The History of Nichrome
Mr. Vinayak Ramchandra Paranjape founded the company 'Nichrome Metal Works' in the year 1948, a year after the Indian independence. The company initially went into production of the wires required for the heating elements, which were made of the alloy of Nickel and Chromium. Hence the name Nichrome.

1948 to 1952
In the early years Nichrome manufactured varied products like Nichrome wires, Window Grills, Rolling shutters, Aluminum ornamental castings etc.

1953 to 1960
As the business established itself, Nichrome slowly expanded its horizons by taking over various structural contracts. To name a few among these were....
Keymore ACC plant expansion
Overhead Tanks at HLL Pimpri
Petrol Tanks for oil depot

1961
This was the year when Nichrome faced one of the worst natural calamities. The Panshet dam situated 25 km from Pune burst on 13th July 1961 flooding thousands of gallons of water into the otherwise tame Mutha River. The water came roaring into the city in less than 8 minutes and washed away its coasts in no time. Nichrome being situated at the banks of the river was flooded completely. Most of its machineries, steel and other raw material were washed away along with the building itself. Thanks to the daredevil team of Nichrome; as they risked their lives and tied some heavy machinery to the iron beams, some part of it was saved.

With the leadership of Mr. V.R.Paranjape, his hardworking team and the support of the business associates, Nichrome came out of this disaster like a Phoenix.

1961 to 1974
The golden era of Contracting. Nichrome successfully completed various prestigious contracting projects.
This era also witnessed the sad demise of the founder of Nichrome, Mr. V.R.Paranjape. His tragic and untimely death in a car accident was a rude shock.

After the demise of Mr.Paranjape, an enterprising youth came forward to successfully shoulder the responsibility of the company. His leadership qualities and his ability to sustain during the difficult times steered the company through the troubled waters. Mr. S.V.Joshi's vision and his thirst for the new, took the company to a new direction and then came the era of Equipment Manufacturing.

1975
The first indigenous Hank Yarn Mercerizing Machine was developed and successfully commissioned at a plant Solapur city.

1976
The first steps into a new world of automatic machine manufacturing gave a new confidence and courage to experiment and explore.

As a result of the Government policy to encourage Co-operative Dairy movement and the research in this field, white revolution came our way. Taking into consideration the limitations of packing, storage and transport of milk bottles, as well as their recycling and huge requirement of fresh water for sterilization of bottles, the Government decided to import the pouching machines. During an interview, the minister appealed to the Indian Industrialists to come forward and developed such machinery indigenously.

The visionary leaders of Nichrome took it as an opportunity. Mr. P.B.Paranjape, an innovative engineer and one of the partners of the company accepted the challenge. He put in his technical excellence and all the hard work along with his design and production team and the first milk-pouching machine, which was later named "FILPACK", was produced.
Now there was no looking back. Nichrome was the first company to manufacture a Form Fill Seal type packaging machine indigenously and independently. Since then it has been the leader in the packaging industry of India.

7th March 1977
The first Filpack machine was commissioned at Kurla Dairy, Mumbai where the commercial distribution of milk pouches was started on 7th March 1977.

1978 to 1982
The technology of the Clutch-Break mechanism, which was the key of the FFS machine, was stabilized along with the design of the two models of the Filpack machine. These machines were successfully commissioned at various dairies all over India.

1983
With the Filpack range successfully streamlined, came the Solid packing machine. The first FFS machine for powder packing called "AUTOWRAP" with the Table Draw-off mechanism was developed. Two types of filling attachments, An important development of Electronic Weigh Filler was achieved. Due to precision weighing ability of this equipment, it was widely accepted by the market, specially the Tea sector.

Cup and Auger filler were simultaneously developed for fine and coarse powders.

1984 to 86
Nichrome joined hands with Voltas for marketing.

1988 to 90
Integrated packaging system, the Material Handling Peripherals was developed for Procter& Gamble Group.

Automatic jar filling line, complete with tagger sealing, cap screwing and date coding mechanism was developed for 'Anickspray' milk powder for P&G. Automatic high speed Inhaler assembly line was manufactured for P&G Group.

1991
A series of Wing machines was developed for the small and dedicated quantities. This machine was to become a market favorite in future.

1992 to 95
Biggest export order from Russia for a record US $ 1.5 millions for 39 machines.

Exports to Russia/Ukrain continued its growth

1995 to 98
Tetrapak chose Nichrome as a joint venture partner and invested into the company . The liquid filling machines based on Nichrome’s liquid filling teachnology were exported to 30 countries under tetraPak Nichrome.

1999
Nichrome buys back its share and export rights and company is renamed as Nichrome India Ltd.

The Joshi family buys out other partner family (Paranjape)

Mr Harish Joshi of the Joshi family joins the management and board of the company.

2000 to 2004
Export markets of Africa ,SAARC, Middle East were established which helped company tide over the recession in Indian market. Impressive 50% year on growth in export market registered.
Company adopted Product segment strategy and focused on few key technologies. New high speed solid machine like multitrack,stickpack, stand up pouch development were completed. Development of Next generation Autowrap machines – called Excel range inititated. They are high-speed, high accuracy, aesthetically superior machines for packing grains and powder.
Company took major exercise of right sizing as well as process improvement. Company exited from back end manufacturing freeing key infrastructure and other resources .Company strengthened its vendor network. Company reduced cycle times and developed ability to scale up production. Company shifted to MRP- software based procurement system, state of the art 3 D modeling design software.
Aseptic Packing technology development was launched with international experts.

2004 to 2008
Company achieved sustained year on year growth of 30%+ for 4 consecutive years.

Path-breaking development – Nichrome Aseptic Pouch Packing System for long shelf life milk and juices. – was completed.

2008 to 2009
Nichrome joined hands with the leading company in Brazil for introducing the baling machines solution in post packing. Nichrome becomes the first company to present the baling machines to pack flexible pouches of solid in bulk bags, in India.

First 4 line seal stand up pack for better aesthetics and shelf display was developed by Nichrome for the tea,sugar and grain industry.

2009 to 2010
Nichrome launches “Flexiblock” a compact block shaped pouch format with a reclosable lable on top.

Nichrome launches high-speed oil packing machine Filpack SMD.

Next generation Sprint, the Sprint Plus range is launched. It is the most versatile solution for Sancks & powders, for 10g to 1 kg in a wide variety of pouch formats.

2010 to 2011
Nichrome enters into Technology Licensing Agreement with Podo-Pak corp U.S.A. a leading packaging company from U.S. to manufacture Multi Lane High Speed Sachet Packing Machines in India.Nichrome ventures into new industries such as health care and neutraceuiticles with this new technology.

Nichrome enters into Technology Licensing agreement with TOTPACK,Spain,a specialist Spanish company in Horizontal form fill & seal technology to manufacture the Horizontal Form Fill Seal Machines (HFFS) to pack Food, Pharma, Cosmetics and Personal Care products in a variety of pouch styles.