India is currently the world’s largest milk producer. This happened over a period of three decades, as India transitioned from a country with severe milk shortages to the world’s foremost milk producer. India’s dairy consumption is also the highest in the world. India’s dairy industry is divided into organised and mainly unorganised sectors.
While this consumption is primarily of liquid milk, there is an increasing demand for and consumption of other dairy products like lassi, flavoured milk, ice cream, yoghurts, cheese, ghee etc.
These factors combined suggest a growing need for systems and infrastructure that elevate milk production, its processing and product quality.
Nichrome’s relationship with India’s dairy industry goes back more than four decades. Nichrome designed India’s first milk packaging machine in the 1970s, responding to the Government’s rallying cry for cost-effective, indigenous packaging solutions. Nichrome’s first Filpack machine was commissioned at Kurla Dairy, Mumbai where the com
