COVID-19 HAS ENCOURAGED INDIAN FOOD COMPANIES CONSIDERING AUTOMATION TO MAKE THESE INVESTMENTS
February 1st, 2021
In India, the increased demand for branded food products and workplace restrictions on industrial labour caused by Covid-19 has inspired automation among food manufacturers. This investment is expected to standardise and increase the quality of products well into the future, well beyond the end of the pandemic.
“We have been getting a lot of orders from mom-and-pop kinds of smaller companies who were earlier shying away [from atomisation],” Raghav Gupta, director of Kanchan Metals, in Noida told just-food. His company manufactures and sells machinery making ...
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