Packing
Genies
With consumer demand levels on the rise, it’s high time the Indian
packaging industry looks at sprucing up its machinery
Packaging
plays the important role of a catalyst between a consumer and the product.
A product’s reach and popularity is determined by its entire ‘look
and feel’ getup. And with retail businesses booming, the packaging
industry too has been catapulted to greater heights with constant changes.
Even our traditional food industry expect packaging to perform magic
and propel its cuisines on the world's best selling items list! Consumers
today are also looking for balance between cost and convenience. And
the mass production of small sachets seems to be at the forefront in
this retail boom. With higher output, reliability of operation and flexibility
of sizes in demand, effective secondary packaging has become important
to support this. Which is why Multi-Track machines comprising of 10
tracks with outputs of around 500 sachets per minute have been developed.
These machines require skilled manpower, proper quality packing material
and suitable post packaging methods. Double and triple head machines
too are easier to handle and offer flexibility for smaller batch sizes.
For meeting with the requirements of increasing shelf-life, the industry
has seen an entry of various machinery like the Aseptic Pouch Packing
Systems, Retort Packing Systems and Modified Atmosphere Packing Systems
(MAP). In Aseptic Pouch Packing System - a sterile product (e.g. UHT
milk) is packed without the danger of recontamination making its increasing
its shelf span without any needs of a ‘cool chain’ for distribution
and storage. This system can make even make liquid milk available in
deficit areas like the North East Indian states. While in Retort Packing,
a product is filled in a retort package and is subjected to post packing
sterilization in a retort or an autoclave. This is mainly the thermal
process and helps in achieving sterility and long life shelf stability.
Retort packages can be distributed and stored at room temperature. Pick-Fill-Seal
machines using pre-made retort pouches are the biggest beneficiaries
of this technology. Both the above packaging machinery requires careful
selection of processing method and material in order to achieve the
desired results. Of late, commonly sought grocery commodities like sugar,
rice, salt, spices are increasingly being projected as brands to attract
customers. Though there have been many experiments in differentiating
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