Nichrome has evolved from manufacturing primary packaging machines to offering a full range of integrated packaging solutions, including secondary packaging for food and pharmaceuticals. Their automated secondary packaging systems enhance efficiency, reduce labor costs, and improve safety, featuring technologies like automatic pouch stacking, cartoning, and crating systems. With a focus on customization and high reliability, Nichrome aims to optimize productivity and quality for its clients' packaging needs.

1. SMART SECONDARY PACKAGING SOLUTIONS FROM NICHROME
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

2. 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 solution 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

3. 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 solution to 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.

4. 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 machine and 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.