Opening Doors to Automation and Way Ahead
MNT covers an exclusive approach with Nishant Bansal, MD, Fabcon India. Here he quotes about his vision on the M&N industry and the need to improvise and advance with times. The citation proceeds:
The Introduction
Fabcon has been serving the food industry for the past 40 years and during this journey we have achieved various milestones in terms of growth, bringing innovation to the market, building trust and reputation across the world by providing our clients with absolutely the best and most importantly pioneering in the cut-throat snack industry.
We have been devising customized solutions that fit all industry sizes and our snack processing lines range from 100 kgph up to 2000 kgph. We cater to both commercial as well as Indian ethnic snack & sweet industry. We have been using the latest technology like laser cutting and CNC while manufacturing our machinery. When it comes to clients, there is no room for error.
We lay a great emphasis on the sustainability and safety of the product, environment, man, and machine. Following the principles of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), our automated technology abides by the hygiene standards and offers consistency. Utilizing this great platform to the fullest, we would like to give everyone a glimpse of what we can provide in both the mithai and the namkeen segments.
Mithai:
a). Complete automatic solution provider for weighing, blending, and further processing of ingredients.
b). Experts in ingredient handling and conveying especially sugar conveying.
c). Takes care of the post-cooking applications for instance,
- As for the sheeted delicacies like barfi, cakes, cheese, and confectionery, we provide automated cutting & slicing equipment that cut the product in desired shapes and sizes.
- For the hot pasteurized sweets in cans, tins, bottles, etc., we provide the online cooling systems ensuring complete sterilization and pasteurization.
d) Sweets forming using the ROTO Former helps in molding the sweets into bars, balls, and other different shapes.
e) We also provide a one-bin solution designed for handling European standard operations like storing, weighing, blending, lifting, tilting, and processing the ingredients.
Namkeen:
a. Complete automation for weighing, blending and further processing of ingredients.
b. Our snack frying lines are massively appreciated and embraced across the world for its incomparable performance and consistency, ruggedness, durability, uncompromising quality, and functional fluency.
c. Total commitment to high quality standards.
d. Fully automated solutions for pre and post-processing:
i. Raw material storage and handling before frying
ii. Product handling and cooling post frying
iii. Perfect weigh-based seasoning solution
e. Complete mechanization for nuts and Indian namkeen based items processing, blending, and seasoning.
Big or small, Fabcon for all
When we talk about the contribution towards the industrial growth in a country, it has been observed that surprisingly it’s not even the big industries that are making major contribution towards the surge while it’s mostly the small and medium scale industries that have been reigning. Pandemic and the resulting labor migration have shed light on the poignancy of subsuming automation in order to prevent contamination, being self-reliant, and keep the company rolling. Automation not only brings ease to the corporate mechanism but also ensures less human intervention.
Now the automation is not only limited to large-scale industries, even the small and medium-scale industries have been opening doors to go completely automated. It might come across as making a hefty investment at first, but the investment is for a long-term that ensures higher productivity, saving up on time and additional resources, and making the work hassle-free.
A Consistent Solution
There is always going to be something new in the market every time and it is imperative to be updated on the latest advents. We have been in this business for a long time and have been a witness to the advancements taking place. We do realize if one sticks to the conventional methodology and still expects that they can make it to the top, it will come across as a massive disappointment, and it will be very unfair to the buyers that put their trust in a brand.
We are aware that we need to think ahead of time which is very much reflected in the technology that we manufacture. We are always devising ways to augment the design of our machinery that can deliver the same performance in the future as it is delivering at present. We are not just selling machinery; we offer the clients’ solution that will stay will them and support them for a very long time. All our machines are customizable that ensures safety, are built with perfection and have value for the money being invested.
The Wings of Export
We pride in being the top Indian company that has been acknowledged at the Pan Indian level for our quality and finesse and it is an immense honour to be able to represent Indian MSMEs in the food processing equipment industry the global level. The testament to our quality and dedication is our trust earned in over 50 Countries including Canada, Australia, Africa, The U.K., The U.S.A., The Middle East, The MENA, The SAARC Nations, etc.
We had our moment of epiphany when it was dawned on us how India has made its name in the technical arena competing with the global giants and when we supplied our machinery to the developed nations like The USA, The UK, Australia, it was really gratifying. For us, the biggest success is when the customer comes to us again and again to buy more and whenever they are going under expansion, the customer trusts us with their project because they understand what Fabcon is capable of.
The Future Mission
There are many things on board for Fabcon, various avenues to be explored. As we mentioned earlier, the world is pacing rapidly, and it is very imperative to be updated with the new technological advancements. So, keeping that in mind, we want to develop even better solutions that will bring ease to the mithai and namkeen industry, and it’s our earnest wish that Fabcon’s name resonates all over the world as the leader in the realm of Snack Processing Technology manufacturing.