SMART SECONDARY PACKAGING SOLUTIONS FROM NICHROME

Posted by Nichrome India Ltd on January 19th, 2022

Although Nichrome started out as a manufacturer of primary packaging machines, today, four decades down the road, it is so much more.

Nichrome offers the full gamut of packaging technology - primary, secondary and tertiary. It provides complete integrated packaging solutions, partnering with projects big and small, for Food, Pharma and other applications. With proven expertise and single-source convenience, Nichrome partners through the complete life cycle, innovating and integrating solutions that elevate productivity through performance.

WHAT IS SECONDARY PACKAGING?

Secondary packaging, as the name suggests, is the second layer of packaging around a product. It adds additional protection, and often, provides a marketing opportunity such as a carton around a bag of breakfast cereal. Secondary packaging is also designed to hold together multiple smaller units of a product to facilitate safe transportation to a warehouse or retailer.

Secondary packaging is also referred to as overwrapping, outer packaging and end-of-line packaging - all meaning packaging that enables safe and efficient distribution of a product from one location to the next.

BENEFITS OF SECONDARY PACKAGING

Traditionally, workers took care of the secondary packaging process: building cartons, filling them, sealing them and preparing them for palletization.

Today, manual labour is not a viable proposition. It not only limits growth, it adds risk in terms of potential injuries. Automated packaging processes are therefore essential to meet production goals.

Automated secondary packaging systems help to:

- increase throughput rates

- reduce costs of labour hiring, training and injury prevention

- ensure consistency and accuracy

- overcome manual and disorderly packaging

- compact space as compared to manual packaging

- improve employee wellbeing

NICHROME\'S SECONDARY PACKAGING SOLUTIONS

Nichrome is a packaging solutions company providing automated packaging machinery backed by decades of industry experience. Nichrome produces and provides machines that can handle 24x7 uptime and high-volume operations with speed and reliability. Nichrome\'s secondary packaging solutions include:

Automatic Pouch Stacking & Wrapping System: It is a PLC-controlled, single operator driven system offering easy changeover. The system can be aligned in linear or right-angle direction as per floor space. The system includes an inclined conveyor, pouch orienter, pusher and flow wrapping machine - and enables auto pouch stacking as per the desired matrix.

HDPE Bag Filling System: The line includes a VFFS machine, pouch take up conveyor and a rotary bag holding & filling system. Machine construction is available in SS304, SS316 and MS painted. Both HDPE and PP bags may be used.

This PLC-controlled system with a digital LCD touch screen for display and settings provides fast changeover for different bag sizes, making it a must-have for companies packaging their products in pack sizes of 500 to 5000 gms.

Cartoning Machine: The machine structure is of MS sheet metal for durability, and handles a variety of cartons: parallel tuck in, opposite tuck in, lock bottom and glueing.

Some key features include an adjustable carton conveyor with chain type design, servo indexing drive to carton and product chain, motorized carton pick up with vacuum cups, and facility for product insertion inside carton through motor-driven product pusher. The rated output is 50-55 cartons per minute.

Flexibale 450 Baling Solution: Flexibale 450 packs pre-counted numbers of primary pouches in economical bulk secondary pouch aiming to replace existing packing methods which are labour intensive and less efficient.

The Flexibale 450 is designed to be directly coupled with a primary vertical form fill and seal (VFFS) machine enabling a single operator to manage a complete packaging station from automatic primary packaging to finished balers.

Automatic Milk Pouch Crating System: Nichrome\'s Crating System offers a complementary secondary packaging solutionto count & fill milk pouches in crates in synchronization with Nichrome\'s high-speed Filpack Servo machines. The entire process becomes systematic, automated and fast. It helps to maintain quality and food safety standards as well as keep count of the number of pouches and crates.

The system has optional features of data logging and online crate weighing.  The entire production data can be logged and saved on Cloud or central server system

The system also offers an optional Online Leak Detection Mechanism whereby each pouch from the pouch take-up conveyor passes through a pressing conveyor which removes excess air from leaking pouches through which the operator can easily differentiate leaky pouches.

CONCLUSION

Secondary packaging systems are an essential part of any modern packaging line. They protect the primary packaging, enable accurate packaging of multiple packs and ensure safe transportation of the product. Secondary packaging brings speed, accuracy and economy to end-of-line packaging, boosting overall productivity and profitability.

Nichrome, the leading packaging solutions provider in India, offers a variety of secondary packaging solutions to complement their own and other primary packaging equipment.

Nichrome\'s stacking & wrapping system, HDPE bag filling system, carton filling machineand crating system for milk pouches are all tough, trustworthy performers. They can also be customized as per requirements and available space – so customers get a secondary packaging solution tailored for optimization of space, performance and resources.

Consult Nichrome for your secondary packaging requirements today.