Chirantana Equipack

What Chirantana Equipack does

Chirantana Equipack (P) Ltd is an India-based manufacturer of packaging machinery and packaging materials, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bangalore Rural District. The company designs and supplies sorting machines, clipping machines, weighers, and hand clippers for fresh produce pack-houses, alongside a consumables portfolio of packaging nets in tubular, extruded, mesh, and natural variants. It has extended into netting materials for adjacent applications - shade nets, scaffolding nets, bale nets, and bird protection nets - serving customers in construction, agriculture, and fisheries in addition to its core fresh produce base.

The product architecture pairs capital equipment (machines) with recurring consumables (nets), enabling a hybrid revenue model where equipment placements can anchor ongoing net consumable purchases. Go-to-market is direct B2B sales supported by a regional North India channel, WhatsApp Business, and an active social media presence on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The company website is published in English, Spanish, and French, indicating international outreach beyond the domestic Indian market. Chirantana Equipack operates as a privately held, bootstrapped company with no external funding rounds disclosed and a headcount band of 11-50 employees, consistent with a small industrial SME rather than a venture-backed growth stage.

The offering occupies a niche in post-harvest produce packaging where customers are typically packers, exporters, and grower cooperatives handling fruits, vegetables, and similar crops. Netting material extensions broaden the addressable customer base into construction (scaffolding safety), agriculture (shade and bale applications), and fisheries (bird protection), providing some diversification away from cyclical fresh produce capex. No AI/ML, smart-vision, or digital software components are evident in the product set; differentiation, to the extent it exists, appears to rest on mechanical engineering, application knowledge of Indian horticultural supply chains, and the integrated equipment-plus-consumables model.

Name

Chirantana Equipack

Legal name

Chirantana Equipack (P) Ltd

Website

https://chirantanaequipack.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Chirantana Equipack (P) Ltd, founded in 2013 in Bangalore Rural District, India, manufactures packaging machinery (sorters, clippers, weighers) and packaging/netting materials for fresh produce packers, construction, agriculture, and fisheries via direct B2B sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural packaging equipment and materials

NAICS

Packaging Machinery Manufacturing (333993), Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Packaging & Bagging Equipment (Weighers, Baggers, Sealers) (AFAAAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Compostable & Bio-Based Packaging (PLA/PHA, Starch Blends, Cellulose Films) (IMALAMAB), Fresh-Cut & Value-Added Produce (Washed, Peeled, Sliced, Packaged) (AFAKAFAA)

Keywords

• Fresh produce packaging
• Packaging machinery
• Agricultural netting
• Fruit vegetable sorting
• Packaging nets

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangalore

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Packaging Machinery Sales: Manufacturing and sales of packaging machines including sorting machines, weighing equipment, clipping machines, and hand clippers for fresh produce, fruits, vegetables, and shellfish packaging operations.
2. Packaging Net Products: Sale of tubular net fabric, extruded net, mesh/leno bags, and natural nets for retail and bulk packaging of fresh produce.
3. Netting Materials: Sale of agricultural and industrial netting including shade sails, bird netting, bale nets, and scaffolding safety nets for construction, agriculture, and landscaping applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Chirantana Equipack manufactures and supplies packaging machinery (sorting machines, weighers, clipping machines, hand clippers) along with packaging nets (tubular net fabric, extruded net, mesh/leno bags, natural compostable net) and agricultural/construction netting materials (bale net, shade sails, bird netting, scaffolding safety net). The company serves the fresh fruit and vegetable packing industry in India, providing end-to-end solutions for retail packing (0.5kg-5kg) and bulk packing (5kg-50kg) operations.

Product overview

Chirantana Equipack is a packaging and agricultural machinery company offering three main product categories: (1) Machines including Single Lane Sorting Machine, Semiautomatic Clipping Machine (Cheq120), Weigher (Cheq 128), and Hand Clipper for processing and packaging fresh produce; (2) Packaging Nets including Tubular Net Fabric, Extruded Net, Mesh/Leno Bags, and Natural Net for retail and bulk packing of fruits, vegetables, and shellfish; and (3) Netting Materials including Bale Net, Shade Sails, and Bird Netting for agricultural and construction applications. The company focuses on the fresh fruit and vegetable packing market in India.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Single Lane Sorting Machine

Quantifiable outcome

• Sorting capacity: 5 tons/hour for round fruits, 2-3 tons/hour for potatoes/onions
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Serpac: European producer of packaging nets and mesh bags for fruits and vegetables, directly competitive with Chirantana's tubular net fabric and leno bag product family.
• Sontex: Spanish manufacturer of tubular netting and packaging solutions for fresh produce, directly comparable to Chirantana's tubular net fabric and extruded net offerings.
• Bhavani Industries: Indian manufacturer of packaging nets, leno bags, and netting materials for the produce industry, competing head-on with Chirantana's mesh/leno bag and tubular net fabric lines.
• Weighpack (Paxiom): North American packaging machinery specialist in weigh-fill and bagging systems that overlap with Chirantana's Weigher (Cheq 128) and clipping technologies for produce.
• Tara International (Pack-Vac): Indian packaging machinery manufacturer focused on fresh produce and food packaging equipment, the most directly comparable domestic rival to Chirantana's sorting, weighing, and clipping machines for pack houses.

Broad incumbents

• Multivac: German global leader in packaging machinery with weigh-fill, clipping, and labeling lines used in produce and food processing, representing a broad incumbent that overlaps with Chirantana's machinery scope.
• Ilapak: Italian packaging machinery manufacturer producing weighers, vertical baggers, and flow wrappers for fresh produce, comparable as a broader packaging equipment incumbent.
• Syntegon (formerly Bosch Packaging Technology): Global packaging machinery incumbent with a broad portfolio including sorting, weighing, and clipping equipment for produce, serving as the international scale competitor to Chirantana's niche offerings.

Regional players

• Jhingan Machines: Indian regional supplier of packaging machinery and consumables for the fresh produce sector, a domestic geographic peer that competes for the same Indian pack-house customers as Chirantana.

Emerging players

• Lihan Machinery: Chinese packaging machinery manufacturer with sorting, weighing, and bagging equipment for fresh produce, an emerging low-cost alternative to Western and Indian machinery peers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/chirantana
• Instagraminstagram.com/chirantana_nets

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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