Material Handling Plastic Crates In Bakery Unit

Plastic crates  are now integral part  of  material handling in any  bakery plant . Wide applications  can be found   for plastic crates  from storage to transportation .

Major developments have been in bread transportation from era of metallic crates the bread industry has switched over to plastic crates

Metallic  crates  were made up of metallic strips  which used get damaged  easily  and  a team of welders were to be kept to repair these metallic crates .Products were damaged  frequently while transporting resulting in market returns and defective.

Bread  could be arranged in different configuration in horizontal and vertical way . These plastic crates  can be  stacked easily  even transported  through conveyors.

Advantages of Plastic crates

• Tough  suited for  long destination while transporting fragile bakery products such as Breads
• Same plastic crates can be used many a times for transportation called returnable transit packaging
• These can be used for a longer period  and are cost effective in a sense that damages in transit to the product and crates itself are minimal .
• Hygienic  ie It can be cleaned  easily  .
• Could be palletised  easily

Types of Plastic  Crates available with  manufacturers

• Bread Baskets
• Snack Cake & Sweet Goods Containers
• Low Profile Single Layer Bun Containers
• Double Layer Bun Containers
• Bread Trays
• Bun Trays
• Snack Cake Trays
• Plastic Dollies

Major manufacturers of these plastic crates in India are

• Neelkamal Plastic
• Supreme
• Brite

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Diwali Gift Packs From Bakeries -2010

Its festival times  here in India  with festivals like Diwali , Eid , Christmas and New Year  round the corner . Gifting has been the age old tradition for people to celebrate festivals . Traditional  gifts such as sweets , dry fruits , imported candy and  chocolates  has  been taken over by  new categories  of  gift such as Snacks , Cookies , Biscuits . Markets  are  flooded by  snazzy packs , glitzy packaging from major bakery manufacturers . Gift packs offered covered wide range of products from exotic cookies , cakes , assorted biscuits  and  cream biscuits  making it right choice for gifting .Price range is between Rs 150/ - Rs 500/-. The popularity of such gift packs can be judged by the number of gift packs available in the market,  earlier we used have one or two brands during deepavali but  we have atleast dozen of  brands eyeing for the share in gifting category in this season.Also  due to  news highlighting  floods of  adulterated sweets being sold during Diwali have made consumers looking out for  healthy and safe  food products .Interestingly even small bakeries have joined this Gift pack  business with  their niche products  such as wafers  and cookies .
Gift Pack business  has become  significant  contributor  to companies bottom line as these packs are sold on premium .

Gift Packs  from  Major Bakery Manufacturers

Britannia   -  Greetings   With  Wide range of variety and Packs

Mcvities - Festivities  ( UB first  of its  gift pack  for Indian consumers  )

Parle - Gift packs  of Hide n Seek  , Milano  aptly  named   Occasions

Bonn - Festive delights , Utsav Masti ,Sweet Desire , Assorted Desire , Cake Fiesta

Cremica -Greetings

Priya Gold  -  Season Greetings Assorted Biscuit Pack

Haldirams

Divss - Utsav,Sixer

Frontier Biscuits -Eggless cookies .
(Frontier biscuit has been most aggressive  of  all  in this festive seasons for Delhi market  . Huge Bill boards  across the city  depicting  Gift packs  and  Ads in all major news papers  for last  15  days . Frontier biscuits  has  gone for ad blitz  this season . )

AFP  -  Utsav

Imported Stuff

Tiffany  wafer s Gift  Pack
Munchy s  Biscuits
Choco Pie  Gift Pack 


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