk production to local cooperatives where they may not always get the best price.

Nichrome has developed an entry-level milk processing plant without boiler for the benefit of small dairy farmers. It is a low investment small milk processing plant that uses electricity to heat the milk.The milk plant is energy-efficient, low maintenance and easy to operate.

The process

• Raw milk is collected in silos
• The milk is filtered and impurities removed
• After filtration, the milk passes to the pasteuriser
• In the pasteuriser, the milk is heated to 72.5 degrees Celsius using electric heaters
• When the milk is heated to 65 degrees Celsius, it is passed to the homogeniser
• Homogenising breaks down the fat globules to extremely small particles and distributes them uniformly throughout the milk
• This prevents the separation of cream in the milk
• The milk returns to the pasteuriser where, at 72.5 degrees Celsius, pathogens, bacteria and micro-organisms are destroyed
• The milk is then immediately cooled to 8 degrees Celsius in the PHE Chiller
• The cooled, pasteurised and homogenised milk is stored in a storage tank
• This milk is then packaged in 200ml, 500 ml or 1000ml pouches with a Nichrome milk packaging machine

Conclusion

Since its pioneering start, Nichrome’s capabilities and offerings for milk packaging have grown and developed with every passing decade. Today, Nichrome offers automated packagingmachines and integrated packaging systems for a wide variety of dairy products including liquid (milk, buttermilk, flavoured milk), viscous (ghee, vanaspati, curd)and powders (dairy whiteners, milk powder). Nichrome’s dairy packaging machines and systems present certain common advantages such as compact, maintenance-friendly construction, high speed performance, requisite hygiene standards, and accurate filling and sealing.

For small dairy farmers, Nichrome’s mini dairy plant opens the doors to business prospects. Nichrome partners to study individual requirements,needs and constraints, then customises the solution. Nichrome makes it easy and hassle-free, training farmers and their staff to operate the plant with ease.

It’s Nichrome’s way of helping small dairy farmers access the power of modern technology to open the door to productivity and profitability.

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