Mother Herbs has 10 acres of land in the region of Northern India, which comprises of 2 acres of warehouse space.
We employee more than 150 permanent and 400 temporary skilled and
non-skilled labor and a staff of 20-25 professionals who are highly
proficient and qualified. Most of the pure herbs (spice herbs, medicinal herbs, cosmetic herbs) in our herbs list are wild
crafted from all over India, while few are cultivated by own using advance
techniques of farming. We have 1000 metric tones of closed storage space to
avoid the products from any kind of unusual atmospheric conditions.
Around 200 metric tone's of open shades in the close proximity of the
productive field that assist in timely storing of the product after
harvesting. These provide the facility of shade drying of 5000 kilograms of
product per day to prevent (or inhibit) microorganisms and hence preserve
the food and to reduce the weight and bulk of food for cheaper transport and
storage.
Shade
Drying
The
drying can be done in the sunlight or in shade. The shade drying takes
longer but is supposed to be a very efficient method of drying because it
does seem to preserve more of the herb's aroma, nutritional content and
freshness that determine the quality of Herbs. They need to be stored away
from direct sunlight or heat as these rob the herbs of their potency. When
the herb is dried (whether root, leaves, stem or flower) they should be
placed into a dry container.
The amount of time that they need to dry will vary according to the plant
and the conditions. At Mother Herbs we do shade drying in a manner that
there is no infestation or no direct sunlight. This insures that all
essential ingredients are retained in the products. In spite of having very
large area of storage we are able to maintain necessary hygienic conditions
and avoid the infestation of herbs from any harmful microorganisms.
Our basic infrastructure comprises of the following units and machinery.
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Grading Unit - Quality grading of natural produce not only facilitates
its marketing but also helps sellers and buyers to choose a particular
commodity. We take special measures to ensure that in a given lot the
produce is of a uniform quality and specification according to set
standards. By this way we ensure that the right price is set for different
qualities. It proves to be very beneficial for us at the time of sale.
» Blending Unit - used for size reduction and mixing the plant
material until the material is of the finest quality and gets properly
mixed. Provides excellent mixing consistency for powders, granules and some
slurry. Our blending range is provided with reverse spiral, double ribbon
agitator - 6 or 8 ribbons that delivers uniform, high capacity blended
product. This ensures the superior quality product in the market.
» Pulverizer – used for maintaining the proper size of the
product by breaking up the lumps and eliminating the unusual size of the
product. Our pulverized range consists of beaters that are harder and fully
mechanized. Pulveriser grinds almost all-herbal products, fruits, herb
roots, leaves, bark of tree and is found to be suitable for both wet pulpy
and dry crushing
» Siever - It is used for size classification of materials that
have been subjected to other means of size reduction. By this way we do the
separation of a mixture of various-sized particles, either dry or suspended
in a liquid, into two or more portions, by passing through screens of
specified mesh sizes. Sieving ensures that the product is of uniform size
and removes the unwanted material from the final product.
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AFFS (Automated Form Fill and Sealer) - Commonly called as Weighing
Automated Sealer, having large metal body and can absorb more heat, this
unit has an additional timer to hold down the arm for cooling and
eliminating manual holding down of the sealing arm. Sealing machine of this
type also have wider sealing ribbons and giving rise to a wider seal width
that saves the time and labor for packaging and fasten the process of
packaging.
» Washing and Cleaning Machine -The removal of soil and stones
can be done by handpicking or by sieving. Some types of produce can be
washed, brushed, or cleaned with a soft cloth. Cleaning produce by hand
polishing or machine brushing can remove light soil contamination or dust
from produce, especially fruit. This is done with care since damage to the
skin of fresh produce will promote early decay.
Washing
is required to clean produce, which has acquired latex stains from injuries
caused during harvesting. We examine the product very well and washing is
carried out only when absolutely essential. We use only clean, running water
for washing. At Mother Herbs washing of produce in recalculated or stagnant
water is avoided because it can quickly become heavily contaminated with
decay organisms, leading to heavy rotting of the washed produce.
When washing is done the produce are spread out in a single layer on raised
racks of mesh or slats, in the shade and exposed to good ventilation to aid
rapid drying.
We have automated washing and cleaning assembly line that Operate to wash
or clean products to remove impurities and unnecessary material.
We have unlimited access to underground water which is in plenty in our
area. We endeavor to do rain water harvesting in years to come to save this
invaluable water resource.
» Weighing Machine - Weighing is very essential and integral
part of the production and operation processes in most of the industries.
The packaging system continually monitors its accuracy using trend feedback
from the check weighed and uses that information to automatically regulate
up-line machinery. The weighing accuracy provides increased packet weight
accuracy and minimal give away. Real-time production information made
available on computers makes it easy to manage and control production
» Taping Machine - can do both horizontal and vertical banding.
Successful development and manufacture of this machine has completely
changed the current traditional method of binding finished packed product
clumsily and slowly by hand and realized binding product full-automatically
and quickly with paper tape. With such characteristics as easy operation,
artistic and firm binding, high efficiency and low cost it has got wide
applications in packaging in Mother Herbs.
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Strapping Machine – We have fully automated strapping machine,
which has high-speed strapping (2.2 seconds per strapping cycle, 27 straps
per minute or 1620 straps per hour). It has the ability to adjust tension
level at will up to 90 kilograms or 180 bps. Features of these fully
automated strapping machines are - Easy loading and unloading comprehensive
applications, Machine standalone use or link with any factory unmanned
production/packaging system aluminum alloy casting for main machine
component and built for 24 hrs.continous operations.
Machinery for Herbal Extraction
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Herbal Extraction Plant – Mother Herbs is having complete range of
extraction equipment and machinery versatile for the processing of any kind
of Herbal products and natural material by various solvent extracting
techniques. The plant can be used for solvent extraction with not only
aqueous but also with a polar or any non- - polar solvent. The unit extracts
the product with maximum recovery of the active ingredient in the extract
The body of the plant is of stainless steal with a capacity ranges from 12''
dia. to 60'' dia. The plant consists of shredding machine, pulp & seed
separation machine, press, filters and agitator. We have steel fabricated
oil extracting machinery, provided with a crammer shaft that gives extra
cramming of the seed, which helps in providing substantially higher yield
and better quality. Inorder to maintain the proper temperature during herbal
extraction we have shell and tube type heat exchangers having very high
capacity .Our reactors consists of stainless steel body provide with
internal coil vessel.
» Distillation Column – employed for the distillation and
extraction of essential oils from herbs/shrubs/leaves/roots or whole plant
by passing the saturated steam based on the principle of difference in the
volatility. It assists in the purification of Extract. Our distillation
column is of reactor type for high temperature and pressure and with bubble
cap trays that helps in avoiding harm caused due to temperature fluctuation.
» Boilers - Boiling is a method ideal for the rapid extraction
of low-boiling-point volatile from small amounts of plant material,
oleoresin from different herbs, absolute from flowers and active
constituents from medicinal plants. Our boiling range is equipped with fully
automatic, semi automatic as well as manual mode of operation. Safety
features included - flame detection, pressure relief, and flame flash back.
Thermal efficiency is of 88% ± 2. Due to larger heating surface &
efficient burner with high CO2 content exhaust. We are able to maintain
clean combustion, almost free of air pollutants.
Shipping
Mother
Herbs offers one of the best shipping rates for all major destinations of
the world. We have direct tie-ups with major shipping lines and reputed
Clearing House agents. Our Customer Care Executive keeps complete tracking
of all the shipments at different point of time and provides detail
information in case of any query.
Evergreen, Indamax, Maersk are few of the common Shipping services
we avail for U.S.A. For European we use major shipping services like
Hamburg
sud, Hi-Toss, C.G.M-C.M.A, SCI etc.