Potato Chips Making Business

                           Potato Chips Making Business

Hi Friends, Today I am going to share with you a simple and trendy business that is Potato Chips

Making Business. Potato chips are very interesting snack items, everybody loves to eat. 

Potato chips are very delicious and crispy and crunchy snack items, children are enjoying to eat them.

In this article, I am explaining how to start this business, what is the process and how to market

these products.

This business is under the food industry and small scale manufacturing unit. Better you go for a

bank loan to start this business for that you need to create a project report of your complete business

plan. Before going to start this business you need to study about this business, market potential and

competitors in this field. It is a very competitive business because of so many brands of chips 

available in the market. Big and Small companies' brands are there in the present market. So you

have to create your own brand taste and flavor and unique flavor to defeat the present brands.

In this so many flavors of chips available in the market like onion, tangy, tomato, pepper spice, etc.

In India potato is a very common and large growing crop. We can get potatoes in any area of our

country and get at a cheaper rate also. So It is a profitable business to start potato chips making in 

our country. You should plan a good market strategy and production strategy then you can get

good results in this business.

Here is a video about this business, Please watch this:

The First Step, Raw Materials:

Potatoes are the main raw materials to make chips. So You have to purchase the potatoes from the

farmers directly in bulk. You have to choose the good quality of potatoes when the time of buying.

Then only you can produce a good quality of chips from them.

And the other raw materials are Edible oil, Salt, Spices, and Flavors which are needed for making

chips. You have to purchase oil from the wholesale suppliers in bulk tins.

The Second Step, Machinery:

Potato chips making unit contains the following machinery & equipment:

• Washing & Peeling Machine
• Cutting & Slicing Machine

• Blanching Machine

• Rinsing and Cooling Machine

• Potato Dehydrating Machine

• Frying Machine

• De-Oiling Machine

• Flavoring Machine

• Vacuum Packaging Machine

There are so many types of machinery available in the market, semi-automatic machines and fully

automatic machines are available, you have to choose the right machinery for your need and

according to your production estimations and capital investment. You can purchase this machinery

from Indiamart.com website suppliers or Tradeindia.com.

The Third Step, Making Process:

First of all, Washing the potatoes and peeling them with the help of washing and peeling the machine.

After peeling again washed the potatoes and dried them after that, they are cut into slices of required

size and shape and thickness which is adjusted by the machine. Then that slices are fried in oil by

frying machine after that excess oil is extracted by the De-oiling machine. After that Salt and flavors

are added by the Flavoring machine. Finally, finished chips are ready to pack. It is needed airtight

packaging for chips that is vacuum packaging so for that you need a pouch packaging machine to

pack the chips. These pouches again packed into carton boxes.

You have to set up this total unit in a godown and water supply and commercial power supply also 

maintain and you need to hire skilled labor to operate all these productions and packaging works. 

The Fourth Step, Branding:

You have to take some registrations for your business, they are, MSME registration so that you 

can get the government scheme benefits. Another important is the GST Registration that is sales tax

number and other important is FSSAI registration because it is a food product. You have to register

your own brand name that is Trademark registration.

You need to print your business cards and catalogs and distribute them in all the retail and wholesale

stores and supermarkets. Better you go for an advertisement in all newspapers and magazines.

Marketing:

You have to Appoint marketing persons to market your products in all the stores and supermarkets

bakeries, sweet shops, canteens, cinema theatres, etc. You have to build a strong distribution

network in your city as well as all over the state.

For online sales, you have to build your own company website and promote your site on social

media like Facebook, youtube, twitter, etc. You need to register your company in Indiamart.com,

Amazon.com, Bigbasket.com, Flipkart.com, Get-grocery.com, Etc. and some other online grocery

websites to get online orders from them. You have a huge market scope in this business because

every small outlet selling these items. If you can give good quality and tasty products then you can

get good business in this field.

Here I am Giving some Machinery Suppliers contact Details:

Blue Impex, Hyderabad

08048881679

Dynamech Engineers, Indore

08046025167

For online purchase of machinery, this site is helpful for you, a link is given below:

https://www.potatochipsmachinery.com

If you want to take a bank loan, here I am giving some links to help:

https://www.creditmantri.com/

https://www.paisabazaar.com/

Here I am giving a link for getting a project report for your business:

https://aktassociates.com

I think this information is helpful for you, All the best.

Thank you Friends

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