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PACTEC INDIA focuses on export and Indian markets with packaging machines
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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MV Chandrashekar, Bangalore
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Pactec India has been in the business of packaging machinery since 1996. The products are exported and also used by leading food companies.
There is a dedicated team of engineers which is constantly carrying out research to offer the latest developments in packaging including custom made designs.
The wide range of machines that are used in the food industry include continuous sealing machines (hand, foot model sealing machines) box strapping machines, multi functional film sealers, vacuum packing machine, shrink chambers, shrink wrapping machines, form fill and seal machines for mineral water, form fill and seal machine for non free flow powder for uneven products, for granules / semi solid and for oil.
Other machines like paste filling, bottle filling, automatic ice jel fill and seal machine, automatic mineral water glass fill and seal machine, and candy packing machine are also supplied by the company.
Some of the features of the Continuous Sealing machines are it can pack 25 kg per minute of 1kg pouches and the rates of the machines cost from Rs 1.5 Lakh.
Form fill seal machines used for milk/ mineral water are being used by NDRI, UAS Dharwad and Bangalore. The machines cost Rs 1.8 - 2.5 lakh, depending on the models and can fill 30-40 pouches per minute.
Speaking to F&B News, Ramanath Hegde, Chief Executive, Pactec India, said that the company entered the export market in 2000. Nigeria is one of the key markets where machines for filling mineral water and tea packing have been dispatched. The company has also supplied shrink wrapping machines to Dubai for the food industry. Recently it bagged an order from Saudi Arabia for a peanut packing machine with nitrogen flushing attachment costing Rs 1.4 lakh and can pack 40 pouches per minute.
Some of the clients of Pactec are Indo-American Hybrid Seeds, MTR Foods Limited, Orkay Foods, Mysore Fruits Ltd, Kwality Coffee, Annai Food Products, Thanjavur.
Hegde said that the company had set a benchmark for its products and though there was competition in the sector, Pactec products stood apart due to their quality. The company is also into trading of imported machines from Taiwan and China.
In India the candy packing machines are used for wrapping of sweets, candy, chewing gum, chocolate, and sugar cubes. It can pack 300- 600 pouches per minute.
Ghee packing machinery used for filling was supplied to GRB and Vijaya companies; it can fill 25 pouches per minute.
Auger screw filler is used to fill powders in containers or pre-made pouches, free flow powders such as coffee, tea products, spices, glucose powder, tamarind/ garlic paste and others.
According to Hegde, there is a huge scope for food the packaging and machinery sector because of the scope and wide market and various types of clientele that look for different types of packing machinery.
The packaging machinery scene is that only 15 per cent of it is organised while others are unorganised. Not many of the packaging machinery have got ISI tag. About 5 years ago the packaging industry was not that large, however with customers looking for good packaging now the emphasis is more on durable and aesthetically designed packaging. Presentation is the major decisive factor for the customer when he buys a product.
A visible trend is that customers travelling aboard and seeing new trends in packaging expect such packing in India too. Investing in new machines is a costly proposition according to the industry. The latest packaging popular in the food industry are blister cutting / sealing machine, pouch packing, skin packing, pet bottle with shrink wrapping.
Challenges in this industry is that it is more on made- to-order machines for the food industry and needs to be customised. Stocks cannot be made initially and kept. It takes about 15-20 days to fabricate new machines. R & D is on at most of the industries
The packaging food industry is growing at 15- 18 per cent annually while beverages and mineral water packaging sector is registering 25 per cent growth. Recession has not impacted the industry.
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