Oil packaging made accurate and hygienic Hygiene concerns, awareness and preference for healthy, fortified variants, and increased income levels are pushing up the market for branded cooking oil. While 20-25 big players such as Marico, Agro Tech Foods, Ruchi Soya, Adani Wilmar, Mother Dairy and Cargill India control over 60% of the edible oil market, there are about 200 small and medium regional players accounting for the balance in the sector. For every oil manufacturer, big or small, hygiene and accuracy are crucial. Nichrome, India’s leading edible oil filling machine manufacturer with four decades of expertise to their credit, offers innovative oil pouch packing solutions for oil manufacturers. Nichrome packaging promises to protect the purity of the product, improve time-to-market, and enhance the retail value of the brand. Vertical Form Fill Seal machines
Nichrome’s Vertical Form Fill Seal (VFFS) automatic oil filling machines are built with innovation as their keystone and experience as the building block, to deliver utmost satisfaction for its customers. Nichrome’s Filpack Servo SMD and Sprint 250 Visco are engineered for all oil and related applications including ghee packing and for other viscous products such as vanaspati and fresh cream. Their CSPP pouch and 3-side seal pouch are the perfect solutions for all cooking oil packing. The five-layer film with thickness larger than 85 microns works in three sizes of 100 millilitres, 200 millilitres and 500 millilitres. The output speed is between 80 and 85 packs per minute. There is also a 1000 millilitres option. Accuracy for both ranges is plus/minus 2 millilitres. The VFFS machines are high speed, accurate and hygienic, with the capability of packing two different products and quantities at the same time. Bag pulling is accomplished with ease through the deployment of a specially designed film roll unwinding feature. Space requirements are lessened as the