PROFILE
In-house facilities
Harish Joshi
Nichrome takes pride in its modern manufacturing infrastructure. It offers the widest range of packaging solutions, for both liquid and solids. The factory is located at Shrimal, 45 km south of Pune on the Pune-Bengaluru highway. The unit is spread across eight acre of factory premises, with modern amenities in a built-up area of over 60,000 sq ft for various manufacturing, assembly, trials & testing activities. Nichrome has a separate development centre for machine and application development with a capacity to build 600-700 machines. It claims to be the first company in India to obtain ISO 22000 certification in food safety system.
managing director
Products range Nichrome offers expertise in a complete range of packaging machines for solids, liquid and viscous food or non-food products like milk and edible oil, grains, powders, seeds and snacks & confectionaries. For liquids, Nichrome’s Filpack series is used for milk and edible oil in viscous packages ranging from 100 ml to five litre. Nichrome India is recognised for developing its first aseptic packing system for milk and juices. It also offers hot fill packaging solutions. For solids, Nichrome’s Stickpack, Sprint and Excel series machines with volumetric, weigh metric fillers pack a wide range of products, including powders, grains and snack food. It covers a wide weight range from
The idea of developing a product like packaging machine was quite stimulating for the company, and it immediately took root in its culture. The overwhelming faith of its customers like cooperative dairies or multinational companies led Nichrome to develop newer applications in packaging. one gm to 50 kg. The modes of packaging are flexible pouches or jar/ bottle/can-filling machines. Nichrome offers all feeding equipment and postpackaging secondary packaging systems like baling, boxing and cartoning systems. Besides the vertical-form-fillseal (VFFS) packaging machines, the company also offers allied equipment and pick-fill-seal solutions for solid, liquid and viscous products.
Secondary packaging Nichrome offers baling machines to pack flexible pouches of grains, powders and liquids in compact flexible baling bags that form the secondary packaging. These machines automate the entire secondary packaging process and save labour, time and space for the customer providing a hygienic, modern secondary packaging process. Moreover, cartoning solutions wherein a complete cartoning line can be engineered to suit a particular product or combination of different production lines are also some of the
Work in progress on the shop floor
secondary packaging processes that the company undertakes.
Research and development Joshi believes that a true packaging solution is an optimum combination of products packed, packaging machine and packing material. Every factor such as the product behaviour and characteristics, the packing material, package style and pre- & post-packaging systems are checked by the company’s R&D department before preparing the final prototype. The company has focussed on new packaging formats to enhance product value. The company is acknowledged as being pioneers in many packaging developments like introduction of weighing technology for tea, servo auger solutions for coffee, milk powder, four-line seal Stabilo Pack for products like Milo and Bru coffee. “The 10-kg atta pouch for Pillsbury, 1-2 gm micro-dosing of pharma powder, antiseptic pouch for milk for Thorat Dairy, etc, were among
Unit manufacturing Filpack machines
May 2010
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