With the rapid development of aquaculture industry, the variety of aquaculture is increasing and the demands for floating pellet feed and sinking pellet feed is also increasing greatly. Accordingly, setting up an fish feed processing line has been regarded as a good way of getting rich at this moment. Fish, shrimp and other aquatic animals have small intestines and stomach, and poor digestion and absorption ability, so the processing technology of aquatic feed is much higher than that of livestock and poultry feed. (Related article: fish feed mill plant cost>>)
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Sinking and Floating Fish Feed
To produce high quality fish feed, we must rely on scientific and reasonable processing technology and combine it with advanced, reliable and stable fish feed pellet machinery. Therefore, the selection of fish processing equipment is particularly critical. (Read more: Poultry Feed Mill Plant Cost >>)
ABC Machinery has been producing floating and sinking fish feed processing equipment for many years. As a formal fish feed pellet machinery manufacturer and supplier, the equipment produced by us is cost-effective and efficient. Customers who want to buy are welcome to visit our factory, and all our staff welcome you!
Feed pellet extruding technology is mainly used in the production of special aquatic feed, pet feed and other animal feed. In addition to the advantages of the general animal pellet feed, the extruded fish feed pellet has its own outstandings:
Floating and Sinking Feed Mill Plant
It is because of so many advantages of feed extrusion that more and more commercial fish feed plants begin to adopt feed extruding equipment to produce sinking and floating fish feeds. Whether you plan to make fish feed for your fish pond or fishery, process the extruded fish feed pellets in your fish feed production factory, or start a fish feed making plant as business, we are always here for you!
At present, most of the fish feed mills adopt feed extruder as the core equipment to produce floating and sinking feeds. The working principle of feed extruder is the powder materials that contains a certain amount of starch (more than 20%) are conditioned and treated by conditioner, and then the water content of the material can reach 25% ~ 27%, the temperature rises to 80℃ ~ 100℃.
Floating Sinking Fish Feed Pellet Machinery
The fish feed pellet extruder machine is composed of a feeding system, driving system, extrusion system, discharging mold and electrical control system.
The material with good tempering quality enters into the screw extrusion area. As the volume of the extrusion area becomes smaller along the axis, the pressure on the material increases gradually, and the compression ratio can reach 4 ~ 10. The material is extruded and pushed by screw, accompanied by strong shearing and friction action, the pressure and temperature rise sharply. Under the action of high temperature and high pressure, the starch in the material can be basically completely gelatinized, and the protein can be partially deformed.
Sinking Fish Feed Pellet in Extrusion
When the material is extruded out from the die under great pressure, due to the sudden leave and sudden enters into the atmosphere, temperature and pressure are decreased greatly, under the joint action of pressure and temperature difference, the volume of feed rapidly is expanded and the moisture is evaporated quickly, dehydration is set. Then, through the customized discharge model to form various shapes and structure, and the extruded feed is made successfully.
The above is the working video of our fish feed extruder machine in our fish feed production line. If you have any questions about the fish feed pellet production process , please feel free to contact us!
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Quality is the life of an enterprise. In order to produce different kinds of floating and sinking fish feed with high quality, choosing the suitable equipment to set up a sinking fish feed processing line should based on your actual needs. Here are some tips to help you, and if you have no ideas about how to do it yet, please just contact us to get professional technical support!
Small Fish Feed Pellet Plant Equipment Layout
To select suitable fish feed extrusion equipment, firstly you should understand how you plan to set up your fish feed pellet production factory which depends on the investment scale, fish feed production process layout, necessary factory building construction and other factors. But, in any case, you must be under the premise of ensuring the quality of the product, correctly and effectively select and use the fish feed production equipment. The following one is the sample of our small sinking fish feed production line setup, you can take it for reference.
ABC Machinery, the TOP fish feed pellet machinery manufacturer, always provides customers with the premium quality equipment, formulation, installation and market news based on the actual condition and the requirements of the customers. If you are interested in setting up a small fish feed pellet plant to produce both sinking and floating feed, just get in touch with us to get the latest price list and parameters!
To select the suitable production equipment of aquatic feed, you also need to understand the characteristics of fish feed and aquatic feed, which will make your fish feed production easier.
Make Fish Sinking and Floating Feed Pellet
Due to the short digestive tract and related physiological characteristics of aquatic animals, in order to speed up digestion and absorption, the size of aquatic feeds should be smaller than that of livestock and poultry feeds. For example, the size of eel and prawn feeds should reach 80 to 120 meshes.
High Protein and Low CarbohydrateThe protein content of livestock and poultry feed is generally less than 20%, but the protein content of aquatic animal feed is mostly 30% ~ 40%, the protein content of eel feed is as high as 65% ~ 70%.
Tight and Close Structure of Pellet FeedThe feed for fish and other aquatic animals should have high adhesion and water resistance.
Prevent Cross Contamination in the Feed ProductionSome raw materials need to be treated aseptic, the equipment selected is easy to clean and less residue, especially in the production of shrimp and eel feed, other kinds of feed shall not be produced at the same time to prevent cross contamination.
How to analyze the quality of suppliers on the Internet? We have some experience and suggestions:
If some equipment is yellow, some is red, and some is blue, and the photos on the quotation have all kinds of colors, it means it is a trading company or a small factory.
B1: Are the colors of all the machines on the website the same or different?
If the equipment displayed on the website has a variety of colors, it means it is a trading company or a small factory.
B2: Are the equipment photos in the project cases he showed on website obviously different from the colors of the equipment he quoted? If they are different, it means that the project cases are fake.
B3: Are the machines advertised on the website large or small?
You cannot buy large equipment from a company that only advertised small machines.
During the previous discussion, did he send you enough real project cases?
If only a few cases are sent to you, or the cases are obviously fake, yes, it means he is a trading company or a small factory.
You can arrange a zoom meeting to observe the following points through video conferencing:
D1: Are there many large pellet machines completed and ready for delivery in the workshop (more than 10 units)?
If there are only a few (or many) small pellet machines for transportation or display, it means that he does not have the ability to manufacture large machines.
D2: You must check his electric control cabinet production workshop to see:
D3: Are the colors of the machines in the workshop the same?
If not, the machines in the workshop have different colors, which means they bought the machines from different factories. They do not have the ability to manufacture it.
D4: If the workshop is not full and very empty, it means it is not good.
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Why are there at least 10 production lines of electric control cabinets (not counting single machines) and pelletizer ? Because the production cycle of each production line is 30-180 days, we calculate it based on an average of 60 days (2 months), which means that if there are 60 orders a year, and an average of 5 orders a month (not many orders), then there should be more than 10 orders in production in any month of the year.
For example, if you see 3 electric control cabinets, it means that he has only 2-4 orders in the past 2 months, an average of only 1-2 orders per month, and only 10-20 orders per year. Such a factory is very small in scale, with unstable quality and unstable personnel.
(Our engineers and purchasing managers shared these key points, because when our factory needs to buy some materials and processing equipment, they will first do an online inspection and then select 2-3 good ones, secondly they will visit the factories to confirm the final supplier, when they do online inspection, they will very carefully check those points one by one to avoid to choose a trading company or a small factory )
Compared with Top supplier :
To produce higher quality of pellets , need :
customer need to control this by his own company
So, you can do comparation between RICHI and top brand :
We can prepare a semi-turnkey price for the complete project for you, including the cost for air compressor, steel structure, installation, future spare parts.
The company is the world’s best Aquatic Feed Production Line supplier. We are your one-stop shop for all needs. Our staff are highly-specialized and will help you find the product you need.
Sir, as we understand, such a project is not just the cost of the machine, there are many other costs in the future, compared with the semi-turnkey price, you will find that our price is much cheaper than the top suppliers.
The economic situation in the world is not very good, the global economy has entered the post-epidemic era, no one can ensure that the economy will get better in a short time, how to ensure a good profit in this situation?
Controlling the investment amount has become a way to win the future, and the money saved ( 2-3 times) will become the pure profit of your company.
Even if the top brands say they are a better choice, customers need to consider: does it really cost so much?
And important, compared with Chinese & Turkey & India suppliers , our price is not cheap . but really much cheaper than German & Italy & America suppliers.
Whether the pellets are produced by RICHI MACHINERY or top brand equipment, will there be a big difference in the final selling price of the pellets in your target pellet market?
If you use a top brand machine, it can lead to the price of your pellets being 2-3 times that of RICHI pellets, that is also OK.
However, the fact is: The price of pellets from top brand machines and RICHI machines is basically the same.
This means that top brand projects cannot bring you higher profits than RICHI, on the contrary, RICHI machines can bring you more profits than them.
With the money to buy top brand equipment, you can buy 2-3 sets of RICHI production lines, and your factory capacity will be expanded by 2-3 times, so that you can win the market faster, while bringing greater profits and broader development space.
So from:
Please do consider more between RICHI and top brands.
After appropriate adjustment, the process of fish feed production line can be used to process pet feed or other feed types, but it needs to be optimized according to the characteristics of the product. The following is a specific analysis:
The core equipment of fish feed production line (crushing, mixing, conditioning, granulation/expansion, cooling, packaging, etc.) is similar to the infrastructure of pet feed and other feed production lines, and has the potential for cross-category production.
(1) Raw material adaptability:
Fish feed often uses high-protein raw materials (fish meal, soybean meal), while pet feed may need to add meat by-products, fruit and vegetable fibers, etc., and the crushing fineness (such as ultra-fine grinding) and mixing uniformity need to be adjusted.
Other feeds (such as livestock and poultry feeds) may need to increase the proportion of grains, and the conditioning temperature needs to be optimized to avoid excessive starch gelatinization.
(2) Adjustment of puffing process:
Fish feed puffing requires high stability in water, while pet snacks (such as dog food) may pursue high puffing degree and special shape (bone/fish shape), which requires changing molds and adjusting temperature and pressure parameters.
The density control process of sinking fish feed is different from that of floating pet feed.
(3) Functional requirements:
Pet feed often needs to add attractants and health ingredients (such as probiotics), and a post-spraying system is required (to avoid high temperature damage to active substances).
Aquatic feed may need to enhance water resistance, while livestock and poultry feed pays more attention to particle hardness.
Expansion module: add ultrafine grinder, liquid addition system, twin-screw extruder (adapt to high meat content formula).
Flexible design: The production line has reserved interfaces to facilitate switching of product categories (such as changing the ring die aperture and adjusting the cooling air volume).
Many manufacturers have successfully produced high-end pet food (such as high-meat dog food and cat food), special feed (such as amphibian and reptile feed, ornamental fish feed), functional livestock and poultry feed (such as nursery pig pellet feed), etc. through the transformation of fish feed production lines.
The fish feed production line has cross-category production capabilities, but the process parameters need to be adjusted according to the target product, and modular equipment needs to be added when necessary. We can provide you with process adaptability assessment and transformation solutions to maximize the value of existing production lines!
Being the professional supplier worldwide of animal feed machine for the animal feed industry with more than 25 years of experience, we are confident in our claim that RICHI is able to supply the optimum fish feed processing technology solution for any possible need in aqua feed mills.
Whether it's sink or float, RICHI fish feed machine and fish feed plant will keep your aqua feed pelleting production afloat. The extruding and pelleting systems combine to perfect product density and sinking speed so your fish food pellets is always a big splash.
With the rapid development of the aquaculture industry, traditional aquaculture methods are far from meeting fish feed manufacturers' needs. The requirements for fish food pellets are not only nutritionally balanced, the fish food pellets is stable in the water, and will not pollute the water quality, etc.
Put forward stricter requirements on the environmental quality of fish survival. The high protein fish pellets produced by the fish feed pelleting machine is hard pellets, and the other is the fish feed extruder machine, and the processed pellet for fish is soft pellets.
Crushing with our fish feed crushing machine, we firstly break the raw materials into smaller pieces, for an efficient pellet making. This is done by fast-moving rotating hammers within the crushing chamber.
To further reduce the size, the materials are run through a rapid airflow of very high pressure, breaking the materials into much smaller pieces. A fish feed hammer mill is therefore necessary for fish feed raw materials grinding in a fish feed plant.
The crushed materials which are now in powdered form should be thoroughly mixed to get a fish feed pellet that is nutritional and of high quality. One crucial part of the mixing process is shearing and convection, and this mixing effect is achieved with our fish feed mixer machine which has a twin ribbon and a single shaft.
The first ingredient is mainly the preparation of popular raw materials, that is, the preparation of relatively large materials in the formula. This fish feed mill process is mainly completed by the electronic batching scale.
The single-shaft horizontal ribbon mixer for fish feed can be used for the first mixing, and the grease addition system must be considered on the fish feed mixer equipment.
Due to the low food intake of aquatic animals, short digestive tract, and poor digestion ability, the aquatic feed requires a very fine particle size, and the uniformity of the feed can be reflected in a smaller range, which also requires the aquatic feed to have a finer particle size.
Therefore, a fine pulverization process must be used. In the secondary pulverization process, the mixed materials are lifted by a hoist and then enter the warehouse to be pulverized, and then enter the micro pulverizer.
The cleaned materials are subjected to secondary batching and mixing. Various raw materials enter the secondary mixer after secondary batching. There is an artificial feeding port above the secondary mixer, which is mainly used for the addition of trace additives. At the same time, there is a liquid addition device on the mixer for the addition of grease.
The mixed raw materials for fish feed production are compressed into desired shapes and fish pellet sizes with the fish feed machine (fish feed extruder machine or fish feed pellet machine).
For a cheap, easy-to-operate, yet reliable fish feed making machine for a small-scale or medium-scale fish feed plant, the dry type fish feed extruder is highly recommended. For large fish feed factories however, the wet type feed extruder that has a conditioner will be able to produce in large quantity, a high quality pellet for fish.
When the feed material run through the fish feed pellet making machine or fish feed extruder, it becomes hot and has moisture in it, hence the need to lower its temperature and dry it off.
An ideal fish food pellets drying can be achieved with a mesh belt dryer which is simple structured, not difficult to install and easy to maintain. This important fish feed mill equipment that must be included in the fish feed production line of a fish feed mill.
The good taste and nice smell of the end product is owed to the Oil Spraying Machine. This equipment rotates with high speed, spraying atomized oil on both surfaces of the fish food pellets. Excess oil during this process is then recycled through a special filter.
When the temperature of the oil-sprayed fish food pellets increases, they become soft, and can easily break. To avoid loss in this regard, the fish food pellets must be cooled, and are consequently hardened. The cooling type adopted by most fish feed manufacturing plants is the counter flow cooler where the fish feed pellets are in opposite direction to the air cooling them.
There are several packaging machines perfect for weighing and bagging finished fish food pellets. Such fish feed mill machines can help you reduce labor intensity, increase your production, meet hygiene requirements and satisfy large scale needs of your fish feed pellet plant.
This packaged fish food pellets would be in sealed bags and ready for storage or further transportation.
Our core competencies, leading technologies, and international business units work together in perfect unison. The RICHI staff commitment and dynamics truly distinguish us from other fish feed plant suppliers.
Experienced fish feed plant project managers teamed with specialized, subject area experts ensures that we exceed your expectations every time.
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