Availability of wide range and regular improvements- Keys to success in Food Industry

On one side, there is a great need of research and development in India, to enhance the level of latest technology and machinery to come at par with available machinery in developed and some Asian countries. Government need to be more liberal and establish the world level institution for the development of technology and machinery, which would increase India's share in global trade and commercial applications. Initially, there could be efforts to reach the standards available in Asian countries based on understanding about the requirements of Indian FP & Beverages industry. This would be to make industry players bring their production to international standard and off course as per future aspects. On other side, industry players and experts regularly talk about policies & regulation hurdles and suggest few simpler measures for imports of machinery & equipment in the Indian food & beverage industry.

The technology needs to take care about the cost effective shapes of projects, meeting challenges of capacity and flexibility. Improvement in the quality, reduction in production cost, increment in production capacity covering necessary and related steps of the production line, offering full resource for virtually all handling and processing needs, providing top of the line food processing equipments, contribution to the high efficiency of units, inclusion of related features of modern technology available in the country and abroad. Machineries and equipments, based on different technologies, are available for various functions like frying, cooling, washing, peeling, freezing, drying, and cutting of fruits and vegetables, fermentation, value additions, mixing etc.. Extruding, baking, frying of snacks cheetos type, breakfast cereals; processing lines; equipments for cashewnut, groundnut based snacks etc; flexible systems for portioning, grinding, shaping products like fish, meat, cheese etc. are few of the examples of upgraded modern technologies. Companies providing technology solution emphasize on high speed systems, flexible packaging, efficiency and precision of process, continuous operation, designs as per the demands of industrial applications like in case of wafer products. There had been a lot of improvements in case of moulding machines for various kinds of shapes; multiextrusion machines for the production of cookies, biscuit-filled etc; equipments for chocolate processing; equipments for commercial kitchens; seasoning and flavoring, coating systems; hygiene equipments like washing machines and waste water handling system; X-ray systems for safety and security; process sensors for quality control; container inspection systems for metal, plastic or glass containers; packaging machineries like vacuum packaging etc; material handling equipments; cooking and smoking chambers; meat tenderizer; slaughter lines, slaughter house equipments etc. The list is quit long filled with hundreds of latest machineries and equipments for various purposes. Interestingly, there are improvements and additions on regular basis, converting the industry into a high tech one. The technologies, which are being used presently, are well defined, but developing day by day to increase efficiency, reliability and more productive.