Spices are an essential component of many cuisines around the world, and the demand for them is constantly growing. Spice packaging machines have become a critical aspect of the spice industry. Nichrome is one of the leading automatic filling machine manufacturers that allows efficient and safe packaging of spices, ensuring that they remain fresh and flavorful for longer periods and has been providing the best solutions to the spice industry for over four decades.

Benefits of using Nichrome’s Spice Packaging Machines

• High Efficiency

Nichrome provides the most reliablehorizontal packaging machines that can package spices at a much faster rate than manual packaging. This means that you can package a large amount of spices in a short amount of time, which can increase your production and sales.

• Hygienic Packaging

Nichrome ensures that the spices are packaged in a clean and hygienic environment, which reduces the risk of contamination. Nichrome’s automatic packaging machines provide pouch filling machines and powder filling machines that are especially important for food products that can be affected by bacteria and other harmful microorganisms.

• Consistent Packaging

Nichrome’s Vertical Form Fill Seal Machines can package spices in a consistent manner, which ensures that each package contains the same amount of spices. This helps to improve customer satisfaction as they know what to expect from your product.

Nichrome’s Vertical Form Fill Seal Machines

Nichrome’s vertical form fill seal machine (VFFS) is one of the most efficient and reliable spice packaging machines used in the food industry. This food packaging machine is designed to form bags from a roll of packaging material, fill the bags with spices, and then seal the bags. Other than spices, Nichrome’s VFFS machines are also capable of packaging a wide range of products, including sugar, flour, grains, and other powders.

• Excel 400 Plus Servo Auger: The Excel Plus series is a versatile spice packaging machine designed by Nichrome to efficiently fill spices into bags, pouches and bottles. The Excel 400 Plus Servo Auger has a speed of packaging 80 packs per minute and can pack up to 10 kgs depending on the product’s bulk density.

• Sprint 250 Plus Servo Auger: 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 spices. Sprint 250 Plus is an automated machine with CE marked PLC and touch screen HMI.

In conclusion, selecting the right spice packaging machine is vital to ensuring the quality, freshness, and marketability of your product. Some of Nichrome’s popular packaging machines include the powder filling machines, sachet packing machine, pouch sealing machine, horizontal packaging machine, pouch packing machine. Choose Nichrome for the best and most reliable spice packaging machines for your industry. Nichrome is also a trusted partner for delivering one of the best powder filling machines and powder packaging machines in India. Nichrome with its constant quality has also proved itself to be one of the leadingpouch filling machine manufacturers in India.

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As they are cheaper than large size packets, sachets are generally used either for promotional trial packs or to cater to low-income or price-sensitive customers who prefer economical packs.

As per market reports, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to witness an increase in the use of sachet packing in a wide gamut of industries. Due to its low cost, recyclability, customizability and portability, sachet packaging is gaining immense traction across various end-users in the food & beverages, lubricants & solvents, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and personal care industries.

Rapidly emerging trends such as ‘single-serve/single-dose packaging’ and ‘buying less, more often’ among customers for products such as shampoo, oil, tea, coffee, cream, and others are expected to create lucrative sales opportunities for market players.

NICHROME’S SACHET PACKAGING SOLUTIONS

Whether you require a shampoo packing machine, pharma powder sachet packing machine or sugar sachet packing machine, Nichrome offers innovative packaging solutions. Besides sachet packing machines for a wide range of applications across industries, Nichrome also offers advanced stickpack machines for contemporary requirements.

Nichrome’s sachet filling and sealing machine portfolio includes:

PV-215
This high-speed, flexible, PLC-controlled sachet filling machine brings international multi-lane technology from Prodo-Pack, USA – a global leader in multilane technology – to India. 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. These high speed, PLC-controlled machines are extremely flexible and can quickly accommodate any attachments/additional features at any stage due to their modular shaft-mounted concept. They also offer wrinkle-free sealing and user-friendly web tracking.

Pouch formats that these machines can work with include the 4 side seal sachet, 4 side seal with V notch, twin pouches, contour sachet and contour with V notch. The PV-215 sachet filling machine is suitable for sachet packaging of practically any food, non-food, pharma and cosmetic product.

Multilane Stickpack
This special VFFS packaging machine comes with different fillers for different applications. The Volumetric Multiple Cavity Filler is ideal for free-flowing powders and granular products such as sugar, salt, pepper, mouth freshener, etc.

The Multi-piston Filler is ideal for packaging liquids and viscous products such as honey, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard paste, jam, shampoo, etc.; and the Multi-head Servo Auger Filler is consummate at filling non-free-flowing powders such as milk powder, coffee, tea/coffee premixes.

The Multilane Stickpack comes 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.

Easysnap
Nichrome also offers the Easysnap, a revolutionary innovation in single-serve packaging. The sachet has a worldwide patented opening system: fold it in half, with just one hand, to open and dispense the contents.

The machine offers 4 to 8 lanes, rapid conversion to various settings, and filling systems up to 25/30 ml.

CONCLUSION

Nichrome is the quintessential sachet packing machine provider if sachet packing is your desired packaging format. For more than four decades, Nichrome has built its expertise in packaging technology, and today boasts extensive industry and technology knowledge besides having a world-class design and manufacturing facility. As a leading packaging machine manufacturer, Nichrome partners with customers to customise solutions for specific application challenges. From designing the solution to the installation, commissioning, and training of the customer’s staff in the operations and maintenance of the machine, Nichrome provides end-to-end support to its customers. Post-sales too, customers are assured prompt service and genuine spares through Nichrome’s nationwide support network. This allows Nichrome to ensure the efficient working of the machines so their customers get the best productivity and performance from their setups and excellent Returns on Investment.

To know more about Nichrome’s extensive portfolio of automated packaging machines, innovative filling systems and integrated packaging systems, visit www.nichrome.com

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Greater speed and versatility are the major benefits of FFS systems. For example, snack producers demand systems that have the versatility to package different products and provide fast changeover between many different packaging formats.

Let us walk you through form fill seal packaging machines, and discuss how they work.

What are form fill seal packaging machines?

As the name suggests, form fill seal packaging machines are automatic packaging machines that form the package, fill it with a wet or dry product, and seal it closed. They mainly use flexible film to form the primary packaging such as a pouch or bag, but aseptic cartons are also produced with FFS technology.

Form fill seal packaging machines use a reel of flexible material (paper, film or laminates of paper/film/foil) and either form it into a tube and then seal and fill it at regular intervals, or fold it lengthwise and seal it at right angles to the fold to form a series of pockets which are filled and closed.

Types of FFS packaging machines?

FFS machines are broadly of two types:

1. Vertical form fill seal machines(VFFS), in which the material is formed into a circular section tube over a forming collar

2. Horizontal form fill seal machines(HFFS), in which the material is formed into a rectangular section tube through a forming box. HFFS also cover horizontal versions of sachet packing machines, blister pack machines, four side seal machines and thermoform fill and seal machines.

Advantages of FFS Technology

• High speed and consistent packing rate
• Economical as the bags made are less expensive than pre-made bags
• Provides increased production rate so you can reduce number of shifts
• Easy and quick to clean-out between production batches
• Online film printing provides readable bar code and product info
• Fewer moving parts – especially in VFFS

Disadvantages of FFS Technology

• Cannot handle paper
• Not economical for short production runs
• Cannot handle multi-ply packaging materials
• Cannot remove trapped air quickly
• Not economical for low density, aerated powders such as wheat flour, talcum powder, whey powder at medium speeds

Applications of FFS packaging machines

The applications of FFS packaging machines are endless. Almost any product that can be packed and marketed in flexible pouches can be packaged by such machines. FFS machines can be used to pack a whole gamut of food, pharm and other products ranging from:

• grains (such as rice, pulses, sugar) to granulates (such as detergent, fertilizers)
• snacks (such as chips, dry fruits, namkeen) to ready-to-eat foods
• bulk goods (such as nuts and cookies to bolts and screws)
• powders (such as spice powders, milk powder, ground coffee, nutraceuticals)
• liquids (such as water, milk, juice, liquor) to viscous (such as edible oil, ghee, ketchup, mayonnaise, salad dressing, bath gel)

Pouch/Bag formats with FFS technology

Versatility to form and fill a variety of container formats is a strong point of FFS technology.  The options include:

• Pillow pouch
• 3 side seal and 4 side seal pouches
• Gusset pouch
• Pentaseal pouch
• Sachet & stickpack
• Standup pouch (with zipper/spout/euro slot/handle, etc.)
• Doypack
• Thermoform trays
• Cartons

FFS technology from Nichrome

Nichrome is India’s pioneer and leader in FFS technology. For over four decades, Nichrome has innovated automatic packaging solutions for varied applications across Food, Pharma and other industries. Vertical packaging machines, horizontal packaging machines, integrated packaging solutions – Nichrome is the packaging machine manufacturer who can deliver them all.

Nichrome offers a wide range of VFFS and HFFS packaging machines, and can even customise solutions for specific requirements. For enterprises big and small, for applications existing and emerging, Nichrome offers infinite possibilities in integrated, automated packaging solutions – as it partners with customers through the complete lifecycle, offering application-specific solutions, backed by dependable service and support. Based in Pune, India, Nichrome’s sales & service network spans India and the world. Nichrome has presence in 45 countries and more than 7000 successful installations worldwide.

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