Agro Dutch Industries Limited Canned-Mushrooms
We started our own Can manufacturing plant in 2001.
This step was taken because of lack of quality Can Makers in the South Asia Region. Since then we have won “Best Can Award” for the year 2003 and 2005 from Tin Promotion Council of India.
A new 10,000 m2 can making facility is coming up at Chennai in South India with:
Coil Cutting line
Bauer+Kunzi six color printing press,
Stolle conversion press @ 1500 ends per minute for Full Panel Easy Open Ends with an Applied Vision inspection system,
All format 3 piece body maker, powder seam protection system and down line from Soudronic. Closed section sanitary end presses.
Our beliefs:
PACKAGE DEAL: The performance of a can is a complex interaction of food constituents, canning practices and storage parameters on one hand and the entire Can manufacturing system on the other hand. The Can and its contents must be therefore considered together as a unit. Thus, it is truly a package deal. This is what Agro Dutch is, one of the largest canners in India as well as the finest Can maker.
CRITICALITY OF THE CAN: Having bought cans from several overseas and domestic Can makers, our main endeavor has been to make the right can and reduce the variability from can to can Generally, the can cost may contribute up to a fifth of the total product cost. So, it really makes sense to get the best can available. We say this first as a can filler and then as a can maker.
QUALITY CONTROL: Manufacturing speeds are ever increasing. At the same time the tolerances are plummeting towards zero defects. This necessarily entails right first time, right every time and real time Quality Assurance. We believe in emphasizing off-line control to an extent whereby the on-line control becomes only a back-up. The best of the raw materials, elaborate SQC techniques and process capability studies are used for continuous process improvement.
OUR PARTNERS: At Agro Dutch, we don't cut corners because we understand that there is no substitute for the right quality, especially in food business. Prime quality tinplate is imported from established names such as Rasselstein, Germany And Nippon Japan.
LACQUER APPLICATION: The First is to lacquer these tinplate sheets. High quality packaging coatings are used from ICI who back it up with expert technical assistance. The lacquered sheets pass through the curing oven. High quality burners ensure that Temperature fluctuations along the length and width of the oven are at the minimum. The applied lacquer film thickness is rigidly controlled for its distribution over the entire Sheet by means of an instantaneous non destructive film thickness measuring gauge, many can corrosion-product spoilage problems in lacquered cans are a result of high Lacquer porosity in the can.
LACQUER CURING: The curing of this film during passage through the oven Involves removing all the volatile components from the lacquer and then chemically converting it to that stage at which its optimum protective properties come into play. The volatiles, if not removed properly, can interfere with the shelf-life performance of a canned food and so will a lacquer film that has not been optimally polymerized or is not adhering to the metal and adequately.
SUPER-WIMA WELDING: The sheets are now carried to the slitter where they are slit into blanks according to the can size. These blanks are transferred to the body maker which runs at a speed in excess of 300 cans per minute. A good weld should not leak and should be free from splashes and oxides. A good steady current in the range of 3000-4000 amperes is a pre-requisite for this.
THERMOPLASTIC POWDER VS LIQUID STRIPE: The weld is now covered with a protective and inert thermoplastic powder. The weld needs to be covered, more specially on the inside, as during welding the steel and the tinplate will form an electrolytic cell thereby leading to serious corrosion. The thermoplastic powder does jot flow away from the weld edges and there by gives consistent coverage which is approximately 3 to % times the liquid -lacquer coverage. This tremendously increases the shelf-life of the canned food.