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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Shiva Engineers – The Pioneers in Food Processing Machinery

 


With the Indian economy galloping post-liberalization in 90’s, FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) & Food and Beverages industry saw a double-digit growth. The indirect demand saw a phenomenal demand for food processing machinery and allied equipments.

Mr. Arun Kulkarni with his vast experience of working in food processing machinery, sensed the opportunity and started his venture ‘Shiva Engineers’ in 2002 to cater to the ever-rising demand.

Shiva Engineers, under the able leadership of Arun Kulkarni, has been growing in leaps and bounds in last two decades with the vision of ‘Becoming a customer-centric organization globally respected for its deep expertise in delivering end-to-end solutions in food processing machinery’.

The company takes pride in manufacturing of food processing machinery; individual machines as well as custom-built projects (right from Designing, Manufacturing, Installation to Commissioning rightfully called ‘from concept to commissioning’). 

Besides that, it also provides solutions in: 

-Fruit & Vegetable processing machinery (Mango, orange, guava, papaya,  pineapple, pomegranate, citrus/lemon, avocado, preparatory/processing and canning equipment with input capacity from 1 to 15 Tons per hour)

-Tomato puree/ketchup, sauce making and packaging lines 

-Ginger and turmeric processing lines to make flake, powder, paste

-Ginger beer preparation and packaging

-Carrot processing lines and by-products

-Apple, grapes, cherry, strawberry, mulberry, raspberry processing and packing in aseptic bags in drum

-Tamarind processing and packaging equipments/line

-Jackfruit processing and packaging equipments/line

-Coconut processing to make by-products

-Mayonnaise making plant

-Fresh dates packaging and its by-products making line/equipments

-Moringa leaves processing to make powder

-Honey processing lines

-Amala processing to make various by-products like Amla juice, candy, amla murabba, paste, picker, powder, chundha, supari, squash

-Spice and pickle processing and packaging lines

-Fruit crusher, fruit mill / hammer mill  

-Vegetable blancher /cooler / dicing / cubing 

-Pea podder (Pea pilling machine)

-Maize processing

-Snacks processing

-Milk pasteurizer 

-Filling & packaging line

-Thermal processing

-Beverages, Herbals, Ready to eat/ cook projects, Dairy, milk By-products processing machinery 

-Conveyors (roller, belt, screw/slat chain)

-Elevator (screw, belt, bucket) 

-And many more food processing equipments



Why Shiva Engineers –

*One of the leading manufacturers of fruit processing plant in India specializing in turnkey plants for processing fruits and vegetables

*The founder/CMD Mr. Arun Kulkarni, armed with a vast experience of 50+ years, leading the organization from the front 

*The team of qualified engineers with the relevant work experience of successfully executing 100+ turn-key projects/food processing equipments who can fulfil any relevant requirement from any part of the world 

*Time to deliver – Shiva Engineers, owing to its vast experience and expertise, is able to deliver goods/services at a greater speed and with the agreed accuracy/parameters 

*Its solutions ensure reduction in wastage of material and ZERO DEFECTS in production. 

*Being a customer-centric organization, it offers all the possible customization to its customers based on parameters like:

-Capacity

-Applications

-Material used for construction

-Energy Resources

*An ISO 9001-2008 company with innovation ingrained in its DNA. Its office/ manufacturing unit is located in Pune, India, 

*Some of the esteemed customers to whom they have supplied turnkey plants and machinery include Dabur, Patanjali, Alfa Laval, Vimal Agro, Lion Foods etc. All of those plants and machinery are running successfully and to the complete satisfaction of clients.

 

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Green Hills Group - Keeping Pune’s hills green!

 



It all started way back in 2004. Few youngsters and few seniors were passionate about mother-nature, about environment, about the ecosystem. They came together and formed a small group called ‘Green Hills Group’.  The motley group had doctors, engineers, bankers, entrepreneurs. But the diverse group was always unanimous on one objective and that was to increase Pune’s green cover, to keep Pune’s hills green. Over the last eighteen years (and counting), this small idea blossomed into a vibrant community of around 125 passionate volunteers taking care of seven hills in and around Pune.

The hills of Chaturshingi, Hanuman tekdi, Vetal tekdi, ARAI hills and Vandevi have been transformed from barren swathes littered with plastic trash into green hills, blossoming trees and biodiversity full of chirping birds, insects and butterflies!

The group has been assiduously maintaining 18,000+ native trees and is targeting to plant, grow and maintain 125,000 trees by year 2025!

Contrary to the popular notion (that planting trees before the onset of monsoon is the only activity), the group has been active throughout the twelve months of a year. The volunteers spend 2-3 hours of every Saturday/Sunday mornings for this noble work.  

Activities like seed collection, planting them in nursery to have saplings, planting saplings on hills in plantation drive, planning/repairing drip system for watering, trench rework, grass cutting, flower collection (‘nirmalya’ including coconut husks and plastic from Chatushringi temple during Navaratri – which would otherwise be a colossal 20,000 kg trash), keeping close watch on wildfire in summer and tree census make their yearly calendar brimming. Add to this the corporate plantation drives, awareness camps, exhibitions, lectures/presentations at colleges and you get the idea!

Owing to pandemic, the last two years had been quite challenging to the group. But the dedication and never-say-die attitude of volunteers saw them planting 4,000 indigenous trees in 2021. Geo-tagging of trees was undertaken, QR codes and Apps were used to collect/consolidate information.

The good work of Green Hills group has won numerous awards and accolades from state government to corporate chieftains to Sayaji Shinde’s Sahyadri Devrai. The group, founded by late Ravi Purandare and Shrikant Paranjape is now led by Sanjay Suryavanshi to achieve its green mission  (‘125,000 trees amidst 25 projects by 2025’).


Wishing Green Hills group best wishes in its noble pursuit!