I was happy to see that these people believe in reusing the bottles and not throwing it away like the Americans do! The cleanser was making the most noise. I wondered how the workers worked in that situation. Don’t they get headaches?
All kinds of bottles – newly made or reused ones, are once again washed before taking in for filling. One thing I noticed, they were washing all the bottles in an upside-down position. I wonder why? I will surely find this out.
Subsequently, the filling of syrup, capping, marking of batch nos, sealing, sticking of plastic tags were done.
The bottles were then ready to be sold.
In America (for what I have seen in food factory), machines are used from initial stage to the packaging stage. No man power is used. But in this industry, just the beverage making and filling up was done with machines, but the packaging was done manually. I am happy to see this for it must have decreased the illiteracy rate in India.
One interesting fact which she told me while explaining the process that they make beverage only for 4 months in a year i.e. from March to June. In the rest of the year, they sit comfortably selling the bottles and working for audits (for those who doesn’t know what an audit is – it’s a technical term used in the industries for any award competition).
Now, this rose many questions in my head which I hope to get clarified tomorrow.
The lab-incharge has told me that he will teach me microbiology tests tomorrow. For the first day ended well with mixed feelings. Just the first day experience was worth waking up 8 in the morning.
I look forward to play with the bottles.
I wish I could flinch one bottle tomorrow!