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Full Guides for choosing Potato Chips Packaging
Potato chips (also name as just chip) is thin slice potatoes with deep fried, or air fried until it’s crunchy. Served as very popular snack or appetizer. They are cooked and salted by adding various of flavorings.In western countries, Chips has been form very large part in convenience snack food market. It was reported that chips has been generated a total revenue of over US$16 billion per year at beginning of 21century. It still a very big and potential market in future decades.
This article highlights the most basic and popular chips packing machines
Get to know the features of potato chips
>Fragile Snack:
As we all know, one of the biggest selling point to attract consumers is its crispy feature. It’s actually also one of the biggest challenge during the whole process of production and packaging and transportation. Very easy to got impacted if without properly handled and protected. As a result, it could greatly reduce the consumer’s taste.
How to keep crispy potato chips without affecting the convenience and efficiency of production, packaging and transportation? This should be the most key issue that our packing solution need to solve.
>Nitrogen Filling is A MUST:
If you are also a potato chips lover, you must be noticed that each packing bag/can has air inside. And the air is always nitrogen.
Actually, by filling nitrogen displaces oxygen from the packaging before sealing the bag has been a popular methods nowadays. Not just for potato chips, nitrogen flush packaging has been used for lots of packaging solution. And the same purpose and reasons are as follow:
a. As an inert gas, the nitrogen will not react with the chips, can effectively extend its shelf life;
b. Easy To Get: as the most abundant gas in atmosphere, Nitrogen is pretty easy to obtain.
c. Lower your transportation cost: The Nitrogen is super light, it makes you easier and cost less during shipping process.
d. Nitrogen has no taste and no colour, perfect gas to maintains the tasty and quality of chips.
e. The nitrogen will provide a certain pressure to protect the package and avoid crushing.
Decide your package style
The most common package for Potato chips can be bags, pre-made pouch, cans, etc. It mainly depends on chips manufacturers or the packaging companies plan or strategy. Each type of package has its own features and unique benefits. Let’s have an overview on it:
Plastic Film Roll making Bag
Most commonly used bags are plastic film roll forming bag, it’s usually made of composite packing film material, bag material can be BOPP/LDPE. BOPP has Moisture-and oil-proof feature, which can protect the chips reaching with any moisture. LDPE offer additional help in oil-resistance and add extra protection on the bag, meanwhile can make it easy open.
Layers of plastic bag equips the bags with different functions, not just better protect the chips, but also reduce unit cost since it make bags from film rolls.
Pre-made bag
The pre-made bag material is not so different from the roll film making bag. Main different will be the production process, premade bag, as its name show, it’s been making into a bag in advance, which make it has more flexible process can do during bag making process, so it can be greater and more advanced design, available to add zipper function or other high-class designed on it.
In this way, the pre-made bags will be more favored by consumers, especially the high-end consumer groups. Of course, the unit cost will be also much higher than film roll making bags. If your marketing strategy is specifically aimed at high-end consumers, then obviously pre-made bag is a great choice.
But as fast food type snack, only a few manufacturers choose pre-made bags, also to in line with most ordinary consumers’ prefer.
Chips in Can
Cans are also very common packing methods for snacks, specially for chips. It has below benefits for snacks:
1. More durable: the material for making cans use more various processes, it more durable quality to prevent chips from breakages.
2. Anti-Moisture: Cans are thicker than plastic bag and no moisture could enter, so the chips can be packed in a perfect condition.
3. Easier to ensure the chips integrity inside the packaging and easier for transportation without worrying about the products.
Also, unit cost for can packaging is highest among above 3 packing bag style.
Most popular packaging solution for potato chips
Top-1 VFFS Chips Packing Machine
Source: Packway potato chips VFFS packaging system
This fully automatic potato chips packing machine is one of the best option in the industry. The machine can handle all process operations automatically and without any wearing off.
Automatic nitrogen filling no need labor intervention.
Your worker just need simple adjust the setting on touch screen, then the main machine will do their job. It has lots of advantage:
1. Fully automatic, each process can be faster , easier, also flexible to adjust base on your need..
2. Can connect with your production line to complete a whole system;
3. Offer very tight and nice sealing effect.
4. The machine parts is durable since all its components are made of food grade top-class materials.
5. Can adjust to make different bag size of chips, from individual small bag or bigger family pouch; One machine can do all.
6. The VFFS Chips Packing machine can works with super high precision to save raw material in long run.
Top-2 Pre-made Bag Chips Packing Machine
Source: Packway premade pouch packaging machine for potato chips.
Even with a bit higher purchasing cost than Vertical type chips packing machine, the Pre-made Bag packing machine system has more benefits. The pre-made bag packing machine indeed could eventually make you more money. Similar packing efficiency and output, the since the pre-made bag with higher-class designed and much greater appearance, it can sell with almost double unit price, means selling same quantity of the products, you double your profit.
Suggestions from Packway Machine
Automatic equipment is a necessary in food industry, specially for chips industry.
No matter if you are new business or expanding your small business to bigger, No matter you are selling to the shopping mall or retailing store, you need to show to your customer the products they are purchasing from you are safe and cost-effective. An automatic packaging machine itself will be a great story teller for your products. So it’s time to move on and upgrade your brand with an advance and automatic solution.
Packway has been specialized in the packaging industry for over 10 years, with rich experience in different sectors, specially for snacks food like potato chips.
Contact us to get yourself a perfect packaging machine to realize your vision in your chips packaging business.
