A mango pulp manufacturer in India is a fruit processor with a cold or aseptic line, a millets exporter is a miller and cleaner, a chickpeas exporter is a grader and packer, and a frozen fries manufacturer is a potato processor with a freezer chain. They are four different industries, and a supplier strong in one is rarely strong in another.
The first filter is therefore simple. Ask a supplier what it makes on its own line. If it offers all four, it is a trader.
How do you find a mango pulp manufacturer?
Mango pulp is made in season, from late spring into summer, by plants that wash, destone, pulp and pasteurise the fruit and then fill aseptic drums or tins. Plants cluster in southern and western India, so ask where the fruit is grown and where the pulp is made.
Ask which varieties the plant runs, the Brix it sets for each, and whether it holds stock from the season or packs to order. A plant that packs only to order and takes no deposit for it is rare. Brix is explained in what Brix level mango pulp should have.
What to check with a millets exporter
Millets are sold whole, hulled, polished or as flour. The plant needs cleaning, destoning and colour-sorting equipment, and for flour a mill that controls moisture so it does not turn rancid.
Check foreign matter and moisture on a sample, ask where the grain is bought, and ask how the plant separates lots by crop year. Pesticide residue and storage-insect controls matter here more than they do for large grains, because millets are often kept for months.
What to check with a chickpeas exporter
Chickpeas are sold by type and size. Kabuli is the larger, cream-coloured bean sold by size grade; desi chickpeas are smaller and darker. Most export value is in Kabuli and the question is sizing, which size counts for Kabuli chickpeas explains.
A good exporter has a gravity table, a colour sorter and a clean packing hall, and can show records for fumigation. Ask what share of the lot is below the stated size, not just the headline grade.
What to check with a frozen fries manufacturer
Frozen fries are the most demanding of the four. The plant must buy potato varieties suited to frying, store them under controlled temperature, blanch, par-fry and freeze, and hold the product at the stated temperature through loading.
Ask for the variety, sugar and defect limits, and the cold-chain log for loading and the reefer. The factory audit points are in auditing a frozen food factory. A buyer should not accept a reefer container without a temperature record from the factory to the port.
Which certificates should the supplier hold?
Food plants of this kind normally hold a licence from the Indian food regulator and a food-safety management certificate. What a grain and pulse processor should have lists the usual ones. Confirm with your own regulator or importer what your market actually requires.
Cost for each line depends on crop, grade, packing and, for fries and pulp, cold-chain and season. A real quote needs a specification.
What is a sensible first order?
Start with one line and one plant. A trial lot lets you check the product, the packing and the paperwork before you commit. Ask the plant what its smallest sensible shipment is, and be ready to pay in a way that gives both sides some security, such as a letter of credit or a staged payment.
Next step
If you want one of these four lines sourced from a plant that makes it on its own line, with samples tested and the site audited, book a free sourcing review. You can also read how an audit works on our process page.