How We Quality-Check Every Batch Before It Reaches You
A short look at the checks a pack of noodles or a bottle of sauce goes through before it's cleared to leave the Kalyan facility.
Read Article9Hubs is manufactured out of Kalyan, Maharashtra — a fairly ordinary starting point for a brand that now ships to more than nine countries. The idea behind it was never complicated: the sauces, noodles and syrups every Indian kitchen reaches for shouldn't force a choice between speed and taste.
That meant building a small, focused catalogue rather than a sprawling one. Eleven products across three categories — fast food, sauces, and drinks & syrups — each one refined over repeated batches rather than launched and left alone.
Why the pack sizes are what they are
Our packaging is deliberately sized to be used, not stored. A 150g noodle pack or a 200ml sauce bottle is meant to be finished within a normal cooking rhythm — from hostel rooms to family kitchens — rather than sitting half-used in the back of a fridge.
Where it's headed
Exporting beyond India has meant holding every batch to the same standard regardless of where it's headed — there's no separate "export grade" recipe. The same masala tadka that goes into a pack sold locally in Thane is what ships internationally.
There's no separate export-grade recipe — the same batch that leaves Kalyan for a local shop is what goes into a container headed overseas.