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Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


Air-conditioned store room for packaging material with a maximum temperature of 25°C at Dinshaw's ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur, which functions round the clock to produce around five lakh litres of ice cream per day in high season


While dry ingredients for ice cream like dry fruits are stored at 4°C, processed ingredients like fruit pulps are stored at -18°C at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori. The temperature at the factory varies from 25° to -22°C


Milk and other ingredients getting processed to prepare Kulfi. The Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur, has the capacity to produce 20,000 litres of Kulfi in one batch


Chocolate is processed at 90°C as one of the basic ingredients for products like frozen desserts, Chocobar, Carnival, etc at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The control room at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur, is equipped with a programme which automatically calculates the required amount of raw materials once the desired final quantity of output is entered in the system


Once the command is given at the control room, the sugar, stablilisers and raw milk from the raw milk tank, are added to the mixing vats, which have a capacity of 5000 litres each, where all the ingredients are mixed for an hour at 55°C at Dinshaw’s ice c


The processed milk at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur, is passed to the Homogenizer Inlet to attain a uniform molecular consistency of the mixture at 70-75°C


Quality of raw materials, packaging materials, (post production and pre-production) etc are inspected as per Dinshaw’s standard norms at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The finished ice candies passing through the conveyor belt. This machine produces around 12,000 bars per hour at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


Ice candies being carried forward from the linear extractor to the conveyor belt for further process at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The packaged ice candies passing through the conveyor belt at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The ice cream candies and bars getting wrapped in the packs at the Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The range of ice candies and bars, which are manufactured in the production line at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The workers packing the manufactured ice candies in a carton at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The chocolate flavour being added to the frozen dessert cones at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


Around 15000 frozen dessert cones per hour are produced at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


Workers filling the butterscotch family packs. Around 2000 family packs per hour are produced at the Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The workers have to wear woolen overcoats, gloves and gumboots even in scorching summers to deal with as low temperature as -22°C at these huge cold storage rooms at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


The refrigerated vans are ready to carry the ice creams and other frozen desserts from Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur and delivering the same at various cold storage centres across Nagpur and other cities, from where the ice creams a


The finished products (ice creams) are loaded in the refrigerated trucks connected to the dispatch section at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur. These refrigerated trucks maintain -18°C temperature till the ice cream packs are delivered


Sushil Kumar Varma, Vice President (Manufacturing Department), Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur


Manish Bhagwat, Production Manager, Ice cream Division at Dinshaw’s ice cream factory at MIDC Butibori, Nagpur.

Nation Next scoops out the secret behind Dinshaw’s ice cream. Here’s the lowdown on how your favourite ice cream is prepared at Dinshaw’s factory.
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