Bosch Packaging Launches Versatile Transwrap 1650

Bosch Packaging Technology launched the null 1650 packaging machine in India, at the Pack Plus 2010 in New Delhi. The product with its wide range of packaging solutions is suited for a variety of packaging needs, styles and budgets. It thus aims at addressing increasingly customized and market driven demands of the food and non food packaging industry.
The array of packaging options includes package styles like pillow bags and side gusseted bags along with many other options pertaining to Heat Sealing, Poly Ethylene welding systems, anti static devices, chain packages and hole punch devices. These choices cater to a diverse range of package styles and product specifications. All these options can be activated through simple setting procedures via an intuitive human machine interface, offering user the flexibility which in turn allows for considerable shorter changeover times. This machine definitely offers user the advantage of cost efficiency as well as attributes like low height for a compact product stream coupled with higher speed that have been able to facilitate increased efficiency and ergonomics.
Over and above the benefits of flexibility and cost efficiency, the machine is constructed of corrosion resistant material which extends the machine capability to pack aggressive products. The concept of modularity in the machine design of the null 1650 allows for easy integration of dosing devices (augers, null, and cup fillers), gas flushing devices, printers as well as check weighers along with various up and downstream equipment interfaces.
Apart from catering to basic needs of pacnullTranswrapnts the MRP and serial numbers on the produced bags, while its print registration control senses the printing position in pre printed film to maintain accurate bag length.
Commenting on the occasion of the launch, Ashok Gourish Business Head Packaging Technology Division said, “It hanulllways been our endeavor to cater to the evolving needs of our customers. With the launch nullwnullrap 1650, we believe that our portfolio is now in a position to address the exact specifications and demands for higher customization of the packaging indusnull

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Britannia Loses Market Share For Its Major Brands

Indians spend more on biscuits than on toothpastes, skin-care products, shampoos and instant noodles put together, and Parle Products has surged ahead of Britannia Industries to become a clear leader in the Rs 11,000-crore-plus market, say Nielsen data.

The country spent Rs 11,295 crore on biscuits in the 12 months ended March 2010 compared with Rs 2,300 crore on toothpastes, Rs 3,500 crore on skin-care products, Rs 2,400 crore on shampoos and Rs 1,300 crore on instant noodles. And in the first half of the current financial year, it has already spent Rs 6,320 crore on biscuits, according to The Nielsen Company, the country’s largest market researcher.

The largest piece of this big and growing cookie now belongs to Parle Products. The Mumbai-based, Rs 5,000-crore company, promoted by Vijay and Sharad Chauhan, has close to 45% share of the biscuits market while Nusli Wadia’s Britannia Industries has about 38% share.

For years, the two largest cookie makers were neck-and-neck with about 35% share each in the market.

Nielsen data shows that Good-Day’s share dropped from 31.6% in 2009-10 to 27.8% in the April-September period, while Parle 20-20’s share increased from 11.3% to 17.9% during the same period. Parle also managed to push its share in the Rs 3,312-crore glucose biscuit segment where Parle G now accounts for more than three-fourths of the category.

The share of Britannia’s Tiger glucose slipped from 12.2% in 2009-10 to 11.7% in April-September this year, while the share of the third significant player in the category, ITC’s Sunfeast glucose, remained constant at 8.8%
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In salted crackers, Britannia Time Pass is the only major brand that lost share, to 10.6% in the first half of current fiscal from 11.3% in the whole of last year, the Nielsen data shows.

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